DUNE



"Yesterday night, I watched Dune at last. I owed an oath to my friend that I would only see the movie after I completed the book. But, unfinishingness became a habit for me from a long time, so in the same way, I did not complete the book. It's been two years, and I did not read the book. The only reason was I did not want Denis Villeneuve's visuals and rhythm to influence my visual.


But I did not complete it. I only saw the posters, and every time I watched the Dune 2 trailer in the Prasads, I closed my eyes. I thought I would complete the book, but did not complete it. Dune Part 1 re-released in the theaters, I realized I will not complete the book and decided to watch the movie.


Mallesh and Uday told me that they dozed off the entire movie. They told me that it's not worth the time. And Rahul told me that he liked the movie and told me that a lot of mixed opinions are there about Dune movie by many people.


Okay, I watched the movie. The experience was very phenomenal and an eye-opener for me about how fictional writing has evolved, how myths and stereotypes are the basis of a character in fiction, and how it shapes our real-life political behavior. How real-life society study is converted into literature. It was all written in 1965, not in 2021.


We often did not like things we can't see clearly. Patience and trying to understand and taking time to understand the real beauty help us to see the real value of somebody's lifetime work.


My efforts to write this piece are trying to tell people what I saw in the movie, what helped me to like that movie. My views are only about what I watched in the movie because I did not read the book, only a view portion of it.


First, let's talk about the literary aspect. I did not want to discuss the technical aspects of the movie and aesthetics of that film. They are only the extra canvas added to a written piece. I always believe the essence of any classic film lies internally on the paper it was written and the characters and themes the writer created.


I want to dissect the core points of the story. I believe that camera movement and the editing in a scene and music underlying it, these things influence an audience's opinion. These are some extra added garnish to every dish, to look beautifully, presentation to a customer, extra added garnish is not what makes the dish good, the dish which was made with a lot of effort and love we should look at the beautiful thing inside that garnish.


My peer group and my friends are looking at garnish of the dish and the way it was presented, and they are falling for it. A lot of times, I felt very sad for them. I am also very much in that limbo, I am trying to get out of it. People are always talking about the elevations and high moments. Every greatest literature piece has those moments, but how they are shaping in a story makes classic different apart from all the other movies. All the other movies which evoke these emotions are like dopamine hits, literally they are like drugs, they give you instant emotion which is very dangerous to human sense, they occupy your senses, slowly you lose your personal taste.


Every greatest mythological story always started with the journey of the hero, same way, Paul is our hero, we started the story with him.


A beat we all love, the story starting with the journey of a hero, from Lord of the Rings to Avatar to Bahubali every film.


The themes of Avatar were heavily influenced by Dune book as I know James Cameron studied every sci-fi book ever written, and sand worms and birds in Pandora is a beat taken from Dune, the women who show her ways to hero also from Dune, it will be showed in 2nd part.


I realized that Dune is Mahabharat to every sci-fi that came after the book.


People are waited for a leader to come and save them from their agony. See, it is also the regular beat we all like, Paul is the guy people are waiting for. He didn't know his ability, realizing his abilities is also the part of hero's journey.


The main thing was Paul's father wants to break the colonialism of the Arrakis planet and wants to join with people and work with them together, those things didn't work in real-time also, we will form a lot of enemies, supporting the underdogs and working with them, the strong people of the society didn't like you, they will taught that you're undesirable to your position, they will take the power from you, same way I take the Emperor as an authority of power who taught that the position he gave to Paul's father he was unworthy for it because he is breaking the colonial system of Arrakis, he didn't want to act directly it will be against the law, so he attacked him indirectly.


The nature and ethics of Paul's father brought down Atreides Empire, same way how Amarendra Bahubali died because of his good nature.


The mystery to every character was fantastic in Dune, there is always questions in what they want, why they are doing that, basically, people, it was not a good thing in writing characters don't know their purpose, but I told you it is a journey of a hero, we don't know what's coming forward.


My favorite dramatic situation in the movie was with the doctor and Paul's father, the doctor is the main reason for the fall of the Atreides Empire in a single night, he allowed access to the enemies, he does all these things to save his wife, and he says all these things to his king, the Leto Atreides (Paul's father), as he was in a vegetative state, at the same times he helps his king to kill the opponent but giving a poison teeth, I think no character in any movie helps the good and bad in the same scene.


Paul didn't want his position to rule in the same way like his father, but as his father says, "A great man doesn't seek to lead, he called to it and he answers."


The call for Paul is going to come now, we will see if he says yes or not.

Reality In 2024 Take the mining companies as the empire, and the Fremen as innocent people living in the hills; then, who is their Paul Muad'Dib?

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