He who controls the spice controls the universe Sarah Kowalski
Today, in the second decade of the 21st century, it is hard to find someone who has not heard of Dune. This is interesting to me because I remember that no more than 5 years ago when I, an avid fan of the series, mentioned the novel to people, I was met with one of two common replies. One being “Oh, what’s that?”; the other, a simple “Isn’t that ancient?” So, you can understand my excitement when Denis Villeneuve announced he will be making his own movie rendition of Herbert’s 1965 novel with non-other than the audience’s beloved Timothée Chalamet cast as his project’s centerpiece. The series has since experienced a revival of interest with millions of people wanting to prepare for experiencing Villeneuve’s film on the big screen. Upon its release in 2021, the movie gained significant and well-deserved recognition among both cinema enthusiasts and previous fans of the series. The movie fulfilled a great deal of fan expectations while managing to interest and secure a newly formed fan base. But, is this really due to the admittedly well picked cast and Timothée’s beautiful face? Or is there a truth that lies in Herbert’s story that ensures the story’s timeless nature?
study of Dune, I am equally enamored with another fascinating phenomenon. People of the present love to incorporate many lessons of ‘the now’ in future settings. It is almost as if we somehow needed to see a pressing
problem played out in a different setting, one non-related to us, to be able to think about the illustrated issue in our present life on our home planet.
There are many fascinated by the cosmos. The topics of space, interplanetary travel, and human contact with ‘alien’ life has been a topic of interest for centuries – one that will no doubt stay a hot conversation starter for decades to come. But, despite my subscription to the science fiction genre and my adoration of space-core, in the case
Herbert introduced his science fiction story in a moment of societal shift – the 1960s. This era is known well as the time when technology started becoming a more present staple in humans’ everyday life. Televisions 21
