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...Dune saga made a good fit in that it's a space opera with a philosophical bent. Dune tells of the rise to power of Paul Atreides (Alec Newman), a young noble and psychic who is adopted by the Fremen, a nomadic warrior people, as their messiah. The Fremen have been exploited for centuries because their desert planet (Arrakis, or Dune) is the sole source of "spice," a substance that makes hyperspace travel possible, expands consciousness and extends life--it's oil, LSD and Botox all in one. (Spice is an excretion of Dune's giant sandworms, but people ingested...
...script does a good job of illustrating the action for the screen without getting bogged down in background. If you're a newcomer, you're better off ignoring the myriad guilds and secret societies at play and enjoying it more as a juicy religio-political soap opera, in which respect it is as satisfying as its predecessor (which Sci Fi is rerunning on March...
...inspiring fable, the story of Jackie Chan's youth is up there with Abraham Lincoln's or Harry Potter's. Boy is born in Hong Kong to poor refugees from the mainland. Boy enters opera school, where he trembles and thrives under his master's whip hand. Boy puts these hard lessons to use in films, becoming a would-be successor to Bruce Lee and finally his own man: an international star and, quite possibly, the most famous living Asian...
...because of the small stage, the choreography and execution of the dances is unpolished at times. There is a prolonged dance set in a St. Petersburg ballroom where the chorus takes on a robotic pose with angled arms and mechanical steps. In the context of the rest of the opera, this choreography makes little sense and looks slightly ridiculous...
...opera is presented in the original Russian with supertitles. Unfortunately, as the opera progresses, it becomes difficult to follow both the stage action and the translation simultaneously. Those who do not understand Russian and who are also unfamiliar with the opera’s storyline might be frustrated by the lagging titles above the stage...