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Nov 4, 2021 - 3:34 PM
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nuts_score
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Hi Joan!
Excellent point of conversation. I found all the actors wonderful in their roles. My favorites being Rebecca Ferguson and Jason Momoa.
For Momoa, this is the first time where I truly understood his appeal. He fell into this "Keanu Reeves" mould which I have come to understand the more decades in which Reeves acts: you have to use his strengths, to illicit a truly unique character. Reeves is actually quite gifted and can play a variety of roles, and many of them particularly memorable. But the scriptwriters and directors have to make it fit Reeves' natural charisma and being. I find it is now the same with Momoa. The director Villeneuve was able to tap into what it is about Momoa that is natural, and extract that. Same with the script by Eric Roth. They gave him the part of the noble, and humble, warrior. Bright eyed and optimistic, but driven by honor and the call to battle.
Ferguson is a gifted actor through and through. While recently watching Ridley Scott's The Last Duel I found myself internally philosophizing the nature of actors and what makes some stand so high above others as far as performance. I contrast Matt Damon and Adam Driver while watching the film. Damon, long since a veteran of films, is like John Wayne. His presence is what he brings to the role. He can walk on screen, convincingly say the lines, move with the action, and we believe in that because we've seen him do it enough. On the other spectrum is Adam Driver, an actor who utilizes his entire body, his face, his voice, to act. He inhabits a character and each one can be different. Rebecca Ferguson is the latter. And she brings to each role a sense of feminine grace and dominance. She was an absolutely perfect Lady Jessica.
Timothee Chalamet is a very fine young actor. He astounded me in the beautiful Call Me By Your Name and I was also impressed by his work in The King and Little Women. For Dune, he does entirely what is asked of him and for me it is the revelation that Paul is a genetic experiment. By design he is bland and fits an archetype. Chalamet brings a great singular interiority that I think Kyle Maclachlan might've done better before him, but it is still there. Particularly during the scene when Paul and Lady Jessica share the tent in their first night following the extermination of their family, friends, and protectors. Of course in the translation of text to screen we lose that third person omniscient representation of who Paul Atriedes is, but this adaptation managed to do a lot with a little: Paul struggles to master the Voice, Paul is an astute learner always engaged with battle training or his film-books, Paul feels concern he can't live up to his father despite his father insisting he already has, Paul struggles with understanding the concept that he is being set up as a messianic figure, and et al. The film manages to take time establishing these details and will even re-iterate them throughout in other scenes.
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