This article compares Dune: Extended Edition (Dune: Extended Edition) which lasted nearly three hours. Although it is called the "extended version", the movie version of "Dune" still does not show all the content of the original novel of "Dune," after all, the original is too grand. Many supporting characters and side plots in the original book are not told in the movie. The most prominent one is the story of Count Hasimir Fenring and his wife Margot:
The Earl of Fenlin is a castrate, a failed product of Bene Gesserit's breeding program. He is a Mentat, the playmate and only trusted person of Emperor Shaddam IV since childhood. During the transition period after the Hakonan family left and before the arrival of the Atredis family, Earl Finlin served as the interim governor of Arrakis. The residence of the Atredides family in Alakis (Residency) was formerly the residence of the Finlins. After the Atredis family left Caladan, Earl Finlin became the interim governor of Caladan. However, when Shadam IV finally asked Fenlin to kill Paul Atreides, Fenlin refused.
Margot is a Beni Jessrit. When the Atredis family first arrived in Arakis, she left a secret letter to Jessica to remind her that the Hakonan family wanted to murder her The Atredis family. Later, in order to make Beni Jessrit’s breeding plan foolproof, she also seduce Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen (Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen) to bed and became pregnant with his daughter.
In addition, the main differences between the plot presented in the movie and the original novel are:
Paul Atredis and Feder-Lausa Hakonan in the movie are obviously older. At the beginning of the novel, Paul had just turned 16 and Feder-Lausa was 17 years old. At the time of the filming, Kyle MacLachlan (Kyle MacLachlan) who played Paul was 24 years old, and Sting (Sting) who played Feder Lautha was 32 years old.
In the novel, Paul actually had a son with her concubine Chani before proclaiming the emperor, Leto Atreides II the Elder. The baby was later killed by their enemy. There is no mention of the existence of this baby in the movie.
The opening narration states that Butlerian Jihad (Butlerian Jihad) began in 6041. According to the setting of the novel, the Butler Jihad took place 200 to 108 years before the Spacing Guild was founded.
In the novel, Emperor Shadam IV wears a black Burseg helmet in public. But he never wore a helmet in the movie.
The Shadam IV in the movie is more than 200 years old and looks more than sixtieth birthday. In the novel, he is only 68 years old, and it seems that he is only in his 30s.
The Madonna of Beni Jessrit in the movie is bald, but it is clearly stated in the novel that they have hair. Beni Jessery in the movie has telepathic abilities, including Paul's young sister Alia Atreides (Alia Atreides). But the novel clearly states that their super perceptual power does not come from telepathy, but relies on drugs (such as spices) and years of rigorous training. Of course, they cannot perceive another person's thinking through the wall.
In the movie, members of the Astronautical Guild without mutation seem to rely on translators to speak, but in the novel they can speak normally.
The third-level navigator of the Astronautic Association who appeared in the opening is a huge mutant floating in a box. In fact, there was no such variant navigator in the first "Dune" novel. The mutant navigator first appeared in the second "Dune" novel "Dune Savior", namely Edric. The title of "third-stage navigator" did not appear until the fifth "Dune" novel "Dune Heresy".
In the movie, the "Weirding Module", a new weapon based on sound waves, is one of the important components of the fighting technique "Weirding Way". Shadam IV also worried that the "mystical module" developed by the Atredis family would threaten his Sardaukar army. In fact, the mystery module does not exist in the novel. The "Mystic Way" is an unarmed combat technique, taught to Paul by Jessica. What Shadam IV feared was that the Atredis family used the Fremen against the Sadkar Legion.
Interestingly, the mysterious module later entered the games "Dune" and "Emperor: Battle for Dune", and became the games "Dune 2", "Dune 2000" and "Emperor: Battle for Dune" at the same time. The inspiration for the "Sonic tank" of the Riate Redis family.
In the movie, the Hakonan family transmits information to Dr. Wellington Yueh by hiding a letter box in the corpse. In the novel, the method of information transmission is very simple and rude: a light code is sent to the residence of the Atredis family on a distant cliff.
In the novel, the Atladis family's aircraft in Arakis are all flapping wing aircraft. But in the movie, the Atladis family's aircraft look like ordinary spaceships.
In the movie, Freman's eyes are blue for a while and not blue for a while. But in the novel, their eyes are always blue.
In the movie, the Imperial Planetary Ecologist Liet Kynes (Liet Kynes) spit on the ground in accordance with the customs of the Fremans in order to show respect to the Atredis family. When everyone thought of opposing, the Duke of Leto pointed out that this was a way for the Fremanns to show respect. Subsequently, Keynes formed an alliance with the Duke of Leto on behalf of the Fremans. In the novel, it is Stilgar, the leader of Sietch Tabr who spit, and Duncan Idaho is the one who explains. Stillga expressed respect to Leto because the Atredis family tried to save a Freman messenger who was seriously injured by the Hakonan family. But Stillga did not ally with Leto because of this, after all, he could not represent all Fremans.
In the movie, the chained Jessica and Paul pretending to be unconscious are brought to Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Baron Vladimir Harkonnen) and his gate Piter de Vries at the same time. In the novel, only Jessica is brought in front of these two people. Jessica saw Paul pretending to be in a coma on the way out.
In the movie, while being escorted out of the imperial residence, Jessica and Paul are bound to witness the death of Duncan Idaho. In the novel, the mother and son are first detained in the temporary command post of the Hakonan family, and then escorted to a flapping wing plane. The flapping-wing plane was originally planned to throw the mother and son into the desert to fend for themselves, but the mother and son used the voice of Beni Jessrit to eliminate the Hakonan soldiers who escorted them. Saved by Dahoe and Keynes. They sent the mother and son to a temporary shelter for the Fremans. Unexpectedly, soldiers from the Sadkar and Hakonan families quickly invaded. Keynes is responsible for escorting the mother and son to evacuate, Duncan is responsible for dragging the enemy. Finally, Paul witnessed Duncan's headshot.
In the movie, when the Duke of Leto exhaled poisonous gas before his death, Baron Vladimir escaped because he was far away, and the poisonous gas eventually only killed Pete. In the novel, another important reason why Baron Vladimir was not poisoned is because he wore a shielded field. In addition, the poison gas not only killed Pete, but also killed many people in the room such as the captain of the guard.
In the movie, not long after Steergar's people discovered Jessica and Paul, Jamis died because of a duel with Paul. In the novel, their duel takes place after Jessica and Paul return to Sietch Tabr. Jamies asked Paul to fight him not because Paul had beaten him, but because he wanted to verify whether Jessica was the mother of the legendary savior and Paul was fighting for his mother.
The movie did not show how Leit Keynes died in the end. According to the novel's records, he was finally abandoned in the desert without water and stillsuit, and died of a spice blow.
In the movie, Paul asks Charney to feed him the water of life in the desert, and then attracts sandworms onlookers. It didn't take long before Paul woke up. But in the novel, Paul drank the water of life secretly, and fell into a deep coma after drinking it. The Fremans even thought he was dead, only his mother Jessica believed that he was not dead. But neither Jessica nor Freman knew why Paul passed out. Chani was in the south and didn't even know about it. Three weeks after Paul fainted, Charney was called back to the cave by Jessica, and she learned that Paul fainted. Charlie immediately realized that Paul fainted because he had drunk the water of life. Just when Chaney asked Jessica to convert some holy water, Paul woke up.
The film implies that one of the nephews of Baron Vladimir, Glossu Rabban Harkonnen (Glossu Rabban Harkonnen) was beheaded by the Empire. But in the novel, he was executed by the Fremans when the Fremans attacked Arrakeen, the capital of Alakis. The specific method of execution is not mentioned in the novel.
In the movie, Alija stabbed Baron Vladimir and destroyed his suspension system, causing him to be thrown out of a blasted hole and finally swallowed by sandworms. In the novel, Alija simply stabbed Baron Vladimir to death with a Gom Jabbar.
Thufir Hawat (Thufir Hawat) did not die in the movie. At the end of the novel, Shadam IV asked him to kill Muadib with a poisonous needle. After Hawat discovered that Muadib was originally Paul, he chose to commit suicide.
At the end of the movie, it rained in Arakis. In the "Dune" series of novels, it will rain in Alakis in the third novel of "Dune", "Son of the Dune", which is the story of the first "Dune" novel. The result of continuous environmental transformation of Arakis.
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