Dune
Lord of the Sands. One Shai-Hulud to rule them all, one Lisan al-Gaib to bind them.
Paul’s prophecies are all inverted: everything he foresees happens the other way around:
- She sees Chani befriend then betray him, it’s the opposite: she is about to kill him and then befriends him.
- She sees the other Fremen as the mentor that kill him, it’s the opposite: the Fremen distrusts him from the start and Paul is the one to kill him.
- He also foresees his sibling and a holy war fought in his name: we will see how these go.
The contrast between the houses is lead to extremes: Atreides live in communion with Nature, in an Arcadian garden, but their ancestor is an ersatz Hemingway, a bullfighter. Harkkonen’s homeworld is a planetary city, filled with industry and pollution.
Leto is very active, always walks around, or drives his own ornithopter. He never partakes in any pleasure, save for the company of his concubine. Meanwhile, the Baron floats and people come to him with proposals or news. He stuffs him face with food, or relaxes in hot baths, glaring at that “thing”, some kind of human-spider hybrid kept as a pet.
This is my place for ramblings about sequences of images that exploit the human visual limitation know as persistence of vision.