Cover news reporter Zhang Jie
On October 22, the sci-fi blockbuster "Dune", which is known as "the most worthy of entering the cinema in 2021", was finally 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 by "Sweet Tea" Timothy Chalame, "Thanos" Josh Brolin, "Mission Impossible Girl" Rebecca Ferguson, "National Male God" Zhang Zhen and other luxury casters, offering a science fiction audio-visual feast.
Behind the rave reviews of the film, the original book of the same name, "Dune", was introduced and published by the reader culture, and "Dune" quickly detonated the market as soon as it was introduced, and almost every "must read for a lifetime" book list has it. It is reported that this stable best-selling work has recently set off a wave of purchases again, and it has been snapped up on all platforms of the whole network in just 3 days.
"The most difficult adaptation in film history" movie, "Dune" was finally released
Among several well-known science fiction IPs, "Dune" is the most difficult hard bone to gnaw. 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 who made the film was David Lynch, the director of "Mulholland Drive", but the quality of the film was so poor that the director himself was reluctant to admit that it was his own film.
The reason why "Dune" is one of the most difficult films in film history to adapt is because of the richness of the original book. The story 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.
From the general understanding of the content, it is not difficult to see that the greatness of the original book is not only its science fiction attributes. 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.
What's more special is that Dune completely erases the existence of artificial intelligence in the setting. Brings the focus back to the person itself and breaks through the science fiction tradition that "at its core is technology, characters, and plots at its service." Coupled with the literary, social and humanistic spirit injected by Herbert, "Dune" finally broke through the limitations of science fiction and became a must-read classic in the history of literature.
After several failed adaptations, on October 22, 2021, "Dune", jointly created by Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros., finally came out in China. Directed by Dennis Villeneuve, director of "Arrival" and "Blade Runner 2049", the "Dune" movie has received rave reviews since its release, and audiences have urged: When will Dune 2 come? On October 27, the good news came, "Dune 2" officially lit up the green light, scheduled for October 20, 2023 North American release.
The success of this adaptation is inseparable from director Dennis Villeneuve's unique understanding of the Dune novel. He believes that the difficulty of Dune is so difficult to "be difficult" has something to do with the greatness of the original novel. Speaking about the original, he said bluntly: "The original novel of Dune is called the greatest science fiction novel of all time, and I am deeply fascinated by it. The opportunity to direct this film, based on the famous novel Dune, was one of the most dreamy things of my life. ”
The film can almost be said to have exploded in China, which is inseparable from the reader base that "Dune" has in China.
In 2017, "Dune" was introduced to China by readers, and once it was introduced, it set off a "Dune" fever and became the annual science fiction novel of the year, and almost every "must read for a lifetime" book list has it. Another reader said that "after reading the novel for several days, my mind is full of magnificent dune worlds."
"Dune" is very popular with Chinese readers, from science fiction writers Liu Cixin and Chen Yufan, to science fiction research scholar Yan Feng and science fiction enthusiast Cai Kangyong, all of whom recommend this science fiction epic. From the stable best-selling of this work in China, it is not difficult to see the admiration of popular readers for it.
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, it also triggered an unprecedented discussion, and many fans spontaneously guided the fans who "stepped into the dune world for the first time", explaining the setting in the book and the Easter eggs buried in the film. For a time, the "dune" fever was set off again in the film and television literary and art circles, in addition to the film and the original work itself, the discussion even extended to science fiction literature, space opera, philosophical metaphors and other aspects, forming a benign atmosphere of artistic discussion.
The huge fan base of the original work empowers the release of the movie, so that the film will quickly detonate the market after its release. At the same time, the release of the film also brought about the re-bestselling of the original novel. According to the editor of Reader Culture, after the release of this movie, Reader Culture actively organized old book fans to watch the movie and participate in the discussion, releasing what needs to know before watching the movie, Easter eggs after watching the movie, etc. to guide new audiences to have a better understanding and grasp of the spirit of the original work and the next direction of the movie. After the release of the movie, the reader version of "Dune" has been snapped up and sold out on all major platforms on the internet. The publisher also said that it is a pleasure to have more readers walk into this fascinating dune world and get an unparalleled shocking experience brought by Frank Herbert.
Many "must-read books of a lifetime" have "Dune" on their lists.
Dune is the masterpiece of science fiction writer Frank Herbert. Since its publication in 1965, it has quickly swept the world's top 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. In the decades since, Dune has won almost all the awards for science fiction, including but not limited to the first Nebula Award for Best Novel, the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the 100 Books of a Lifetime Book E-commerce "Must Read" in the United States, the BBC "100 Books Loved by the British People", the National Public Radio "Science Fiction and Fantasy TOP100", and the first place in the "Excellent Science Fiction Novel of the 20th Century" by Locus magazine...
Once published, Dune received rave reviews, was introduced and published by various countries, and has been popular around the world for more than half a century, selling far more than 12 million copies. The Chicago Tribune called Dune "a milestone in the history of science fiction." Many readers even regard "Dune" as the "science fiction bible" in their minds, saying that they are still intoxicated by repeated re-readings. Avid "Dune" fans even make their own "sandworm" sleeping bags, "Dune" theme cakes and other peripherals to express their love for "Dune".
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 an unparalleled 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 each object has its own origins and heritages, intertwined to form a world of its own.
In order to make the dune world more credible, Herbert also wrote many appendices: a manual covering the geography, flora and fauna of the dunes, and meteorology, the rigor of which was praised by the academic community; and a timeline of tens of thousands of years of human history, which was so real that it was frightening; Herbert even compiled a seven-hundred-page encyclopedia to explain everything in the dune world...
Today, Dune has become a cultural phenomenon that has swept the world: it has been remade countless times into film and television works; it has spawned classic science fiction movies such as Star Wars, Avatar, aliens, etc., such as the classic lightsaber fight in Star Wars, which is a reference to it; its derivative 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".
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