Both the Film and miniseries give spice addicts glowing eyes. This really bothers me as it is very clear in the book that the whites turn a dark blue and definately do not glow. I really hope if there is ever another film they get the eyes right. You could say it's not really that important but it's a pretty major point in the books.
shareI think that the eyes look cool as hell; I'd move to Dune just so I could have glowing eyes even IF I were living in poverty.
sharethere are a few possible (and understandable) answers. i think, beyond dramatic affect, it's practical in that having dark blue eyes would require close-ups of every one using the spice. it would not be as easily seen on film to have dark blue eyes so every time someone new comes into frame and we're wondering whether or not they use the spice there would have to be a close-up which would get incredibly old and cheesy. the simple solution is to make it more obvious and glowing just makes sense, given the long list of crazy cosmological experiences the spice induces.
shareIt's overglow though - too much glow. Nothing's going to make your eyes become nightlights. The effect should be way more subtle otherwise its just distracting.
it was stupid. The fremin were night travelers / fighters. Kinda gives you away with glowing lights.
Not to mention they kept turning on/off randomly.
You could tell tight away if they were spice ddicted without glowing, their eyes would have no whites which would be pretty noticable froma distance, plus glowing looks stupid and tacky.
Once Again, this is rumor control. Here are the facts.
They looked like Jawas from Star Wars.
shareTattonine was Dune, the Jawas were on Spice... that is the real secret behind the Jedi and the Sith. hey, even Han Solo was smuggling Spice...
shareCheesy effects mandated by people who don't understand the book.
shareI know these 2 posts were said in jest but it is clear that a huge portion of the starwars world was lifted directly from Dune
It's something that's bothered me as well, but my guess is that it's just too difficult to do it properly. To get the proper effect of the whites in the eye turning dark blue, you'd either have to have the cast wear full-eye contact lenses which generally can't be worn for very long, or carefully fill in every eye in every frame using cgi. Instead of the latter, they just stick a bit of glowing blue over their pupils and call it a day. I'm sure the next adaptation will do it right though, it's been 8 years since Children of Dune and cgi has improved greatly in that time.
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