Sounds like exactly the Media Literate adaptation I was fearing. Tedious topical thematic pretentions that appeal to the class of morons who thought Dune really clicked for them when they "understood" the allegory for oil wars in Middle East (a completely idiotic and wrong interpretation). The White Colonialism firmware update has been d…
Sounds like exactly the Media Literate adaptation I was fearing. Tedious topical thematic pretentions that appeal to the class of morons who thought Dune really clicked for them when they "understood" the allegory for oil wars in Middle East (a completely idiotic and wrong interpretation). The White Colonialism firmware update has been deployed.
I think the first film worked because (intentionally bad casting aside) it mostly studiously avoided any of the interesting themes from the book in favor of broadly accurate plot, characterization, and setting details presented with monolithic sci-fi atmosphere.
There were other red flags, of course. The one that sticks out to me for whatever reason is the Gom Jabbar scene, which subtly changed dialog in ways that seem to foreshadow Part 2. The scene in Lynch's dune is more directly adapted from the book.
Sounds like exactly the Media Literate adaptation I was fearing. Tedious topical thematic pretentions that appeal to the class of morons who thought Dune really clicked for them when they "understood" the allegory for oil wars in Middle East (a completely idiotic and wrong interpretation). The White Colonialism firmware update has been deployed.
I think the first film worked because (intentionally bad casting aside) it mostly studiously avoided any of the interesting themes from the book in favor of broadly accurate plot, characterization, and setting details presented with monolithic sci-fi atmosphere.
There were other red flags, of course. The one that sticks out to me for whatever reason is the Gom Jabbar scene, which subtly changed dialog in ways that seem to foreshadow Part 2. The scene in Lynch's dune is more directly adapted from the book.