So far it feels like discount dune to me. Can def tell it’s Brian’s writing. The world feels too small too. It’s vaguely interesting to watch but they should have gotten better writers
I hope this isn't the case, but the timing of the movies is really good to get people into Dune. They'll need the books to fully understand the parallels though.
“We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans!”
― Minister-companion of the Jihad
Memory never recaptures reality. Memory recon-structs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.
—MENTAT HANDBOOK
I love the noise it makes and how it manages to look like a helicopter and biology inspired. And the wing folded dive to get to the spice harvester is just fantastic.
I've watched all the YouTube videos and tiktoks about the spice and the guild navigators.. basically they're what exists instead of decision making computers.
Interesting article about the struggles two linguists had taking Frank Herbert's eclectic Fremen words and turning them into a working conlang (constructed language) for the new movies.
But I'm having bad luck. Our local 70mm theater site won't even open, it must be overloaded. I'm hoping other people are having issues, too, so I can get good seats.
I was rewatching the film recently and again I was impressed by the use of language. In the training scene with Gurney, there was a direct quote from the book - "you're not in the mood for fighting? Wtf?" (Paraphrase). Most of the film also used Dune language. But I felt that when Paul and Jessica were alone in the desert, they stopped speaking "Dunish" and started speaking English. Did anyone else notice this / feel this way too?
Interesting article on Frank Herbert's evolving take on environmentalism, and how a book series forged in the 1960s could impact the real world of tomorrow.
Denis Villeneuve's much-anticipated Dune: Part Two releases on November, 3, 2023, with a six-week IMAX run, indicating a potentially good change in the movie industry. With Marvel's next theatrical release, The Marvels, scheduled to hit theaters a week later, there was an expectation that Dune: Part Two may be moved to next year to accommodate this. However, IMAX CEO Richard Gelfond confirmed Dune: Part Two won't be delayed.
I started working on chat AI tuning today. I manually reworked the entire Wikipedia article to the right format needed for an AI character. I also set up the greeting format to match when Leto meets Siona in the Sareer. The dialogue example I used is the last back and forth between Leto and Malky. I'm trying to embed the entire history and prompting the character as a new ghola in a post canonical era.
I'm still quite early on in the book, I'm starting to feel really, really stupid. The ghola is here and we understand about the plots to overthrow Paul. We can see cracks in the empire and the criticism of religion in the form of the blind faith that people have in Paul. I understand the overall themes and I love them.
There are many houses and other groups in the novels. The most well-known ones being House Atreides, House Harkonnen, the Bene Gesserit, and the Fremen. But Frank Herbert's created many other groups in his fictional universe, some of which gradually evolved, and some which just died out.
I really love the huge sense of scale this ship gives, a bit megalophobia inspiring. Especially when compared to the absolutely massive guild heighliner.
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