In the thousands of calls of Chinese film fans, the sci-fi blockbuster "Dune", which is known as "the most worthy of entering the cinema in 2021", has finally landed and been released. The movie "Dune" is directed by Dennis Villeneuve, who has successfully adapted science fiction films such as "Blade Runner 2049" and "Arrival", and co-starred "Sweet Tea" Timothy Chalame, "Thanos" Josh Brolin, "Mission Impossible Girl" Rebecca Ferguson, Zhang Zhen and other casts, providing a top science fiction audio-visual feast.
Stills from the movie "Dune"
Behind the movie stands the original novel that swept all the science fiction awards. The original book of the same name, "Dune", was introduced and published by reader culture, and the reporter learned from reader culture that this stable best-selling work has recently set off a buying frenzy again, and it has been snapped up on all platforms on the whole network in just 3 days.
Among several well-known science fiction IPs, "Dune" may be the hardest to gnaw on. Adaptations of this classic have been unannounced for decades, but almost once have been successful.
"Holy Mountain" director Zodlowski invited artists Dalí, Pink Floyd and other talents from all walks of life to participate in the filming of "Dune", and the lack of funds led to failure. Blade Runner director Ridley Scott took the baton but quit halfway through filming. The only person to make a finished film was David Lynch, the director of "Mulholland Drive", and the quality and word of mouth of the film suffered waterloo, so much so that the director himself was reluctant to admit that it was his own film.
1984 David Lynch's Dune
The reason why "Dune" is one of the most difficult films in film history to adapt is because of the grandeur of the original book. The story of Dune takes place in the distant future. Interstellar crossing has become commonplace, and human footprints have spread throughout the universe. Erracos, also known as the Dune Planet, is a planet that is almost completely covered in desert and has a harsh climate, but it is the lifeblood of the entire universe. Because the sand dunes are rich in the most precious treasure in the universe - the beauty of the enamel, also known as "spices". MeiLang resin is a necessity for interstellar travel, and after humans take it, they can prolong their life and even foresee the future... Because of this, the dune has become a place of competition between the major power groups in the universe, and whoever controls the dune controls the universe.
Under the framework of science fiction, the author Frank Herbert explores various issues including politics, religion, philosophy, history, ecology, futurology, etc. It also puts human nature, human nature, and human purpose on a cosmic scale for ultimate thinking.
It is worth mentioning that "Dune" completely erases the existence of artificial intelligence in the setting, brings the focus back to the person itself from technology, and breaks through the tradition of science fiction that "the core is technology, characters and plots at the service of science fiction". Coupled with the literary, social and humanistic spirit injected by Herbert, "Dune" finally broke through the limitations of science fiction and became a science fiction classic in the history of literature.
Although Dune is a fictional novel from more than fifty years ago, the topics it contains still have strong room for interpretation today. The religious conflicts, geopolitical conflicts, and ecological crises depicted in them are still common problems faced by countries around the world. As the New York Times put it in its assessment of Dune, "With climate change, the situation in the Middle East, and the energy crisis unfolding, Dune is more relevant than it was 50 years ago." ”
Based on the huge group of book fans, before the release of the film, the film party also quickly found the original publisher reader culture to reach in-depth cooperation, and organized an advanced screening activity together, so that book fans can see the long-dreamed "Dune" world in advance. After the release of the film also triggered a discussion, fans spontaneously for the "first time into the dune world" fans as a guide, explain the settings in the book and the Easter eggs buried in the movie, for a time in the film and television literary and art circles once again set off the "dune" fever, in addition to the film and the original itself, the discussion even extended to science fiction literature, space opera, philosophical metaphors and other aspects, forming a benign artistic discussion atmosphere.
Dune is the masterpiece of science fiction writer Frank Herbert. Since its publication in 1965, it has quickly swept the world's major science fiction awards. It won the "Nebula Award" and the "Hugo Award" in 1965 and 1966, becoming the first Hugo Award and Nebula Award double prize in the history of science fiction. Arthur Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, praised Dune: "Apart from Lord of the Rings, there is no other work that can compete with Dune. ”
Like The Lord of the Rings in the history of fantasy, Dune has become a milestone in the history of science fiction. In the six parts of "Dune", Herbert created a "dune world" that can compete with "The Lord of the Rings", and the scale is grand and the complexity of the characters is dazzling. Every character, every organization, and even every planet has its own history and culture, and every object has its own origins and heritages, intertwined to form a world of its own.
To make the dune world more credible, Herbert also wrote many appendices: a manual covering the geography, flora and fauna of the dunes, a chronology of tens of thousands of years of human history, and even compiled a seven-hundred-page encyclopedia explaining everything about the dune world.
Today, Dune has become a global cultural phenomenon, it gave birth to "Star Wars", "Avatar", "Alien" and other acclaimed and popular classic science fiction movies, such as the classic lightsaber fight in "Star Wars" is its reference; its spin-off game "Dune Castle" is the first real-time strategy game in history, it is also the inspiration for many classic games, it can be said that without "Dune" there is no "Red Alert" and "StarCraft".