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raminasi
Jan 25, 2005

a last drink with no ice

PeterWeller posted:

There's the old chestnut about how you can't make an anti-war film because depicting war will be inevitably read by some of your audience as glorifying war. Dune gets around this problem by just not depicting the war it is condemning.

But there’s a problem with not portraying it too: It’s easier to just kind of ignore it if you’re inclined to do so. At the end of the day, Paul still Lawrence of Arabias some oppressed cool elite warrior people to kick the rear end of the Unquestionably Bad Guys. The book tries really had to attach “but this ends up bad!” to this story, but it can only really do so in interludes that are told, not shown. The bones of the plot aren’t really subversive.

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