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Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, Part I

Trevor Lynch

2,374 words

 

Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, Part I is now in theatres. I can’t recommend it. It isn’t terrible. It is merely mediocre. I found it dull to the eyes, grating to the ears, and a drag on my patience. Villeneuve spends 156 minutes and only gets halfway through the novel. David Lynch told the whole story in 137 minutes. Of course audiences are willing to sit through long movies if they are really good: Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, for instance. But this film isn’t in that league.

This is a pity, because Frank Herbert’s original novel, published in 1965, is one of the twentieth century’s great works of popular fiction, brilliantly synthesizing both the futurism of science fiction and the archaism of fantasy literature. Set more than 20,000 years in the future, Dune is the story of two noble houses fighting for control of the planet Arrakis or Dune, which is the sole source of the most valuable substance in the universe, a psychoactive drug known as “spice.” Dune and its five sequels have been read by millions, inspiring whole universes of fan art and fan fiction, as well as a number of screen adaptations, to say nothing of rip-offs like Star Wars.

The first screen adaptation was Alejandro Jodorowsky’s failed production, which may have been the greatest movie never made.[1] David Lynch’s 1984 Dune was a flop, but it is a brilliant movie and remains the best version.[2] In 2000, the Sci-Fi Channel did a three-part Dune miniseries which was quite flawed. Its sequel, the Children of Dune miniseries (2003), dramatized Dune’s first two sequels, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. It is excellent, despite its poor special effects.[3]

A Dune movie is also politically significant. Frank Herbert’s vision of the future was deeply reactionary. He depicts a world where liberal democracy failed and has been replaced by a feudal imperium. In Herbert’s imperium, artificial intelligence has been destroyed as oppressive and remains under the iron ban of a syncretic form of Christianity. Computer technology is a great leveler. Without it, humanity must fall back on natural gifts, which are rare. To refine these gifts and make them more common, eugenics is practiced. Biological sex differences are recognized. Bureaucracies are disdained as repressive instruments of equality and fairness. The story of Leto II in Children of Dune and God Emperor of Dune is opposed to surveillance and empire in favor of freedom and pluralism. Herbert believed that mankind would never be safe unless we could free ourselves from the leveling gaze of a single, universal political order.[4]

Beyond that, Herbert has quite compelling reasons for his belief that liberal democracy will not take mankind to the stars and that mankind can only spread across the galaxy by returning to archaic social forms like hereditary monarchy, feudalism, and initiatic spiritual orders.[5]

Herbert’s vision of the future is also gloriously Eurocentric. His imperium is medieval Europe writ large, while his vision of Arrakis and its native people, the Fremen, is based on Arabia, i.e., the Near East—“near” in relation to Europe, that is.

Thus from a Right-wing, European identitarian viewpoint, it would be wonderful to have a really good movie to sell Herbert’s vision to a whole new generation.

It is always remarkable when the modern film industry adapts inherently reactionary literature like The Lord of the Rings,[6] Dune, or—on a much lower level—the Twilight saga.[7] Of course the industry would prefer to churn out stories in which whites, especially white men, are ritualistically humiliated and replaced by nonwhites and strong women. With inherently reactionary and Eurocentric stories, they have less room for propaganda.

Dune does have an anti-colonialist aspect, but that is Left-wing only if one ignores the fact that ethnic nationalism is anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist as well. Dune also involves a struggle for a scarce resource, but that lends itself to vulgar Leftist materialism only if one ignores the fact that the resource’s primary use is spiritual and that the imperium is ruled by honor-driven aristocrats and mystical initiates, not by merchants. Thus the best Villeneuve could do to subvert Dune is play up these aspects (e.g., in the opening narration), hope nobody asks questions, and stuff the cast with non-whites and strong women, lest Herbert’s fans think that race and sex differences actually matter.

Race clearly mattered to Herbert. He envisioned all of his characters as, if not European, at least as Caucasoid. The imperium is European. The Fremen people of Arrakis believed themselves descended from Egyptians. The only character with any hint of non-Caucasoid ancestry is Duncan Idaho, who was described as having high cheekbones and narrow eyes. Idaho, of course, is an American Indian name, so Herbert may have been hinting at some such ancestry. But Idaho also has wavy hair—likened to a karakul sheep—which is not an American Indian trait.

The earlier adaptations of Dune have been faithfully Eurocentric, in keeping with Herbert’s vision. Villeneuve’s new movie puts nonwhites in key roles.

The character of the Imperial Planetologist, Dr. Liet Kynes, was memorably portrayed by Max von Sydow in Lynch’s film. Here he is played by a very black woman (Sharon Duncan-Brewster). Villeneuve even invents a scene where she is a bit sassy before being swallowed by a giant sandworm. It isn’t quite “Say hello to my little fren’,” but that’s the vibe they were driving for.

Liet’s daughter Chani is played by a mulatto actress, Zendaya. Villeneuve tries his best to make her glamorous, but with her flat nose and big lips, she’s a solid five.

Half-Hawaiian bodybuilder/martial artist Jason Momoa plays Duncan Idaho and actually looks the part.

Doctor Wellington Yueh, despite his name, was not described as Oriental or cast that way in previous adaptations. Here he is played by a Chinaman.

Some minor Fremen characters are also blacked-up: Harah, the wife of Stilgar, is played by Gloria Obianyo. Jamis is played by Babs Olusanmokun.

Given that the villains, the Harkonnens, are depicted as bald headed and pasty white—with part-Filipino Dave Bautista in whiteface as Rabban—I feared that Villeneuve wished to turn Dune into a race-war between putatively racist whites and a coalition of non-whites and white race-mixers. But the movie blunts that message by making some of the villains nonwhite as well.

Near the beginning, Villeneuve invents a scene in which the Emperor’s herald proclaims the Atreides family stewards of Arrakis. The scene hints at the grandeur of the imperium and the ethos of the Atreides, but its main purpose seems to be to put a very strange looking black man in a prominent role as the Emperor’s herald. But the Emperor is one of the bad guys.

Later in the movie, the Oriental doctor Yueh turns out to be a traitor.

At the end of the movie, the young hero Paul Atreides is called out to fight Jamis, a cocky, pigheaded, and deranged black man. Paul tries to avoid the fight, then deescalate the fight, but he is finally forced to kill Jamis. This is not the sort of parable I expected in the present Year of Our Floyd. It makes you feel for Derek Chauvin. Maybe BLM will riot in memory of this miscreant too. George Floyd was no more real a victim than Jamis, and the movie industry has deep pockets.

Dune is an objectively good story. Casting nonwhite actors in white roles doesn’t change that. But it is a calculated insult to the author and to white audiences, who are getting mighty sick of it. It is also simply a farce, like casting blacks to play Anne Boleyn or Marshal Mannherheim. When one sees such casting in movie theatres, one should openly scoff. Of course all this diversity casting simply invited the charge that Dune is now a “white savior” movie, something that could not be said about earlier adaptations.

How do the performances in this Dune compare to earlier versions?

Timothée Chalamet is good as Paul Atreides, but he is not better than Lynch’s Kyle MacLachlan or the Sci-Fi Channel’s Alec Newman. Unlike the other Pauls, Chalamet actually looks like  a teenager.

Oscar Isaac is good as Duke Leto Atreides, far better than Sci-Fi’s mumbling William Hurt. My main objection to Isaac is not so much his acting as the script they give him, which depicts him as soft and emotional, more like a democratic politician than a hereditary ruler with the charisma to evoke fanatical loyalty. Lynch’s Jürgen Prochnow strikes a better balance between warmth and dignity, but he still fails to bring Herbert’s Leto to life. A good Leto must answer the question: Why would anyone die for this man?

Rebecca Ferguson is good as Paul’s mother Jessica, but not better than Francesca Annis in Lynch’s film. As with Isaac, Ferguson spends a lot of time showing her emotions, which makes her more relatable but less formidable. Ferguson’s freckled complexion is also distractingly out of place on a high-born woman. Francesca Annis better captures the coolness and strength one would expect of an initiate of the Bene Gesserit sisterhood. The best Jessica of all is Alice Krige in Children of Dune.

I had high hopes for Charlotte Rampling as Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother Mohiam. She is good but not better than Siân Phillips in Lynch’s film.

I also had high hopes for Jason Momoa as Duncan Idaho, but even in the trailers he looked puffy and out of shape, and his performance is inferior to the best Duncan, Edward Atterton in Children of Dune.

I thought Javier Bardem was a good choice for Stilgar, but he looks terrible (his face is far too puffy to be a Fremen), he mumbles his lines, and he lacks the charisma of leadership. The best Stilgar is Steven Berkoff in Children of Dune, although he overacts.

Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård is quite disappointing as Baron Vladimir Harkonnen. He plays the Baron like Marlon Brando’s Colonel Kurz in Apocalypse Now. Kenneth MacMillan’s over-the-top but unforgettable Baron in Lynch’s film is more successful at communicating his madness. Ian McNeice in the Sci-Fi miniseries is more successful in communicating his intelligence and urbanity. Interestingly, Villeneuve’s Baron is not depicted as a homosexual pedophile. But maybe that side of him will emerge in Dune Part II, or maybe it has been omitted entirely, since ascribing such behavior to the villain might strike a bit close to home for Hollywood.

Villeneuve’s Gurney Halleck, Dr. Yueh, Thufir Hawat, Shadout Mapes, Piter de Vries, and Rabban are all adequate but not superior to Lynch’s cast.

Even though Villeneuve has plenty of time for characterization, the only characters in this film who seem better fleshed out than in Lynch’s film are Duke Leto and Duncan Idaho. Most of the other characters are less well-drawn and real than in the Lynch film.

Prophetic dreams and visions play a huge role in Dune. Nobody beats David Lynch in that department.

The chief flaw of Lynch’s Dune are the special effects. The Sci-Fi Channel has cheap special effects too. Villeneuve’s special effects are superior, but what really matters is how the technology is used. This brings us to the question of design, where Lynch is again superior. Villeneuve’s ships, cityscapes, and interiors are not particularly interesting or imaginative. I liked Lynch’s “ornithopter” designs better simply because they didn’t look like they could fly, which made them seem far more futuristic than Villeneuve’s design. The city of Arrakeen is less detailed, realistic, or interesting than countless pre-digital science fiction worlds, including the original Star Wars and Blade Runner, which they clearly rip off. So much money and technology went into this movie’s sets, designs, and effects, yet very little talent and taste.

A major failing of Lynch’s Dune is a lack of grand landscape photography. Villeneuve gives us some spectacular landscapes on the watery world of Caladan, but like Lynch, he depicts the desert world of Arrakis as dark, gloomy, and ugly. This is a shocking lapse of taste and simple, basic showmanship. Deserts are beautiful places. Just look at David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia. After writing that last sentence, I was astonished to learn that some of Dune was actually shot in Wadi Rum, one of the most spectacular Jordan locations used by Lean. You’d never know it from the looks of things.

Lean, by the way, would have been the perfect director for Dune. He knew how to create epics. He knew how to photograph deserts, palaces, hovels, and battles, and make every frame look like a great European painting. Imagine if after Dr. Zhivago Lean’s next project with screenwriter Robert Bolt was Dune rather than Ryan’s Daughter. It would have been poetic, given that a major influence on Dune was T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

Technology is supposedly progressing, yet cost-cutting has brought us a world where air travel is slower and less comfortable than 60 years ago, where the Concorde was scrapped, and where movie images contain less detail and depth of focus, to say nothing of beauty. If I were running things, 70mm cameras and supersonic jets would be as standard as seatbelts.

Which Dune adaptation is most faithful to the original novel? All three take liberties, but based on the first half of Villeneuve’s version, it is the most faithful to Herbert’s book. But his fidelity consists in including a lot of chases, fights, and escapes that feel like standard pulp science fiction fare. They make for good action sequences in the film, but they really aren’t necessary to reveal character, illustrate deeper themes, or advance the overall story, which is why Lynch dropped them.

Jodorowsky wanted Pink Floyd and Magma to compose the music for his Dune. Brian Eno contributed the best music to Lynch’s film, but Toto was responsible for most of the score. It is adequate, but it is not Pink Floyd. I don’t remember a single note from the Sci-Fi series score. Villeneuve hired Hans Zimmer for his Dune. Based on the first trailer, which incorporates Pink Floyd’s “Eclipse” from Dark Side of the Moon, I had hoped that Zimmer’s score would be an homage to Pink Floyd. He tries to do that, but it is mostly oppressive, tuneless electronic noise. I wish Villeneuve had hired Brian Tyler, who did a magnificent orchestral score for the Children of Dune miniseries.

Based on his movies Sicario and Arrival—which are well-scripted, tightly directed, artful, and thoughtful action and science fiction films—I had hoped that Denis Villeneuve would develop into the next Christopher Nolan. But he has disappointed me with Blade Runner 2049[8] and now Dune. These were gutsy projects, because they invited comparisons with Ridley Scott’s original Blade Runner and David Lynch’s Dune. Sadly, in both cases, Villeneuve comes out the lesser director. But in today’s film industry, that won’t hurt him a bit. He has a bright future as the next Joss Whedon or Zack Snyder, aborted talents who busily churn out high-budget, lowbrow spectacles.

The best way to sum up my feelings about Villeneuve’s Dune is that, even though he has reserved three fascinating characters—the Emperor, Feyd Rautha, and Alia—for Dune, Part II, I’m not the least bit curious to see it.

Notes

[1] See “Jodorowsky’s Dune,” Return of the Son of Trevor Lynch.

[2] See “David Lynch’s Dune,” Return of the Son of Trevor Lynch.

[3] See “The Sci-Fi Channel’s Dune & Children of Dune,” Return of the Son of Trevor Lynch.

[4] See Greg Johnson, “The Golden Path: Frank Herbert’s Children of Dune & God Emperor of Dune,” Counter-Currents, January 12, 2021.

[5] See Greg Johnson, “Archeofuturist Fiction: Frank Herbert’s Dune,” Counter-Currents, August 15, 2014.

[6] Reviewed in Trevor Lynch’s White Nationalist Guide to the Movies, ed. Greg Johnson (San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2012).

[7] Reviewed in Trevor Lynch’s White Nationalist Guide to the Movies.

[8] See “Blade Runner 2049,” Return of the Son of Trevor Lynch.

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  1. DarkPlato says:
    October 27, 2021 at 11:18 am

    I’m actually intrigued to see it now.  I think the Freemin and Dune are an apotheosis of all those powers that have tried to subjugate and colonize the Arabs over the centuries, the Turks in seven pillars, the Russians in sabers of paradise, and finally the Jews in Palestine.  The Arabs are wild, untamable people.  The spice is like oil, or coffee.  I have mentat powers after I drink coffee.

     

    1. DarkPlato says:
      October 27, 2021 at 11:23 am

      I’m not as sanguine on Villeneuve though.  His movies are all lukewarm to me, never anything I’ve rewatched later.

       

    2. DarkPlato says:
      October 27, 2021 at 8:29 pm

      Saw it.  I thought it was brilliant.  Just everything.  I thought it had a gravitas and a seriousness and passion that the other Dune movies were lacking.  You have to admit sting as feyd rautha gave Lynch’s a comic feel.  The diversity is there, but it was as tasteful as possible.  My one quibble was that he didn’t show enough of the harkonnen.  I loved the guy who plays Piter.  Does piter die at that point?   Clalamet dogs everybody else as an actor.
      Paul has prophetic dreams like Frodo does in the first part of lotr.  I’m impressed that Herbert picked up on that.  The great fantasists are in another level.

       

      1. Minsc says:
        October 28, 2021 at 2:34 am

        A beautiful and Epic movie. Villeneuve is one of the greats indeed.

        I’m surprised that the reviewer didn’t pick up on the very fascist and mystical portrayal of Sardaukar and how it seems to be based on Bataille’s ideas of sacrificial violence and bonding.

         

        1. DarkPlato says:
          October 28, 2021 at 6:46 am

          Yeah this director is a master of mood and atmosphere.  I think Greg needs to give Trevor lynch the business and tell him to do a better job with these reviews! 😉

           

  2. Lord+Snooty says:
    October 27, 2021 at 3:27 pm

    For a more enthusiastic review from the ‘dissident right’ you could check out Steve Sailer’s ‘Dune’: Old Spice in a New Age over at takimag.

    Just a few years back, a ‘legal high’ called Spice (a synthetic cannabinoid) was being sold in colorful foil packages. A cult book like Dune may have prompted the makers to adopt that name.

    (These synthetics were developed by legitimate pharmaceutical companies looking to harness whatever medical value cannabis has minus the ‘stoned’ effects. Sadly – for the companies’ anticipated royalties – they all turned out to be psychoactive.)

     

     

  3. Richard Chance says:
    October 27, 2021 at 8:34 pm

    Dune is an objectively good story. Casting non-white actors in white roles doesn’t change that.

    Nope, but it makes it annoying enough to skip it, good story or no.

     

    1. Nick says:
      October 28, 2021 at 1:07 am

      Indeed,I find the blackwashing of any White character unforgivable and blatantly anti-White.I write off any movie that does that,no matter how pretty the visual are or how good the story is.

       

  4. Lord Shang says:
    November 6, 2021 at 4:14 am

    I just realized that “Lynch” = Greg Johnson (based on his links to “my” review of this, of that, etc., which then link to Johnson articles). Why use a pen name, only to then reveal it?

    Anyway, Lynch/Johnson really knows his Dune. I read Dune (but none of the sequels) one time only in the late 2000s. Despite it having been not so long ago, I can recall very little from my reading; indeed, I read it in a ski lodge at Squaw Valley, and I can recall my room, the slopes, the weather, etc, all far better than the novel. Mainly, I could recall the teenage Paul (and the name Muad Dib), the desert planet, the Bene Geserit order, the Fremen and especially their stillsuits, and the giant sandworms. I do recall assuming the characters were all white (or I don’t recall thinking any of them were nonwhite).

    I’ve never seen any of the prior Dune movies or tv series. I saw the current movie yesterday. I thought it was very good in terms of special effects and sound (I saw an XD version). The plot was easy to follow. But I was turned off by the general technological silliness. Special powers of mind associated with the BG are one thing. But why would there be sword fighting in a world of interstellar space travel? And why would defense protocols be so weak that a single Oriental traitor could foil them all?

    The excessive number of blacks was also a big turnoff. This was only the second movie I’ve seen since Feb 2020. The other was last week’s Bond film. In both films (note: filmed prior to l’affaire St. Floyd) the quotient and visibility of blacks has been ridiculous. In the real world, so to speak, the Fremen would be mulatto, not multiracial. Also, the Harkonnens didn’t look “white” to me, or even fully human.

    Still I found the film quite well-paced. The 2.5 hrs went by quickly. I could easily have sat there for another couple of hours.

     

     

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