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...but apparently not as per the 2021 film. Seriously, where did the guild navigators go in the Zendaya version?
by Ansil849 5y ago
...but apparently not as per the 2021 film. Seriously, where did the guild navigators go in the Zendaya version?
- walrus01 5y agoPerhaps the CGI testicle budget was spent on salary for Jason Momoa instead
- robbedpeter 5y agoIf you're gonna have giant balls in the movie, you have to do it right.
- est31 5y agoThe first scene of the 1984 movie does not exist in the books, even though they were depicted correctly. In fact, they didn't appear directly in the original Dune book at all, and they were only described in later books of the series (Both the 2021 and 1984 movies are adaptations of the first book, the 2021 one adapting the first 75% ish).
- carapace 5y agoSPOILER ALERT Two Guild Navigators are in the Emperor's party on Arrakis when he confronts the "upstart duke". They are not mutant freaks, they look like normal humans, but their eyes are so blue from spice use that they appear black. The weird fish-baby in a tank is all David Lynch being David Lynch.
- elihu 5y agoActually, that wasn't an invention of David Lynch. It was just something sort of pulled in from the second book.
- est31 5y agoI looked up that part. Indeed there are two of the "guild agents, one tall and fat, one short and fat" as part of the entourage, and they are referred to in the text as Guildsmen. Paul asks them if they are both navigators and they reply with yes. And yeah they are revealed to have blue eyes, so I think this is correct. However, later books do describe the tanks in which the navigators live. The dune wiki says that Herbert apparently liked how the navigators were depicted in the movie so he added their description to his last Dune book "Chapterhouse Dune". But even earlier books described the guild navigators as humanoid fish in a tank. Apparently the explanation for these different forms is that there is a progression, where the guild navigators start out looking like humans, and eventually they look like the two in the Lynch movie. https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Guild_Navigator#Physical_Description https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Guild_Navigator#Physical_Descri... So what I said about the navigators not appearing at all was wrong, as they do appear in the first book, but they appear only way later in the story.
- PeterisP 5y agoIIRC spacing guild did try to keep their mutated navigators appearance secret from the general public, so having some normal-looking guild agents say "we're totally the navigators" does not really mean that they actually are navigators.
- carapace 5y agoAh, much respect est31. Well met. :)
- shazeubaa 5y agoThere’s mention of “stages” of navigators in one (or more?) of the books. Stage 3, as I recall are the advanced form in the tank.
- Monroe13 5y agoI think we saw guild navigators with the emperor’s envoy on Caladan. White-suited creatures with a red swirling gas behind their visors.