Enjoyed the podcast and the insights presented about the director. On one of these sultry, desert-like nights I need to nest-in for a rewatch of both Dune movies.
What are your thoughts of the lack of emphasis on the spice guild (perhaps the Davos-crowd equivalent) in Herbert v. Villeneuve world?
As a new subscriber, I was enthralled by your observations on Dulles airport. (I retired in 2008 with extreme prejudice, from UA in Virginia. I've lived and worked near D.C. for over 40 years, and nothing gave me greater pleasure and pain than the airline industry, its reckless march from hopeful to hopeless.)
From your post observations on Dulles...
"it’s a job of work to prevent the silent contempt one feels for this malfunctioning industry to turn into self-contempt. If someone fixed the misery that is air traveling, he would do Americans the great favor of restoring to them a measure of self-respect."
Thanks for the kind words--glad to know you liked those observations.
As to the Dune story, you're exactly right, everything to do with commerce was simply cut out of the story, presumably because neither idealistic young men nor the elite media liberals like to hear about it much. Thats part of the strange idea Villeneuve conceived: Revivify Herbert's anti-heroism, but strip it of any commercial rationality.
And in turn, does the director dismiss capitalism as a form of political control?
That does, in my observation of historical events, minimize a real 'character.' As you and your guest observed, this emphasizes a binary approach to the tale.
Enjoyed the podcast and the insights presented about the director. On one of these sultry, desert-like nights I need to nest-in for a rewatch of both Dune movies.
What are your thoughts of the lack of emphasis on the spice guild (perhaps the Davos-crowd equivalent) in Herbert v. Villeneuve world?
As a new subscriber, I was enthralled by your observations on Dulles airport. (I retired in 2008 with extreme prejudice, from UA in Virginia. I've lived and worked near D.C. for over 40 years, and nothing gave me greater pleasure and pain than the airline industry, its reckless march from hopeful to hopeless.)
From your post observations on Dulles...
"it’s a job of work to prevent the silent contempt one feels for this malfunctioning industry to turn into self-contempt. If someone fixed the misery that is air traveling, he would do Americans the great favor of restoring to them a measure of self-respect."
Respectfully, BOR
Thanks for the kind words--glad to know you liked those observations.
As to the Dune story, you're exactly right, everything to do with commerce was simply cut out of the story, presumably because neither idealistic young men nor the elite media liberals like to hear about it much. Thats part of the strange idea Villeneuve conceived: Revivify Herbert's anti-heroism, but strip it of any commercial rationality.
And in turn, does the director dismiss capitalism as a form of political control?
That does, in my observation of historical events, minimize a real 'character.' As you and your guest observed, this emphasizes a binary approach to the tale.