While my brothers are starved and massacred, their homes destroyed, in the silent assent of many pigs who speak on behalf of human civilization, let’s dedicate ourselves to the past, present and future cinematic adaptations of Dune.
Authored by Frank Herbert Via Dune Book Series
I recommend all our loyal readers, men and women, to read Dune if they haven’t already done so.
At least the first book in the series. It is truer and more understandable than the Christian Bible, and certainly than the Talmud, and the Quran itself.
It is the story of the birth of a Messiah, and a Messiah can only be born within an oppressed people, which is why the Jews and the Saudis will not see any Savior born among them, despite the fact that currents in their religions evoke this messianic figure. But then again, with all those billions and jewels, armies and artillery, bombs and missiles, they certainly don’t need someone to come and save them.
We have already written, and badly, about the Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s science fiction novel, and from what we’ve seen we are were disappointed. Mutilating the will of the creator of worlds Frank Herbert is pure blasphemy, those who disagree have understood very little about life and intellectual honesty.
Why change “Jihad” into “Crusade”? What’s the difference? Wouldn’t it have been better to leave the Creator’s will unchanged? What an abomination….There are several schools of thought on how the film version of Dune was and should be filmed.
George Lucas said that without Dune his Star Wars Saga would certainly not have been born, but seeing how Hollywood has ruined it in the last decade we cannot expect, as already written for Villeneuve’s film, that Dune will not run too the same condemnation of the suffocating and idiotic politically correct of our sad, bitter and dark days.
Art and visionary genius are not for everyone, we agree.
People tend to identify with the actors, with the stories, but modern Hollywood doesn’t care about this. This is why there is now an avalanche of TV series and films that, despite the continuous pumping proclamations, such as advertisements and articles that are more false than Mata Hari’s stories, no one wants to see.
It’s the same reason why, after the exhilarating success of the first season of Altered Carbon, the second season flopped and the series was closed.
But let’s go back to Dune.
Dune has a Qur’anic glossary. It seems to be set in the desert of Saudi Arabia, it talks about peoples oppressed by an Empire and by allied or otherwise Royal Houses that make up a large-scale Galactic Council. We do not know at the moment if Villeneuve worked to mutilate these fundamental parts of Dune and his Jihad. The Dune glossary is almost entirely taken from Arabic words. If only an attempt were made to remove them so as not to upset a non-pro-Arab public, it would be like defacing any sacred work, or one of immortal artistic value, like dressing up Michelangelo’s David so as not to scandalize the nuns. So madness.
From what has just been stated we can go back to the beginning of this post. In a world like ours that is dominated by imperialist forces genuflecting to masons, how can we expect young generations to see in Dune something that goes beyond a common science fiction blockbuster?
In 1984 Lynch’s film was a notable success for various reasons. Lynch was the director coming off the critical triumph of The Elephant Man, and the book itself had already been read by millions of people. Jodorowsky’s work and the special effects already tested in previous successful films had paved the way for what still remains today a Colossus of films of this genre, although both Jodorowsky and many others do not at all agree with this judgement, Who cares.
I myself would have lengthened the film with a better painting by Giedi Prime, created Baron Harkonnen’s castle and given life to the fight between Feyd Rautha and the drugged slave gladiator under the eyes of the Count and that slut Countess Fenring. But we can’t complain in the end, movies will never surpass the power of books.
Lynch was a visionary director for his time, but more pragmatic than Jodorowsky, however he was very upset by the cuts that the film had to undergo. But even the addition of “estrangement modules” to fill the lack of combat wasn’t a great idea, leaving only a bitter gap. Let’s face it, Star Wars had much of its success thanks to lightsaber fights, but still fights, duels, something “ridden” like a sandworm by Lynch in his visionary genius but only in part, and nothing it’s spectacular in these duelist fights, and not even very faithful to the original.
Thanks to the Internet today we own remastered versions of Dune, the film has been re-edited by fans, I own all copies of these edits: Dune Redux, Dune Alternative Version 1 and 2, and the original director’s version without cuts.
Here is the trailer for Dune Redux, in my opinion the best edit out there:
Even if the film massacred by both expectations and criminal cuts did not become a global success like Star Wars, it doesn’t matter, for the Fedaykin having a vision of the universe dominated by the Kwisatz Haderach was already something.
And after all this transposition training from paper to film, from paper to mind, we will certainly be able to evaluate the new Dune as the best of psychic weapons with our Voice from another World.
