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Dune’s Director Denis Villeneuve Says This is His Favorite Part of the Movie · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. The new sci fi
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  Speaker 1: epic Dune is finally here, based on the nineteen novel
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  Speaker 1: by Frank Herbert, which is a classic but sometimes criticized
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  Speaker 1: for being a bit macho, So director Dan Ivannev consciously
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  Speaker 1: chose to take his new film in a very different
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  Speaker 1: direction telling enemy. When the screenwriter started the adaptation, he
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  Speaker 1: asked me, what is the key to your Dune? And
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  Speaker 1: I said women. If we put the emphasis on the
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  Speaker 1: female characters, if we bring them into the front of
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  Speaker 1: the story, then I thought it would be more interesting
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  Speaker 1: and I was right. I think it is definitely my
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  Speaker 1: favorite aspect of the whole film, and it creates a
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  Speaker 1: nice equilibrium with the masculinity that is so prevalent in
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  Speaker 1: the book. Dune in theaters and HBO Max that's direct
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  Speaker 1: from Hollywood,