LazBro
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Post by LazBro on Mar 11, 2024 7:54:04 GMT -5
I finally watched Dunc: Part One (2021). I read the first book once as a teenager and again last year. I have not read the other books. I have not seen the Lynch adaptation. And the Test for Humanity scene, while certainly here, wasn't staged to my liking, and having Jessica recite the Litany Against Fear instead of Paul was lame. Especially said so quickly and under her breath (a problem with other key lines in the film as well.)
Elsewhere on this forum there was discussion about the pronunciation of names. Arrakis. Harkonnen. Mine is Gesserit. What the hell is "jezzerit?" It's very obviously meant to be a hard G.
The litany thing bugged me, even though I liked the rest of the movie well enough. It's so central to the novel, and at least the first trilogy. I'm 99.44% sure that it's jezzerit, or at the least jess-ur-it. That's how I've heard it almost everywhere else. Supposed to evoke the Jesuits. (ETA: According to Brian Herbert, among other sources: His Irish Catholic maternal aunts, who attempted to force religion on him, became the models for the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood of Dune. It is no accident that the pronunciations of ‘Gesserit’ and ‘Jesuit’ are similar, as he envisioned his maternal aunts and the Bene Gesserit of Dune as female Jesuits.)Here's Frank Herbert pronouncing it himself. It's like the 'G' in 'gif'. Well, that just makes the completely real passage from the book that I copy/pasted above all the more confusing.
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Post by Celebith on Mar 11, 2024 9:03:07 GMT -5
Well, that just makes the completely real passage from the book that I copy/pasted above all the more confusing. That was obviously a passage from DOON
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Post by ganews on Mar 11, 2024 19:21:13 GMT -5
There is a bit in the book where a Bene Gesserit is going to investigate Feyd Rautha, with the knowledge of her husband. She is clearly going to sleep with him. I thought it was odd that an invented aftermath to that sequence was put in the movie. Turns out that Brian Herbert, no-talent son of Frank Herbert and producer here, based one of his shitty spin-off books on that.
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