The fiction book that we have asked you to read is Dune, a masterpiece of the Science Fiction genre, by Frank Herbert. He uses all of the aspects and characteristics of the genre in order to post great questions about society, life, ecology and religion. This book was so popular that it influenced David Lynch, a famous director, to create a screen version of the movie in 1984. This movies is important in that it allows the message of the novel (if it's handled correctly) to reach a wider audience. In fact, if you look below, you will see a six part interview from YouTub called "Dune: an Interview with Frank Herbert and David Lynch". You will hear the author talk about his motivation and the themes of the novel, and the director talks about the challenges of making this book vinto a movie. After you've read the book, we challenge you to watch the YouTube video interview and the 1984 movie of Dune. A word of warning, this movie is an adaptation, it will not follow the novel exactly. After you've read the book and watched the YouTube interviews and the movie, answer the following questions for you blog assignment. 1. Does listening to the interviews with the author help you in understanding the book or enhance your reading experience of the novel? 2. How close does this movie adaptation come to the novel? 3. Did the director take out vital information or just the fluff of the novel? 4. Was the director true to the message of the movie? If you answer no, why do you think he deviated from the main themes of the movie? 5. If you answered yes to question number 3, how did the director manage to get the themes across successfully?
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Luca Tomescu
6/21/2015 03:07:43 am
1. Does listening to the interviews with the author help you in understanding the book or enhance your reading experience of the novel?
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Luca Tomescu
6/21/2015 03:13:00 am
Apparently Weebly didn't publish the end of my post... So here it is:
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Marina Zafiris
8/18/2015 11:50:40 am
I saw many relations between conflicts in Dune and issues that are prevalent to society in that time period and now. The one that stuck me since the beginning was Herbert's clear understanding of the importance of female roles despite the over-looming patriarchy of the Duniverse. It’s painfully ironic that among even the fiercely independent Fremen (or should I say free MEN) women are still treated as subservient. Dune was publish in 1965, a time in America when the feminist movement was on the rise, in contrast to its earlier decade, a high time for the 50’s housewife. Herbert makes it a point illustrate the disgusting nature of an oppressive society that objectifies women.
Smrithi Ramachandran
6/21/2015 03:36:21 am
1. In the interviews, Herbert reveals his intentions behind the book, which definitely helps in understanding his intentions. Initially, I thought of Dune as this far-off planet in a realm of science fiction thousands of years from now with strange human-like creates inhabiting the place. The interview kind of reshaped my idea of Dune - the planet is a metaphor for reformation. Considering that the book was written in the 60s, there's a whole nonviolence vs. violence idea, portrayed by the Fremen and Harkonnens, respectively. Herbert wanted to create a type of wilderness planet to recreate human nature and reform society. If reform is not pursued, humanity's same vices will still dominate the universe years from now. Pretty interesting take on it, and definitely different from what I first thought of.
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Smrithi Ramachandran
6/21/2015 03:40:44 am
existence of the same philosophy in the future. On the other hand, the movie did not highlight Paul’s transitions from boyhood to God’s messenger, which was another downfall to the movie.
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Thomas Ledford
7/26/2015 10:40:01 am
1. Does listening to the interviews with the author help you in understanding the book or enhance your reading experience of the novel?
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Thomas Ledford
8/26/2015 11:22:54 am
Just have a question for anybody who wants to answer it:
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