> These two are presumably Harkonnen slave girls. I think they're face dancers contracted to help heal the Baron. I think it's a nice way of introducing the f

> These two are presumably Harkonnen slave girls. I think they're face dancers contracted to help heal the Baron. I think it's a nice way of introducing the face dancers into the story visually. I really liked the film despite it's length and Villeneuvery. There were quite a few things that bothered me though, which I'm surprised were not discussed in the blog. (My memory of the book is now very old, so I could just be wrong on some of these). 1. The combat was all wrong. I saw las guns being used in various places, which would have been suicide with everyone running around with personal shields. The fact that the knife needs to travel slowly through the shield seemed as far as I could tell to only occur when it made for a good visual and most of the time was ignored. Sure, it would have been hard to make visually interesting fight scenes given the constraints, but solving problems like that is what being a genius director is all about. 2. Not showing Paul cry over the killing felt like a real Hollywood move - the action hero does lots of killing without it bothering him, and we don't want to get too depressed at this point in the film. But actually Paul is a real person, and a good person, and good real people generally don't like killing even when necessary, and this is his first kill, and the shedding of water for his victim is one of the things that gets the Fremen to start to believe that he is someone different to what they're used to. 3. I was irritated early on by people unsheathing and resheathing crysknifes without them tasting blood, (e.g. in the gift to Jessica scene), but then they do cut themselves in the later scene, so maybe there's some sort of explanation? 4. The blog post picked up that Feyd-Rautha is a key character to understanding the Bene Gesserit, so it was weird that he wasn't introduced. 5. Dune just didn't feel that hot. The planet from Pitch Black felt way hotter. They keep saying that Dune will kill you and then just seem to wander around in full dress not seeming all that bothered. 6. The timeline feels wrong. The film makes it feel as if the invasion is on like Day 2. This would make no sense. 6. Extremely cringe final line 'this is only the beginning', weird obsession with saying 'desert power'.