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Haven't had the time to watch it. Working my way through the book.

• ChrisMarshallNY 4y ago
  It's pretty much impossible to adequately represent the books as a movie, and even a series can't really do the books justice. The new movie does a fairly decent job of translating the books to live action. The biggest disappointment, for me, in all of the treatments (including the movie), is the way the Fremen are represented. I'm a bit spoiled, as I grew up in Africa, and was familiar with tribes like the Touareg, so I know what real desert-dwellers look like. I'm pretty sure that Herbert wanted them to look like that. Hard to represent, with city-dweller, millionaire actors. Bedouin tribespeople look like dry twigs. Not much soft or fat. It would take serious self-denial to adequately represent. Willem Dafoe would probably be able to represent Stilgar (in my mind). He'd have to go on a diet, and get a tan, though.