Excellent movie. Highly recommend. Slow but beautiful. Great performances, music, cinematography. Gonna go read the book now. I had no problem following the movie but someone I went with got lost so ymmv.
Excellent movie. Highly recommend. Slow but beautiful. Great performances, music, cinematography. Gonna go read the book now. I had no problem following the movie but someone I went with got lost so ymmv.
This is basically the thrust of the book, yeah. I've seen the "white savior" take a lot since Dune is back in the news, and it's just such a trite reading with zero analysis attached. The themes of colonialism, prophecy (and invention/co-optation thereof), imperialism, eugenics, etc. (and how all those things interweave) are way more interesting than the Wikipedia plot summary everyone appears to be basing their hot takes on. It doesn't help that Frank Herbert can build a world like no other but can't write prose to save his fucking life.
They don't even consider that Paul is Greek-coded and therefore not white
I thought the point was the Atreides basically appropriated Greek Culture wholesale to shore up their power base, much as western European countries do today. They're implied to be the descendants of Agamemnon, a literal Bronze age monarch...which is uh...highly unlikely to be true.
To be fair, that could have been any Agamemnon
Naming my son Atreus and only giving him an inheritance if he names his own son Agamemnon so my family can climb the ranks of space nobility and claim direct descendency from the Myceneans at Troy as a bit.
Which as I recall the founder of the Great house actually did while also claiming to be a direct descendent from history's most famous asshole rapist maurauder.