Thinking about Paul's final duel again. Thinking again about how, after spending half the movie watching him be a destructive godlike being we're thrown back into seeing him be just...a guy. I *love* that unlike in the book they let him actually get Fucked Up. That instead of him being depicted as heroic or villainous, it's not really played as him being powerful at all. Not a scary, evil destructive person but not a saviour either. Just a hurt, exhausted, lonely guy who's barely an adult. The fact that *that's* the angle a scene like that was filmed from just. hmmmmmmmmm. It Bites My Brain Sometimes.
#dune#dune part 2#paul atreides#because they could have gone either way!!!!#they could have taken the 80s 'oh good this is the victory of our heroes' angle#or they could have made it darker and scarier#but either way would have made paul into a powerful figure in that moment (as he'd been shown to be up until that point) but instead#they went for just showing a tired and deeply vulnerable person#it is Such A Choice for that scene and gnnnnnnnnnn i couldn't have asked for a more impactful one honestly