The choreography between Timothée Chalamet, who plays Paul, and Josh Brolin, who plays Gurney Halleck, illustrate that each opponent is trying to distract his adversary by doing very fast moves in order to create an opportunity to insert slowly a blade inside the opponent’s shield. So it means that man to man combat came back to sword fighting. Therefore, bullets or rockets are obsolete. An Holtzman Shield is a technology that protects individuals or vehicles from any fast objects. And four, to introduce the concept of the Holtzman Shields, and how they change the essence of combat.
Three, to induce the idea that Paul Atreides has been training for combat, but has never really experienced real violence. Two, to give more insight about the context in which the Atreides will move to a new planet named Arrakis. First, to establish the nature of the relationship between Paul Atreides and Gurney Halleck. “Don’t stand with your back to the door!” This scene needed to serve four purposes.
My name is Denis Villeneuve and I’m the director of Dune. Transcript ‘Dune’ | Anatomy of a Scene The director Denis Villeneuve narrates a combat training sequence from his film, featuring Timothée Chalamet and Josh Brolin.
