Thread by @evolvingcalm

Ah yes... the archetypal 'Western man'

The Dune 2021 movie couldn't have fucked up Liet Kynes up any more then they did.

They got it completely backwards.

Extremely shallow reading of the source material.

But you know - *hurrah* its woke.

First off making Kynes' dying moment an act of 'revenge against imperial soldiers' by summoning the worm is so off the mark it's a joke.

Here's what the death actually is and should be - straight from the mouth of Frank Herbert and his wife during a 1969 interview:

'It's very important that the planet kills the ecologist'.

'This of course was done deliberately [...] Kynes... who is the Western man in my original construction of the book sees all of these things happening to him as mechanical things, doesn't subtract from the fact that he is still a part of this system because it is observing him-'

'he's lived out of rhythm with it, and he got in the trough of the wave and it tumbled on him.'

From another similar 1980 interview:

'Liet Kynes - who is really is a subversive character you realise?'

Liet Kynes 'He is my model for all of the ecologically 'aware', I’ll give you this quote - We need that so we will do this, and then the consequences began.'

'My view of Liet Kynes was a perfect model of the shortsighted... ecologically aware, who wants a particular condition, he’s thirsty he wants water, he doesn't like brown landscape he wants green... so he.. moves to [simplistically change things].'

iT's fAiThFuL tO tHe sPiRiT oF tHe nOvEl

I actually enjoyed the film.
I probably always was going to.
But this is beyond laughable.