YO, welcome to "Dune" in-depth analysis part 2, the release of the movie "Dune Part One", but also let many people re-discuss what "science fiction" is.
The literal meaning of "science fiction", called "science fiction", "scientific fiction", describes imaginary content about science such as "future technology, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, artificial intelligence, etc."
In the direction of film and television, science fiction themes can be divided into superheroes, monster movies, zombie movies, disaster movies, time travel, star trek, cyberpunk, and space opera.
The movie "Dune" we are talking about today is a soft science fiction work that belongs to the space opera style.
For me, why I like science fiction is not because the physical formula is standard, nor is it a fiery special effects scene, but because there are enough crazy subversive ideas and twists and turns of the unknown story journey.
Entering the world of science fiction, we can jump out of the framework of existing technology in reality, and use imagination and uncertainty about the future to map and think about today's current problems.
As the argument put forward in the novel Dune: "One must choose uncertainty and stay away from certainty".
But if human beings can really foresee the future, whether it is good or bad, then will we still be curious about that determined future and strive for it?
This is the idea that I most appreciate the core philosophy of Dune's story, rather than the religious and familial strife in the story.
Paul's knowledge of the prophetic power of the ancient and modern foresight of the future was the greatest impact on the curiosity on which humanity developed, and that humanity in mankind would become better or worse with the spread of such prophetic seeds.
Whether Paul's God-like existence as the Chosen Man could use his power to truly manipulate and use such a future?
Is Paul really the Chosen One, does mankind really need the Chosen One, today we will combine the movie "Dune" and the subsequent plot of the novel to explore and analyze this problem in depth!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="25" > buried under the dunes....</h1>
More than 50 years ago, frank Herbert was a journalist writing a dune report on oregon, after which Frank Herbert was inspired by his study of dunes to write the novel Dunes.
In a way, the desert in Dune is a symbol of a life form, and the embodiment is represented by sandworms, and the desertification of the land and the erosion of other vegetation by sand make those once fertile lands part of the desert, just as the hidden power and desire of human beings are expanded ambitions.
The birth of each classic work has its own historical background of the era to which it is attached, and ripples on the subsequent human civilization and social influence.
The Lord of the Rings (1954) was a deep crusade against fascism and the traumatic effects of World War II.
The issue of "A Song of Ice and Fire", published in 1996, is the topic that is rarely discussed, and the correspondence behind the work corresponds to the challenges faced by entrepreneurs in the unknown environment under neoliberalism at the time of the birth of the new millennium.
And "Dune", which was born in 1965, the upright United States fell into the quagmire of the Vietnam War, and the so-called positive light mission symbolized by the United States was strongly questioned, and at the same time, it was wrapped in the pressure of the global environment, the precursor crisis of global oil, the chaos of the Cold War and the middle East disputes, etc., all contained in the story of "Dune".
To this day, the changes and innovations in the world pattern, the undercurrent of regional disputes under peace, and the competition between countries have not stopped, so "Dune" is obsolete, I think not, because "Dune" is wrapped in the cloak of a feudal imperial court, giving a warning record of the various behaviors of contemporary human civilization.
Yes, many people say that "Dune" is a European religious palace fight drama cloaked in the cloak of science fiction, and the hero Akimori Wan descends from the sky and leads the Freymans to fight against oppression and fight for freedom.
Before answering this question, we need to go back to the movie Dune and see how Paul mistook the audience for the hero of the savior.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="332" > where Paul's fate would go</h1>
The movie "Dune" depicts a near-perfect prelude for the audience of a superhero, and the conditions and environment of a chosen person are presented one by one.
In the film, Paul is born in the prestigious Ertridi family, the only heir of the family, and his blood is also flowing with the powerful genes of the mysterious Beni Jesserrit Sisterhood, who can be trained to become the chosen man Who is proficient in the universe, time, space and civilization, and leads mankind back to the eternal path of eternal peace.
Paul also has all the conditions for a hero to temper in the dark, he easily passed the Gorm Thorn test, and in the long training of his mother Jessica, he knew how to overcome the fear of the unknown, and as he grew older, the prophetic ability in his body was constantly stimulated.
On the other hand, Paul's courage and responsibility, fraternity and compassion were taught by his father, the Duke of Leto, in physical training, there was the control of the Romantic poet Gurny, the ability of crystal analysis was tempered by the military gate Tate Duffy Havat, and by the way, he also learned to Chinese from Dr. Yue.
Here Paul is still one of the keys to making a hero, that is, rising up in the darkness...
The Ertridi family was almost completely destroyed by the Haknen family overnight, Paul lost his father, and at the same time saw that his mother, as a sorority, had foreseen all this happening, but did not try to stop it, Paul after smoking spices, the "sleeper" personality conceived in the body awakened, and the seeds of revenge and revolt were planted and grown in the dunes.
At the same time, Paul was treated as the "prophet" of their people, Lisa al-Gaib, who coexisted with the dunes, and in this way, Paul naturally walked into this desert full of inspiration, and proved himself in a duel of life and death rituals, thus winning the supreme aura of revenge for the family and the freedom of the Freymans, and successfully embarked on the so-called hero road of the protagonist, but in fact, what awaited Paul was the bloody holy war that he could not stop...
Earlier I mentioned Paul in "Dune", corresponding to "Lawrence of Arabia" (the original), the protagonist of the film, Lawrence, is experiencing self-identity, Lawrence can not choose to be born, but can choose who he can become.
On the surface, paul and Lawrence are both colonists and integrators, fighting for the cause of local independence, or avengers of opportunistic vested interests, these are questions left for the audience to ponder.
Paul and Lawrence are different in that Paul has more infinite powers and powers than Lawrence, but he can't choose who he can become.
When even Paul himself thought it was a saga of the savior who saved all mankind, the result was the opposite...
In the novel, Paul, with the extreme admiration and support of the Freymans, names himself Muadibu.
Paul used what he had learned to train the Freymans, and just when the Haknans thought they were regaining control of the dunes, they discovered that there was a prophet named Muadibu deep in the desert who was leading the rise of the Freymans!
At this time, the emperor could not sit still, and directly sent troops to suppress the Freymans, and a decisive battle between Paul and the imperial power was launched, in which the desert duel that Paul saw in his vision was the Battle of the Plains of Erachien that he led.
In the end, Paul won a total victory in the battle, and the emperor, seeing the defeat of the army, asked his eldest daughter Princess Irulan to marry Paul, who crowned him as king and began his imperial rule.
This is the general content of the second half of the first book of "Dune", just at the time of writing, the box office of "Dune" seems to have returned, and the sequel to "Dune" is officially announced, scheduled to be released in 2023, but at the Venice Film Festival Villeneuve's desire to achieve the Dune Trilogy, because if you want to see Paul's more complete life story, you also need to extend to the novel "Dune 2", and it will also involve "Dune 3".
The collision between Paul's inner vision and reality also begins with winning the Dune Jihad...
After Paul ruled the Empire, he was not really happy, and the Freymans, who he once considered friends, became his fanatical followers, and fought everywhere in his reputation as the Chosen One, destroying the civilizations of the planets in the universe, eliminating the religions and objections of different opinions, and more importantly, plundering countless lives.
During Paul's reign, human warfare reached an unprecedented peak, and the Freymans erupted with long-suppressed desire and brutality.
In fact, Paul's heart was already empty and tired, and the years of conquest made him extremely skeptical about the legitimacy of the original war, but he could not tell everyone his true intentions, because it was meaningless.
In the book Paul even laughs at himself, "I am a puppet, and when man becomes a god, he can no longer control the situation."
In Dune 3, Stilgaard's Chronicle records that "Muadib (Paul) saw a weed that wanted to grow between two rocks. He removed one of the stones. Later, when the weeds were growing vigorously, he covered the weeds with the remaining stones. Paul thought, this was his destiny. ”
Paul once thought that he could avoid the cruel holy war, but in fact, the process of human desire pushed Paul step by step to complete this terrible holy war.
In the middle of Dune 2, Paul even confessed their jihad to Stilge, and the holy war launched in Paul's name killed 61 billion people in the universe! There are hundreds of times more casualties than butler jihad man-machine battles! There are 90 planets that are directly extinct! There are forty religions that have disappeared!
While Steele and another historian, Coba, are still defending the jihad, Paul laughs like the Mad King of A Song of Ice and Fire (the timeline is actually reversed), and Paul knows that he has brought humanity not light but darkness, a long period of human darkness that requires hundreds of generations of humans to rise up again in the ruins.
Paul loathed himself, plunged into madness and helplessness, and Paul was haunted by illusions of the past and the future.
In one of the operations, Paul is blinded by lava bullets, and completely needs to foresee the illusion to determine what is happening around him, and after all this, Paul confesses his heart to the cloned Duncan, and the holy war imprisons him, keeping him fixed on the slide of time, allowing the terrible gravity of the future to contain him once and for all.
Blind in both eyes, Paul also foresaw that Chini would die during childbirth, so he chose to escape when Chini gave birth, and After Chini gave birth to twins, a man and a woman, Star Wars fans I know your feelings.
Chini's death made Paul even more miserable, and the birth of the twins blinded Paul in the true sense of the word, and his power was almost transferred to his son.
Paul named his son Leto, in honor of his father, and ganima for his daughter (yes, I wrote this particular name for that purpose).
Paul was completely free.
Muadib, Lisa al-Gaib, Quetzhardlak, the Chosen One, the Prophet, Paul, and finally he walked into the desert of youth that had once been, striding through the long passages of time, leaving his dull self behind.
This is the story of Paul's life, and it would be more complete to be able to bring it all to the big screen. I know that although Paul will still appear in "Dune 3" later, whether it is personality or blindness or the like, but Star Wars fans understand it, a bit of Jedi Heroic Inner Taste, no and say the opposite, there is a "Dune" novel first.
So for me, I think Dune 2 is Paul's most evocative and perfect ending.
Paul's birth is full of people's most admired fantasy about the future, when everyone thinks that he can lead mankind to the light, but let mankind fall into chaos, and Paul himself thinks that he can take on the responsibility of the free rise of the Fremmans, but he does not know that he has opened a narrow door to the dark passage of human nature.
Dune 1 says, "There is no straight road to the end. To climb a mountain, you need to climb a few steps to prove that it is a mountain. Standing at the top of the mountain, you can't see the mountain. ”
Mysterious time is still buried under the unknown dunes, and when people try to find certainty about the future, the result is often uncertainty, and this uncertainty even creates the mistaken chosen man Paul, and the holy war that Paul bears in name.
Good! The analysis of the movie "Dune" about Paul's fate is here, and the next issue also has answers to the difficult questions about the "Dune" movie of the Victorian version, so stay tuned!