Alia and Feyd-Rautha are strangely absent from the cast list. (Ignoring Feyd, I completely understand - it's impossible to improve even a fractional amount on Sting's portrayal in the Lynch version, therefore he should be left out of all future adaptations. But Alia is IMPORTANT, DAMNIT.)
I guess Paul's Chosen One-ness is not so much with him being a warrior, but more of a spiritual thing? 'Cause I can probably go on a hand-to-hand combat with Chalamet and knock him down. I thought they'd bulk him up a bit, but no, he remains his willowy self.
He is supposed to be a warrior, but in more of a very-good-reflexes-because-he-can-kind-of-see-the-future way than a muscles way. That said, Chalamet is the one casting misstep for me. I just don't think the messiah should have hair that fluffy.
I figured that he'd had enough high-level training - in addition to being the Chosen One - that he could win a hand-to-hand fight. And I also figure that after wearing a stillsuit for a while, his hair won't be fluffy ... unless that's the look they're after.
Now I'm going to have to watch for the effects of the stillsuit on the fluffiness of Atreides hair when I watch the movie. I'm sure I wouldn't have noticed without y'all bringing it up!
I can see Chalamet being lightning-fast and agile in a knife duel, but if he has to move the knife slowly like in Lynch's Dune he's not going to be able to puncture a windbreaker with it, much less body armor or a stillsuit.
I checked the cast and didn't see the sister - Alia, right? - listed.
Aren't they doing it in two movies? So she'd be in the second one, I think.
Dune in all of its forms is one of the holes in my geek education.
Pink Floyd! Oh yes. Should they change the lyrics to when The Sun is eclipsed by the Dune?
A young man who used to work in my office had claimed to be a nerd, but when I said something about Dune he was clueless. He was VERY young.
Aren't they doing it in two movies? So she'd be in the second one, I think.
Oh right, I'd forgotten about that.
I remember the Lynch Dune, with a young and dishy Kyle MacLachlan. And Sting in a weird plastic speedo that looked like bird wings? Anyway, clearly my memory was not about anything related to groundbreaking (as it were) SF. I'm interested in the new one, and once movies are a thing again, I'll probably get the usuals together to watch it.
