something from nothing
* My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. "Something cannot emerge from nothing," he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable "the truth" can be.
o from Conversations with Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan

I love the story of Dune and I think Frank Herbert is awesome

the timeline for the various attempts at taking Dune from book to the screen

So this Bad Motherfucker had this totally inspired idea for a movie of Dune: read about it

the Dune you will never see

more about Jodorowsky, seriously this guy is awesome

So now someone else is going to try another Dune movie
check it out

Jodorowsky's Dune sounds both totally amazing and totally stupid. I'm in awe of his vision and drive, but dont wonder why hollywood pulled the plug on him. However I dont think its at all exagerating to call his failed production of dune as a critical influence on; Alien, Blade Runner, Star Wars, Conan the Barbarian, and Pink Floyds Dark side of the Moon.

The actual Dune film that was made I do consider to be a blasphemous failure, and I'm very dissapointed with the sci-fi version, basically because no one wants to make the Dune what it is really supposed to be; a kung fu movie

People forget that the whole plot of the book is essentially this:
-the Emperor of the known universe is threatened by the growing power of the Atredies family. -The power fo the Atredies family is in the military aptitude of the Duke Leto, and the martial arts prowess oftwo masters, Duncan Idaho and Gurney Halleck.
-The Emperor Maintains his power with his Elite troups, the Sardaukar. To Eliminate the potential threat to his own authority from the Atredies he "awards" them control over arrakis, but its a trap, because the planet had been controlled by their long-time rivals the Harkonnens, who have a right to seek revenge via assasination.
-The Emperor then uses the cover story of Harkonnen revenge to hide his own Sardaukar troops among the Harkonnen forces and take out the Atredies in a suprise attack.

so basically the Atredies kung fu was almost as strong as the emperors, so he took out a potential rival making it look like the harkonnens did it seeking revenge.

In fact the whole Plot ofthe emperors backfires on him, because it drives the young son of the fallen duke, Paul Atredies, and his mother Jessica, who are both masters of the "weirding way", the Elite fighting style blended from Both the martial arts of Atredies Family and the Benne Geserit monastic order, to join the nomad society of dessert-dwelling Fremen and teach it to them.

This enables Paul to lead them the newly trained army to overthrow the Emperor in an apocalyptic final battle, which culminates in a duel between Paul Atredies and the Harkonnen Price Feud Ratha, who is a reknowned knife fighter himself.

So with all this talk of how the Spice is a metaphor for oil, no one ever mentions that the real resource war in this story is over martial arts knowledge.

There are many other fascinating plots and ideas presented in Dune,but all of them are built around a story that is fundamentally about who has the superior fighting style and military culture, or as we say, "kung fu life".

and every attempt to present the story cinematicaly thus far has failed gruesomely because think either
a) people dont have enough kung fu to recognize this or
b) people just dont want to tell this tale, as in the case of David Lynch, who personally dismissed the whole question of the martial arts story in favor of the "weirding module" idea, which was fucking lame.

I just console myself with the knowledge that Jodorowsky's divinely inspired failure brought about a revolution in sci-fi movies that produced so many other brilliant bastard children.