Dune Prologue (Extended Edition)

This is the Prologue for the extended version of Dune (1984).
The original from 1984 was directed by David Lynch. This extended version was credited to a certain Allan Smithee, which is a name given to films, if the director doesent want to have anything to do with the film no more.

The Extended version of Dune did have certain cool elements, like this prologue. But many places in the film it was certain that they just reused material from a totally different place in the film as filler. As when the leader of the Bene gesserit visits Caladan, you see footage from Paul and Jessicas capture on Dune. Very poorly made. And also when the guild visits the Emperor on his home planet you see footage from ships on Dune. Very poorly made, but most of the rest of the movie is fine.

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[ranger240987]

And the Butlerian Jihad which wiped the Thinking machines out, was actually fourght across multiple worlds using pre-space folding travel tech (ie Conventional engines)

[Archeology101]

Also... the voice on this prologue is Frank Herbert himself. FYI

[keithpankow]

The starwars movies are cartoonish compared to the story of the dune books. THE STARWARS MOVIES ARE LAME, THEY SUCK AND THEY ARE THE MOST OVER RATED MOVIES OF ALL TIME. The reason I compare the two other than the obvious, is that Frank Herbert and George Lucas were both inspired by Joseph Campbell and his writings of the hero in mythology. I find Herberts world complex, grey and thought provocating, and George's world too easy to understand and black and white. A simple story for simple minds.

[keithpankow]

@horusrage and they all suck.

[keithpankow]

What's really interesting about Leto's Golden Path, is that it's not about peace and security, it's not some fairy tale eden. It means one thing and one thing only, SURVIVAL OF HUMANKIND. Leto basically took all of the eggs out of one basket and scattered them across the universe, so our collective fate would never again be just that. Frank never takes the brutality out of life, he leaves it there for our descendants to deal with.

[keithpankow]

Anyone who likes this intro is an asshole... I take that back, anyone who likes this intro is just ignorant to the beauty of the structure of frank herberts masterpiece. I've read all 6 books over and over again; once ever few years. I love the way Frank writes, the way he gets into peoples heads and takes the most mundane aspects of the story....(mother superior Odrade riding in a bus towards one of the satelite cities on chapterhouse) and Frank makes that fascinating!

[keithpankow]

I think jurisdiction might not be the correct word.... CHOAM is basically a corporation with control of the trade of all products in the old empire. But this control is tempered by the guilds monopoly on space travel. The Bene Gesseret.... nobody controls them. As far as the rest of them goes.... I'm not sure what you mean by having "Jurisdiction over"... does Walmart have jurisdiction over me?

[keithpankow]

@TheChaosjet. I can't answer that question. I don't know off hand.

[keithpankow]

@Archeology101, I couldn't agree with you more. Reading his sons stories is like going from some divine, magnificent story telling to reading a comic book.. the interplay between characters is facile. I really wanted to read all the butlerian jihad books and the three books that happen after chapter house but I just couldn't finish them. I was amazed and fascinated that Frank intended to bring the thinking machines back into the story. it's a tragic loss to not have frank finish the story.

[TheChaosjet]

@keithpankow the suk schools, sword masters of ginaz, the bene tleilax, the mentats...Did the CHOAM have jurisdiction over these

[keithpankow]

and there are more than two schools of human development. the suk schools, sword masters of ginaz, the bene tleilax, the mentats... those are just the ones off the top of my head. What a fricking joke this video is. Did the person that created it even read the books?

[keithpankow]

Why create a prologue to such a great story when they change the plot! WTF?! It says "the orange spice gas gives the guild navigators the power to fold space" Bullshit! holtzman generators fold space and the spice just gives the navigators a limited form of precience to be able to see a safe path through foldspace. who is the asshole who wrote this? They also make refrences to the guild being a purely mathematical orginization? again, where in any of the original 6 masterpieces does it say this?