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God the Dune discourse is going to be a nightmare. The first book is a pretty standard white savior thing and then there are like 50 other books about how perhaps that was a bad idea, but everybody always wants to just adapt the first one!
Like surprise, the Bene Gesserit eugenics program is bad, actually. Hope you're willing to make 10 movies to get the point across, though!!
Yeah that seems possible, I just think the optics of the movie (which is all most people are gonna see) are gonna be real grist for the thinkpiece mill. https://twitter.com/CGettermann/status/1250092763481333762
Like I am glad they cast the Fremen diversely! Zendaya as Chani is brilliant casting. I just feel like we are gonna have some Mhysa Moments.
I mean they have cast the Atreides household somewhat diversely as well, I think to head that off. But you can't really escape the core conceit that the Fremen are Bedouins and Paul is a European who becomes the Mahdi. https://twitter.com/keeltyc/status/1250093771611652096
There are just a whole bunch of sequels that go into why anyone, but particularly an outsider, becoming the Mahdi is maybe not ideal.
I will say Oscar Isaac playing Timothee Chalamet's father in a series that is specifically obsessed with DNA inheritance is kind of hysterical. Like where did THAT go? Lady Jessica has those Bene Gesserit genes on LOCK.
A friend who doesn’t know the story asked me if Paul was adopted and I was like wow no he is extremely not adopted, that’s pretty central to the plot.
I find them (including the first one) to be conceptually fascinating but honestly very dry reads. I’d rather watch adaptations. But that’s just me personally! https://twitter.com/jekwrites/status/1250098701802102784?s=21 https://twitter.com/jekwrites/status/1250098701802102784
