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My name's Vie, and I'm sort of an art student, semi pro painter, and sort of equestrian. Professional giver-upper

[stevebucky-deactivated20221119]

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[krokonoko]

friends I am absolutely obsessed with the way Arrakis is introduced in the different adaptions of Dune. up until now, they all started out with Princess Irulan going “okay so here is this super hostile desert planet, it’s where we harvest Spice which gives us ALL the money. also my dad has the power to decide who governs it, everyone’s fighting over it, and whoever wins is gonna get super rich! :DDD”

1984:

2000:

I’m p sure it’s not even intentional, but what a perfect illustration of whose point of view the movie makers automatically defaulted to. what a perfect distillation of an imperialist outside perspective that sees the planet as desolate, dangerous, a resource to be fought over and harvested.

and then the 2021 movie just straight up overhead kicks that shit into the trash can.

we are not seeing Arrakis from outer space, as an outside observer would.  we are not othered from it like we are in the other adaptions. we are right there, on its surface. and the movie opens with Chani narrating: “my home is beautiful.”

you’d think it’s just a small, insignificant change, but the difference in framing. the awareness. the fact that Arrakis gets introduced to us not as a dangerous material resource, but a beautiful home…! that shit is meaningful.

for so long this story about imperialism has been told by people who barely seemed to grasp the concept of structural critique at all. (I don’t think I have ever seen anyone miss the point as spectacularly as the guys who sat down and thought “Hey, let’s make a Dune RTS!”

“join one of three houses, whoever harvests the most Spice wins! :DDD” … just. incredible 🤣)

and I could go into more detail about how the other adaptions have a tendency to depict the Fremen as proud but primitive desert creatures and passive onlookers in their own subjugation, while the 2021 version makes it clear right off the bat that these are independent, capable human beings very well aware of their complex situation.

but I’m gonna stop ranting now cuz this was just supposed to be a quick lil meta on how the first couple lines change the entire meaning of everything, and how 2021 Dune displays a very welcome new awareness on the filmmakers’ part that has been sorely missing from previous adaptions.

[littlestpersimmon]

Thinking about digital ghosts. The queue of a dead person's blog still running. Apps and games posting on someone's Twitter and Facebook. People's old reddit posts. Long gone folk captured on Google maps. Accounts like houses, waiting for someone to come home.

[felurianthae]

Painting my girl Jo

[felurianthae]

Just realized that a large chunk of my current music can be traced directly/indirectly back to 1 (one) James t Kirk inspired playlist I listened to religiously for a month in 2011

[felurianthae]

i Am living in a timeline where I need to get a vaccine to go see Dune (2021)

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[hotgirlsasuke-deactivated202011]

what is your cishet male trait mine is being a car fan

[grandmacottage]

set of flower painting bookmarks

[felurianthae]

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[medusaceratops-deactivated20210]

i’ll say it til the cows come home but as undeniably strange as the star wars prequels are, george lucas’ direction with anakin was downright fucking inspired. people were waiting for whatever badass backstory lucas was sure to give them, awaiting a naturally intimidating actor with rogueish charm to be cast, waiting for this masterpiece of badass villainy or whatever, and george lucas is like no, no, i’ve got you. and then he finds the one man on the planet who looked babier than baby mark hamill and says, “his main personality trait will be being weird and awkward, secondary personality trait loving his wife, tertiary personality trait being incredibly good at murder, and all of these traits will do battle on the silver screen for three movies until they all win in possibly the worst way.” that fucking rules. george lucas could’ve done anything with darth vader and he willingly, enthusiastically chose mentally unstable college student who is somehow married but his only friend is his kind-of dad. that fucking rules, top down, that’s fucking exquisite. if you don’t think that premise is inherently entertaining you’ve got no taste

[felurianthae]

I don't even go here anymore but I just logged back onto my Twitter for the first time in half a decade and found that my gift of prophecy is in fact intact

or yknow, they're just been pulling the same shit for years

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[scottandhiskind]

mlm/wlw solidarity hostility

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