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"Dune": A spectacular and star-studded space opera Israel today

2021-10-24T05:47:26.535Z


Despite intricate and complex intrigues, director Danny Willenbe's version based on Frank Herbert's book succeeds where its two predecessors failed: it is star-studded, relevant to us today and builds a world that is easy to get sucked into.


Somewhere in the distant future two aristocratic houses are battling for control of a desert planet called Arakis - this is the essence of a "sandy" plot, a grandiose science fiction epic, based on the first half of Frank Herbert's influential bestseller.

Arakis' enormous strategic importance stems from the fact that it serves as the sole source for "Spice" - the most valuable natural resource in the galaxy (and the psychoactive substance without which interstellar flights cannot take place).

At the beginning of the film, signed by French director Kennedy Danny Villeneuve ("Blade Runner 2049"), the emperor transfers control of Barakis from the House of Harkonen (known for his sadistic ways) to Atreides.

Duke Leto Atreidis (Oscar Isaac) suspects that this is a trap set by the emperor, but he still agrees to take on the task, and with him come his star mistress Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson), and his son, Regent Paul (Timothy Shalama) , Who has experienced prophetic dreams (and who may even be the Messiah).

While all of this sounds complicated and exhausting, it's not really hard to keep up with what's going on in Willenb's film.

Messiah?

Timothy Shalama in "Dune",

It is a spectacular, bombastic and Hollywood-themed space opera that manages to be both accessible and complex.

At one level it contains enough intrigue and intrigue for an entire season of daily drama.

On another level one can find in it political, military and ecological allegories that are relevant today as well.

On the third level, and most important to me, it's just fun to experience the cinematic pleasures and technical wonders it contains.

For "Dune" may occur mostly in an arid desert, but after nearly two years of Corona, its spectacle is a true oasis.

Since its publication in the mid-1960s "Dune" has been considered a book that cannot be transferred to the big screen.

One ambitious version, conducted by Chilean cult film director Alejandro Khodorovsky, collapsed into itself in the mid-1970s.

Another version, directed by David Lynch, failed at the box office and caused the revered director to deny its existence.

But here, just as happened with the sequel to "Blade Runner," Willenbe again succeeds in a place where almost no one gives him a chance.

While the film that came out of his hands is not perfect (mainly because it ends in the middle of the story, and because its final quarter drags its feet a bit towards the ending titles), it is impossible not to admire the worlds it builds on screen, and impossible not to get sucked into them.

Let’s just hope the film makes enough money to allow it to produce the sequel.

Score: 7

Source: israelhayom

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