House Harkonnen led by Baron Vladmir has controlled the ‘ Spice Desert’ for 80 years and the movie starts with the royal decree to transfer the control to Duke Leto, the leader of House Atreides. ‘ Spice Melange’ or ‘ the Spice’, a substance found only on Arrakis, fuels space travel and lengthens human life making it the most valuable substance in the galaxy, and the currency of power in the world of Dune. The stage is set for a power struggle between House Atreides and House Harkonnen, engineered by the Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV and the Bene Gesserit (a powerful pseudo-religious cult that’s influenced the course of human history for centuries) to weaken the two strongest houses in the empire and eliminate any threats to the emperor’s rule. Nothing like the future of humanity envisioned in the Star Treks and Star Wars of the world! The known universe is ruled by a feudal aristocratic empire, where planets are divided among noble houses. Considered seminal to science fiction, Frank Herbert’s Dune was published in 1965 and is the story of Paul Atreides, the heir to the noble House Atreides surviving political machinations and the destruction of his House on the inhospitable desert planet Arrakis.ĭune is set in a future far, far away where humans have built a society devoid of artificial intelligence – no computers, no phones, no robots. You can see what makes Dune an Oscar contender – a story that’s been nearly impossible to translate to screen, the technical prowess of the movie from Hans Zimmer’s inimitable music to Director and Writer Denis Villeneuve’s vision for the saga. Sahil’s tl dr Come for the science fiction, stay for the spectacle.
And more so if you go in expecting half the story, for the time of one! Paul Atreides of House Atreides, Dune 2021įair warning – spoilers ahead! If you’ve not seen Dune, bookmark this page, watch the movie and come back to finish your read.Īdi’s tl dr Dune’s a spectacle, one that gets better on the second watch.
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