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The Battle Barge Buffet Line

Part 2 confirmed.

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/dune-part-2-sequel-1235094974/

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Seen it twice now, going again this time with my Wife, who has not read the books. So going to be interesting to see her reaction to it.

Really glad that part two has been given the go ahead.

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My daughter asked to go see it again, so that would be her third time.

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 stonehorse wrote:
Seen it twice now, going again this time with my Wife, who has not read the books. So going to be interesting to see her reaction to it.

Really glad that part two has been given the go ahead.


It seems crazy it wasn’t green lit before. But these are of course unusual times.

   
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 Easy E wrote:
My daughter asked to go see it again, so that would be her third time.


Was she fresh to Dune or already familiar with it from the novels and previous adaptations? If the former, what part interests her most out of curiosity?

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She was familiar with it from the Lynch version, but not the books.

I am not sure exactly what interests her the most about it, but I think it is a combination of the world-building, visuals, and the main actors in the new one.

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Having never read the book(s), are the Harkonnen such obviously over the top baddies in the original?

   
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Cool. I hope it doesn't eventually sour for her.

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Having never read the book(s), are the Harkonnen such obviously over the top baddies in the original?



Yes. Having said that, in the books the only "good guys" really are Liet Kynes and the Fremen. Everyone else is just spectrum of manipulating bad guys.

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I struggle to even class the Fremen as “good guys” definitely the underdogs, but a brutal, utilitarian society that’s big on death cults, mortal combat and religious war hardly counts as “good”.


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Also, I found it interesting that apparently part of the the reason part 2 got green lit is that they reached their estimated US opening weekend box office for part 1. An estimate that was made pre-pandemic. Which begs the question of how much of a breakout hit this would have been if released in the before times?

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 Frazzled wrote:
 Lord Damocles wrote:
Having never read the book(s), are the Harkonnen such obviously over the top baddies in the original?



Yes. Having said that, in the books the only "good guys" really are Liet Kynes and the Fremen. Everyone else is just spectrum of manipulating bad guys.


Sounds like some Harkonnen propaganda right there.

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 Jadenim wrote:
I struggle to even class the Fremen as “good guys” definitely the underdogs, but a brutal, utilitarian society that’s big on death cults, mortal combat and religious war hardly counts as “good”.


That reads remarkably like the current default argument of colonial apologism. I don't know what that implies about Dune as political commentary.

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I think there might be a compelling "unreliable narrator" argument to be made about House Harkonnen.

Essentially all we are told about them is from Atredies POV, and they look kinda weird. But from their perspective they've been put in a position where they have to sacrifice their own to regain something they already had or suffer catastrophic financial and political damage.

Not to try and frame them as the good guys, but I think it's a riff on one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist.

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Well least they are honest about their selfishness, Leto I "nice guy" facade is pretty much what brings the Imperial House into the game, admittedly there might be some Harkonnen spin but no smoke without fire

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I think I'd have preferred if Harkonnen and Atredies were portrayed more as moral equals.

Instead Harkonnen all dress in black, hang out in dark smokey rooms, live on planet Lightning-Wracked Evil Place, and spend their free time torturing people.
   
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Yeah but the reason the emperor is moving against Atredies is because they present as the good guys. They have political sway because the people of the empire view them as heroes. The moral great. The gods amongst men that they would follow, possibly even against the emperor.

The Harkonans are NOT that. They are not presenting the same or viewed as the same.

Its why the emperor wants to manipulate things to crush Atredies and in doing so remind Harkonan that dune was given to them and dune can be taken away. Arakis is not Harkonans right. Its the emperors, and he will give and take away as he sees fit.

Atredies isn't the golden boys they present as, but they DO present that way.

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 Azreal13 wrote:
Not to try and frame them as the good guys, but I think it's a riff on one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist.


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While I'd like to think that, I'm afraid it just tackles themes which haven't changed in millennia because we never learn at a species level.

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 stonehorse wrote:
Seen it twice now, going again this time with my Wife, who has not read the books. So going to be interesting to see her reaction to it.

Really glad that part two has been given the go ahead.


It seems crazy it wasn’t green lit before. But these are of course unusual times.


Blade Runner 2049 bombed (no idea why, I think it's pretty good. Not as good as the original, but that would be a hell of a bar to clear) so I think they were worried that the director would make another box office failure and didn't want to commit.
   
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 Lance845 wrote:
Atredies isn't the golden boys they present as, but they DO present that way.


I think that's a solid take...that's it's the view in the Imperium. To be fair, the Harkonnens ARE pretty brutal and take slaves, etc. So it's like the story of two guys encountering a bear in the woods. Can't outrun the bear, but you really only have to outrun the other guy.

The Harkonnens weren't always so bad. The prequel novels established the cause of the Atreides-Harkonnen feud. IIRC, the Harkonnens were actually wronged by a false accusation of cowardice by an Atreides. Seems like that just kinda poisoned their souls.

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 Azreal13 wrote:
I think there might be a compelling "unreliable narrator" argument to be made about House Harkonnen.

Essentially all we are told about them is from Atredies POV, and they look kinda weird. But from their perspective they've been put in a position where they have to sacrifice their own to regain something they already had or suffer catastrophic financial and political damage.

Not to try and frame them as the good guys, but I think it's a riff on one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist.


For clarity I have not seen the new movie. In the novel, the perspective is from their side as well. They are definitely bad guys, in the sense they have few morals, don't give squat about people lower than them, use political murder and torture, and have more than their share of sick puppies. So your average real life nobility... (Vive le Emperor!)

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I don't recall the reason for the outlawing of thinking machines so I'm hoping someone here does. It wasn't explained in the first book that I recall but it has been a few years. I have reread the original a few times but most of the others just once. Considering the density of the world building instead of having to get lost in a wiki I am hoping someone here remembers better than I do.


Also the Atreides did nothing wrong ever and you are all just a bunch of meanies.

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 Ahtman wrote:
I don't recall the reason for the outlawing of thinking machines so I'm hoping someone here does. It wasn't explained in the first book that I recall but it has been a few years. I have reread the original a few times but most of the others just once. Considering the density of the world building instead of having to get lost in a wiki I am hoping someone here remembers better than I do.


I've only recently got into Dune stuff so could be wrong, but originally thinking machines were outlawed because they were seen as stunting human mental development. I think the author's son changed it into some sort of "Terminator-esque" AI that humanity fought a war for survival against.

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I've only recently got into Dune stuff so could be wrong, but originally thinking machines were outlawed because they were seen as stunting human mental development. I think the author's son changed it into some sort of "Terminator-esque" AI that humanity fought a war for survival against.


The Butlerian Jihad existed in the original source (before Brian and KJA got off on well, everything). The specific events are left fairly vague, but it involved AI, and AI aligned humans, being overthrown in a religious crusade to "free" humanity from their "control". There are few if any concrete details from that era in the core novels, and it largely acts as an allegorical underpinning to the setting.

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We should remember Brian and KJA wrote the novels after Chapterhouse based on Frank's notes. In which it's revealed that

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the enemy the Honored Matres fled from was the AI that the humans defeated during the Butlerian Jihad. So it would seem that Frank envisioned the machines as a fairly malevolent force. Although the ending is also pure Frank Herbert.

And it made sense then why the authors chose to tell the story of the Jihad era first (well, other than rea$on$). It familiarized readers with the ultimate villain better than just pulling an AI out of a hat in the final book or two as Frank apparently intended. Surprise!

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Saw it on IMAX.

The only complaint I have is THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH OF IT.

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Movie was 9/10 but seemed rushed. I wanted the extended 3.5 hour version like that have with LOTR

True enough to the book

   
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As to the issue of “good guys” and “bad guys” — Dune doesn’t deal with these categories.

Frank Herbert did for science fiction what Machiavelli did for political ethics. Is it better for a prince to be loved or feared? It’s tempting to judge Leto and Vladimir by their methodologies but when judged by their motives they are not necessarily so different. Whether by inspiring loyalty pledged willingly or extorting it through terror, both houses seek to maintain their power. Looking at things this way, the crucial question is just which approach is more effective.

This is why it is so critical to Herbert’s narrative that Atreides is defeated through betrayal. Whatever moral high ground it seemingly occupies did not ultimately achieve its goal. In fact, this same appearance of nobility is what made Atreides the target for Shaddam’s schemes in the first place, given it earned too much esteem in the Landsraad.

In Paul, we have the Machiavellian ideal: to be both loved and feared — indeed, to receive love and fear together in a blend of quasi-religious reverence. But nonetheless, to what end? Nothing more than the same dream of power.

   
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 Stevefamine wrote:
Movie was 9/10 but seemed rushed. I wanted the extended 3.5 hour version like that have with LOTR

True enough to the book


Scuttlebutt is that the banquet scene was written and maybe even filmed. So yeah…bring on that extended cut.

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