DUNE - THE VOICE(2000&2021) #dune

Dune 2001 is known as Frank Herbert's Dune, a Scifi (Syfy) miniseries

[watchtowerfilm]

Let me know if you’d like more comparisons

[sminkycorp]

I love 2000s Dune, but it basically is just the most expensive school play ever as with the wardrobe and some of the acting !

[PaperbackWizard]

I like how, in the miniseries *and* the 1984 film, it shows that Paul has had practice *resisting* the Voice, too, and not just using it. They could have used a bit of that in the 2021 movie.

[Galejro]

Another comparison and another reason why we needed 2021 so much. 2000 screws the whole scene, no gravitas, no context. It literally shows Paul as already awakened and stronger than the Rev. Mother, pretty much ready to give her the Gonjava instead, practically omitting the whole need to even visit Arrakis in the first place. 1984 & 2021 understood Paul is a character that grows, starts vaulnerable and weak but is awakend on Arrakis to rival an Empire.

[BrianRPaterson]

The casting for Gurney Halleck was awful. And I wasn't convinced by William Hurt as Duke Leto.
But other casting choices were pretty good.
The chap playing Paul is a talented actor. And James McAvoy pops up!

[MrGone]

Whit that dress I cannot take the benne gesserit seriuos

[adrianjohn]

Yeah! How dare you! Just call him by your name!

[lothean]

The new dune is far better. But I love the original and the syfy version also.
So yes, more comparisons please.

[carolynallisee]

Hmmm... I've never seen the whole of the Dune mini series, but the more clips I see of it, the less I want to. Of the three adaptations, with regards to the Voice and Paul's use of it, the first was closest to the book. There is no sign that Paul knows how to use it, or that Jessica had begun teaching him to use it, and there is even a line of dialogue between Reverend Mother Mohiam and Jessica about it that closes mirrors the book: "Ignore the regular order of teaching- his safety requires the Voice."
The latest adaptation falls between the two. Whilst Paul does not betray the fact his mother is already teaching him this skill, we nevertheless know it from the breakfast scene. So although we know he has some instruction, the later scene when he tries to use it on the crew of the ornithopter and fails is still both plausible and in keeping with the book.
Now we come to the mini series. As I said, I've only seen little bits of it, but every clip I have seen has shown considerable deviation from the book. In this version, it appears that Paul has completely mastered the skill. which, if the mini series included it, will make the later ornithopter scene unbelievable at best. Now I understand that, being a mini series, with the story spread over several hours, it will need a little padding out, but giving Paul skills that in the book he hadn't got at that point of the story, isn't good, if only for the issues it generates later.
So we have three different versions of the same story, three different interpretations. I can safely say that having seen the third, the 2021 film, before the miniseries, I've been spoiled for the TV version. But then, perhaps Dune is one of those books that needs the big budget and tight time constraints of the feature film to best portray it, rather than the far smaller budget and far longer time allocation that a TV mini series grants!

[nighttrain]

I prefer what plays in my head when I was reading the book, and the 2021 version, because they're almost the same. In my mind's eye the worms are bigger though.

[jamesmartello]

I prefer 2000's Dune and Children of Dune. Spectacular.

[poelmeister]

I know dune 2000 got praise for being closer to the source materials, but on every other level it was a pile of dung. It’s like I’m looking at “Blake’s Seven” at times.

[NinoNiemanThest]

Love the labia-lips on the Reverend Mother in the 2000s version!

[theknightoftheburningpestle]

Giuseppe Gazzaniga wrote an operatic adaptation of Don Giovanni about eight months before the premiere of Mozart's Don. Gazzaniga's pales in comparison. After all these middling adaptations, Villeneuve's 'Dune' is, like Mozart's opera, an absolute burst of imagination.

[clintpot]

Scyfy Paul is more badass than new guy Paul, lol!

[davidwatson]

The original didn't even show what the voice was. Nor did it would like something a human could be trained/enhanced to do?

[SaladinVadik]

Man...
The trolling I would do with the voice.
Me: "Come here! Remove your clothes! On your Knees!
Paul: "How dare you... wait, why am I naked...?
Why are you naked?

[kevinoverbeck]

Yeah, the new version is 'lacking' by not doing a better job in any of the key scenes.