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Cinematographer Greig Fraser, production designer Patrice Vermette, and costume designers Jacqueline West and Robert Morgan pool their talents to conjure the look and feel of oceanic planet Caladan (actually, NorwayвЂ™s rocky cliffs and waterways) and desert planet Arrakis (really, the sandy barrens of Jordan and the United Arab Emirates).

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Villeneuve has assembled a crack team to fill out his perversely naturalistic vision for a novel that includes two-mile-long carnivorous, territorial sandworms. Zealots may approve as they project missing emotions and meanings, but VilleneuveвЂ™s literalist compression of the book will be a thumping disappointment both for those new to HerbertвЂ™s sacred text and for longtime admirers of his futuristic-feudal milestone about ecology, colonialism, religion, addiction, and fanaticism.ДЄfter the David Lynch debacle nearly four decades ago, HerbertвЂ™s novel deserved a Dune Whisperer. Talented supporting actors like Stephen McKinley Henderson ( Fences) become mere placeholders for key figures in the book. A family retainer betrays House Atreides before we grasp how the clan grew to trust him or why his villainy should come as a shock. It spends half the time on recon, as Paul, his father, Duke Leto Atreides (Oscar Isaac), and his mother, Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson), get to know the lay of the sand, and the other half on what weвЂ™d call вЂњpalace intrigueвЂќ if there were anything intriguing about it.

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This movie sets the table for the revolutionary war. In the first 155 minutes of a projected two-part adaptation, Villeneuve sweats to establish a realistic physicality for a tale about a Messiah-in-training, Paul Atreides (TimothГ©e Chalamet), who uses amped-up powers of foresight and suggestion to bend foes to his command, liberate a desert planet called Arrakis, and control its all-important spice trade. VilleneuveвЂ™s Dune, his third over-deliberate sci-fi saga (after 2016вЂ™s Arrival and 2017вЂ™s Blade Runner 2049), typifies the current mania for world-building over character-building. Marianne Moore described poetry as вЂњimaginary gardens with real toads in them.вЂќ In his numbing adaptation of Frank HerbertвЂ™s mother of all sci-fi cult novels, Dune (1965), director Denis Villeneuve expends so much industrial force creating imaginary gardens and megalopolises that he grounds his real toads into dust.

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She says the puquios were vital in вЂњcontrolling water distribution by those in power over the communities that came under their influence.вЂќ Knowing how to bring water to one of the driest places on earth means that you hold the very key to life itself. These structures show the native people of the Nasca basin were not only highly organised, but that their society was structured in a hierarchy, says Lasaponara. вЂњMaintenance was likely based on a collaborative and socially organised system, similar to that adopted for the construction of the famous вЂ™Nasca linesвЂ which in some cases are clearly related to the presence of water.вЂќ The quality of construction was so good, that some of the puquios still function today. That meant a regular dependable water supply for centuries, in an area thatвЂ™s one of the most arid places on Earth. вЂњWhat is really impressive is the great efforts, organisation and cooperation required for their construction and regular maintenance,вЂќ she says.

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