Comment on My small hot take on Dune pt 2 after having just seen it
maegul@lemmy.ml 9 months agoI think the importance of spice fell a bit under the table, since we didn’t have the spacing guild being a bigger part.
Yea this is something I didn’t mention but I think might be a pretty objective flaw for all the non-book readers. Those of us who know the book know how big a deal it is. But in the film universe, I’m not sure the gravity of Paul’s move (re threatening to destroy it) and the whole situation on Arrakis (the emperor came personally to fix it) is in the universe. Maybe the emperor being involved conveyed it, dunno, but it’s also pretty central to the “bad messiah” plot that Denis has (thankfully) emphasised, as it underlines how all of these things have fallen into Paul’s lap, including being the KH and the Fremen that allow him to become a messiah. Being on left for dead and surviving on the spice planet is an essential element of that.
golli@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Actually thinking about it again we are being told at the very start of the first movie (with a voice over exposition) that spice is the most valuable substance in the universe, that the spacing guild uses it and that without it interstellar travel is impossible. So in a way the viewer gets all the information needed in the first part.
Maybe the fact that irritated me was more that we don’t get to understand that the spacing guild is basically a completely seperate faction and all the dynamics that come with it?
I guess we have to wait how he resolves it in the third movie.
maegul@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Yea, but that’s a long at the top of a previous film. Which is part of the part of the ending in the book, Paul wins the universe by simply threatening the spice, which surely proves its importance. Something else that movie skips is how many people are basically spice addicts, who clearly do not want to lose it. So yea, it’s there, but as you say, having the spicing guild there saying Paul can be the emperor so long as the spice continues to flow really gets the message across (that a universe addicted to a commodity might just be problematic).