Dune - Ornithopter escape

Ornithopter escape

[@jackstone9569]

I like how this manages to be a tense narrow escape, without a cheesy shot of the Sardaukar sprinting towards them as the ornithopter starts just in time. just the repeated shots of the dark corridor behind them let you know the Sardaukar are coming.

[@sam7324]

Exactly my thoughts

[@moteroargentino7944]

Yes, and even more tense, I believe. The enemy you can't see is scarier than the one you can. Applies to good monster movies too, you don't show the beast until the very last and decisive moment.

[@ashwinshrikumar]

Fear is the mind killer. Its good direction to show nothing approaching instead of something in which case the fear would have been real.

[@pseudonymousbeing987]

Absolutely, it's perfect. It nods to the classic star wars A New Hope escape from tattoinne upwards out of a circular port, yet it is entirely and completely it's own.

[@tapasdesai3640]

@@pseudonymousbeing987 this movie’s cinematography was definitely inspired by Star Wars. It’s a sci fi heavyweight which influences nearly all modern fiction. But it bears remembering that Star Wars was inspired by Dune. It pretty obviously ‘plagiarized’ nearly all its aspects from Dune.

[@Trazynn]

Villeneuve could so easily have gone with a single Ornithopter model and nobody would've felt anything lacking. But he went with three highly distinct models to emphasize the different cultures even further.

[@davidpesekmuller3883]

Yessssss 👌👌👌✨

[@Wesley_H]

Cultures, time periods, corporations. But yes, the factions were well differentiated.

[@rickyrahma3611]

Probably manufactured by different manufacturers too, just like the Heighliners that being manufactured by both Richese and Ix

[@rudernshaw9636]

3? i thought there's only 2, this and one that leto piloted. which one is the third then?

[@rickyrahma3611]

@@rudernshaw9636 the bulky Harkonnen thopters

[@davidpesekmuller3883]

I love how you can tell this ornithopter is decades older than the others, even though it's still millennia ahead high-tech 👌

[@tombranch2261]

I love how they made the ornithopter in this film, its genuinely unique and breathtaking, and a real example of great effects.

[@Fox-One1937]

If they think it for movie, expect they build it for real in dome future years. Drones were science fictions In 1950's, top secret aircraft in the 1980's amazing in the 2000's and "it's just a drone" today's

[@catherinesanchez1185]

People can disagree, complain , or whine about this and that about this film...but one thing everyone can agree on is the Ornithopters were friggin perfect. I always had trouble picturing them when reading the books .....once I saw this film...I was like .."OOOOOHHHHH, okay, I get it now" LOL

[@Rekaert]

Agreed, I have some minor issues with the film, but in the same way that I visualise Ian McKellen now as Gandalf when reading LotR, I'll visualise Denis's ornithopter design when reading Dune. It's better than any previous version on film, and frankly better than the janky version my brain conjured up.

[@ArtemisScribe]

"The Atreides were superb pilots all."

[@mrrios2881]

Paul was trained by gurney, duncan and thufir Of course he knows how to fly

[@id2609]

That takeoff moment was a real anxiety. Kinda expected Sadaukar to catch up on em.

[@fredtedstedman]

the ornothopters are so beautiful , thay make aircraft look crude !

[@jefforceone]

This ornithopter Is my favorite this one looks just like a dragonfly

[@ExAnimoPortugal]

These ornithopters are so elegant.

[@StargazerFS128]

These are the downright sickest flying machines in scifi.

[@themightyspartan1012]

I love how calm and collected both Paul and Jessica. While they are afraid, they know being panic means the end of house Atreides and mauduib. Love how the director made this movie so realistic. One of best movies in this decade.

[@TheStOne1]

Love this machines

[@grantponciano9386]

I love the Atreides Ornithopters, but this baby-thopter was so cute. Lol

[@angulion]

Perhaps one of the more beautiful scenes in modern movies to me.

[@angulion]

Gorgeous...

[@kevinanderson1196]

Great scene!!

[@Ghosteriz]

My 0:28 absolute favourite 0:44 scene

[@jp3m633]

I love the music in the scene. This theme It's not in the soundtrack

[@vlaadon5049]

it’s a variation of Paul’s Dream, which is in the soundtrack

[@keirajohnson7745]

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[@jp3m633]

@@vlaadon5049 i know is a similar motive variation but nope it is not the same, the chords change. If it were the same you could say as well "oh is the same variaton as the herald of the change theme or ripples in the sand". But nope, different chords take shape, It is not in the soundtrack, and isn't the same... Smart-ass

[@visions_of_noah]

@@vlaadon5049 Paul’s Dream isn’t in the soundtrack. It’s in the DUNE sketchbook, however.

[@Amitlu]

This music was on the FYC release though, thankfully.

[@sanghoonlee5171]

Very cool design of ornithopter. But one can immediately see how inferior it is to a regular helicopter design. It requires a huge space to land and park due to its long wings, and the fact that the wings are so close to the ground (as opposed to helicopter roters that spin 10 feet above) means it can easily chop ground personnel to pieces by accident.

[@aaronzaremsky8434]

Only thing I didn't like about the movie. The desert sand would gunk up the wings real quick and it would never be able to fly.

[@joseluisalfonzogr1155]

También e soñado cosas asi

[@IgoreIdole]

Why it can't fly with 3 persons?

[@adameanglin]

OK, I didn't read the book, why didn't the Sardakaur have this very obvious escape route covered?

[@Jin-1337]

It looks like the top area is closable so it might've been closed prior to the attack making it blend to the surroundings

[@strykertron232]

They have to not expressly kill them but let the desert kill them as to not have the Bene Gesserit on their ass

[@mrmatthewmale5892]

I think it's one of the old imperial bases and no one knew where they were located apart from Kynes.

[@pjetrs]

Yep that’s it, in the book the base is found and they make a way out through a secret tunnel. So they were first sighted again when they came into open space

[@epiendless1128]

Nice scene, but lucky the Sardaukar didn't come in this way..

[@vmpdtv174]

That ornithopter looks suspiciously like a dragonfly

[@bjarne431]

It is not supposed to, I promise haha

[@johnpauljones9310]

Ornithopters never made sense in the Dune Universe. You'd need a hell of a computational computer that could control those 4 "wing-propellers" and any computer that could do that would violate the ban on "AI" that existed since the Bulterian Jihad. Just look at the F-117 that was unflyable without its onboard computer making multiple adjustments per second to flight control surfaces.

[@connorclabaugh9962]

There's a big difference between an AI and a computer

[@livy456]

If I remember correctly, the ban was for any technology that was made to resemble a human/human mind. Something that calculates and adjusts is not the issue, rather something that can think like a human but is in fact not.

[@johnpauljones9310]

@@connorclabaugh9962 Any computer that could pull off the calculations necessary for an ornithopter to fly would be enough "like the human mind" to violate the ban.

[@johnpauljones9310]

@@livy456 Any computer that could pull off the calculations necessary for an ornithopter to fly would be enough "like the human mind" to violate the ban. Otherwise, why would mentats waste their time being human calculators?

[@user-mt3en9ly5d]

@@livy456 if machines that just calculate were exempt from the ban, then there wouldn't be a need for Mentats to act as human calculators.

[@Grintock]

Everybody talking about ornithopter design, and here I am wondering why Paul's mum is letting him drive

[@Despotic_Waffle]

In the book Paul knows how to pilot ornithopters. He's a dukes son, basically a prince. They teach him all the essentials.

[@tylerslagel5485]

In every scene of this movie I hear the same music being used. It’s great music but it sure is overused as hell.

[@Nineteen1900Hundred]

That's what makes a movie soundtrack have themes, with a "story-line" told through the music. Just like John Williams scores. I don't think that's a bad thing personally.

[@AnymMusic]

@@Nineteen1900Hundred Hell every movie has that. either themes for the characters themselves, or likely what happens here, a theme for house Atreides. Also depends on how unique/different the director every person wants to be before giving that idea to the composer

[@paisleighlilliana3475]

The nasty grasshopper postoperatively beam because dew literally deserve between a automatic freezer. thin, bustling air

[@decespugliatorenucleare3780]

didn't this woman knew in modern movies women are invincible? why are are they running?

[@VictorIV0310]

Temple OS

[@guagualon1436]

You do know this is based on a book written in the 60's, right? And that one of the woman protagonists dies just minutes after this scene

[@oneofthoseyoutubeusers]

the ‘strong women craze’ in movies began in the mid 2010s dune is adapted from a series of books from 1965 to 1985

[@stefannikolovski3167]

@@oneofthoseyoutubeusers lotr is based on books written in the 40s but that didnt stop them from ruining it with rings of power

[@geoffhitchins4688]

@@guagualon1436 she is a man in the book though...