<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > "Dune" unveiled the mystery of "Dune"</h1>
The recently released by Warner Bros. Pictures, originally scheduled to be released in the United States on November 20, 2020, finally had its world premiere at the 78th Venice Film Festival on September 3, 2021, while Warner Bros. Pictures announced that Dune will premiere in the United States on October 22, 2021, including IMAX and 3D versions, and will be broadcast for a month on streaming platform HBO Max. "Dune" received praise from most film critics after the screening. Rotten Tomatoes has an average score of 7.9.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > a landmark in Dune's modern science fiction novel</h1>
In 1965, american writer Frank Herbert brought his self-created science fiction novel Dune to fans of fiction around the world. The novel Dune was a hit as soon as it was published and hailed as one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time. In the same year, Dune won the Nebula Award in 1965 and the Hugo Award in 1966. Herbert has since launched Dune 2: Dune Savior, Dune 3: Son of Dune, Dune 4: Dune God Emperor, Dune 5: Dune Heresy, and Frank Herbert, spanning 20 years, finally released Dune: Temple Dunes, the final chapter of the Dune series of novels in 1985. The Dune series of science fiction novels also became the best-selling science fiction novels of all time.
The Washington Post: "Dune has created an amazing sci-fi phenomenon" .
Chicago Tribune: "A Landmark in Modern Science Fiction".
Louisville Times: "Herbert has comprehensively reinvented and created this universe, and Dune has successfully advanced modern science fiction through the development and analysis of the most complex ecological, religious, political and philosophical processes in human development."
Readers say of the original: "When I first read Dune in the '60s, I was so surprised that I opened my mouth most of the time, and when I read through half a page, I couldn't restrain myself, looking into space with awe, thinking about what I read. Thousands of years ago, humans instinctively controlled every muscle of the body, and hundreds of years ago, computers appeared beyond what humans could not reach. However, the humans in Dune spread an imperial civilization throughout the universe. You must read this book to understand the legend that is about to be staged on IMAX screens. ”
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="10" > the background of The Dune novel</h1>
The original novel "Dune" sets the era in the distant future, a feudal galactic empire ruled by nobles, who owe allegiance to the royal Corino family. The novel revolves around the fate of the young aristocratic heir to the throne, Paul Yatridi, the heir of Duke Leto Yatridi and a descendant of the Yatridi family, who relocated to the planet Aragis (aka "Dune Star") --- a barren desert planet, of course, Sand Dune Star has a resource vital to spaceflight, the spice Melan Pole, and Sand Dune Star is the only source of this raw material in the universe.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="12" > the intricate factional relationships in Dune You must know</h1>
Director Danny Wilenaf has said that the film Dune only covers the first half of the original novel, and the second half will be shown in the sequel. The characters and stories of the film are very highly restored to the original novel. Thus understand the interaction of the complex emotions of politics, religion, ecology, technology, and humanity that are primarily involved in the story. It is a must for all viewers who are looking forward to this movie to understand. First of all, we must know that all the stories revolve around the planet of Aragis (aka "Dune Star"). (In order not to spoil the following characters will be introduced and transliterated according to the novel prototype)
The Yatridi family (also translated as the Ertridi family in the film)
Duke Leto Yatridi (Oscar Isaac as Acting experience in The Year of the Most Violent, X-Men: Apocalypse): Family leader. Betrayed by Dr. Yue and brought before Baron Vladimir Hakenny, he unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate the Baron and was himself killed.
Ms. Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson in Mission Impossible 5: The Mysterious Realm, Mission Impossible 6: Total Disintegration): A member of the Sorority, the Duke's concubine, the mother of Paul Atredi and Aria Atridi, and the biological daughter of Baron Vladimir Hakenny.
Paul Yatridi (Timothy Chalame) Season 2, King of Lancaster: The only son of Duke Leto Yatridi and Lady Jessica, who is considered a Muhadi (savior) after encountering the Fremman tribe and leads them to defeat the Hackani army and the Emperor's Satuka army, becoming the new Emperor, and then being stripped of his eyesight by the Cabal with lava bullets, but he still has the superpowers of precognitive science and vision.
Garni (Paul's lover, the Furyman) (Zadaya Coleman' experience in Spider-Man: The Return of the Hero and Spider-Man: The Hero's Expedition): She is stillborn due to Princess Iruran's drug delivery, and through the Freeman secret method, she gives birth to twins, Leto II and Ganima, and later dies. Paul Attridy also lost his superpowers upon his death, and when Skyttle, The Face-Changer (Transfiguration Ability) of Trealax, kidnapped Paul's twins and offered to resurrect the dead Garnie if he surrendered power, Paul regained sight through the psyche of his son Leto II, killing Skytel. When Paul lost his ability to see, he exiled himself to the desert according to the laws of the Fremmans. Subsequently, Paul incarnated as a preacher to establish a religion. Eventually Paul and his son Leto II reunite in the desert, foresaw the demise of humanity, and Paul eventually found his sister Alia and broke with her and was killed.
Aria Artridi: Paul's younger sister, who was born with ancient memories but is called a "mutant" by the Sorority, and becomes evil after being possessed by Baron Harkenny. He was eventually defeated by his nephew (Paul's son) Leto II.
Serfi Hawat (Stephen Henderson): The leader of the Assassins of the Yatridi family. Loyal to the Yatridi family and possessing the abilities of TheMentat.
Gerney Harleck (Josh James Brolin starring in Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers 4: Endgame) in Thanos): Atridi's loyal bard warrior. Paul's mentor.
Duncan Edho (Jason Momma) in A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Aquaman): Master swordsman of the Yatridi family who was killed by the Hackanes while covering Paul's departure. He was resurrected as the "Necromancer" by the Trealax and given to Paul as part of an anti-Paul conspiracy, and finally helped Paul crush the plot and marry Paul's sister Aria. Duncan Edho, even as a "necromancer," retains his loyalty to human nature.
Dr. Wellington Yue (Zhang Zhen as "Generation Grandmaster", "Chibi", etc.): The doctor of the Yatridi family, because his wife fell into the hands of the Huckenys, he was forced to become their undercover agent, but did not become a loyalist to the Huckenians. However, he failed to help Duke Leto assassinate Baron Hackaney, and Duke Leto and Dr. Wellington were eventually killed.
Leto Arthurdi II: The son of Paul and Garni's twins, with the ability to remember ancient times. He succeeded in forming a community with ancestral minds, rather than being overwhelmed by a single ancestor like his aunt Alia. He later combines himself with the salmon with super powers, thus defeating his aunt Aria, who has become "demonized". In the end, he became a giant sandworm and thus controlled the universe for 3500 years through spices and the ability of predictive science, ensuring that humanity embarked on the "Golden Path" to avoid human extinction but was still murdered.
Through the introduction of the Atridi family, it is not difficult to find that the only person in the family who has been "demonized" is Aria.
The Hackeny family (also translated as the Haknnan family in the film)
Baron Vladimir Hakenny (Strand Skarsgaarde) is the leader of the family, killed by Alia during the Aragis Incident.
Fide Rosa Hackeny: Baron's nephew.
Grossus 'Beast' Rabin (Dave Batista starred in Guardians of the Galaxy, Golden Cicada 2): Also known as Rabin Harkenny, baron's elder nephew.
Piter De Vries (David Dasmazilian in Batman: The Dark Knight, Ant-Man): Loyal to Baron Hakenam, with twisted Mentatt abilities.
The Corino family (the de facto rulers of the universe)
Shadem IV: Emperor Padisha of the Universe
Princess Iruran: The emperor's eldest daughter and heir, historian. She and Paul lived a nominally married life, privately agreeing with Paul that they could have lovers but not children.
Count Hasimir Finlun: Eunuch (customarily called "eunuch"), the emperor's closest friend and advisor. After the Aragis Incident, he accompanied Shadham IV into retirement.
Farrakon: Grandson of Shadham IV and heir to the throne of the Corino family. After Leto II defeated Aria, he agreed on a reconcile with him. Farraken gave his saturban army to Leto II. Ganima (leto II's twin sister) was nominally married to Leto II, but in fact to Farraken. It is equivalent to Leto II passing the empire back to the descendants of the Corino family.
The Sisterhood of Bee Gist: A secret society of women, often referred to as "witches"
Grand Nun Keith Helen Mohiam (Charlotte Lamplin): Founder of Bee Gist, "lie detector" of Shadham IV, so to speak of "Reader of the Mind", mentor to Paul and Aria's mother, Jessica.
The Furman people
Stillg (Javier Barden as Spain's first Academy Award winner in "Old and Alone"): The Freimann patriarch. Paul's father-in-law.
Garnie: Paul's beloved Freeman concubine. She was poisoned by Princess Irulan (Paul's actual wife and Garni's love enemy) and faced a stillbirth, but thanks to the occult, she gave birth to twins, Leto II and Ganima.
Rieter Keynes (Shannon Duncan Brewster), a half-Friman and the Empire's chief planetary ecologist on Argis. Paul's mother-in-law.
It is not difficult to find from the characters in the released poster that this time's "Dune" has covered the main story character line of the novel, of course, this is only the first half of the novel, and Legendary Pictures has begun to plan a follow-up production plan.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="47" > the proprietary language of Dune novels</h1>
The era in the novel tells that human beings have long been forgotten after the development of advanced computer technology, and with the assistance of no computer, human skills have reached the point of supernatural. All the power structures in the universe are limited by the supply of spices, so even if technology advances to a point that humans cannot imagine, there will still be wars caused by resources. The novel's creative background is characterized by the creation of proprietary languages and linguistics.
Mentatt: A superb mental state in which humans can perform complex logical calculations.
Space Guild: Monopoly of the Interstellar Transport Guild (similar to the Dutch East India Company). They used spices: Melan Pole (similar to the only drive energy oil available today) to gain supersensory abilities that allowed them to make the Heighliner ship reach anywhere in the galaxy in an instant in "warp space" to do so.
Trealax: Geneticist at the edge of galaxies, rules galaxies by creating shapeshifters, reincarnated puppets, and thinkers.
Unigroup: The backbone of the imperial economy (similar to the modern oil organization OPEC) determines the income and financial balance of each family.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="54" > Dune's first screen tour was finally adapted after several twists and turns</h1>
Frank Herbert created a proprietary language vocabulary while creating the Dune series of novels, which contained a complete glossary of terms to make it easier for readers to find the terminology of their inventions. But these are the biggest obstacles it has long prevented screenwriters from adapting them into films.
In 1965, shortly after the first dune was published, the producers planned to adapt it into a film. Until 1971, the film and television adaptation rights of the novel changed hands several times without success, and the reason was that the story content of "Dune" was too large and difficult to adapt. Renowned producer Alexander Eudulos, based on the film rights acquired in the 1970s, planned to produce a 10-hour series, but the project ultimately failed.
Finally, Dune, directed and written by David Lynch in 1984, adapted the original book into a movie for the first time and brought it to the big screen. Due to the director's adaptation of the film deviating from the storyline of the original novel, the film received negative criticism from all sides after its release, and it was a tragic failure at the box office, when the production cost of the film was as high as $40 million, but the final box office revenue was only $30.9 million. It was also criticized by Herbert's admirers, and to this day the film has been recognized as a model for the "evil film" of the Dune adaptation.
The film did not become a blockbuster science fiction blockbuster, and ultimately because the adaptation of the original novel was indeed very complicated, and the film story of the adaptation was very thin and loose. Film critic Roger Ebert also commented on the film: "The performance of the film is chaotic, incomprehensible, extremely ugly, unstructured, meaningless, and the most confusing script in history." ”
After facing double failures at the box office and film critics, David Lynch hated talking about Dune in interviews.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="60" > after 37 years, "Dune" has been adapted again, can it be successful this time? </h1>
Although Lynch became the first person to "eat crabs" and successfully adapted the novel into a movie, he could not avoid being scolded. But it still can't stop Hollywood directors and screenwriters from adapting Dune into a movie to present to the audience.
In 2008, Paramount Pictures announced that it would once again adapt Frank Herbert's novel Dunes into a film, which was developed and directed by Peter Berger. Berger withdrew from the project in October 2009. In January 2010, the director was handed over to Pierre Morel. In March 2011, due to the inability to communicate with Richard M. P. Rubenstein reached an agreement that Paramount would terminate the development of the project.
In November 2016 Legendary Pictures was released from Richard M. P. Rubenstein acquired the film and television production rights to the novel Dune. In September 2016, Danny Wilenaf revealed his interest in directing the adaptation of Dune, and in December, Danny Wilenaf was officially negotiated to direct the film. He said: "My long-term dream was to make Dune, but the process of getting the rights was very long, and I don't think I will succeed. Wilenaf revealed that he was not ready to direct this film before finishing a science fiction film like the 2016 film "Arrival" and the 2017 film "Blade Runner 2049", "Dune for me is all I direct science fiction films". In February 2017, Brian Herbert confirmed that the film was directed by Wilenaf. In April 2019, Game of Thrones linguists David Peterson decided to create the language for the film.
The twists and turns of "Dune" are about to be staged in high anticipation, and even so, whether the film can succeed is still a mystery, although it can be seen that Danny Wilenaf's "Dune" is very restorative to the original. And most of the actors participating in the performance are the big stars in Hollywood at the moment. But it still makes people wonder what will happen to its box office revenue?
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