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Two phone sketches
@brucelinas OH MY GOSH YOU'RE THAT ARTIST FROM TWITTER THAT MADE THAT BEAUTIFUL PAULCHANI SKETCH INSPIRED BY A PAINTING???!! I LOVE YOU!!! (I'm the user who asked abt why this choice of painting lol) anyway I love your art!!! . And welcome to the PaulChani side of tumblr lmao, very dry apart from shit post/meme post and the few unhinged shipper as myself🥰!!! (also I see you're a mara jade lover 🤭🥰ty for your service!)
I've seen a lot of people (mostly men if that's a factor) focus on how Chani was heart broken by Paul choosing Irulan. Am I the only one that thinks she's mostly upset that he's lost himself, is embracing/using the prophecy and waging war? She definitely cries as she summons the worm and is quiet and alone but in the room she's angry and staunch and doesn't bow to him. Their conversation about him not wanting to lose himself or lose her before they left for the South felt very important. Maybe I'm misinterpreting but I definitely felt like it was more nuanced and deeper than her just being his love interest. I think Zendaya and Denis made some really cool and powerful changes to her character.
both i'd say. (seeinghow villeneuve kinda re-wrote her character arc, making her more nuanced, but also wanting to put the love's story forward, yeah i'd like to think its both)
we spent all the movie witnessing their growing bond over fighting Harkonnen, Chani full trust into her people power to save themselves, alone (the you are a stranger and not by blood comment) and their love slowly coming to life.
just before Paul asks for Irulan hand, he says 'i will love you and blablabla ...' - maybe as a reassurance he will always be hers?? but also, that no matter who or what he may become in a very near future and how his actions will gradually become more and more monstruous, his love wont change- and what follows his declaration of taking the emperor's daughter hand is a big shot of Chani reaction;
which ngl, can (and should) be interpreted in many ways, ( though denis did say their love story was the epicenter of the movie so yeah)
the fact he literally says he will marry another woman, in front of her - in front of everyone -, just after swearing his eternal love to her would be pretty much a blow for everyone (which is, like..understandable yeah??).
but it also confirms that hes readying himself to fully take power, there's no turning back now and proof is, he is totally ready to 'betray' (no matter how many sincere and honest declarations of love he gave her few seconds prior ) her trust, her people etc...
so both.
dune: part two + i'm your man by mitski
I mean it's rather the contrary no??? She loved and believed the man, and was betrayed by the 'god' aaand in a way, the man too, if you count his 'marriage to Irulan.. ..in any case, tragic.aaaah I love them.
I prefer Chani.
I prefer Chani too then...
“Chani…she will be Paul’s right arm, she will be Paul’s soul.” - Denis Villeneuve.
so this scene is basically Paul seeing his soul leaves, his last shred of humanity :
😭 😭
I finally watched Dune 1 and 2, and I have some thoughts that are probably controversial. But in the movie, I watched, Paul didn't have a choice. If he hadn't become the messiah, the Baron and Feyd would have wiped out the Fremen. The Baron literally said in the first movie to kill them all, and I think we all know Feyd would've killed them all! Not to mention, Jessica has literally been manipulating and grooming Paul his entire life. She planted the idea that he needed to drink the water of life, and she orchestrated all of that. Paul makes it clear he doesn't want to go south because he knows if he goes south, he will not be able to escape the path laid out for him. Chani's the one who convinces him to go, and I don't think it's fair of her to blame him when he clearly didn't have a choice. He drank the water of life because he was trying to see how to save her and her planet. He's seen glimpses of a terrible future, and he's trying to prevent it. The thing is we have no idea what Paul saw when he drank the water of life. He says he saw so many possible futures where they failed, but there's one way for them to succeed. After he drinks the water of life, after he sees these possible futures, his personality changes drastically. He fully accepts the role of the messiah, and he even sacrifices his own happiness. But why? I think it's because he's seen something about Chani. I don't know what, and I'm not sure if we'll ever get to know. But whatever it is, it's enough for him to do whatever it takes to protect her, even if he loses her in the process.
at one point in the movie (just before the sietch is bombed), Paul dreams and have a vision of Chani with her face quite literally burned, (one of the future in which he stays and doesnt go in the south i think), i think its that vision that decided him to fully accepts and chooses to go drink the water of life????, to be able to see which lifetime of horrors and monstruosity he has to take, just for a few more happy moments with his love (and to 'save' the others)...thats both selfish and tragic...
Paul/Chani moodboard in the work...🤭
I think you should know when I watched Dune 2, every time Chani and Paul were on screen alone, I was thinking that she could and should totally kill him (in his sleep, his back turned etc....).
Me and Paul Usul Muad'dib Lisan al gaib Atreides right now.
I mean. of course he's the worst he's the cautionary tale of white saviorism. But still. Fascinated.
[Thanks and all credits to @burntblueberrywaffles for her meme.]
Paul: May your knife chip and shatter.
Feyd: no u.
She'll come to understand it. I've seen it. My visions are clear now.
Very curious to see where will Denis take Chani character, because as much as a passive character she is in the book ( Paul leading an Holy war and his wedding to Irulan) the Chani in the movie is very much not. the contrary even. (girl literally said lemme ride this sandworm to forget all of this bullshit lmao) and well, we know she loves Paul, he is the love of her life but. I dont quite see her accepting passively to be only Paul's concubine (for all of Jessica speech about 'history will call us wives' that convinces Chani in the book, what we've seen so far of Villeneuve's Chani doesn't strike me as someone so easely accepting to be and to do nothing more than concubine of the emperor...) all the while dude will commit genocide using her people's power. So yeah. Curious to know how will Messiah'll adapt Chani..
Maybe someone already said it but the line 'lead them to paradise' is so beautifully tragic in a sense that Paul tried so hard not to be this abomination, to not accomplish the kind of monstrosities his enemies did to him, to his family, to his house, and eventually he ended up doing it anyway, under the belief that if what he does is not right, then it's the best and fair thing to do for humanity, for his love abebvej I like this movie so much..
