I dont understand how it apparently has mainstream appeal. Feels like Part 2 is being hyped like a Star Wars entry, with the marketing budget to show for it.Thats marketing at work. Though Star Wars is basically just a mishmash of Dune and Akira Kurosawa films.
Thats marketing at work. Though Star Wars is basically just a mishmash of Dune and Akira Kurosawa films.Been saying this for years. Dune was released just a handful of years before Lucas "came up with" SW. The influence is everywhere
Been saying this for years. Dune was released just a handful of years before Lucas "came up with" SW. The influence is everywhereI have a meme saved somewhere with a list of stuff Oucas just lifted from Dune side by side. The biggest example is
Dune was a very trippy book, and its not great as a story IMO, though it has top notch world building and philosophy in it.
As for getting it, this is basically all there is to it. Frank Herbert saw the way people practically worshipped JFK. He didnt trust charismatic leaders and felt that following them could only lead to disaster. So thats basically what Dune as a story is about, but that mostly comes in after the first book.
Heres what I took from it:
The main characters mom taught him some sort of telepathic powers. The bad guys are strip mining places for spice (which helps them travel) and they treat the planets and their people like dirt. The main character (Paul?) has to master his powers to stand up to the bad guys (who I forgot their name).
I still havent seen the second one or the original movie and I havent read the book(s) yet. On a side note, why does everyone seem to dislike the actor who plays the main character?
I had a discussion at the bar about this. We all came up with sand worms and spice. I thought I was alone too, but none of us could explain the plot.
On a side note, why does everyone seem to dislike the actor who plays the main character?
They just jealous of his boogie.That's just to avoid the sandworms.
https://i.imgur.com/8aEEzCR.mp4
I have a meme saved somewhere with a list of stuff Oucas just lifted from Dune side by side. The biggest example isNow that you pointed it out. I cannot unsee it. Wow.God Emperor Leto II ~> Jabba the Hutt.
Nothing about it is complicated but the political intrigue.
I "get it," but it loses me with its mumbo jumbo world building in the first movie. Took me and my gf 3 tries to watch the whole thing, picking up where we left off each time.
It was just very, very dense with jargon and exposition. Most of it felt hokey to me. I give the franchise credit for being an early success in the space epic genre, but boy did some of those concepts age with questionable grace in the mean time.
I "get it," but it loses me with its mumbo jumbo world building in the first movie. Took me and my gf 3 tries to watch the whole thing, picking up where we left off each time.I prefer the lynch version. It's was very hard to fit all that in a 2 hour movie but it does it. It has the navigators etc. Which was the whole purpose for the spice( expanding the empire). Taking that out you are left with why are they fighting over all this?
It was just very, very dense with jargon and exposition. Most of it felt hokey to me. I give the franchise credit for being an early success in the space epic genre, but boy did some of those concepts age with questionable grace in the mean time.