What does the novel Dunes have to do with Russia ?

[GoofKing]

I'm curious because someone made a video with the song "Dominion/Mother Russia" by Sisters of mercy with footage from David Lynches Dunes. I think the song had to do with Russia's business in the middle East ...

Could the novel had been about Russia or something ? I've never read it but I'm curious is all ....

 

[Ereth]

The novel was written by Frank Herbert. I have yet to read it. Based on the synopsis, I don't necessarily think that Dune has anything to do with Russia---just that the song might remind the YouTuber of Dune or vice versa.

 

[GoofKing]

The novel was written by Frank Herbert. I have yet to read it. Based on the synopsis, I don't necessarily think that Dune has anything to do with Russia---just that the song might remind the YouTuber of Dune or vice versa.

Oh I see, with the sand and everything :/ That didn't cross my mind even with the evidence was right there in front of me

One thing though, I don't understand why the person who uploaded the video didn't just use clips from the original movie and make it an AMV (Amateur made Music Video I think). He added the clips in the extended song where the singer talks about Russia in the middle East and about revolution :/

Meh, maybe it's just a coincidence or something ...

 

[StephF]

Maybe the poster thought that Vladimir Putin is acting like Baron Harkonen

 

[Peace]

I saw the movie when it came out. A very good movie for it's time. From what I recall, the only similarity was the ultimate control and the inevitable revolution.

 

[GoofKing]

I saw the movie when it came out. A very good movie for it's time. From what I recall, the only similarity was the ultimate control and the inevitable revolution.

You didn't think the music that played when they won some battle wasn't a bit like some national anthem sounding ? I listen to it all the time imaging some made-up country that was a bit like the U.K and Russia in a way

I've had this bit of a fascination with Russia since I saw the movie Goldeneye. I think it's a bit risque like how people condemn others interested into Nazi history and their culture :/ I don't see what's wrong with it as long as you don't start adopting their ways or something ...

A teacher once accused me of being a communist just because I had a strange interests in Russia :|

 

[IContainMultitudes]

If Dune (which was written in the early 1960s) has a connection to real-world geopolitics, it's more likely to the Middle East:

Dune (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Persian, Arab and Islamic references[edit]

Many words, titles and names (e.g. the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV, Hawat, Bashar, Harq-al-Ada) in the Dune universe as well as a large number of words in the language of the Fremen people are derived or taken directly from Persian and Arabic (e.g. erg, the Arabic word for 'dune', is used frequently throughout the novel). Paul's name (Muad'Dib) means in Arabic 'the teacher or maker of politeness or literature'. The Fremen language is also embedded with Islamic terms such as, jihad, Mahdi, Shaitan, and the personal bodyguard of Paul Muad'Dib Fedaykin is a transliteration of the Persian Feda'yin.[20] As a foreigner who adopts the ways of a desert-dwelling people and then leads them in a military capacity, Paul Atreides' character bears some similarities to the historical T. E. Lawrence.[21]

On a related note, there's a new documentary out called Jodorowsky's Dune that sounds really cool, it's about an aborted attempt by Chilean/Mexican surrealist filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky to film Dune in the 1970s (While it does have a cult following, the David Lynch version that made a few years later is considered by many fans of the novel to be a poor adaptation).

Jodorowsky's Dune - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia