thank Villeneuve for that. This movie gave Frank Herbert his proper due. It is the highest form of art - a genius cinematic interpretation of a science fiction series way ahead of its time.
Because it is a tragic moment. Paul himnself know that there is no other path to seek more than anyone. BUT IT WAS EPIC!!! About the film itself, the really tragic thing here is the choice to not show Aila out of the womb as a toddler, for that we'll have to wait a bit.
Me too. I honestly got the same feeling I had when I saw the first Star Wars. People can have problems with the plot and writing changes but seriously today, with all the garbage out there, I was waiting for a film to give me goosebumps. The beginning when the Harkonnen Soldiers floated to the top of that land formation, for some reason a simple floating technique was what made me go “whoa”
Same. Went to watch it by myself on of a Tuesday afternoon(I got off work early). Then, I got to see it again with my wife and some friends on the last day it was showing it at IMAX near my place that Sunday after. Both times were just incredible. Anyone who got to see this in IMAX understands how amazing an experience it was. I really hope they do some kind of special release of Dune Part 1 and 2 on IMAX right before Dune Messiah
@@ardyisdeniralg9147 *spoiler* I can't imagine Villeneuve not having Paul walking into the desert at the ending of Messiah. It's such a perfect way to end the trilogy
@@Imthesoulofthes There's no way to do that i think. Paul going blind is a way to reaffirm his superior state as a being because even without eyes "he can keep seeing" (could even say that he sees even more) and then accept his fate as Fremen tradition dictates to. It would be really weird ending Paul's as Lisan Al-Gahib arc in any other way. Don't you think?
@@prateekagrawPaul defeated the emperor who only had power because of his Sadukar. Which the great houses feared and upheld the status quo because of it. Now that they’ve been defeated there’s no reason for them to accept imperial style rule.
This ending stuck with me and captures the essence of Dune. What should be a triumphant ending, Paul restoring House Atreides, destroying House Harkonnen, and claiming the Imperial Throne, instead feels like a tragic ending.
I'm actually confused why the great houses would reject him. Aside from the whole win the throne by honorable combat against the Emperor's champion thing. This whole mess started because his house was a popular one and despite being the most loyal, the Emperor plotted to destroy them out of fear for their influence over the lther houses. By showing what he would do to even his most loyal subjects, the other houses should have all been terrified or pissed at him. Heck, in part 1 Paul's original plan was to tell the other houses what the Emperor did so that Paul could threaten to lead an uprising against him but would propose a union of their houses to keep the peace. The fact that not a single house was willing to accept Paul as Emperor contradicts the very reason the Emperor thought he was a threat. What happened to their popularity and influence?
@@ReaverLordTonus I can understand, imagine you show up at Arrakis and you hear that some kid has overthrown the Emperor, claimed the throne, and now demands your submission. I wouldn't automatically bend the knee, I'd like to at least look into what the fuck happened lol.
@@ReaverLordTonushe’s a bastard’s son. The leader you liked is dead. And this guy also just killed essentially 2 other houses. There’s a large possibility of fear from them that he’s on a genocide against every other house.
@@ReaverLordTonusPaul is not Leto, Paul is a terrorist leader who has been terrorizing spice production and now threatens the universe with blackmail to the most precious resource and what many are addicted too. They feared the emperors saudukar and could just imagine their defeat as a fluke, not knowing that the fremen are just as good if not better. Why would they bend the knee to this kid and again accept imperial rule when this could be their chance to escape it. Many reasons to not bend the knee.
I knew about the story going in (that a holy war happens) but I had no idea it was going to start immediately. I was horrified at that line and blown away by the movie.
Saw for the first time today, only about 20 people in the theater. Still, I can't remember the last time credits started rolling and people didn't just immediately get up to leave. We all just sat there in stunned silence for about a minute before anyone started talking or getting up. This was that kind of ending. The ending of Dune is incredibly poignant. Rarely are we, the audience, conflicted over the classic "hero's triumph". Paul succeeds, but he knows, and we know through him, at what terrible cost that success will come. I loved Timotheé's reaction to being told the great houses would not respect his ascendance. The dismay in his voice, his face showing the faintest bit of disappointment and grief despite him knowing what they were going to say, what he knew he would command the Fremen to do, as if there was some slight hope that fate would deny his unquestionable prescience. We watch as Stilgar and the other Fremen raise the Atreides banner and we know it will swiftly change from a symbol of "ruling with the heart", as the Emperor said Leto did, to one of mass death. Billions upon billions will die. The Fremen, once their own people, their own culture, have become voluntary pawns in the holy war, and they can't escape it. I think Zendaya's equally impressive acting and Hans Zimmer's score did a perfect job communicating this without any words, and the end result is a triumph we simply cannot feel good about.
I think such an important little detail is when Paul says "Lead them to paradise" while everyone is cheering Stilgar closes his eyes and almost takes a deep breath. He was obviously the biggest believer that Paul is the chosen one the whole movie and at the moment it's like all the weight was finally lifted off his shoulders. Man I love this movie.
I see it as more disappointment. Stilgar is not a young man, and I think he truly believed that he would get to see a green Arrakis if they won. He's now resigning himself to the fact that he may die fighting another war, not even for his home, before it happens. He believes in and trusts Paul, but I think he still had his own hopes, and he's letting them go.
@@12trillioniq25did you completely forget the next scene after this? he is screaming lisan al-gaib while going in a ship hyping everyone else and paul, what kind of disappointment is that?
I think he does it because he hears what he was hoping to hear. The prophecy. Every step of the way is going as he was hoping for, and he's part of the reason why. One of the many people who're part of the reason. He wanted a messiah. Someone who would lead the south. Who would be the "tongue of the unseen". Who would lead the people to holy war and paradise. Paul literally tells him this at one point but he refuses to listen. He's not interested in the reason, but merely in the stories he's heard. And Paul eventually goes along with the story.. Not that Paul is innocent in this either. He could have made many different choices at different points. Could have been more vocal about the fakeness of the prophecy. Could have stopped when emperor gave up and settled for being the next duke of Arrakis maybe. And maybe other bitter but less disastrous choices. But no, he goes to holy war for the sake of "his people". Even if that means death of millions
He does. He regrets that there's no way to avoid his destiny anymore, and the dominoes are falling out of his control now. 61 billion lives, 90 planets and 12 standard years that follow will compound onto that regret.
This is the peak of the modern cinema. The music, the cinematography, the look of total defeat and resignation on Paul's face when he commanded "lead them to paradise", the fact that him, Chani and Irulan were the only one standing during Shadam's submission, predicting the future triangle dynamic between them, the fanatics chanting, Jessica's and Alia's dialogue, Chani's rage and helplessness. Hasn't felt such goosebumps in cinema since LOTR.
IMO, it's better than LOTR. And I am a big fan of both book series, read both many, many times. There is so much more tension at work in this final scene, there is triumph and tragedy all at once. It's not just black and white, good vs. evil. Both good and evil triumph here, it's more true to life.
@@S0ulinth3machin3 People talking like you can't enjoy chocolate and vanilla ice cream at the same time. I'm glad both series are around, they're enjoyable in their own ways. God, it's like the idiots who say Star Trek or Star Wars...why not both? Life isn't a contest.
This whole movie is mind blowing in IMAX, I’ve gone to see it 4 times (only once in imax, plan on going again since apparently it’s re-releasing). Heart pumping to the max.
What I love so much about the delivery of Paul's final line is that he looks tired. He's reluctant to set it off because for most of this film, he's trying to escape his destiny but by this point, he knows there's no other way to achieve what he wants to achieve. So his "lead them to paradise" almost feels like a "do what you have to do" from a fatigued individual. Someone who knows the path is littered with innocent bodies and loathes that fact yet is too deep in it to stop.
I kinda wanted Paul to stop the Jihad. But the fact that there's so much at work in this prophecy, it's too big for Paul to stop the war from happening even if he wanted to.
"I see possible futures , all at once and in so many futures our enemies' previal, but I do see a way. There is a narrow way through..." If you replace "enemies" with mankind's extinction it fits the series and the golden path he is trying to weave perfectly.
I saw a dope comment about the ending in another clip video: Chani is feeling every emotion imaginable in the last shot but she’s been trained her whole life not to shed a tear. Incredible acting by Zendaya
yeah, I think the end was excelent. She felt betrayal, sadness, anger, whe was worried about the war, and also hopeful that maybe the Fremen could be happier, also challenged and abandoned. It was amazing indeed. First movie was terrible, second is amazing.
I adore that look Paul gives Chani while standing before the woman he is too marry. Even Feyn saw Paul lokking at Chani. There can be no mistake who he loves, while also making deals to become Emperor.
I mean, the guy literally tells her he will never, ever stop loving her in front of everybody. That look is basically just the icing on the cake at that point
@@waykool698the writer of the books said he hated how people misunderstood him as a hero. Dennis said he decided to make it more clear that Paul isn’t the good guy in the story
lol. Reading the comments I honestly feel depressed for being among the tiny minority of lonely nerds who had nothing better to do with their time than read all 6 books. but you don't even have to finish the series to know that it was kind of hinted that Paul survives he supposed death and sort of turns back on his dogma. Not that it plays any active role in the story. He's almost like a ghost full of regret and fuck should he be. with all the detah and destruction he's responsible for, he btter be sorry not that it redeems him in any way. He doesn't have the Dr. Strange "it was the only way" excuse. He could've just given up. It's not like the Emperor was going to destory half the universe. This story is a direct rebuke to dogma/fundementalism and i hope Hollywood sticks to that because wqe don't want more people inspired by ISIS/Paul/Worm God.
The moment when the most powerful warriors in universe joined your cause, you became the emperor of the whole known universe, your worst enemy has been completely annihilated and you father avenged, but somehow, you lost everything
Paul was seen as the likely oppressor in the beginning. Chani was afraid of her people following because of the religiosity of a messiah and the power that gave him.. Also Paul was not Freman(sp?)
Gurneys smiling at sight of Paul being alive alone reminded Paul of his dad and his loyal men who all died so he could live for this day. Also Gurney knew where his family atomics were, plus whoever survived Arrakeen loyal to his dad.
Also the scene where Gurney sees Paul use his father’s Duke Signet ring to inherit arrakis by right and ascend to be the leader his father was. Neither of them wanted to lead, they were called to it.
@@marciasilva549 her face at the end - a warrior that’s battle hardened - was a face of a girl who was about to cry (her lip quivering was the most brilliant part of that shot) from being hurt and heartbroken. A warrior who’s been betrayed would want revenge and have a look of anger.
@@Acast009 But that's the beauty of it - she looks both hurt for the heartbreak and then angry for the betrayal. The reason why she refuses to cry and looks angry holding it back is exactly because she is a warrior and Fremen are taught to not waste their bodies' moisture. I suppose this is what art is though - subjective.
@@marciasilva549 yes I agree. I just think Dune is a love story and a story about heartbreak more so than messiahs and the faults of leadership. Hans entire score was centered around this love theme.
I like that this doesn't have a Hollywood happy ending for Paul and Chani. Paul did what he felt he needed to do for his own survival; Chani did what she felt she needed to do for hers. Life sucks sometimes.
Denis changed the ending but the book isn't your typical Hollywood happy ending either. In the book Chani stays with Paul but then sees him marry princess Irulan to unite the two houses. The relationship then becomes an odd threesome with Paul and Irulan as husband and wife with Chani as his concubine. I always felt sorry for Irulan in the books because she got trapped in a loveless marriage whose only joy in life ended up being taking care of her husband's kids that he had with his mistress and true love.
Just to add that the book also does not have a happy ending, Paul and Chani's child Leto had been killed in a Harkonnen attack earlier. The movie sort of skipped over that...
Great detail I noticed on my second viewing. Paul turns his head away from the freemen at 1:01, but by 1:08 he turns his head back towards Gurney and Stilgar BEFORE they say anything. He already knows what they're going to say since at this point he has gained The Sight and can see the future. You can see in his eyes that he has accepted the Holy War and is letting things play out as he has already seen them. Masterpiece in directing and acting.
i noticed that too but I interpreted it as his Bene Gesserit skills coming into full fruition, and he was able to hear Gurney and the Fremen’s conversation before they even had to say anything to him directly. I love this interpretation too though!!
Paul before the water of life didn't want to start the holy war at all. But he very quickly comes to terms with it after the water. This makes me think that the future seeing abilities that he gains during the episode revealed the full picture of why the holy war is needed possibly because other futures are much worse than a jihad that kills a couple billion people. It appears that the movies are departing from the source materials quite significantly as it is Paul's son Leto that ends up doing this in the books.
Alia’s design is something else. Truly otherworldly. I feel like Villeneuve is the only director to capture what a CGI fetus should look like. Well done.
I love the bittersweet nature of the ending - Paul has avenged his father, restored the Atreides and freed the Fremen, but at the cost of starting a galactic civil war which will inevitably lead to billions of deaths.
@@veramae4098who says maybe the first sentient AI isn’t superstitious and tries to create a AI God who can forsee every possible future in the universe
Keep in mind that in the context of her culture in which you don't "waste water" not even for the dead, Chani barely holding back tears is her culture's version of uncontrollable sobbing.
Given how heavily the plot of Dune: Messiah leans on Paul and Chani's relationship, I wonder how they'll go about having them reconcile. Wonder if it'll be as straightforward as her already being pregnant with the twins. They were, ahem, "active"...
@@FreemanicParacusia Hopefully it isn't something stupid to push some women's empowerment through Chani's character. You make sacrifices when you are trying to adapt a book to film. You don't make stupid additions. Chani should just return and reconcile. There is already to much going on in Dune: Messiah to have stupid b story plotline.
"Kiss the Ring" may be my fav song from the soundtrack. Perfectly captures the feelings of both triumph (Paul's victory) with melancholy (the holy war to come) Zimmer cooked with this whole soundtrack, but I think this may be his best piece of the movie
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Exactly. Denis Villeneuve films are respectable because they are relatively void of unnecessary dialogue. Several movies in the last 20 years or so which are considered “mediocre” or “bad” would have been better if the head honchos cut out unnecessary dialogue.
I LOVE this ending. It perfectly embodies the strange complexity of this stage in the books: undeniably majestic but inevitably destructive and tragic. You’re moved and in awe of it even though you know it’s headed to a bad place. Chani’s defiance at the end is more heartbreaking than I remember it. She’s just been betrayed in so many ways.
Having Chani reject Paul was a brilliant change. It’s very rare that a change to a book captures the book better than the original text but this one really gets accross how bad this is going to be for everyone involved
"Lead them to paradise." Paul knows there's no way back. He HAS to give that order. He has foreseen billions of dead and whole worlds burned to the ground, yet he has no choice. The Lisan al-Gaib myth now lives its own life and Paul realizes that by giving the order, he will lose any control over what comes next. Yet give it he must. That's why he gives it in such a low, despondent, almost broken voice. And Timothée portrayed that last dilemma perfectly.
I wasn't a fan of how Zendaya delivered some of her lines ("I'm fighting for MY people!), but goddamn her physical acting and her face going sequentially through shock, rage, fear, sadness then determination is so goddamn good.
I think she had to manage a lot of turns and changes with her character, and some of those shakier line deliveries are a result of that, but the fact that she handily maneuvered going from the Chani we see at the beginning to the one we see in that final shot is a testament to her skill.
That reluctant delivery of "Lead them to paradise" at 1:30 really shows how morally torn Paul is. He knows what's about to happen and where it will lead.
This ending ❤ felt genuinely wonderful and heartbreaking at the same time...Not many movies leave you with this feeling...Denis Villeneuve is really a gem...Never once has he disappointed me with his cinema ...I feel sorry for those who have not witnessed this cinematic masterpiece on big screen
Comments and memes everywhere laughing at Stilgar emphatically yelling "Lisan Al-Ghaib" are so misplaced. You should feel terrified for his exuberance, not chuckling at it. The power of prophecy is amazing, and billions died because of it. It is an epic story. If you have not read the books, please do yourself a favor and either read them, or get the audiobooks. They are mystical.
People might even think the crazed look in his eyes is some kind of accident or coincidence and not direction. Villeneuve knows what he’s doing. Stilgar has transformed from a harsh but kind leader into a frothing zealot
2025 Academy Awards: Director, Cinematography, Sound, Adapted Screenplay, Costume Design and of course Original Score... but I think the Film Editing is where the true magic is happening. Notice how when Paul looks at Chani and does a half blink, the flutes of the music kick in and you can feel the heartache. It's those small subtleties that truly make this film a masterpiece. Just the way Denis Villeneuve breaks down the worm scene, gives you a sense that not a single aspect of a scene is waste and the editing has to nail every single shot being conveyed..truly an amazing movie.
I love the look on Paul's face when he tells the fremen to "lead them to paradise." He looks heartbroken, defeated, knowing this was the only way, the "narrow path." That all the horrors he saw in previous visions before drinking the life water was the only way through, as much and as hard as he tried to avoid it.
Twice I saw this in theatres and twice I bawled my eyes out at this ending. All the death and suffering that is about to happen. The Fremen who believe they are being saved. Chani heartbroken. Paul becoming a monster. So much happening in this epic climax.
I really respect this ending for doing something new. I have known this story since I was a kid, read the book and seen the previous adaptations, and they all end in that throne room after the knife duel. So when it cut to show Stilgar and the Fremen boarding the ships chanting his name, I sat forward in my seat and was wide-eyed. Choosing to end the film (technically concluding two films) on a shot of Chani’s face displaying so many conflicting emotions instead of ending with Paul was a bold choice and I couldn’t stop thinking about it after I first left the theater. This ending did something different stuck with me and the whole film has challenged me emotionally as well as intellectually, and I love it for that.
I haven’t been able to see it in IMAX, but even my weeny screen hasn’t seen anything this expansive since Lawrence of Arabia. I tried to read Dune decades ago and suffered David Lynch’s attempt, I found the first film gripping, my only complaint was Jason Mamoa’s hairless chin. I can’t wait to see the next
I was lucky many years ago to see Lawrence of Arabia on the big screen. I happened to notice it had been rereleased and a local theatre was showing it. My Mom and I went. Swept us away.
You can hear the hesitation and sadness in Paul's voice when he said "lead them to paradise". He knew this command started a chain of events that would lead to him causing unimageable horrors.
I love how despite the scenes being completely different from the book, the movie still ends on Jessica and Chani just like the book did. That was a really nice touch by the filmmakers imo.
Chani waiting to ride on the Sandworm symbolizes that she as a Frenman serves one master: Shai Hulud. It’s also a call back to Dr. Kynes’s last words in Part One.
This scene is so powerful. Everyone bows except for the women in Paul's life. Truly shows how male/female relationships work. "Love" is just one piece in the overall puzzle. Either they believe in you and stand by you or they leave.
Actually not true… There will be a third Film. Also you did not listen well. Paul tells his mother after he drank thw water of life and had to be saved by Chani; when she says I am sorry about Chani, Paul says something to the effect, no worries, I see in my visions she will come to understand my choices
The point of the Jihad is to spread the religion of Muad’dib throughout the known Universe so that they bow to Paul and the Fremen legions. Basically the Known Universe and the Landsraad refused to acknowledge him at first so he had to go to war to take the Throne and make them accept him. Any other path would have led to his destruction and that the destruction of the Fremen, Chani, all his friends etc
@@finnfisu The point of the jihad is even deeper than just spreading its religion across the Universe or surviving. The true purpose is not revealed in the films yet, it's only known by a being in the Dune universe called the God Emperor.
The ending is truly remarkable, zimmer did such a fantastic job with the soundtrack, love the range of emotions in this scene from disdain of losing love to the majestic awe of Paul's divination!
it’s not necessarily the character i dislike but i feel villeneuve focusing too much on chani retracts on how Paul’s ascent affected everybody else. It makes me feel more sad for Chani than the billions of people who will suffer from the jihad.
Pauls turn to the Dark side will follow in the next movie. In fact the whole Atreides family, New wife included. That's why I feel Chani ..her whole world has crumbled into dust.
@@heatherbukowski2102 Nice insult from someone who obviously has no idea how strong book Chani was, and it would have been nice for the movie to reflect that, but you go right ahead attacking anyone who thinks the movie strayed pretty far from the source.
1:38 that slight stressful twang that hits the music is so menacing. I’ve never read the books and didn’t know about what happens in messiah till after I saw the movie. Great touch that leaves intrigue in the mind of the layman. Probably a very nice detail for those who know what happens next
Nothing will ever top LOTR for me. But this is the only movie that I will be rewatching for the rest of my life, just like LOTR. Watched it 5 times in the span of 1.5 months. Experience of a lifetime.
With the music and the scene of the Fremen leaving on the ships. It made me feel sad; like most of these Fremen would probably never see Arrakis/Dune again.
"I see possible futures, all at once. The studio executives are all around us. And in so many futures they prevail. But I do see a way. There is a narrow way through to a Dune Messiah movie." LISAN AL-VILLENEUVE
Love that in how much happens in the last 10 minutes of the movie, Denis is able to focus explicitly on Paul and Chani, keeping them in the centre of everything, the amount of looks they exchange in the finale is heartbreaking, and the emotions they both go through without saying a single thing is conveyed so well, and the music from Hans is like a dagger in your heart as Paul and Chani look at each for the last time.
Paul ain't screwing around with that foot stomp. He's been stabbed twice, and his entire family wiped out by that very emperor, yeah he's getting that kiss to the ring and his hot daughter.
This is one of only five movies I have ever gone back to the theaters to see a second time, in my entire lifetime… and after watching it the first time, my friends and I immediately rushed to Barnes and Noble to buy the first book because we all NEEDED more Dune… it was so perfectly well done, from the cinematography to the soundtrack and the story with amazing actors and amazing direction… I can’t stop thinking about it - it’s a masterpiece and it’s only 1/3 of a beginning of a story… 🤯❤
I remember when i saw the first movie and asked myself if i was witnessing the birth of another Star Wars popularity level sci fi movie franchise. With Atreides fremen army boarding the ships at the ending of the second one, i knew i was witnessing the birth of another great saga with epic stories and iconic characters. great, beautiful movie.
Exactly, I remember feeling this wave of emotion hit me as both from the spectacle of the scene but like you, seeing the path...the true way forward of the Dune franchise.
Just came from watching the movie a second time. It gets even better with the rewatch. Especially the second half. The sign of a truly good movie. Loved this scene especially. The tragic of it. Superb!
What an incredible film, wish the new Star wars films were made like this as both the Dune movies are a different level in how to produce sci-fi now. Phenomenal movies 👍
I come to watch this every morning and before bed. Just so i don’t forget the goosebump feelings i got from watching it on iMax and the hairs on my skin rising when the soundtrack hit. I didnt want it to end 😢
A sad story. You can kinda see that stilgar is overwhelmed when walking into the ship. Almost as if he’s surprised this is all happening and happening so fast but they’re so blind
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His speech to the tribal leaders then him greeting the warriors as they prepare to enter battle.
Please from his arrival to the first bombe 😭😭😭. I could see it thousands times
The arrival scene!!!
“At that time, this world had a Fremen name…Dune.”
Nuke scene and war
Somehow “Lead them to paradise” sounds far more menacing than “Send them to hell”
He is the lisan al gaib afterall
He do knows what is to come.
In the end he was a False Prophet but a true Messiah
It sounds nicer than "Kneel or Die"
LISAN AL GAIB
Technically he will keep his promise as Arrakis will become greener and more normal planet during his reign xd
I cannot believe I live in a possible future where mainstream audiences are clamoring and demanding a Dune: Messiah movie. What a time to be alive!
thank Villeneuve for that.
This movie gave Frank Herbert his proper due. It is the highest form of art - a genius cinematic interpretation of a science fiction series way ahead of its time.
Denis V. Makes a beautiful films. Peoples in mainstream world finally aknowledges it
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@@S0ulinth3machin3 lol.. you don't know sht , pal.
@@S0ulinth3machin3 yea, PAL!
this ending along with that soundtrack was absolute CINEMA. The inevitability of Paul’s Holy War really feels like a tragic ending
Just what I said. Different from the book, but definitely brings the message home.
I really hope the Great Houses can put a stop to this madness and save the Known Universe. I know who I will be rooting for in Part Three.
Because it is a tragic moment. Paul himnself know that there is no other path to seek more than anyone.
BUT IT WAS EPIC!!! About the film itself, the really tragic thing here is the choice to not show Aila out of the womb as a toddler, for that we'll have to wait a bit.
His expression of disillusion, grief and helplessness , looking down, says it all
@@Stitchman3875delete this comment bozo “without giving away too much” and spouts a dune messiah synopsis
this is the first movie that i've gone back to see in theaters a second time, its really something else
Me too. I honestly got the same feeling I had when I saw the first Star Wars. People can have problems with the plot and writing changes but seriously today, with all the garbage out there, I was waiting for a film to give me goosebumps. The beginning when the Harkonnen Soldiers floated to the top of that land formation, for some reason a simple floating technique was what made me go “whoa”
Same, this and Inception were the only two movies I went back to theaters a second time.
same here I never thought I'd watch a movie second time in theatre not even marvels Avengers made me watch a movie second time in theatre
Same. Went to watch it by myself on of a Tuesday afternoon(I got off work early). Then, I got to see it again with my wife and some friends on the last day it was showing it at IMAX near my place that Sunday after. Both times were just incredible. Anyone who got to see this in IMAX understands how amazing an experience it was. I really hope they do some kind of special release of Dune Part 1 and 2 on IMAX right before Dune Messiah
Going for the fifth time this sunday, third time on the biggest screen on planet. I’m enchanted.
First film- Paul and Chani walk in the desert together
Second film- Chani walks in the desert alone
Third film- Paul walks in the desert alone
Or Chani walk in the desert alone. We'll never know how far they'll change the story
@@ardyisdeniralg9147 *spoiler* I can't imagine Villeneuve not having Paul walking into the desert at the ending of Messiah. It's such a perfect way to end the trilogy
@@RockSmithStudioI agree. Paul walking into the desert is the perfect ending to Messiah.
@@RockSmithStudioWhat if he doesn’t blind Paul this tine around?
@@Imthesoulofthes There's no way to do that i think. Paul going blind is a way to reaffirm his superior state as a being because even without eyes "he can keep seeing" (could even say that he sees even more) and then accept his fate as Fremen tradition dictates to. It would be really weird ending Paul's as Lisan Al-Gahib arc in any other way. Don't you think?
"Lead them to paradise" Such a great line
No, it's not. It's the path of death for people across the galaxy. from blind followers and Paul know what's gonna happen
"he said with icy expression"
@@HK-gm8pe the "sterilization" begins
I'm not sure whether he wants them to have some coffee in their most luxurious place or destroy them. Pretty big gamble.
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The fact he reluctantly knows he has to give the command. It’s just heartbreaking.
Basically the future was already set in stone when the great houses refused his ascension.
@@Guo1234bob yeah, he knew his visions were true and the war had to happen. I honestly loved this movie.
Considering Duke Leto was a threat to the Emperor because of his "following", I never understood why Paul's ascendancy was not honored.
@@prateekagrawPaul defeated the emperor who only had power because of his Sadukar. Which the great houses feared and upheld the status quo because of it. Now that they’ve been defeated there’s no reason for them to accept imperial style rule.
@@jaythekid4728they feared the sardukar, but don’t fear the guy that wiped out the sardukar ? I don’t get it
This ending stuck with me and captures the essence of Dune. What should be a triumphant ending, Paul restoring House Atreides, destroying House Harkonnen, and claiming the Imperial Throne, instead feels like a tragic ending.
I'm actually confused why the great houses would reject him. Aside from the whole win the throne by honorable combat against the Emperor's champion thing. This whole mess started because his house was a popular one and despite being the most loyal, the Emperor plotted to destroy them out of fear for their influence over the lther houses.
By showing what he would do to even his most loyal subjects, the other houses should have all been terrified or pissed at him. Heck, in part 1 Paul's original plan was to tell the other houses what the Emperor did so that Paul could threaten to lead an uprising against him but would propose a union of their houses to keep the peace.
The fact that not a single house was willing to accept Paul as Emperor contradicts the very reason the Emperor thought he was a threat. What happened to their popularity and influence?
@@ReaverLordTonus I can understand, imagine you show up at Arrakis and you hear that some kid has overthrown the Emperor, claimed the throne, and now demands your submission. I wouldn't automatically bend the knee, I'd like to at least look into what the fuck happened lol.
@@ReaverLordTonus
They liked his dad....not Paul.
@@ReaverLordTonushe’s a bastard’s son. The leader you liked is dead. And this guy also just killed essentially 2 other houses. There’s a large possibility of fear from them that he’s on a genocide against every other house.
@@ReaverLordTonusPaul is not Leto, Paul is a terrorist leader who has been terrorizing spice production and now threatens the universe with blackmail to the most precious resource and what many are addicted too. They feared the emperors saudukar and could just imagine their defeat as a fluke, not knowing that the fremen are just as good if not better. Why would they bend the knee to this kid and again accept imperial rule when this could be their chance to escape it. Many reasons to not bend the knee.
In IMax hearing Paul for the first time say "lead them to paradise" I never felt my heart drop so much
Such a perfect moment, the way he utters it with such finality and dismay.
It's like a "There's nothing I can do. Kill them all." kind of feeling.
@@danielplainview2584 Totally agree... I dont know how a line of words that meant "Kill them" Made me got in tears.
I knew about the story going in (that a holy war happens) but I had no idea it was going to start immediately. I was horrified at that line and blown away by the movie.
Saw for the first time today, only about 20 people in the theater. Still, I can't remember the last time credits started rolling and people didn't just immediately get up to leave. We all just sat there in stunned silence for about a minute before anyone started talking or getting up. This was that kind of ending.
The ending of Dune is incredibly poignant. Rarely are we, the audience, conflicted over the classic "hero's triumph". Paul succeeds, but he knows, and we know through him, at what terrible cost that success will come. I loved Timotheé's reaction to being told the great houses would not respect his ascendance. The dismay in his voice, his face showing the faintest bit of disappointment and grief despite him knowing what they were going to say, what he knew he would command the Fremen to do, as if there was some slight hope that fate would deny his unquestionable prescience. We watch as Stilgar and the other Fremen raise the Atreides banner and we know it will swiftly change from a symbol of "ruling with the heart", as the Emperor said Leto did, to one of mass death. Billions upon billions will die. The Fremen, once their own people, their own culture, have become voluntary pawns in the holy war, and they can't escape it. I think Zendaya's equally impressive acting and Hans Zimmer's score did a perfect job communicating this without any words, and the end result is a triumph we simply cannot feel good about.
When this movie ended, all I wanted was more of Dune, this was absolutely a masterpiece
Get the board game Dune Imperium, it is phenemonal
That foot stomp at the beginning was something else in IMAX
just a lot of the great scenes in this film... it don't hit the same just watching it like this
Chalmette crushed it in this film, but that foot stomp alone has earned him a lifelong fan.
Same exact sound effect when he punches the sand to call and take the worm
I am very curious if it was Villeneuve's idea or his idea for this scene.
@@frankiefisher6110 so learning to spell his name might be a good starting point
I think such an important little detail is when Paul says "Lead them to paradise" while everyone is cheering Stilgar closes his eyes and almost takes a deep breath. He was obviously the biggest believer that Paul is the chosen one the whole movie and at the moment it's like all the weight was finally lifted off his shoulders. Man I love this movie.
While something entirely else may happen
I see it as more disappointment. Stilgar is not a young man, and I think he truly believed that he would get to see a green Arrakis if they won. He's now resigning himself to the fact that he may die fighting another war, not even for his home, before it happens. He believes in and trusts Paul, but I think he still had his own hopes, and he's letting them go.
His closing of his eyes really sells that scene.
@@12trillioniq25did you completely forget the next scene after this? he is screaming lisan al-gaib while going in a ship hyping everyone else and paul, what kind of disappointment is that?
I think he does it because he hears what he was hoping to hear. The prophecy. Every step of the way is going as he was hoping for, and he's part of the reason why. One of the many people who're part of the reason. He wanted a messiah. Someone who would lead the south. Who would be the "tongue of the unseen". Who would lead the people to holy war and paradise. Paul literally tells him this at one point but he refuses to listen. He's not interested in the reason, but merely in the stories he's heard. And Paul eventually goes along with the story.. Not that Paul is innocent in this either. He could have made many different choices at different points. Could have been more vocal about the fakeness of the prophecy. Could have stopped when emperor gave up and settled for being the next duke of Arrakis maybe. And maybe other bitter but less disastrous choices. But no, he goes to holy war for the sake of "his people". Even if that means death of millions
The mournful background music interprets the final scene more than anything else.
Me when I am unable to feel the tide of emotion that Hans Zimmer is able to create
Absolutely. The music is what made this scene.
When you need a musical shortcut to emotion devastation, you call Lisa Gerrard to sing five notes.
Hans zimmer is a genius
100%! The music already mourns 61 billions of life as a result of the jihad that Paul started
The way he said "Lead them to paradise" it was like he was hoping it wouldn't have to be this way.
He does. He regrets that there's no way to avoid his destiny anymore, and the dominoes are falling out of his control now.
61 billion lives, 90 planets and 12 standard years that follow will compound onto that regret.
"The Holy War begins..." very chilling the way that line was delivered.
Rebecca Ferguson is the best actor of the cast. Her delivery can’t be better…
Rebecca Ferguson = Mother
"The Hchhhhhcholy Whchhar"
This is the peak of the modern cinema. The music, the cinematography, the look of total defeat and resignation on Paul's face when he commanded "lead them to paradise", the fact that him, Chani and Irulan were the only one standing during Shadam's submission, predicting the future triangle dynamic between them, the fanatics chanting, Jessica's and Alia's dialogue, Chani's rage and helplessness. Hasn't felt such goosebumps in cinema since LOTR.
IMO, it's better than LOTR. And I am a big fan of both book series, read both many, many times. There is so much more tension at work in this final scene, there is triumph and tragedy all at once. It's not just black and white, good vs. evil. Both good and evil triumph here, it's more true to life.
Jessica also did not kneel.
@@aljovenceabina5780 because she sit on the chair 😅
@@S0ulinth3machin3 People talking like you can't enjoy chocolate and vanilla ice cream at the same time. I'm glad both series are around, they're enjoyable in their own ways. God, it's like the idiots who say Star Trek or Star Wars...why not both? Life isn't a contest.
@@rikk319 it's subjective. That's my opinion. You have your opinion, I have mine. There is no right or wrong answer in subjectivity.
Paul: 😔
Chani😢
Stilgar: 😃
Jamis: 🗿
The Other Houses:💀
Jessica: 🧘
Alia: 😈
@@kevting4512spoilers OMG
@@kevting4512leto II: 🐛
@@Falcrist😂😂😂😂❤❤
That foot stomp in IMAX is something else, so phenomenal that I got chills.
The emperor kneeling down to kiss his feet, Paul:"bro what you doing? Kiss the ring your weirdo"
This whole movie is mind blowing in IMAX, I’ve gone to see it 4 times (only once in imax, plan on going again since apparently it’s re-releasing). Heart pumping to the max.
@@Radbiker33357when is it re-releasing?
@@Ellzyboy I had seen an ad or website saying April 18-19 so it might’ve passed already unfortunately.
@@Radbiker33357 ah ok. Most likely they will bring it back a few months before the next film is set to release
What I love so much about the delivery of Paul's final line is that he looks tired. He's reluctant to set it off because for most of this film, he's trying to escape his destiny but by this point, he knows there's no other way to achieve what he wants to achieve. So his "lead them to paradise" almost feels like a "do what you have to do" from a fatigued individual. Someone who knows the path is littered with innocent bodies and loathes that fact yet is too deep in it to stop.
I kinda wanted Paul to stop the Jihad. But the fact that there's so much at work in this prophecy, it's too big for Paul to stop the war from happening even if he wanted to.
"I see possible futures , all at once and in so many futures our enemies' previal, but I do see a way. There is a narrow way through..."
If you replace "enemies" with mankind's extinction it fits the series and the golden path he is trying to weave perfectly.
I saw a dope comment about the ending in another clip video:
Chani is feeling every emotion imaginable in the last shot but she’s been trained her whole life not to shed a tear. Incredible acting by Zendaya
How her little chin quivers.. she is a great actress. You can see so much emotion on her face.
She is the worst part of the film. Everything else is perfect.
yeah, I think the end was excelent. She felt betrayal, sadness, anger, whe was worried about the war, and also hopeful that maybe the Fremen could be happier, also challenged and abandoned. It was amazing indeed. First movie was terrible, second is amazing.
Zendaya is a terrible actor. She should get implants and a BBL. stick insect
@@ninenikiboys3031No, the wordt part was that they skipped the spice orgy
I adore that look Paul gives Chani while standing before the woman he is too marry. Even Feyn saw Paul lokking at Chani. There can be no mistake who he loves, while also making deals to become Emperor.
I mean, the guy literally tells her he will never, ever stop loving her in front of everybody. That look is basically just the icing on the cake at that point
I don't know what the point was. All the houses opposed it.
@@baloog8 if the president would execute your dad for unjust reasons I think you would try to get him out of office, wouldn't you
That's one thing I didn't understand in this movie. He makes clear he loves her and also is saving her people, and yet she resigns him?
@@justsomeguywithtattoos6267 Paul is not a saviour
we've all heard of a reluctant hero, but Paul Atreides is a reluctant villian. The soundtrack is incredible; foreboding, tragic, desolate.
Villain? Lead them to paradise!!!
@@waykool698the writer of the books said he hated how people misunderstood him as a hero.
Dennis said he decided to make it more clear that Paul isn’t the good guy in the story
@@insidemymindinc Paul is a good guy. He's a good guy that has to make evil choices. Because he sees the consequences if he doesn't.
@@shadowbandit3975 He's a bad guy.
lol. Reading the comments I honestly feel depressed for being among the tiny minority of lonely nerds who had nothing better to do with their time than read all 6 books. but you don't even have to finish the series to know that it was kind of hinted that Paul survives he supposed death and sort of turns back on his dogma. Not that it plays any active role in the story. He's almost like a ghost full of regret and fuck should he be. with all the detah and destruction he's responsible for, he btter be sorry not that it redeems him in any way. He doesn't have the Dr. Strange "it was the only way" excuse. He could've just given up. It's not like the Emperor was going to destory half the universe. This story is a direct rebuke to dogma/fundementalism and i hope Hollywood sticks to that because wqe don't want more people inspired by ISIS/Paul/Worm God.
The moment when the most powerful warriors in universe joined your cause, you became the emperor of the whole known universe, your worst enemy has been completely annihilated and you father avenged, but somehow, you lost everything
At the beginning of Part 1 Chani’s voice asks “who will our new oppressors be.” By the end of Part 2 she has her answer.
Paul was seen as the likely oppressor in the beginning. Chani was afraid of her people following because of the religiosity of a messiah and the power that gave him.. Also Paul was not Freman(sp?)
This time the Fremen is the one doing the oppressing lol
Lmaooo fremen got 60 billion killed, 500+ planets pillaged and atleast 50 religions wiped out.☠️
Gurneys smiling at sight of Paul being alive alone reminded Paul of his dad and his loyal men who all died so he could live for this day. Also Gurney knew where his family atomics were, plus whoever survived Arrakeen loyal to his dad.
Also the scene where Gurney sees Paul use his father’s Duke Signet ring to inherit arrakis by right and ascend to be the leader his father was. Neither of them wanted to lead, they were called to it.
Duke Leto in first movie: "On Caladan, we have air and sea power. On Arrakis, we need desert power. "
Yes we all watched the movie too, Captain Obvious
What a masterpiece ending. Not only depicting power and loyalties, but also pain and betrayal
More heartbreak and a girl that really is just hurt/sad
@@Acast009 It was definitely betrayal and pain.
@@marciasilva549 her face at the end - a warrior that’s battle hardened - was a face of a girl who was about to cry (her lip quivering was the most brilliant part of that shot) from being hurt and heartbroken. A warrior who’s been betrayed would want revenge and have a look of anger.
@@Acast009 But that's the beauty of it - she looks both hurt for the heartbreak and then angry for the betrayal. The reason why she refuses to cry and looks angry holding it back is exactly because she is a warrior and Fremen are taught to not waste their bodies' moisture. I suppose this is what art is though - subjective.
@@marciasilva549 yes I agree. I just think Dune is a love story and a story about heartbreak more so than messiahs and the faults of leadership. Hans entire score was centered around this love theme.
I like that this doesn't have a Hollywood happy ending for Paul and Chani. Paul did what he felt he needed to do for his own survival; Chani did what she felt she needed to do for hers. Life sucks sometimes.
Denis changed the ending but the book isn't your typical Hollywood happy ending either. In the book Chani stays with Paul but then sees him marry princess Irulan to unite the two houses. The relationship then becomes an odd threesome with Paul and Irulan as husband and wife with Chani as his concubine. I always felt sorry for Irulan in the books because she got trapped in a loveless marriage whose only joy in life ended up being taking care of her husband's kids that he had with his mistress and true love.
Just to add that the book also does not have a happy ending, Paul and Chani's child Leto had been killed in a Harkonnen attack earlier. The movie sort of skipped over that...
Life's about to suck for 61 billion people across the galaxy
@@timovangalen1589 Don't forget the worm man
@@mrnukes797 Chani: "if our child was a worm would you still love him?"
Great detail I noticed on my second viewing. Paul turns his head away from the freemen at 1:01, but by 1:08 he turns his head back towards Gurney and Stilgar BEFORE they say anything. He already knows what they're going to say since at this point he has gained The Sight and can see the future. You can see in his eyes that he has accepted the Holy War and is letting things play out as he has already seen them. Masterpiece in directing and acting.
i noticed that too but I interpreted it as his Bene Gesserit skills coming into full fruition, and he was able to hear Gurney and the Fremen’s conversation before they even had to say anything to him directly.
I love this interpretation too though!!
Yeah it's like he turned around and waited for them to say what he already knew, waited for them to declare the horror he has initiated
Paul before the water of life didn't want to start the holy war at all. But he very quickly comes to terms with it after the water. This makes me think that the future seeing abilities that he gains during the episode revealed the full picture of why the holy war is needed possibly because other futures are much worse than a jihad that kills a couple billion people. It appears that the movies are departing from the source materials quite significantly as it is Paul's son Leto that ends up doing this in the books.
Paul does lead a war though in the books. Leto creates the golden path
Yeah, actually he knew and accepted his fate from the very moment he accepted going south with channy
Alia’s design is something else. Truly otherworldly. I feel like Villeneuve is the only director to capture what a CGI fetus should look like. Well done.
It’s also not a thing a director has to do commonly I feel like
Reminds me of the Massive Attack music video for Teardrop
I love the bittersweet nature of the ending - Paul has avenged his father, restored the Atreides and freed the Fremen, but at the cost of starting a galactic civil war which will inevitably lead to billions of deaths.
Some guy: Stilgar is the proof of fanatism destroying a person
Stilgar = happy and living the moment of destroying entire planets 👏👏👏👏👏👏
He'll get his time of destruction in Children (if they get there).
You people get so offended at brown people defending themselves.
Stilgar fanatism make kill billions but it overall saves humanity.
@@Yanel5795 stop
@@Wayoutthere truth
The sight of the Fremen taking off in those warships while chanting is spine-chilling stuff!
The Fremen are so interesting, tribal and superstitious. But they have to be high tech to survive on Dune.
To me was fcking depressing and and hyping My hearth to join them at the same time
@@carpediem9750 Well spoken. It was horrifying yet awesome.
@@veramae4098who says maybe the first sentient AI isn’t superstitious and tries to create a AI God who can forsee every possible future in the universe
Keep in mind that in the context of her culture in which you don't "waste water" not even for the dead, Chani barely holding back tears is her culture's version of uncontrollable sobbing.
I love that Chani's last line is "This isn't over".
Just like her last line in part 1 was “This is only the beginning”.
Chani be walking it off back to her UberWorm 😂😂😂
Given how heavily the plot of Dune: Messiah leans on Paul and Chani's relationship, I wonder how they'll go about having them reconcile. Wonder if it'll be as straightforward as her already being pregnant with the twins. They were, ahem, "active"...
@@FreemanicParacusia Hopefully it isn't something stupid to push some women's empowerment through Chani's character. You make sacrifices when you are trying to adapt a book to film. You don't make stupid additions. Chani should just return and reconcile. There is already to much going on in Dune: Messiah to have stupid b story plotline.
@@shadowbandit3975 They are not changing it, Paul says "she'll come to understand, I've seen it" when talking to Jessica
"Kiss the Ring" may be my fav song from the soundtrack. Perfectly captures the feelings of both triumph (Paul's victory) with melancholy (the holy war to come)
Zimmer cooked with this whole soundtrack, but I think this may be his best piece of the movie
Absolute gem
Would've been better if the title of the track is "Lead them to Paradise"
@@Souleater564That would have been better, damn...
Until Dune 2, I’ve never gone back to a theater to see the same film twice. It was an absolute pleasure to see it in Dolby.
You mean Doubly?
Don't forget Godzilla X Kong The New Empire and Furiosa A Mad Max Story. October Joker 2, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and I think a lord of the rings film christmas day *DAMN WARNER BROS GOT SOME POTENTIALLY STACKED LINEUPS FOR SOME AWARDS!!!*
@@mrnukes797lotr is animated
The way Paul blinked and turned his head was something else in Imax
I got a spice infused heart attack in that moment, truly one of the of all time
Villeneuve
he said that it is better without dialogue, in that scene he shows it, the three of them never say a single word. 0:33
That's the power of a good screenwriter.
And actors
Exactly. Denis Villeneuve films are respectable because they are relatively void of unnecessary dialogue. Several movies in the last 20 years or so which are considered “mediocre” or “bad” would have been better if the head honchos cut out unnecessary dialogue.
I LOVE this ending. It perfectly embodies the strange complexity of this stage in the books: undeniably majestic but inevitably destructive and tragic. You’re moved and in awe of it even though you know it’s headed to a bad place. Chani’s defiance at the end is more heartbreaking than I remember it. She’s just been betrayed in so many ways.
Chani is not defiant in the books...
because Chani sucked in the books and was as flat as cardboard.@@benjaminodonnell258
Chain is just dumb. Paul literally told her what would happen if he went South. She didn't listen
Having Chani reject Paul was a brilliant change. It’s very rare that a change to a book captures the book better than the original text but this one really gets accross how bad this is going to be for everyone involved
Yea. but hard to reconcile with Messiah.
Nah that’s just your opinion mate
@@ghostapostle7225Paul himself said that she'll come around eventually. So something will happen to bring her back in.
@@ghostapostle7225So?
It makes THIS movie so much more epic.
The future will take care of itself. Trust Denni Villenueve.
@@HadrosaurHerohe did?
Watching this in IMAX was the single greatest cinematic experience of all time and I will die on that hill
Me too bro
"Lead them to paradise."
Paul knows there's no way back. He HAS to give that order. He has foreseen billions of dead and whole worlds burned to the ground, yet he has no choice. The Lisan al-Gaib myth now lives its own life and Paul realizes that by giving the order, he will lose any control over what comes next. Yet give it he must.
That's why he gives it in such a low, despondent, almost broken voice. And Timothée portrayed that last dilemma perfectly.
His expression of disillusion, grief, helplessness and heartbrokenness, looking down, says it all... Lead them to paradise...
That look of absolute heartbreak in Chani’s eyes is portrayed so well. When I watch this I feel it because I have felt it before.
1:31 - The moment of Stilgar's greatest regret.
That he wasn't the first one to say Lisan-Al-Gaib.. The disappointment.
Hans Zimmer never misses!!
I wasn't a fan of how Zendaya delivered some of her lines ("I'm fighting for MY people!), but goddamn her physical acting and her face going sequentially through shock, rage, fear, sadness then determination is so goddamn good.
I think she had to manage a lot of turns and changes with her character, and some of those shakier line deliveries are a result of that, but the fact that she handily maneuvered going from the Chani we see at the beginning to the one we see in that final shot is a testament to her skill.
Agree. Her acting at times is questionable, but her face is pretty expressive, especially her eyes.
Stilgar's reaction at 1:30 was like *JEEZ HE SAID IT*
Vindication of his faith basically.
As written
" *Lead them to Paradise* " such a chilling and eery line signifying Pauls acknowledgment of the horror of the future to come
That reluctant delivery of "Lead them to paradise" at 1:30 really shows how morally torn Paul is. He knows what's about to happen and where it will lead.
This is like 2000 gladiator all over again .. watching it multiple times in theatre
This film is such an instant classic it's ridiculous
imagine.. just imagine, if Villeneuve could make a SW movie. this scene feels like attack of the clones personally..
This ending ❤ felt genuinely wonderful and heartbreaking at the same time...Not many movies leave you with this feeling...Denis Villeneuve is really a gem...Never once has he disappointed me with his cinema ...I feel sorry for those who have not witnessed this cinematic masterpiece on big screen
Sci-fi perfection. I can’t see anything else topping it
Comments and memes everywhere laughing at Stilgar emphatically yelling "Lisan Al-Ghaib" are so misplaced. You should feel terrified for his exuberance, not chuckling at it. The power of prophecy is amazing, and billions died because of it. It is an epic story. If you have not read the books, please do yourself a favor and either read them, or get the audiobooks. They are mystical.
People might even think the crazed look in his eyes is some kind of accident or coincidence and not direction. Villeneuve knows what he’s doing. Stilgar has transformed from a harsh but kind leader into a frothing zealot
@@epicwaba6424i dunno he looks pretty happy.
Dude those aren't real deaths, chill out, the memes are funny
In any case, cinema is an art, there are no "wrong" ways to interpret anything in the movie
@@MrYarik04 no shit? Wow I had no idea!! Thanks!
2025 Academy Awards: Director, Cinematography, Sound, Adapted Screenplay, Costume Design and of course Original Score... but I think the Film Editing is where the true magic is happening. Notice how when Paul looks at Chani and does a half blink, the flutes of the music kick in and you can feel the heartache. It's those small subtleties that truly make this film a masterpiece. Just the way Denis Villeneuve breaks down the worm scene, gives you a sense that not a single aspect of a scene is waste and the editing has to nail every single shot being conveyed..truly an amazing movie.
Timmy deserve an award for that speech too
1:05 Love the detail of Paul looking at Gurney in advance as he know that's he is about to speak thanks to his prescience
I know it’s such a great detail! He also looks back at Chani the same way because he already knows she’s the only one standing
I love the look on Paul's face when he tells the fremen to "lead them to paradise." He looks heartbroken, defeated, knowing this was the only way, the "narrow path." That all the horrors he saw in previous visions before drinking the life water was the only way through, as much and as hard as he tried to avoid it.
Chani walks away.
Paul: “You’re a native New Yorker.” 🎶🎶🎶🎶
Twice I saw this in theatres and twice I bawled my eyes out at this ending. All the death and suffering that is about to happen. The Fremen who believe they are being saved. Chani heartbroken. Paul becoming a monster. So much happening in this epic climax.
I really respect this ending for doing something new. I have known this story since I was a kid, read the book and seen the previous adaptations, and they all end in that throne room after the knife duel. So when it cut to show Stilgar and the Fremen boarding the ships chanting his name, I sat forward in my seat and was wide-eyed. Choosing to end the film (technically concluding two films) on a shot of Chani’s face displaying so many conflicting emotions instead of ending with Paul was a bold choice and I couldn’t stop thinking about it after I first left the theater. This ending did something different stuck with me and the whole film has challenged me emotionally as well as intellectually, and I love it for that.
I haven’t been able to see it in IMAX, but even my weeny screen hasn’t seen anything this expansive since Lawrence of Arabia. I tried to read Dune decades ago and suffered David Lynch’s attempt, I found the first film gripping, my only complaint was Jason Mamoa’s hairless chin. I can’t wait to see the next
I was lucky many years ago to see Lawrence of Arabia on the big screen. I happened to notice it had been rereleased and a local theatre was showing it. My Mom and I went. Swept us away.
@@veramae4098 "my only complaint was Jason Mamoa’s hairless chin. I can’t wait to see the next" - Well, I have some bad news for you :D
You can hear the hesitation and sadness in Paul's voice when he said "lead them to paradise". He knew this command started a chain of events that would lead to him causing unimageable horrors.
I love how despite the scenes being completely different from the book, the movie still ends on Jessica and Chani just like the book did. That was a really nice touch by the filmmakers imo.
This is the first movie I’ve gotten amped up about in a long time. Dune part 1 and 2 were a masterpiece
Chani waiting to ride on the Sandworm symbolizes that she as a Frenman serves one master: Shai Hulud. It’s also a call back to Dr. Kynes’s last words in Part One.
I honestly have limited words to describe how exceptional this movie was
Can't believe they got the real Paul Atreides to play Paul Atreides
This scene is so powerful. Everyone bows except for the women in Paul's life. Truly shows how male/female relationships work. "Love" is just one piece in the overall puzzle. Either they believe in you and stand by you or they leave.
Actually not true… There will be a third Film. Also you did not listen well. Paul tells his mother after he drank thw water of life and had to be saved by Chani; when she says I am sorry about Chani, Paul says something to the effect, no worries, I see in my visions she will come to understand my choices
He definitely lived long enough to become the villian.
Love how all people in the room bow/kneel to Paul, except 3 womens: his mother, his wife and his concubine.
That is how Galactic Jihad has started.
What is the point of the jihad? I don't get it
@@finnfisuwhy you don't understand is because you think Paul is a "good guy" he's in a grey area between evil as hell and evil
The point of the Jihad is to spread the religion of Muad’dib throughout the known Universe so that they bow to Paul and the Fremen legions. Basically the Known Universe and the Landsraad refused to acknowledge him at first so he had to go to war to take the Throne and make them accept him. Any other path would have led to his destruction and that the destruction of the Fremen, Chani, all his friends etc
@@finnfisu There isn't one. Congrats, you've found the moral of the story. War bad.
@@finnfisu The point of the jihad is even deeper than just spreading its religion across the Universe or surviving. The true purpose is not revealed in the films yet, it's only known by a being in the Dune universe called the God Emperor.
The way she says “the holy war begins” almost sounds like the voice
I love how every single move is in sync with music in the scene. Makes it so powerful
Movie magic.
That’s how scores are written and performed.
The composer and orchestra are watching the movie without music and play along.
The ending is truly remarkable, zimmer did such a fantastic job with the soundtrack, love the range of emotions in this scene from disdain of losing love to the majestic awe of Paul's divination!
Anyone who read the books or had watched book reviews for Dune. Chani’s character interpretation for 2021-24 is a breath of fresh air
yeah the only people who don't like it are incels lol
it’s not necessarily the character i dislike but i feel villeneuve focusing too much on chani retracts on how Paul’s ascent affected everybody else. It makes me feel more sad for Chani than the billions of people who will suffer from the jihad.
Pauls turn to the Dark side will follow in the next movie. In fact the whole Atreides family, New wife included. That's why I feel Chani ..her whole world has crumbled into dust.
@@heatherbukowski2102 Nice insult from someone who obviously has no idea how strong book Chani was, and it would have been nice for the movie to reflect that, but you go right ahead attacking anyone who thinks the movie strayed pretty far from the source.
@@heatherbukowski2102they should have casted a better actress. Zendaya has no chest or ass. She should get a bbl
This music makes me want to cry every time I hear it!
This reminded me how much hope going into Iraq was promised by my leaders. All lead to disappointment in the end
1:38 that slight stressful twang that hits the music is so menacing. I’ve never read the books and didn’t know about what happens in messiah till after I saw the movie. Great touch that leaves intrigue in the mind of the layman. Probably a very nice detail for those who know what happens next
Chalamet deserves awards for his performance here and in the council scene.
Nothing will ever top LOTR for me.
But this is the only movie that I will be rewatching for the rest of my life, just like LOTR.
Watched it 5 times in the span of 1.5 months.
Experience of a lifetime.
Speaking of, they need to rerelease the LOTR trilogy in theaters
true cinema and storytelling like it hasn’t been shown in years
With the music and the scene of the Fremen leaving on the ships. It made me feel sad; like most of these Fremen would probably never see Arrakis/Dune again.
"I see possible futures, all at once. The studio executives are all around us. And in so many futures they prevail.
But I do see a way. There is a narrow way through to a Dune Messiah movie."
LISAN AL-VILLENEUVE
Love that in how much happens in the last 10 minutes of the movie, Denis is able to focus explicitly on Paul and Chani, keeping them in the centre of everything, the amount of looks they exchange in the finale is heartbreaking, and the emotions they both go through without saying a single thing is conveyed so well, and the music from Hans is like a dagger in your heart as Paul and Chani look at each for the last time.
Paul ain't screwing around with that foot stomp. He's been stabbed twice, and his entire family wiped out by that very emperor, yeah he's getting that kiss to the ring and his hot daughter.
The princess begged for her father's life and Paul was like "Nah I wanna hear him say it".
“ The only thing you ever done is make a hot daughter” 😂
This is one of only five movies I have ever gone back to the theaters to see a second time, in my entire lifetime… and after watching it the first time, my friends and I immediately rushed to Barnes and Noble to buy the first book because we all NEEDED more Dune… it was so perfectly well done, from the cinematography to the soundtrack and the story with amazing actors and amazing direction… I can’t stop thinking about it - it’s a masterpiece and it’s only 1/3 of a beginning of a story… 🤯❤
I remember when i saw the first movie and asked myself if i was witnessing the birth of another Star Wars popularity level sci fi movie franchise. With Atreides fremen army boarding the ships at the ending of the second one, i knew i was witnessing the birth of another great saga with epic stories and iconic characters. great, beautiful movie.
Exactly, I remember feeling this wave of emotion hit me as both from the spectacle of the scene but like you, seeing the path...the true way forward of the Dune franchise.
Just came from watching the movie a second time. It gets even better with the rewatch. Especially the second half. The sign of a truly good movie. Loved this scene especially. The tragic of it. Superb!
1:46
Me and the boys after leaving the theater:
I was the same. I'm not even middle eastern or Muslim but I was ready to go on jihad or I guess on Crusade somewhere
That look in chani’s eyes was heart breaking.
LISAN AL GAIB!!!
Lisan al Gaib
Lisan al Gaib!!
Lisan al Gaib!
Lisan al gaib!!!
Lisan al Gaib!!!
What an incredible film, wish the new Star wars films were made like this as both the Dune movies are a different level in how to produce sci-fi now. Phenomenal movies 👍
The new Star Wars movies exist to sell toys and preach to people. This movie exists because of art
Cannot wait to go back and see this in IMAX 😎 even just for this scene alone 😃🙌 this movie scores 10/10 on everything
Victorious af and yet utterly defeated
I come to watch this every morning and before bed. Just so i don’t forget the goosebump feelings i got from watching it on iMax and the hairs on my skin rising when the soundtrack hit. I didnt want it to end 😢
Such a powerful moment. The music is perfect.
A sad story. You can kinda see that stilgar is overwhelmed when walking into the ship. Almost as if he’s surprised this is all happening and happening so fast but they’re so blind