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Showing posts with label Frank Herbert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frank Herbert. Show all posts

Friday, September 11, 2020

Dune: the Book, Movies and Trailers


Interesting that the editor of the trailer chose to follow the Lynch trailer.

Supposedly, no publisher liked the book, and it couldn't get published except by a publisher of car manuals. It later won a Hugo and Nebula. And then it was beloved. As a child I struggled to get into the novel but succeeded on the second or third try, loved the wonder and political intrigue. Perhaps I was too young.

Supposedly, no one liked the first film, claimed to be confusing, and Lynch disowned it. I understood it and loved it. The second was supposed to rehabilitate the book's image the Lynch mauled. At first critics claimed it did, and later it was also proclaimed a disappointment. And then critics came out saying that they actually liked the Lynch film better.

I found the debates strange as I liked all three: book, movie, miniseries. Movies are an odd translation, especially with anything so complex as Dune.

What is confusing is how people can judge a movie based on a trailer. Some trailers suggest a bad movie if you can't figure out the general plot.

However, it's difficult to get the general idea of the plot out of these trailers--probably due to the complex plot--although they do touch on some of the wonder.

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Frank Herbert on what makes enduring literary art

"Look back on the Artists and Critics whose work endured....
  1. They tested limits, their own and yours.
  2. They produced something new.
  3. They tested you.
  4. They entertained you.
  5. They often addressed very large questions, sometimes in miniature.
  6. They ringed a chord which we still call truth.
  7. They took you beyond yourself to something you recognized as better.  They reminded you of the best in your own humanity."

--Frank Herbert, Nebula Winners Fifteen 

[Note: points numbered, mine. Some lines I erased which I felt implied in the above.]

Sunday, December 29, 2013

Last Day: Fiction Bundle

Support charities and authors.  Name your price for six books or pay $10 for a seventh book (which is actually like three books in one, Tim Pratt's collected fiction.  Includes authors:

  • Kevin J Anderson
  • Doug Beason
  • David Farland
  • Frank Herbert
  • Tim Pratt
  • Dean Wesley Smith
  • Brad R Torgerson

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Huge Book Bundle

Bookbale.com  has six books for the price you name ($2.99+), with a 2-book bonus if you pay $10.  Authors included:
Andre Norton, Bill Ransom, Frank Herbert, Joe Haldeman, Kevin J. Anderson, Mercedes Lackey, Mike Resnick, Nancy Kress, Robert A. Heinlein, and Robert J. Sawyer