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I found myself sitting there quietly one moment, and the next I was actually calling out to the screen: вЂњDrop the wings!вЂќ Watching Paul and Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) ride out a sandstorm, I could actually feel what needed to be done in order to survive. Thopters go on to play an important role in the filmвЂ™s climax. Duke Leto drops the wings, losing altitude and gaining speed on the way to rescue the crew of the harvester.

Both of these scenes show the audience what mastery of a thopter in flight looks like, and they represent a kind of expertise for Paul Atreides (TimothГ©e Chalamet) to grow into. Later, Duncan Idaho (Jason Mamoa) runs rampant on a group of Harkonnen landing ships, weaving in and out of fire as he makes his escape.

Their presence makes the rescue of the harvester crew early in the film thrilling. Then, when the moment is right, they drop their wings back and swoop like raptors toward the ground. The ships donвЂ™t hover in place so much as they carve out a space for themselves from the wind, maintaining their orientation in the air while jetting forward on powerful twin engines. LetoвЂ™s maneuvers are controlled and intentional. In the air, VillneuveвЂ™s thopters are anything but clumsy. Paul Atreides escapes with his mother, Lady Jessica, late in the film. In the 4DX theater where I saw the movie, the entire building hummed as it spooled up, the syncopated beat of its wings (thanks to some clever fan work) filling the air around me. One of the first images of a thopter in flight is with Duke Leto Atreides (Oscar Isaac) at the controls. Villenuve has clearly put a lot of effort into the thopters that he created for this film, which finally feel like working airships. Who needs to see forward to fly straight. Note how the canopy is split in half by the fuselage support. The legs were too spindly, the wings too small, and the engines woefully underpowered. Meanwhile, in the 1992 video game Dune 2 (the first game to popularize real-time strategy), they flitted across the screen like insignificant bugs. The inert little brass bricks floated through the air, buoyed only by Kyle MacLachlanвЂ™s potent overacting.

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The 1984 movie got the proportions comically wrong. Here in the 21st century, our military is still trying to make sense of the tech.ДuneвЂ™s thopters have never made sense when depicted onscreen. But ornithopters - heavier than air travel based on insect-like flight - never really caught on. Just couple Leonardo Da VinciвЂ™s original designs with some of that new-fangled atomic power and weвЂ™re off to the races.

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