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[–]send_nasty_stuffNational Socialist[S] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I watched Dune last night. Surprisingly it wasn't terrible. Fight scenes were top notch.

Try to watch it with good video and sound. I was using a crappy monitor and shit download and regret it because the cinematography and set design were very good. I prey all the capeshit cucks don't ruin the franchise by hugging it to death. There was some globo homo shit. I did not like chani or black Liet Kynes. The Fremen were also seemingly multi racial. Javier Bardem didn't have many lines but held his own as Stilgar.

Shoutout to u/jasoncarswell for making the https://saidit.net/s/dune subverse.

[–]casparvoneverecBig tiddy respecter 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Zendaya is supposed to be some irresistible babe, but honestly, she just looks like the neighborhood girl you wouldn't shoot a second glance at.

It's also appalling how they made the fremen all black. In the books, they're supposed to be Mediterranean in appearance, like Paul and Leto Atreides as well. If they wanted to go for diversity, they could've at least made the fremen Arabs. The fremen are essentially bedouins in space and Paul is a Muhammad-like figure. The only diversity Hollywood can deploy is black.

Chalement is half Jewish, half white, but he easily passes for a white Frenchmen.

In any case, Dune has a magnificent story. The books really should've ended at God Emperor of Dune, but Frank Herbert dragged it on and died before it could end. It's really less science fiction and more like political fiction.

For those unfamiliar with the work, Star wars ripped everything off of Dune. The Jedi order is the Bene Gesserit. The trade federation is the spacing guild. In dune, the story happens on the desert planet of Arrakis, in star wars the hero starts off in the desert planet of Tatooine. The Jedi mind trick is the Bene Gesserit voice.

In star wars the villain is the hero's father, in Dune the villain is the hero's grandfather. In star wars, Padme dies giving birth to two twins. In Dune, Chani dies giving birth to two twins. In star wars, the sith are the evil version of the Jedi. In Dune, the honored matre are the evil version of the Bene Gesserit. In star wars there is the force, in dune there is prescience.

In star wars, Anakin is the chosen one of prophecy. In Dune, Paul Atreides is the Kwisatz hederach of prophecy.

In short, star wars is essentially dune for dumb people.

[–]JasonCarswellVoluntaryist 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Insightful.
Strange that in almost 40 years I'd not made any of those Star Wars connections, partly because I'd read the books 17 or 18 years before the Star Wars prequels came out.