How do shields work?

One of the main appeals of historical conditions, as well as fantastic stories based on historical conditions, is that they give writers the opportunity to avoid sad old weapons for exciting weapons like swords and knives. Fighting a gun one on one can often be uninteresting and impersonal, while fighting the ball makes two heroes get up each other. This is much more cinematic way to have two people fighting to death, Although the fight against weapons is supposedly sometimes may be cool.

While Frank Herbert in the future set the events “Duna” (as a lasting 20,000 years), he seemed still to understand the attractiveness of the battle scenes. That is why he came up with an idea for a very specific type of futuristic shield, which remained a true futuristic mood of ownership, explaining the need for a really class game.

They are called Holtzman Shields; They are portable devices that cover the entire owner’s body. The shield protects its user from high -speed shells, but also allows you to pass slow shells. The appeal of this is quite obvious; It keeps the user constantly protected from snipers and other long -range attacks, but still allows them to do basic things such as holding items or wearing new clothes. Holtsman does not make a person invincible, but they make you at least make any future killers try much more risky attacks. If you are going to kill anyone with your shield, you are going to rise to them; From afar is not allowed to shoot.

The DUNA Villev’s movie “Duna” in 2021 makes a pretty good job, installing how shields work. There is a scene of fighting early practice between sex (Timoto Chalamet) and Gernyi Gallec (Josh Brollyn), which demonstrates how the shields influenced the ball game in this universe. In this situation, not only ineffective weapons, but also typical awkward devastating and turns also do not work. In order to kill anyone with the shield of Holtman, you must bring the sword’s blade closer to them, and then slowly promote the blade.

But while the shields may have made the books (and their adaptation) perceive the sword as a realistic method of war, I do not think that none of the main films “Dunes” (David Lynch’s adaptation of 1984 or Vilnius version) succeeded in creating The fights look cool when the shields are pulled. Holtzman Shields Villeneu may look more sharp than a very clumsy CGI in the battlefield fighting, but the result is that a lot of action in his first film “Dunes” feels unsatisfactory. Especially during the fall of the Atreides House in the second half of the “DUN: the first”, a lot of violence, which should feel tough, feels amazingly muted; Even with the best technology at the tips of the fingers, Villene could not make the shield fights look good. That is why “DUN: Part Second” seems to be largely deprived of them.

However, even if movies can’t make the shield fight look as cool as book readers, which may hope, shields still reach an interesting goal to justify why any of these characters are so well prepared in the ball that it deeply into the future. They also paved the way to an exciting fight between sex and jamis (Babs Olusanmokun) in “Dune: Part First” as well as The culminating match between the floor and the feet-rut (Austin Batler) in “Dune: Part Two”. Not only do they also help to provide an easy visual transcript to convey that the character is hard; If Feuda Ratta negligently deactivates his Holtzman Shield before fighting the character in Kharkonen’s Colosseum in “Dune: Part Second”, the film makes us a lot about our specific ladder brand without demanding a fey to say the word.

In short, the shields in the “dune” not just serve to protect their users from bullets and other shells, but they also help to establish the values ​​of the characters, make sure the violence is as personal and close as possible. Amazing that out All things “Star Wars” took the books “Duna”From their accent to combat the sword to their unexpected line, it shows that the franchise never tried anything like the “Duna” saga Holtman shield. George Lucas may have known that he would also not be able to remove these special effects.