#Dune book

[phantasmicfish]

So I saw Dune Part 2 yesterday and I was initially super crushed because of the deviation from book canon but the more I think about it the more I sorta like it…

So without further ado here’s a list of stuff I liked about Dune Part 2:

- all the scenes initially of Paul growing closer to the Fremen. You can clearly see that they become friends, accept him as a Feydakin, that they’re laughing, joking, hanging out. (And contrast that to the end of the movie, where Paul has no more Fremen friends, only followers. In the book, this is echoed, where Paul recognizes that he has lost his friends to the Muad’Dib religion. Take book Stilgar, who truly embodies this… by the end of the book, Paul says: “I have seen a friend [Stilgar] become a worshipper.”

- giving Chani explicit rejection of Paul’s messiah status was an interesting choice. Chani’s main thought over part 2 is that they don’t need religion to save them, that through Fremen power and desert power, the Fremen can save themselves. She recognizes that this fanatical worship can be a vehicle to control and enslave her people, and I sorta wish we saw Paul lean into that more… that they found a way to stay together and ‘fight’ the prophecy together based on Chani’s ideals…

- also, I love how engrained this rejection of religion and prophecy is in her character. Book Chani takes no issue with her Fremen name, Sihaya (desert spring), but movie Chani hates it “because it’s part of some prophecy.” Later, we see that despite her rejection of prophecy and religion, that the prophecy does indeed come to pass— the tears of desert spring save Him aka, Chani saving Paul after he drinks The Water of Life. (Interesting how Jessica has to force Chani to save Paul using the Voice… another example of Jessica explicitly forcing Paul to become the messiah).

- adding more depth to Fremen culture— the South being the more religious fundamentalist tribes vs the North being more secular. Early on, the movie paints this immediate divide between the tribes of Fremen who accept Paul and Jessica versus those who treat them as offworlders (who murdered Jamis). In the books everyone accepts Paul and Jessica after Paul bests Jamis and Jessica quotes some scripture, but I think it makes more logical sense that there’d be friction over these two random offworlders coming in

- I love love loved Paul speaking at the meeting of the Fremen tribe leaders in the South. He fully accepts his messiah status, exercises his power of the Voice + his prescience as a way to command all the Fremen under his name

- I’m a big fan of omitting the two-year time skip, so with that I’m glad Leto II was skipped over entirely. I always felt that Leto II was an unnecessary character addition to the book, especially when he just dies and everyone sort of goes “oh well” and moves on, so I’m glad it’s omitted.

- another interesting choice was to paint Jessica as a straight up villain in comparison to the way her book counterpart was not. The movie Jessica we see here is seemingly corrupted by the Water of Life: she walks around talking to herself (Alia) and scheming Paul’s ascent to Lisan-Al Gaib. She knows about the Holy War, which is the very thing Paul is trying to prevent, yet she expresses no concern about bringing it to fruition. (Probably because Jessica knows it’s impossible to prevent, but still.) The very last line of the movie, where Alia asks Jessica what’s going on and Jessica says “The Holy War has begun” is just total villain in my mind— explicit acceptance of the Holy War, like it’s just another stepping stone in her plan. Plus, the fact that Paul has visions of Jessica leading him into this period of great starvation totally cements her as a villian.

- going off of that, I like that we see Jessica undergoing actual agony when she takes The Water of Life. When book Jessica and Paul take The Water of Life they accept it calmly and without obvious pain (book Jessica was sitting with her eyes closed, as if sleeping), so this physical reaction that Jessica has to the poison adds to the idea that The Water of Life did change her in a negative way.

- I feel like so far we’ve been introduced to Alia as just a weird talking fetus who’s been consorting with Jessica, so Paul’s vision where Alia says “I love you” really strikes home, that she really does care for Paul which we might not have understood otherwise

[dutchmancallypso]

Extremely stunning photos of Oscar Isaac as Duke Leto ♡

© Chiabella James

[the-cosmic-creature]

Dune lore is fucking insane. I just finished the first book, and have concluded that Frank Herbert is a goddamn genius.

20,000 years in the future.

Matriarchal cult of eugenisist space-nuns with weird psychic powers

Houses that resemble the royalty of medieval earth, all still obsessed with power and profit over everything else

complex religions with clear inspirations of real-world present religions (specifically catholicism and islam)

Human supercomputers?? that are also assassins??

A prison planet that creates supersoldiers by killing the weak to filter out the strongest

the main villain being the physical embodiment of sin (gluttony, lust, greed)

politics. holy war. oppression of native peoples. false prophets. cults. drugs. worms.

and that just scratches the surface. theres five more books…

[dun-dun-dune]

No freaking way-

Pg 226 (Dune, Frank Herbert)

You guys have no idea how funny this is to me

[porttohuume]

*about to have sex with gorgeous woman*

Hold on love let me put on something in the background to really get us in the mood~

*Dune Audiobook starts playing from speakers*

[notgilderoylockhart]

I did a faux rebind of Dune as a birthday gift for a friend of mine. Thankfully, his girlfriend sent me pictures of his own Dune Edition (in German) and its measurements. That way he can use this book sleeve for the German edition too. He’s been complaining about that design for quite a while, basically every time we enter a book store.

I also hand-stitched this little desert design into the book cloth, because I don’t own a cricut lol

And here is how it works:

Here’s the tutorial by bindrebindery on ig

And here's the tutorial for all the tiktok kids

She's been a huge help throughout my adventures in rebinding books, and straight up just deserves more recognition.

[anxxxiiious]

a sketch of Paul Atreides.. thinking of how cool an animated dune movie could be.

[psidiumnocte]

honoring my so soon to be tenth rewatch of dune part two

[hahadoesanythingreallymatteranyw]

God Emperor of Dune is fun because it’s 500 pages of esoteric religious/philosophical lectures and then BAM you get hit by monster penis and shebang on the same page

[radio-ghost-cooks]

things you learn in the book but not the movie pt2: more Dune

this focuses more on the Harkonnens!

///tw sa mention!

Feyd is just as much of a silly goose as Paul is trust

Feyd is only a few years older than Paul (Paul is 15, Feyd is about 17)

okay i know we all love bald Feyd and ginger Feyd but apparently he has canonically dark hair

he is so incredibly sarcastic it's not even funny

and so is Duke Leto!

Leto's letter back to the Harkonnens be like "not only am i not meeting with you, but also, your mom!"

to everyone who thought the whole "the Baron SA's Feyd" thing was just a fanfic trope i'm so sorry.

yeah Vladimir Harkonnen refers to Feyd as "my darling" repeatedly

he also says A Thing (TM) about Paul. and it makes me want to punch him repeatedly.

the Baron also constantly insults Feyd

at one point someone answers Feyd's question and goes "ohhhhhhhhhhh"

like legitimately he says it out loud

if Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen has no fans, assume i'm dead

[i-blame-my-mother]

Leto II and Duncan Idaho

[rarebluechairdog]

Paul is like Link in that we all agree he's trans but the specifics are up in the air

[aemondseyepatch]

"An Atreides daughter could've been wed to a Harkonnen heir and sealed the breach."

Chapter 3 — Dune (Dune Chronicles #1) by Frank Herbert

[dun-dun-dune]

Should've been in the movie!

Pg 122 (Dune, Frank Herbert)

[hauntswitch]

I do really like the new dune movies, the one single thing that gets me is the age difference between timothee chalamet and Paul in the books - I think Paul being the age that Timmy Tim was when he was doing his statistics rap thing really puts things into context

[andtheinfinitesadness]

Mentally I'm here, but physically I'm on the desert planet known as Arrakis, doing so much of the spice Melange that I'm astral-projecting and folding space.