《沙丘2》导演透露了他为改编所做的最痛苦的选择

Even with two movies that are each longer than two hours, director Denis Villeneuve wasn’t able to bring every single element of Frank Herbert’s Dune to the screen. When speaking with EW for our recent cover story on Dune: Part Two, the filmmaker revealed the hardest cut he had to make from the source material.

即使两部电影都超过了两个小时，导演丹尼斯·维伦纽夫也没能把弗兰克·赫伯特的《沙丘》的每一个元素都搬上银幕。在接受《娱乐周刊》采访时，这位电影制作人透露了他从原始材料中做出的最艰难的剪辑。

"When you adapt, there's always some kind of violence toward the original material," Villeneuve tells Entertainment Weekly. "You have to change things, you have to bend, you have to make painful choices."

“当你改编的时候，总会有一些针对原著的暴力，”维伦纽夫告诉《娱乐周刊》。“你必须改变，你必须屈服，你必须做出痛苦的选择。”

Dune: Part Two is not afraid to make changes to Herbert's original story. The Fremen warrior Chani (Zendaya), for example, is much more independent in the new film than she is in the book. She expresses open opposition to the ascension of her lover Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) to the status of Fremen messiah, rather than loyally standing by her man. Paul’s sister Alia only appears as a fetus (albeit one awakened to universal consciousness) and briefly as a vision of her older self in a dream, portrayed by Anya Taylor-Joy.

《沙丘2》并不害怕对赫伯特的原著故事做出改变。例如，弗里曼战士查尼(赞达亚饰)在新电影中比在原著中要独立得多。她公开表示反对她的情人保罗·阿特雷德斯(提摩太·沙拉梅饰)升任弗瑞曼弥赛亚，而不是忠诚地支持她的男人。保罗的妹妹艾丽娅只以胎儿的身份出现(尽管她已经觉醒到宇宙意识)，并在安雅·泰勒-乔伊(Anya Taylor-Joy)的梦中短暂地出现了她长大后的自己。

But several characters who play significant roles in the back half of Herbert’s Dune don’t appear on screen in Dune: Part Two at all. Although Lea Seydoux shows up as Lady Margot Fenring, an agent of the Bene Gesserit, we never meet her husband, Count Fenring, who in the book is a powerful friend of the Emperor (Christopher Walken). Viewers also don’t see any more from Paul’s mentor Thufir Hawat (Stephen McKinley Henderson) in Villeneuve's second film, even though in the book he survives the massacre of House Atreides by House Harkonnen. Henderson was listed among the film's cast on Wikipedia before its release because many assumed he would play as large a role in the film as he does in the book — but alas.

但在《赫伯特的沙丘》后半部分扮演重要角色的几个角色根本没有出现在《沙丘》第二部的屏幕上。虽然蕾雅·赛杜饰演的玛戈特·芬林夫人是比·吉斯特的特工，但我们从未见过她的丈夫芬林伯爵，他在书中是皇帝(克里斯托弗·沃肯饰)强有力的朋友。观众们在维伦纽夫的第二部电影中也看不到保罗的导师图菲尔·哈瓦特(斯蒂芬·麦金利·亨德森饰)，尽管在原著中他在哈克嫩家族对阿特雷德斯家族的屠杀中幸存了下来。在电影上映前，亨德森在维基百科上被列入了电影演员名单，因为许多人认为他在电影中扮演的角色会和他在书中扮演的角色一样重要——但是唉。

"One of the most painful choices for me on this one was Thufir Hawat," Villeneuve admits. "He's a character I absolutely love, but I decided right at the beginning that I was making a Bene Gesserit adaptation. That meant that Mentats are not as present as they should be, but it's the nature of the adaptation."

“对我来说，最痛苦的选择之一是Thufir Hawat，”维伦纽夫承认。“他是一个我非常喜欢的角色，但我从一开始就决定改编本·格塞利特的作品。这意味着精神病患者没有像他们应该的那样出现，但这是适应的本质。