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Oct 28, 2021 · Melange, or ‘spice,’ the drug everyone is obsessed with in the new sci-fi epic Dune, was inspired by magic mushrooms. Frank Herbert, the author of the original 1965 Dune novel, had a personal affinity for psilocybin (a naturally occurring psychedelic compound produced by several fungi), and that was the secret behind one of the most significant aspects of the movie’s plot: the naturally ...
Mar 1, 2024 · And if Dune’s first publication in 1965 meant it was a few years too early for the psychedelia of the late 1960s, it certainly chimed with a new spirit of self-exploration and spiritual ...
Mar 16, 2022 · By adding that resonance to the movie’s psychedelic soundtrack, it created a tangible sensory experience that, in one instance, had another surprising sense added in.
- What Is ‘Dune’ About, Anyway?
- Meet The Main Players
- What's with The Weird Nose Tubes and Blue eyes?
- What’s This About Sandworms?
The set-up for “Dune” is a good old-fashioned power struggle. The tale is set on Arrakis, an unforgiving desert planet hostile to life. This inhospitable wasteland shouldn’t be worth the trouble it takes to survive it except that it produces spice, or melange, an addictive drug that produces heightened awareness and extends life. A commodity as val...
Duke Leto Atreides (played in the movie by Oscar Isaac):House Atreides is headed by Duke Leto, a relatively benevolent ruler who at the start of “Dune” is given control of Arrakis. He senses his assignment is a trap, but he has no way of rejecting it. Arrakis, he will soon discover, is an especially inhospitable place to men with good intentions. L...
The Fremenare a hardy people who’ve adapted to survive Arrakis' harsh desert environment. They’ve inhabited the planet for thousands of years and are essentially natives, and are regarded by the moneyed elite as savages. Much of their culture revolves around the conservation and use of water, the planet’s most precious resource. To survive the envi...
Remember the monsters from “Tremors”? They’re like that, but bigger. Much bigger. These murderous beasts are essential to the production of spice, respond to vibrations in the sand and bare fearsome crystalline teeth the Fremen fashion into weapons. Why wouldn’t you want to read a book with sandworms in it?
The opening title calls it “Dune Part 1” and while this two-and-a-half hour movie provides a bonafide epic experience, it’s not coy about connoting that there’s more to the story. Herbert’s own vision corresponds to Villeneuve’s own storytelling affinities to the extent that he apparently did not feel compelled to graft his own ...
Sep 3, 2021 · Novelist Herbert famously influenced George Lucas when Dune was published as a book in 1965, but the first good adaptation of his psychedelic (and frequently opaque) musings now comes to cinemas ...
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Nov 5, 2021 · Dune has already felled two great visionaries: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s psychedelic vision collapsed in on itself, while David Lynch’s typically absurdist take was reviled by critics.
