Dune: Part Two
The visual effects and scope of the film are very impressive. The aesthetic is very clean and smooth.
Paul is up against an Imperial House that uses the planet’s resources for personal gain. He allies with the natives to revolt against them and destroy their production. However, this begins a Holy War. The hero is trying to take control of the Empire because he doesn’t like how the current people killed his dad, allying with other people. He allies with the natives who also previously owned the planet to destroy his home.
Learns the ways of the natives
Walking
He fights with them
He gets accepted into their culture
When he reunites with one of his dad's friends in the desert, his native girlfriend begins to trust him.
When everyone trusts him in the end, she hates him because he married someone else.
Before they go to the final battle, he becomes really mean and everyone starts worshipping him b/c they fully believe he’s their messiah.
He tries to become in the position of the thing he hates, he doesn’t become exactly like them but
The story is a white savior narrative, but it subverts that narrative, as not everyone immediately decides to follow and ally with him.
Ends justifying the means. At the end, Paul, while overall
Why I started this blog
The film community has been infested with bugs of straight white Christian American millennial non-disabled men who grew up watching films heroes like Tom Cruise, Luke Skywalker, Indiana Jones, and Marvel Superheroes. Now, in the 2020s, requests by executives who want to significantly maximize profits and are green-lighting every sequel, prequels, spin-offs, remakes, and franchises based on every nostalgic IP they own. While the executives are a disruptive topic for another article, not all of the unnecessary franchise films are bad, or average, many are exceptional and a great deal are significantly better than the originals. Those heroes have returned to the silver screen with more liberally minded directors and writers taking the pen from Hollywood veterans to continue the _ heroes ' stories.
With Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Episode VII), the Luke Skywalker millennials grew up with are now deconstructed in an arc where he’s made mistakes and must learn to move forward and let the past die. In this critically acclaimed film, millennials frightfully hated it for introducing new themes and deconstructing Luke. They selfishly criticized the film for apparently not being the way they saw Star Wars, _, and _. While “them” oppressing the film’s Kelly Marie Tran off social media, is a different topic about cyber bullying, many of them have started a substantial career or have turned their phony, crummy written film reviewing YouTube channels into substantial careers from their shallow opinions on The Last Jedi. They created an army that practically made Disney and Lucasfilm produce the most cynical Star Wars film ever, designed to satisfy these millennial brainless counterfeit film critics, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Episode XI).
Over the past couple years, the already falling film community has skyrocketed from rubbish to dreadfully chaotic. Now, lots of so-called YouTube and social media reviews are being watched more than authentic written film reviews by genuine film critics rather than pretenders. While from 2022 onwards, they started covering more reputable films like Everything Everywhere all at Once, and not all YouTube and social media critics are bad people, the vast majority don’t have the integience in their reviews that made reviews by Roger Ebert and many more real critics real critics. What Ebert and these other prodigious critics have that thes YouTube and social media critics don’t have is journalistic integrity, the ability to look at films objectively and break down what a film has that gives it its ethics rather than foolishly saying “this was good, this was bad”, which is what all YouTube and social media critics just say but with more ignorant filler.
This brings us to our headline, “why I started this blog”. Did I start this blog to get revenge on those who hated The Last Jedi, no; I started this blog to give analysis on films, not reviews, of films that will help guide Generation Z and Generation Alpha along as they begin to write their reviews. I hope this blog will insert them with the journalistic integrity that Ebert and many written critics from the past and present have, so the future of all formats of film reviewing is better than the YouTube and social media critics today. I hope this blog will build a future where all film reviews don’t have selfish criticisms for not being about straight white Christian American men. Because great films like Lady Bird and _, that aren’t relatable to straight white Christian American non-disabled men, are being criticized by them for their selfish _ opinions. In reality these films valued by them for their beauty to connect with others and even connect with them at the center of all films, the human experience. Because many critics today and even more in the past, including the one and only Roger Ebert were white Christian American non-disabled men. However, their had journalistic integrity and intelligence that made their reviews last decades more than the YouTube and social media which fallout a day after their release.
Dune is a white savior narrative, and is not a critique.
When discussing the book or movie Dune and its themes of messianic archetype, many articles say that the story is a critique of the white savior narrative. However, many of these articles don’t explain how it's a critique of the white savior or list examples of the works critiquing the trope. In the book and movie Dune, THE PLOT. While in the desert, the Fremen believe that Paul is a prophesied messiah, and automatically worship him and do everything he says.
now being deconstructed and questioned. While some of these films
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(directly from the book or movie, not from interviews with directors, or from forewords in the novel).
Dune is a white savior narrative
