I see everyone talk about Paul but can we talk about Chani and how she always gets the short end of the stick? I haven’t watched Dune pt. 2 yet but I have read the book and all this talk about the movie’s got me thinking about her again. Like poor girl can’t catch a break.
[Dune series spoilers beyond this point]
She literally falls in love with the wrong guy (who actually is a colonizer on her planet) and then her family dies (and Paul almost does), and then her first son is killed as an infant, she marries into a crazy family and gets a super weird crazy sister in law and now is involved in space politics, her people end up going on killing spree in the name of her husband, and then she ends up having to SHARE said husband for political reasons and she has to accept being just a concubine, and then the “actual” wife of her husband gives her contraceptives in secret so she can’t bear a child, and when she finally is able to give birth she she dies, and then later one of her kids ends up becoming an immortal prescient sand worm space dictator while her husband goes blind and disappears into the desert-
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“I see us giving love to each other in a time of quiet between storms. It's what we were meant to do.”
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I'm so confused. Did anyone else see a sex scene in Dune part 2? I saw people on Twitter talking about how we were robbed of it... but I when I saw the film Paul and Chani definitely had a sex scene?!?!?!
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a Star Wars x Dune Crossover
Paul meets Anakin. They race through the desert; Anakin with a droid and Paul on a worm
can you IMAGINE the Bene Gesserit meeting the Jedi? "hmm... the force is strong with this one." [tries to recruit Obi-Wan to the breeding program] Obi-Wan doesn't know what to say, and Mace Windu is wryly amused
but OH HOW THE TURN TABLES! Soon Mace Windu is the slightly alarmed one after they see him duel
Chani and Padme can bond over dying in childbirth for Extremely Important Twins!
House Harkonnen will ally with the Sith
The Baron and Palpatine are both ugly old farts who can exchange manipulation tactics and gossip about Feyd-Rautha and Darth Maul while said sociopaths fight to the death enjoy a nice play date
The Fremen learn how to use the Force
Chaos abounds; Irulan chronicles it
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Replace GF with BF and you have Lawrence of Arabia.
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“What do you see?" he demanded.
"I see us giving love to each other in a time of quiet between storms. It's what we were meant to do."
📸 by Jack Davison and Greg Fraiser
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Let’s not shame movie fans.
A rant
I’ve been seeing lots of new fans of Dune watching the movies for the first time, and talking about the twists or honestly just how much they enjoyed the movie, or like “wow I didn’t expect xyz to happen!”. And then the comment section will be like “*sigh* how did you not see that coming, the book’s been out since 1965. You must be stupid, pick up a book you idiot” and things similar to that. (Tbh I’ve seen this more on twt and tik tok than here but I’m too scared to rant about it there rn so).
As someone who read the books BEFORE both movies were out, how about instead of *shaming* people who haven’t read the books yet, we *encourage* people to read them? I understand taking book fans “more seriously” and joking about movie fans (that isn’t unique to the Dune fandom at all and has been happening for years) but some of these comments are actually so mean about it. How about instead of commenting “book’s been out since 1965” (especially to young people. Like I read it back in 2018 when I was a teen, sorry I wasn’t a fan pre-conception when the book was first released 🤪) we say “If you like the movie, the book is ever better! You should read it!”.
I know that Dune has always been revered in the sci fi world. I think us sci-fi fans forget though that Dune pre-new movies was still a relatively niche thing in terms of mainstream recognition (especially in comparison to Star Wars or Star Trek and things like that). I’m also sure that there are movies that YOU claim to like that you haven’t read the books for until the movies too (if you read the book at all). Howl’s Moving Castle, Goodfellas, Jaws, Schindler’s List, etc are all movies that were actually based on books that I’m sure people claim to be fans of despite not being an “og fan of the books” or even having read the source material ever.
Again, it’s fine to pressure people to read the book like every fandom does! But we don’t have to be a jerk about it or shame people for “discovering Dune for the first time”. Let’s get more people reading Dune!
I have lots of other thoughts about the Dune fandom that I’ve been holding in for a looooong time that are bubbling up again because of the pt. 2 release but I’ll save that for another time -
Rant over.
TLDR;
New fans: READ DUNE
Old fans: Let’s actually encourage reading :)
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