{"id":978,"date":"2010-04-18T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T23:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2010\/04\/the-persistence-of-frank-herberts-dune.html"},"modified":"2010-04-18T16:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T23:43:00","slug":"the-persistence-of-frank-herberts-dune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2010\/04\/the-persistence-of-frank-herberts-dune.html","title":{"rendered":"The Persistence of Frank Herbert’s "Dune""},"content":{"rendered":"
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THE novel Dune<\/i>, started out about as unpromisingly as a novel can — published after many rejections, on a press specializing in auto manuals. But spoke to its own time as well as to ours, and it’s still the best-selling sf novel ever.<\/p>\n

HERE<\/a> is my LA Times story on the novel and its legacy in literature, ideas and film.<\/p>\n

There are of course all kinds of connections between Dune<\/i> with Star Wars<\/i> and Avatar<\/i>. (See “white man saves the world” subgenre.)<\/p>\n

One thing I ran out of room for, in my story, was my conversation with Kevin Misher, one of the two producers of the upcoming film adaptation.<\/p>\n

“David Lynch made a good David Lynch movie,” he told me. “I didn’t feel like it reflected my experience with the book Dune.”<\/p>\n

“I think The Lord of the Rings<\/i> opened up the possibility of what you can do with classic themes and a classic work. What Peter Jackson showed is that faithful doesn’t mean slavish.”<\/p>\n

On Frank Herbert: “Was was very prescient, and created a science-fiction parable: His future was our present. It was an extremely entertaining adventure that comments on our world today. The human story at the core of Dune — the emotional story of a family trying to survive– is what’s helped it stay atop the sf charts for 45 years.”<\/p>\n

More on Dune<\/i>‘s film adaptation on future posts of The Misread City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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