Cover news reporter Yang Fan
There was once a science fiction novel that influenced many classic science fiction movies such as Avatar, Alien, Star Wars, etc., which is Frank Herbert's "Dune". On October 22, the science fiction blockbuster of the same name based on the book landed in mainland theaters, and as of 3 p.m. on the same day, the movie "Dune" broke 25 million at the box office.
Before the official release, the "Dune" filmmakers held two test screenings in Chengdu, one was the "Dune" "Chengdu Exclusive Pet Fan" screening held by "Science Fiction World", and the other was the IMAX screening held at Chengdu Broadway Studios. Many hardcore science fiction fans, scholars and film directors who were first to get a sneak peek at the film, such as Jiang Weihe, a doctor of literary anthropology at Sichuan University, Xu Xinjian, director of the Institute of Literature and Anthropology of Sichuan University, Xie Yunning, a science fiction writer, and Gao Han, a young director, all praised the epic visual effects presented by the film.
The film has a strong creative lineup, the film is directed by Dennis Villeneuve, "Sweet Tea" Timothy Chalame, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Zandaya, Jason Momma, Javier Baden, Zhang Zhen and other stars, director Dennis Villeneuve is good at eclectic science fiction exploration, and the previous works "Arrival" and "Blade Runner 2049" have won Oscars. And "Dune" also has the strength and potential to impact next year's Oscars for best visual effects, sound, soundtrack and other awards.
The novel "Dune" is a "groundbreaking" science fiction novel, the movie "Dune" is a commercial film that combines "thousands of loves", but who would have thought that Frank Herbert's magnificent world came from a reportage? Some philosophers once said that a grain of sand can see the entire universe, and this sentence is not a proverb.
In 1957, the American writer Frank Herbert was invited to write a reportage on a scientific experiment by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to stabilize the destructive spread of sand dunes with grass to solve the problem of soil erosion. He then set foot on the oregon dunes to write an ecological report.
Frank Herbert
Through extensive fieldwork, Herbert found that the expansion of the dunes was enough to devour cities, rivers, and highways where humans lived. This subversive power gave Herbert great inspiration. His heart burst with the idea of writing a science fiction novel, telling a story that takes place on a planet that has been swallowed up by sand dunes. This article is the prototype for one of the greatest science fiction novels of the 20th century, Dune.
Herbert was planning to change the reportage/fieldwork to a novel, but it backfired. Some media disclosed that after a few years of immersion in creation, the original version of "Dune" was rejected by more than 20 publishing houses. It wasn't until 1963 that Dune's short soft science fiction novel Dune World was officially published, at a publishing house known for publishing auto repair books.
Eventually, Herbert set the story on the planet Erracos, thousands of years later, on a planet known as the "Dunes," where deserts cover most of the land and receive little precipitation. Water is severely scarce, and sandstorms threaten the survival of people and everything – except for the huge sandworms buried beneath the dunes.
Spices are an important narrative thread in Dune. After shaping a world of unprecedented splendor, Herbert made it the only source of spices, the most important resource in the universe. This spice is not a spice that we generally recognize, as a resource, it can not only prolong human lifespan, improve intelligence level, but also an indispensable energy source for interstellar travel. In short, this is the resource that all the forces in the universe must fight for, and it affects the struggle and change of the entire galactic regime.
These designs by Herbert are easy to find in the real world. In the novel, many words and ideas are close to the concept of the Arab world, and the main story line of a foreigner leading a desert civilization in a military rebellion is also easily reminiscent of the film history classic "Lawrence of Arabia". Many literary critics believe that the prototype of the spice in the book, and the struggle it provokes, is like the wars waged by the Western world to plunder the oil of the Middle East.
As soon as Frank Herbert's novel was published, it sparked a heated discussion in American society, winning the 1965 Science Fiction Award for Best Novel, the Nebula Award, and has been translated into dozens of languages and sold 20 million copies worldwide. The success of the first part was only the beginning, and Herbert did not slow down, but continued to tell the story of what happened on the desert-covered planet.
The Dune Savior, published in 1969, and The Son of dunes, published in 1976, together with the first Dune, are known as the "Dune" trilogy. The upcoming film version of "Dune", which will be released in the mainland, is based on the first half of the first novel.
Dune is a collection of novels in English
Although the filmmakers have always promoted that the film is telling the story of the growth of teenagers, its real connotation is a writer's reflection on the fate of mankind: environmental protection, energy overexploitation... Even more than half a century later, none of Frank Herbert's worries had really been solved. If the release of the movie "Dune" can make more people pay attention to the world around us and the crisis facing the whole earth, it will actually be more important than how much it can do at the box office.
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