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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
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.
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Youtube has a number of different Dune sites that have identified deletes scenes through one or more of actor comments during interviews, still photographs of scenes, video of scenes or scenes mentioned in the shooting screenplay...
Its pretty clear that there was a banquet scene shot (jessica's red dress, video of Liet in formal wear, Duncan shaving his beard)...
in the shooting script, just before Leto pours out his flagon of water, the scripts says that he looks to the gathered crowd and defiantly says, "Here I am, and here I remain"....
when you add this context to the tooth scene, it just magnifies its impact, imo, so much...
I love Villeneuve's movies, and they are as good as they can be, imo, in a theatrical release. To do Dune justice requires a series... which ironically would have been fine as Herbert didn't actually go much into the big battle sequences at all in the books...I agree that the political machinations is the 'true' warfare in Dune.
Messiah, might have to focus on the politics, as that is really what the book is about...