LAST SCENE OF DUNE PART 1 TO 1ST SCENE OF DUNE PART 2

Best 5 hour movie ever

chani's last words to paul in the first movie: this is only the beginning. chani's last words to paul in the second: this isn't the end

Princess Irulan’s diary entries be reading like fine literature.

I am so pleased movies of this EPIC CALIBRE are still being made. Dune 2 just made Marvel films look so goofy in comparison.

I love this version of Princess Irulan. Between the way DV scripted her and the way Pugh played her, you really get a sense of what a next level human being she is. Extremely intelligent and thoughtful, very strong sense of morality. But also extremely shrewd, with an innate sense of the "calculus of power." She hates what her father did to Leito, but she doesn't get emotional about it because she knows he hates it too. I feel like any other movie wouldn't have been able to resist making her the "righteous" one, giving her some big dramatic scene crying about the injustice of it all. Instead, with the minimum amount of screen time, they somehow managed to give her this incredibly subtle, but very clear characterization.

2:45 "And the Emperor said...nothing." Being forced to wait patiently to hear Christopher Walken's voice in this movie hit like a ton of bricks. A bittersweet subversion of expectations. Beautifully scripted, beautifully executed.

I just love the simplicity of Florence’s voice saying “and the Emperor said….” *cut to an icy Christopher Walken…. “Nothing” So simple but effectively epic.

That cut to Chani after she says "This is only the beginning" with that Hans Zimmer drop is my absolute favorite part of the whole thing.

'my father has always been guided by the calculus of power' - sums so beautifully, what has already happened and what is yet to transpire.

That little bird call stilgar does is delicious

Honestly they could have just released both movies in one 5-hour long cut without removing anything and I’d be happy

1:38 the sudden change of mood. How subtle.

If they released these together in theatres, I would go and watch them again and sit for 5 hours no problem.

Part 2’s opening can be a brilliant teaser trailer for the actual film itself. It also feels well like a passage in a book describing major background events on the page, only visualised.

Parts 1 and 2 definitely flow like one film. I also love how Irulan’s monologue parallels Chani’s of the first film’s opening. Two love interests of Paul that represent the Fremen and the politics of the Imperium, two sides of the same coin.

Is anybody else absolutely obsessed with the "Power over Spice is power over all" sound? I just set it as my text tone. and my ringtone is now Paul's speech to the Fremen.

Christopher Walken's acting just via his haunted gaze at 2:47 is perfect. You can see so much going through his head: Guilt, anger, sorrow. He clearly is not happy about what he's done by killing Duke Leto and wiping out House Atreides, but he also clearly doesn't regret it.

At first I was a bit disappointed with Walken's portrayal of Emperor Shaddam, but I've grown to like it. Like with a lot of the major changes from the book to the movie, Villeneuve really boiled the character down to his most important attributes and emphasized them. In the book, you can tell that Shaddam is an insecure old man who is willing to backstab his friends in order to maintain an image of power and grace. But despite his peacocking, at the end of the day he's just another pawn in the Bene Gesserit's schemes, who ends up getting overthrown by a fucking teenager.

im so grateful for how colorful the second movie is. from the olive gray tones when we last see paul and the fremen in part one to the vibrant orange when we next see paul and the fremen. I'd say its a night and day difference, although that phrase literally fits these two scenes as well

The fact that out worlders have no idea fremen can ride sandworms until here and the worm army scene at the end of 2