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It’s not really. It has its tropes but it also sorta invented those tropes so it feels a bit unfair to call them “tropes.”
I mean you kinda have the “white messiah” narrative but the books make it clear that it’s not really a good thing and leads to a holy war that kills billions. I suppose if you are a reactionary that is fine but to other people it sounds like a horrorshow.
Not necessarily reactionary, but it does reproduce some stereotypes and tropes that are a staple of an orientalist point of view, exoticizing the totally-not-muslim culture, painting them as backwards and animal-like.
I like Dune, but it Herbert’s white-dude understanding of other cultures shows a bit.
I haven’t watched the film, but what’s reactionary about Dune anyway specifically?
It’s not really. It has its tropes but it also sorta invented those tropes so it feels a bit unfair to call them “tropes.”
I mean you kinda have the “white messiah” narrative but the books make it clear that it’s not really a good thing and leads to a holy war that kills billions. I suppose if you are a reactionary that is fine but to other people it sounds like a horrorshow.
Not necessarily reactionary, but it does reproduce some stereotypes and tropes that are a staple of an orientalist point of view, exoticizing the totally-not-muslim culture, painting them as backwards and animal-like.
I like Dune, but it Herbert’s white-dude understanding of other cultures shows a bit.
Hmm, ok…