Something I really love in dune part 2, is the juxtaposition of chani's reaction during the war council scene and the ending scene.

In the war council scene everyone is on their knees but when Paul declares himself the mahdi and says he'll lead them to paradise, they all jump to their feet and shout lisan al gaib, chani however is the only one to stay on her knees, kept there by her disbelief and devastation along with her refusal to exalt him like everyone else.

Then you have the end scene where paul becomes Emperor which both compliments and contrasts with the council scene, here everyone was standing and they all sink to their knees, but this time chani stays on her feet, she's all anger and defiance, paul promised to be her equal and she'll never willingly bow to him.

Holy shit, they got Voyager 1 working again!

15 billion miles away and NASA was able to tweak code packages on one of the onboard computers and it worked and Voyager 1 is sending signals back to earth for the first time since November.

Incredible!

I know this is a long shot, and I have no idea how Messiah is even going to be handled onscreen in regards to the time jump, but I'd love a scene of Paul wrapping up his own wounds from the end of Part 2. Because one, you can't just injure your main character That Much and then never follow up on it in any way.

But more importantly I want that emphasis on how alone he is. I need the narrative to keep acknowledging that. Despite being so important *in theory*, he isn't protected, he isn't cared about. He's a thing to be in awe of and be terrified of. So having him alone, injured, taking care of himself in private with nobody watching him or following him...and then having him drag himself back to his feet to go commit more war crimes immediately after showing him in a deeply vulnerable and lonesome position would be. hm. something.

Ok. If anybody wants the way-too-hyperspecific-to-possibly-be-accurate-but-my-brain-ran-away-with-it thing that I'm picturing, I had to get it out of my head vvv

This fandom is so lucky to have Samba for real though. Because no one is doing dvd box set with bloopers and bts anymore. You need a guy who is a nerd about hollywood stuff on the cast and crew so he can drip feed us bonus content over instagram.

the love that you need will never be found at home

The new york times asked Denis Villeneuve if he would read fanfics of Austin and Timothée hooking up 👀

The internet will lose their minds. 🤣

“I will show you the way”

#I had to look it up#they tried to ban sex *in public*#but misphrased it#and instead banned sex everywhere

just remembered that chani was forced to revive her lover from the dead… like she hated this prophecy her entire life and then she was compelled to make it happen against her will. she lost the paul she loved because he died in that moment, and what came back she now feels personally responsible for even if it wasn’t really her fault. the guilt? over both the fact she ressurected him and the secret relief she has (that she hates) that he’s back. like she probably has guilt that any part of her loves him still, enough to be relieved he’s alive despite the horrific consequences

Yeah this is one thing I like a lot more about the book. It's kind of weird that Denis Villeneuve made this choice. In the book, she completely goes along with his plan to take over the Galaxy, because they all realize nothing they can do is going to stop the bloodshed so they might as well do what they can

i’m assuming that in the next movie he plans for chani to get to this point, which is why paul says she’ll come to understand and he’s seen it. the function of her reacting this way now is probably her being the audience surrogate so they can see more clearly that this is a tragedy/doomed fate sort of story

I sure hope so.

Man this was a really great movie. There's just like one or two little things that I didn't like. I am happy to say that I don't really care anymore about how "authentic" a movie is, how true to the book.

I just want both to be good

Chani in the books is there to be Paul's lover and the mother of his children and not much else. The single best change the movie made was giving Chani her own goals and agency independent of Paul. She's the voice of the Fremen; she's Paul's conscience; she's the counterweight in the narrative to seeing things only from Paul's point of view; she's the audience surrogate to tell us when we're supposed to think something is fucked up. But she is also her own character in the narrative independent of anything to do with Paul.

Movie Chani is a freedom fighter before she's anything else and I simply cannot believe she would forgive Paul for betraying her people like that, using them to secure his own personal power after he said he was fighting for their freedom. There is no way she can go back to trusting him again after that.

I also think the movie in particular is asking you to challenge Paul's logic that there was "nothing he could do" and that the holy war just had to start...and then keep going long enough to kill billions of people. I think we're supposed to see that as Paul avoiding responsibility for decisions that were entirely his to make.

Paul says Chani will "come to understand" but just because he sees visions of the future where she is by his side doesn't mean he knows what her motivations are. If she comes back into his life in Dune Messiah and looks like she is going to forgive him I think it's highly likely it will be because she's part of organizing the conspiracy against him and needs a reason to get close to him.

Dune dir. Denis Villeneuve

The mother and the son, watch each other kill.

it's wild to me that people act as if chani's primary reason for leaving paul was bitterness about being a concubine like girl..... i promise that did not even register in her brain compared to the realization that paul had chosen to become her people's oppressor, to become her oppressor, to destroy the equality that was very foundation of their relationship. i promise her agency and her loyalty to her people, things which existed before paul and will exist after him, were more important to her than how "official" her relationship would be considered within a system she did not care about.

op I hope you know that Denis said basically exactly this in a recent interview:

"...I wanted to make sure the audience will understand that Paul becomes a dark figure, that his choices are exactly what Chani was afraid of. He becomes the colonizers the Fremen were fighting against.... He betrayed her in many ways. But the big thing for Chani is that it’s not about love. It’s about the fact that he becomes the figure that will keep the Fremen in their mental jail. A leader that is not there to free the Fremen, but to control them."

Timothée Chalamet in BEAUTIFUL BOY (2018) dir. Felix van Groeningen