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Villeneuve was honestly smart to cut the first movie in half so he could add more content, but the scenes he chooses to focus on are markedly different from the first two adaptations. both Lynch's and Sci-Fi's adaptations spend at least *some* time in the early story going over Shaddam IV's very obvious plan to send the Atreides to Arrakis with the intent of getting rid of them. Villeneuve chooses not to show the Emperor *at all* until the second film. we make a lot more out of the ceremony handing title and fief over to Leto than either of the other adaptations - and we name drop Kynes as Judge of the Change but don't explain what that means. Kynes also shuffles off this mortal coil more or less as depicted in the novel, which i definitely give props for. it seems at least somewhat *implied* that Chani is Liet's daughter, and that Liet was extremely high up in Fremen society, but not much is made of this, at least in the first two installments.
Villeneuve does manage to get a lot more out of Duncan Idaho and Gurney Halleck than other adaptations, but i think that was tied pretty heavily to both actors' star power. we don't get as much time with Dr. Yueh to establish that he's supposedly incapable of rendering his noble lords harm...so it's more of a betrayal and more shocking when he turns out to be the saboteur later on. we also get maybe one or two scenes with our Mentat, which is honestly a damn shame, both given the missed opportunity *and* the lost dramatic tension between him and Jessica. (he initially suspects her to be the Harkonnen spy, without knowing she is herself Harkonnen in ancestry)
Villeneuve does manage to get a lot more out of Duncan Idaho and Gurney Halleck than other adaptations, but i think that was tied pretty heavily to both actors' star power. we don't get as much time with Dr. Yueh to establish that he's supposedly incapable of rendering his noble lords harm...so it's more of a betrayal and more shocking when he turns out to be the saboteur later on. we also get maybe one or two scenes with our Mentat, which is honestly a damn shame, both given the missed opportunity *and* the lost dramatic tension between him and Jessica. (he initially suspects her to be the Harkonnen spy, without knowing she is herself Harkonnen in ancestry)
# thoughts
Paul is many things, most of which are thrust upon him by his parents. Chalumet's portrayal really does highlight the sheer weight of responsibility that *both* of his parents are laying on him - his father's desperate need for Paul to take responsibility for leading the house, and his mother's insistence he *master* the Bene Gesserit practices she thinks he'll need to stay alive. Both things do wind up benefitting him in the end, be it his seemingly innate ability to inspire others to his cause...or his Spice-enhanced prescience and reflexes making him extremely formidable in combat.
But it truly is that looming vision of roaming hoards of warriors chanting his name and burning the stars that keeps him up at night. It makes Villeneuve's Paul reluctant to take *any* responsibility in the sietch with his new Fremen tribe out of fear he'll wind up inspiring zealots. Stilgar proves this to be an inevitability, though I'll also point out that Villeneuve's adaptation is the only one I know of that actually portrays him as the religious fundamentalist zealot he really is. It's mainly through Chani's first few interactions with Paul that we come to understand just how radical Stilgar and his close followers can be.
I've also got quite a few thoughts about Villeneuve & Zendaya's Chani. I honestly think it's a breath of fresh air to have a Chani who actually *isn't* okay with the guy she fell in love with going all tyrannical and seizing power just like Arrakis' past oppressors. Paul's promises of "transforming the face of Arrakis" – by realizing the *actual* Fremen agenda of terraforming the planet and making it rain – *never come to fruition* because doing so would rob him of two things at once: spice and leverage. While Arrakis produces spice, all the Great Houses and Organizations of the Imperium are beholden to him and his whims. Without that stranglehold on such a crucial resource, Paul would only have the zealots to fight for him, and the rest of the Imperium wouldn't hesitate to wipe him out.