>>5419853>>5419928I have to agree with you!
Villeneuve at first was interesting with Sicario and Arrival; I think Sicario is maybe his best film. I was infuriated with what he did to Blade Runner (I have a feeling Harrison Ford's acting presence is now cursed to retire his replicant self by killing any nostalgia the audience possessed for any of his original iconic role depictions - Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Blade Runner noooo). I did like the Dune ornithopter Iraq thing, but it was the wrong aesthetic choice I think. The costumes for Lady Jessica were not as inspiring as the 1984 look, which I think created the whole Wh40k Rogue Trader Elizabethan space aesthetic.
I have never read Dune (as you can tell from my quest, I read Asimov snd Foundation instead)
But I know of this: here is a 4chan tier transcript directly recorded from the words of Frank Herbert the author himself where he explains the unusual philosophical inspiration behind his books.
Dune is essentially about... an orgasm. Seriously. Think about the giant phallus worms and er... Oedipus mother Lady Jessica.
One of Frank Herbert's many obscure inspirations was the book "The Sexual Cycle of Human Warfare" by N.I.M. Walter which argues that war is a civilisational-level collective orgasm.
http://www.sinanvural.com/seksek/inien/tvd/tvd2.htmFH: But at this point he becomes that…that impossible thing, that non-existent thing, the absolute evil.
WM: Yes.
FH: You see, and so we turn the whole thing whirling backward through the story. There was another thing there, in the pacing of the story, very slow at the beginning. It’s a coital rhythm all the way through the story.
WM: It’s a what?
FH: Coital rhythm.
WM: OK.