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Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary
There were things in Dune 1+2 that I was hoping for, but were not filmed, or cut for run time...
the Conservatory and the Banquet scenes, the traitor storyline, the Mentats, Thurfir and Alia (as a child)...The Spacing Guild and their inability to use prescience to figure out to deal with Paul.
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I was disappointed in the same omissions. Dune the novel is pretty much a political intrigue story in the vein of Game of Thrones. Loads of character development and political intrigue in the banquet scene when the Atreides take over Arrakis. Completely scrubbed from the script. The mentats are major characters in the book. Dramatically diminished roles in the movies.
In their place we got much more action and romance. Duncan Idaho was expanded from a periphery character to an action hero. Chani’s role was expanded, even if in the first movie it’s mostly in the form of silent visions walking through the desert.
The movies are slow-paced enough that they could have trimmed scenes to keep the intrigue and mentats without adding to the run time. But then you run into the issue of information overload, that Lynch awkwardly addressed by the liberal use of voice-overs.