“Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.'” -- from "Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib'' by the Princess Irulan.
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I will put a pin in this and share my reaction when I've seen it. Can't wait.
Good morning BG and DG!
Love you guys. (We all do. Thanks for all you do. And there are many more than three people listening to this cast.)
The scene you're talking about:
"You've sheathed that blade unblooded, Mapes."
"Take the Water of my life!"
- the above was indeed cut from Dune pt 1, but not left entirely unnoted. If you notice - and this was fast and subtle, so many watchers may not have - when Paul and Jessica fight back against the Fremen at first, many blades are drawn. When Stilgar acknowledges Jessica is far more formidable and valuable than he realized, he orders a stand-down. Quickly, quietly, with no verbal callout, all the Fremen cut themselves before sheathing their blades.
So it is in there - it was just left out of a rather important scene, and I'd agree completely that it should not have been. That might have been 45-60 seconds of cut, and I doubt anything was added in those seconds that would have had more impactful value than the mytho-history of the Crysknife.
This concludes Jon Nerds Over SF for Wednesday. (Hint - please, if you love your life, don't ever get me started talking about sci-fi space travel inconsistencies {OH MY DOG}, plot continuity errors, or the entire Armored Core video game series.)
Thanks for all you do!
Ack. I'm now further into the cast and you did reference that scene.
Apologies! I spoke prematurely. (It does happen.)
Thanks again!
after seeing the trailers of Dune. After seeing the other makes of Dune. No did not read the book.
Have been considering going to see the newest Dune edition.
Glad you viewed it and provided a review. A timely review
encouraging me to go see it.
Thanks. Roger Ebert has a competitor.
Good evening, Mr. Glass.
JUST finished the podcast, and had a question. Does the movie play Feyd as someone whom the Fremen would see as their "savior" from the obviously evil Rabban? Because the trailers make Feyd look obviously evil as well.
Best to you and your loved ones.
I absolutely love it when DG and BG talk about sci-fi because they're always telling me about stuff I never knew about before. I'm a sci-fi buff and a movie geek and yet I'm always learning new things. I've probably looked at Paul Newman's imdb page dozens of times and yet I'd never noticed this movie "Quintet" until DG talked about it. Turns out it the only sci-fi movie Paul Newman ever did in his entire career. I'd love to hear DG and BG talk more about it. Also, you should talk more about the Twilight Zone, favorite episodes, least favorite episodes, favorite iterations, it would all be super interesting.
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