Comments on: The scheming nephew of the villainous Baron Vladimir Harkonnen does not appear in Villeneuve’s Dune

By: Anomaly UK

Anomaly UK — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 14:39:11 +0000

Not really sure how much a movie about warring space-faring Dukes, all-female eugenic cults, and even more bizarre others is an artifact of its time.

I never expected the movies to make the story of Dune make sense — by itself, it’s about twice a complex as A Song of Ice and Fire. But those changes destroy the story.

The society of the Great Houses is aristocratic and patriarchal, and that is the trigger for the entire story — Jessica bears a son to please her lord, in spite of instructions from her order to bear a daughter.

The breeding plan behind those instructions was to marry the daughter to Feyd-Rautha. And the knife duel with Feyd-Rautha is the dramatic climax of the book.

The society of the Fremen is moderately primitive and also patriarchal, and Liet-Kynes takes a Fremen wife, who produces Chani, so that must get messed up.

Again, it was never going to be able to tell the whole story, even if it tried, so it’s not all that disappointing. The visuals look great — like the Lord of the Rings movies, it may work as a “scenes from…”, without actually standing alone as a story.

By: Albion

Albion — Sat, 28 Aug 2021 18:56:53 +0000

I don’t know why there is an issue with a black woman (sorry, I refuse to use the approved capital B here) in ‘Dune.’

Recently we in Britain learned via Woke TV that Henry VIII had a black wife, the unfortunate Ann Boleyn who was beheaded.

By: Senexada

Senexada — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 16:59:49 +0000

The left has captured the means of artistic production, and are using it to rewrite history and advance their agenda. While they remain in control of the apparatus, I expect the trend to continue apace.

By: Contaminated NEET

Contaminated NEET — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 23:28:07 +0000

“skews male in ways that don’t feel completely contemporary now” How pathetic. It's Dune. It's not supposed to feel contemporary at all. It's supposed to be a jarring mix of far future and the past. Do Emperors, Dukes, and swordfights "feel completely contemporary"?

By: Altitude Zero

Altitude Zero — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 23:08:44 +0000

As David Cole would put it, they made Liet Kynes a black woman, because of course they did…

I’ll be giving this one a pass, to put it mildly.

By: Freddo

Freddo — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 22:12:28 +0000

After all the posturing by Hollywood and other MSM, it will take a miracle to make me actually spend any money on their products, rather than using bittorrent. Making the movie “more contemporary” certainly isn’t that miracle.