Imagine the biblical story of Paul, but he is islamic, and everyone is fighting over a planet made of drugs that let you see the future.
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And also travel through space.
And some specifics about fluids in general.
They let you travel through space by letting you see the future because computers are heretical
And live longer.
I tried so hard with that shit.
Dune is fucking endless and boring. There I said it. Now please stop remaking it.
Sounds like you find it It coarse, and rough, and irritating?
Jolly good!
Well #1 you're wrong, #2 the Villeneuve movies are frickin' great and very necessary, and #3 gonna get one more and it'll be great too.
Lick my muad'dib, I waited so long for a proper blockbuster adaptation. 😘
I liked the David Lynch movie. It's proper weird. Perfectly fitting for such a weird world.
It’s one of my favorite series of books.
But the story is difficult to tell on screen. Same issue with most books: you can't see into the character's mind as well on screen as in writing.
Just get an actor with a glass skull.
They tried that with Indiana Jones and people didn't like it very much.
you know. Nic Cage.
Do what lynch did and narrate the shit out of it
The sleeper must awaken fear is the mind killer dune dessert planet tell me about the waters of your home world mua'dib
nice subtle move putting middle eastern art in there
Isn't it just https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._E._Lawrence
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_of_Arabia_(film)
But in space
Dune. Where a summary of the story takes as long as the director's cut.