DUNE: PART ONE (Story + Lore) EXPLAINED

what if i'm not the future of house of treaties a great man doesn't seek to lead he's called to it but if your answer is no you'll still be the only thing i ever needed you to be my son [Music] june was always going to be a big feel not only is the original text and its expanded universe created by frank herbert one of the most seminal texts in modern sci-fi but the series also has a huge legacy in cinema after cult director alexander jodorowski's psychedelic version of june went bust before it could be produced cult director david lynch gave it a shot but ended up getting crushed by studio pressure resulting in him removing his name from the final cut fortunately de niro vignette pulled out all the stops and realizing june on the scale it always deserved imbuing the film with incredible design strong castings and the mysterious air that has become the director's signature since day one the old project has been designed to be seen on the imax screen the scope on display is epic and every frame is filled with impeccable detail and beauty from the unique aircrafts particularly the balloon-like spice harvester transports reminiscent of the alien vessels and arrival to the clean incredibly detailed aesthetics in the costume and set design reflecting the modern futurism of blade runner 2047 the design of june is recognizably vulnerabilion with the muted palette of desert tans and stony grays of arrakis bold architectures and clever use of light the cinematography by the mandalorians grid freighter breathes life into herbert's universe but that doesn't mean the film is easy to understand with the original hardcover at over 400 pages and the modern version at 900 alongside the multiple follow-up books june's science fiction universe is as complex as they come hey guys what's happening niad here with film comics explained and today we're going to be exploring dinner's adaptation of frank herbert's classic and the lore from the novels to help give us a better footing on what to expect in the upcoming series of films come with me set in the year 10191 the galaxy has been split up into a variety of factions the strongest of which are the three houses atreides hakanen and korino each led by a duke who together comprised of the imperium essentially the overseeing power of the universe for the saga of jew the most important is house atreides of the planet kaladan atreides holds our protagonist paul heir to the rule of atreides currently overseen by his father duke later the first and his concubine lady jessica notably we also have duncan idaho and gurney halleck house harkenin are their long time rivals and are overseen by the callous floaty baron vladimir and his nephew glossu rabban haarkonen finally we have house carino who get the least mentioned in vineyard's film led by the emperor shidan the fourth of the imperium karina have ruled over the galaxy for over ten thousand years but jealous of his adoptive cousin duke later the first who is loved by old and seen as a charismatic and honourable man the emperor conspires with house harkenin to destroy the entire faction besides these key forces the galaxy also relies on the landsrad a governing body that represents all the great houses on land and the spacing guilds who are responsible for all trade and transportation a monopoly which has lined their pockets and turned them into an economic powerhouse obscured in the shadows of these politics are the bene jesuit a witch-like group who have been pulling the strings behind the scenes for hundreds of years through selective breeding and a power known as the voice which can bend others to their will our final faction is the fremen a free people whose home is the desert planet of varakus the fremen importantly include the elusive chinese planetologist dr leia kind and tribe leader stilgar who were key to paul's journey arrakis holds a special organic material known as the spice melange which is used for interstellar travel and extending human life making it the single most valuable resource in the galaxy meaning arrakis is being hotly contested by the houses while most imagined futures rely on computers june uniquely has none there's an elaborate backstory where humans rose up against androids banishing computers instead keeping around highly trained people called mentats essentially human computers used by the houses to make complex decisions within an instant how can the emperor take everything we've built and give it to that duke whereas a gift not a gift we joined the story after house harkening has given up their power on arrakis with house atreides being assigned as temporary rulers of the spice producing planet by the emperor but this isn't the whole story as is the case when dealing with the game of thrones with all the spice producing machinery and disrepair a tradie seems set up for failure despite this duke later takes on the task of trying to bring peace by befriending the fremen instead of exterminating them as harkening had done lato negotiates with the freeman's chieftain stilker while meeting with the somewhat shifty planetologist lee kinds at the same time his son paul is having intense visions of zendaya and the dunes to which we can all sympathize while the tradies settle in lady jessica benny jesuit herself introduces paul to the leader of the clan who gives him a deadly trial of will which he passes an act which secures lady jessica's belief that her son may be the quiz hadarak a prophesied messiah and superbean to create this ultimate being the bene jesuit had essentially conducted a secret breeding program over the centuries to preserve important bloodlines that would culminate in the quizatz hadorak a product of the program herself lady jessica had been instructed by them to bear the duke a daughter but no sons this daughter was to be wet to fade rather nephew of baron vladimir hakonen and heir to house harkonnen healing the generations old rift between the houses and their son was to be the bene justeret's long-awaited quizadz haddarach however jessica fell in love with the duke and produced for him the son he desired the sisterhood was furious at her disobedience but still somewhat intrigued by the potential in paul allow him to live while their plan was essentially to have a benedictorate controlled kuzats hadorak on the throne they'd also foreseen the dangers ahead for humanity after witnessing the goldman path an expansive prescient interpretation that revealed an optimum path through the countless threads of cause and effect to be encountered by the human race as paul is taught the value of leadership and nobility from his father and the ways of the beni jesuit from his mother the emperor uses harkinin to sage the war against house atreides while also sending his terrifying imperial specialists known as sartuka after blackmailing the atreides physician yo to turn off the shields harkin wages a surprise attack on the settlement killing the vast majority of them while taking in later for humiliation fortunately joe implants a gas-filled tooth in leto's mouth allowing him to use his last moments to breathe death at the barren despite killing everyone in the chamber and severely injuring him the baron ultimately survives this attack meanwhile paul and jessica manage to free themselves using the voice and use an emergency kit to help them survive the desert luckily duncan manages to find his way out of the slaughter and finds them in the desert before taking them to an old research station housing dr liek kinds who also reveals herself to be a fremen confronted by troops the planetologist smuggles jessica and paul to safety while duncan fights to the death before dying herself after a brief chase through a sandstorm paul and his mother managed to find the fremen deep in the desert led by stilger and channy the girl from paul's visions stilger accepts them but fellow fremen james protests against it forcing a ritual jewel with paul which he loses and so paul joins the fremen beginning his journey to becoming the quizatz havarak which is where the film ends but this is only one chapter in an expansive universe of prophecy and if you'll indulge me we're going to go over some of the major events to come in the next few thousands of years after learning the ways of the fremen paul spearheaded a highly effective campaign of guerrilla warfare against house harkin and the emperor's forces that had taken control of iraqis and would eventually conquer the two powers in harry kane with his marriage to uralan karina daughter of emperor shadam iv he successfully negotiated the end of the long-standing carino empire and his ascendancy into the position of emperor but this marriage was only in ceremony for his love was chany the daughter of planetologist liek kinds with chani paul would have three children later etradie's two the elder who was murdered by glosu rabban haarkonen gunima and lato atrade is the second who had gone to become the god emperor and rule for over 3500 years upon being crowned as the new emperor in the year 100193ag as revealed to him through his present abilities paul thrust the theology and many customs of the fremen into the empire before waging an unrelenting crusade to implement his vision of mankind's future after a bloody crusade that lasted more than 12 years sterilized whole planets and claimed billions of lives paul atreides eventually subdued all rebellion and was revered as a god the emperor's interpretation of his prescient visions necessitated that arrakis be transformed from a barren desert planet into a lush and fertile world with the exception of a small desert for the sand worm to keep producing spice melange despite his strong leadership and formidable abilities emperor paul atreides began to feel building pressure from discordant groups within the empire among the schemes of his enemies were an attack that resulted in his blindness while he could still see through prescience doubts began to surface in paul's mind regarding his interpretation of the future feeling increasingly frustrated and out of control he began to seek a way out after the birth of his children genema and later atreides ii paul became convinced he'd lost his present abilities for he did not foresee the birth of his son only his daughter believing himself to now be no more than a blind fremen paul disappeared into the desert offering himself up to shahlud as was the freman custom for the blind this was a powerful statement of humility from paul that signified the emperor's interest was for the tribe and that even he the emperor the quizet's hadarach paul who was muad deep was not above fremont law following this his son lato began to see the golden path his ability to see into the threads of causality led to him adopting a santrout skin and crafting a future in which he became a human sandworm hybrid the long-lived god emperor in this nigh indestructible physical form he would have the necessary time and power to guide the whole of humanity as a species while paul chose to turn from the horror of the intrinsic suffering involved in this path lato the second embraced this role realizing that the path was ultimately required for humanity's long-term survival for 3500 years he used totalitarian ultimate theocratic tyranny including breeding programs and other genetic manipulation to enforce domestic tranquility the intention of the path was always to enlighten and mature humanity beyond its worst tendencies towards stagnation on one end and total chaos on the other it had to be able to eventually govern itself and overcome its jingoistic propensities in order to gain from the chaos avoid stagnation learn survive as well as harness new awareness throughout the millennia of continued revelation that would follow his inevitable death in the end this saw humanity explode across the universe and learn knowledge and technology never before encountered in the old imperium denis villeneuve has a grasp on character-driven narratives small in scope or large in scope thanks to frank herbert here's a story that's on that scale but with characters and relationships and stories i found i need to be one of the best collaborators i've ever worked with because we immediately started talking about the book he was always incredibly open to exploring it further from being influenced by reality to influencing all corners of modern sci-fi june is an amazing series and de nivo nerve has done an incredible job to bring this rich text to life as this exists there's only part one in a proposed trilogy and as we've discussed there is so much more to come this could be the beginning of an amazing cinematic universe well that's all for today folks if you enjoyed the video don't forget to hit like and subscribe to stay up to date on all my content and uh yeah if you have any other suggestions feel free to leave them in the comments below as always it's been a pleasure niath here with film comics explained thanks for stopping by every time i had a question or a doubt i always went back to the book even as i was shooting even when i was editing as an aunt as zimmer was doing the music we were always going back to the book reading the book i mean like together i mean it was like the bible there's some moments in june that i knew i was not good enough there's others that i feel that i was very close to the original dream frankly albert he's one of my favorite authors and and i wanted to make sure if he had seen this film movie he would have feel that love [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

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