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mybrainproblems · 1 year ago

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oh please share your share your thoughts on dune! i'm only partway through children of dune but it's been so interesting. everyone is so unwell but i like it that way.

okay so full disclosure. while i've re-read OG dune about once per year ever since i first picked it up when i was 11 years old (so 20+ times), i've only read dune messiah and children of dune once each... i think i watched the children of dune mini series more recently than i've read the book (-_-;)

what i'm obsessed with about dune is the world that herbert built and the snippets of princess irulan's books that head up each chapter. i just absolutely adored that level of detail and it gave me a huge amount of appreciation for what depth of worldbuilding you could do within a story. this is still the part that i have a deep love for but over the years i've come to also have a deep appreciation for the social and political allegory of dune that i definitely did NOT get when i first read it and it really wasn't until late high school/college that i started to really dig into that part of the book.

i feel like this is a bit of a letdown answer. sorry!

#fun fact: it's a bit hazy but i read dune either a week or two before 9/11 or a week or two after which meant i came into discussions #about 9/11 with a very different context for the word 'jihad' vs other students when we had to talk about it in school #it's why i refuse to watch villeneuve dune: crusade and jihad aren't really interchangeable and that being in the trailer was a big turn of #at least the lynch version basically sidesteps the politics & allegory of the book???? it's my favorite part but i'd rather that #a director skip the politics than do it incorrectly bc the political allegory and commentary of dune is so exact #tho of course maybe lynch did include it and laurentiis cut it. lynch!dune is a movie i'd love a true directors cut for.#i don't even *like* david lynch's work in general but i'd be fascinated to see the 4hr+ cut he's talked about #ask a brain problem #i think lynch!dune can stand on its own but it's hard to watch as a book fan when my favorite bits were cut out :')

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