Dune – The Complete Timeline Explained | Dune Lore

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WARNING – VIDEO CONTAINS SPOILERS. DUNE AND EXPANDED DUNE ARE TAKEN AS SOURCE MATERIAL

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Learn the Complete History of Frank Herbert’s Dune Universe and Brian Herbert’s Expanded Dune divided into 5 sweeping epochs.

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Time Stamps:
0:00 – Intro
1:28 – Rise of the Old Empire and Thinking Machines
12:37 – Road to Jihad
23:06 – The Corrino Empire
31:30 – The Atreides Empire
40:50 – The Scattering and Krazilec
46:57 – Outro

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  3. So according to this, there was never a problem as such with the machines, other than the stagnation of human society.
    It was the 20 titans, people, that turned them into an existential threat to humanity.

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  14. For those that might’ve missed it. Dune is all about women.
    Women are the grand, all-powerful, scheming players and men are just the pawns.
    Men are either obstacles, or purely blunt instruments to women’s plans ( within plans ).

    The entire story revolves around one ‘Bene Gesserit’ – ‘the nuns of the future’,
    trying to ‘one up’ on her ( mother superior ) boss.
    She finally and successfully replaces all of her bosses pawns with her own.
    That’s the entire arc of the story.

    Men and their petty aims ( which were already placed in their minds by nuns anyway )
    are just background furniture to all of this. “The sound and the fury – signifying nothing”

    Even the central male protagonist has to transcend his male limits and become a ‘’woman’.
    He has to become a ‘nun’ in order to be able to see the long-game and conquer,
    every other puny male he meets. Talented before, but once he becomes a woman,
    he’s suddenly god-like. This is the entire subplot of Dune.

    Once you gather this… you’re forced to look at the female 'love interest' character,
    the 'Villeneuve/Herbert collaboration' have given this trans-female protagonist.
    Is she the only female character not blessed with the vision and aptitude,
    for the long-game… yes, of course she is.

    As all of the other women are cool and calculating… did ‘they’ make her,
    consistently caught up the present moment, whiny and bad tempered,
    always the moody one… yes, of course they did.

    Luckily for previous moviegoers to this ( Lynch’s 1984 version ) epic.
    This character ( Chani ) was down played.
    They let the “Cassandra” element just lilt away.
    Not allowing her to be a diversion to the main action…
    ‘a boy’s journey to becoming a hero (nun) and finding his true purpose ( puppet of other nuns )’.
    ( With a bit of Freudian ‘self-doubt’ psychoanalysis thrown in )

    With Villeneuve’s expert knowledge of the source material… he decided,
    to go ‘full moody’. Zendaya plays ‘anxiously temperamental’ to perfection.
    She pulls pouting face, upon pouting face, without a need to even pause.
    There’s a “I told you so” in her every frown, “you’re not a nun” in her every glance.

    This somehow downplays or spoils the enormity of the films exposition.
    It becomes a spat between two kids and the epic elements,
    are brought clunking to their knees. Because the grander narrative isn’t about them.
    For all of their infighting…you know one of the nuns is always going to be the ultimate winner.

    The films nods to religious propaganda and Machiavellian moves,
    by grown women… is competing against a young women’s constant pouty face.
    It is jarringly obvious that whilst the hero fancied pouty face… the right move,
    was always to marry the princess. *Who just happens to also be a space-nun.
    So it’s a win-win for the space-nuns all round. Go space nuns!

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