Some of these carry over from the first film. For example, since we didn't see any of the storyline where Duke Leto (Oscar Isaac) pretends to think Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) is a traitor in Dune, we don't get any of the in-book fallout from that plot in Dune: Part Two. ...
As I noted whenreviewing the first part, it adapts Frank Herbert’s far future story of the rise of a new religion. This is a universe where AI has long been banned, requiring that humans develop in new ways to compensate. It’s led to a feudal interstellar civilization, but one with ...
Villeneuve's "Dune" films removed a lot of the eerie mysticism of Herbert's works, focusing instead on the book's sociopolitical underpinnings. They told a story of how religions are deliberately wielded by cynical political power-seekers to topple existing regimes, and how those regimes can, ...
Dune: The Butlerian Jihad (2002) Whipping Mek (2003 short story) Dune: The Machine Crusade (2003) The Faces of a Martyr (2004 short story) Dune: The Battle of Corrin (2004) Heroes of Dune (2008) Paul of Dune (2008) The Winds of Dune (2009) Princess of Dune (2023) ...
events of the series. The firstDunebook is separated into sections, which are noted in-story by Irulan. The book contains excerpts from historical books that detail Paul’s rise to power. However, it is only at the end that she appears as a background figure who Paul chooses as his ...
Heresies of “Dune” 《沙丘》的异端邪说By Daniel ImmerwahrNovember 19, 2020 By 丹尼尔·伊默瓦尔十一月 19, 2020 SOME HISTORICAL PERIODS fade, others end abruptly. For the United States, the Technicolor-tinted era that began when the troops returned from World War II terminated in an instant: ...
As Dune: Part Two makes very clear, this is not a story that glorifies a white savior, nor is it a joyful epic of good triumphing over evil. It's a portrait of the insidious ways in which faith can be manipulated. Chani, with all her loyalty to the Fremen and desire to see ...
Dune: Part 2 finally hit the big screen yesterday, and we've discovered a treat for anyone looking to delve deeper into Dune art and design concepts. To coincide with the release, Insight Editions has launched a beautiful behind-the-scenes book written by producer Tanya Lapointe. The Art and...
(science wise, this plot point is very dated as we have a much better understanding of the "differences" between male and female brains and everything in between). Their "focus on men" is constricted to viewing them as breeding material, as useful genes (an interesting reversal of how our...
It narrates the story of two secret agents—Red and Blue—who are on opposing sides of a war, risking everything for love, leaving secret letters for each other across time and space. Poignant and poetic, this sci-fi novella is an excellent addition to the corpus of timey-wimey love st...