Dune and psychedelic desert messiahs

[Bruno]

Saw it yesterday as well. A shout-out to Villeneuve's fidelity to early
sci-fi aesthetics.  Reminds me of John Harris and pre-90s book covers.
Villeneuve shows much skill in making authorial, fringe ergotic sci-fi.
What not to love when a genre goes artistic?

Space travel: spice. A hallucinogen. To travel light is to get rid of brain
patterns.

Le sam. 23 oct. 2021 à 12:50, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> a écrit :

> Went to see Dune last night, mostly Williams College kids attending,
> needed some escapist nonsense. It was well done I thought, good acting,
> good music and sound effects if slightly over the top with the big drums.
> Visually severe, engaging, ominous in story-appropriateriate ways. I
> wondered if the whole heroic desert freedom fighters with Islamic style
> might shake up the imagination of young watchers shaped by anti-Muslim
> cultural atmosphere. Stayed quite close to the book, more condensed. Not
> sure visionary psychedelic messiahs leading desert rebels against the
> exploitation of a cruel empire has serious relevance, but it could be a lot
> worse. It is only half the first book.
>   I thought Herbert made a big mistake killing off the ecologist when I re
> read the book most of a year ago. I still think so, too central as a
> redeeming theme.
>
> I have an increasingly hard time with big Iron machines traveling light
> years through space while people fight with swords.  We are so fucking far
> from real space travel.
>
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