From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sat Mar 29 2003 - 08:01:13 MST
I forget to mention, that a semi-good, semi crappy, production of RiverWorld,
(Philip Jose Farmer) was on the Sci-Fi Channel, last Saturday. It was a
fantasy, but hardly less a fanatsy then Herbert's Dune. Hermann Goering was
cut out of the piece, but Nero survived the screenplay editing. The
protagonist, originally, an Englishman, was replaced by an American shuttle
pilot killed in a meteor strike in 2009. Ah well!
JtB...
<<You also see in Dune something neglected in our community
and in the fiction we favor: the frightening aspect of
severe self-transformation. Paul Atredies hadn't the
courage to do what Leto did. Faced with the same choice
and with the
same opportunity, Paul retained his humanity. Leto
abandoned his for a greater good. This also parallels the
New Testament. Paul and Leto resemble Christ in the Garden
of Gesthemane, where Jesus wished to decline the bitter
cup. Paul shows a path-not-taken where Jesus didn't make
the self-sacrifice. Leto shows the result of the story we
all know well. That Paul later resembles John the Baptist
doesn't hurt this analogy too much. Liet-Kynes looks more
like JtB.>>
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