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It's worth noting that there are no confirmed "aliens" in Dune, at least not humanoid ones. Every character and faction we meet is a branch of human, some of which are barely recognizable as such, particularly the Guild Navigators or even this versions depiction of the Harkonnens. It's very much a story about the infinite human potential for good and evil as well as the paradoxes of human nature.
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The original novel is one of my favorite books. I reread it every 5 years or so. In the movie they say that the year is 10,191. What they do not tell you is that they are not using the our calendar. Their calendar starts with a war against thinking machines. It's similar to the Terminator but the battle's were fought on hundreds of planets. Earth was destroyed during that conflict.
You do not need to know that information to enjoy the movie. I just love the backstory.
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The jemis vision was not just symbolic. Paul is metally aging rapidly though hos transition, because he actually lives those timelines. He lives a full timeline with Jemis as a mentor and friend, and so it is heartbreakingly tragic that he has to kill someone who he sees as a friend, but that friendship cannot be reciprocated in the reality he walks. It's how he just knows things, because he lived them in his mind
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Re: Shields and swords: It's also really dangerous to shoot at a ship or personal shield with lasers or charged particle beams. One of three things will happen: the shield absorbs it and you wasted a shot (best case scenario), the shield partially absorbs it and 'burps' out a coronal discharge of energy back in the direction of the beam, becoming a temporary flamethrower pointed right back at you (not the worst case, but it ain't good), or the beam overloads the shield and it explodes, turning your target into a momentary mini-nuke (worst case). There's a small chance whatever was inside the shield will survive the overload. There is very little chance that you were close enough to shoot them and far enough away to not get killed in the blast.
So, basically, you could try to overload the shields and blow up the ships (and that possibility is why nuclear bombs are not permitted in inter-House warfare upon pain of death, by the Emperor's decree -- never mind that if you use them on Dune, you could disrupt or contaminate Spice production, and then everyone would gang up on you if they even suspected you were planning it). But it turns the battlefield into an unpredictable minefield where you and your opponents could get caught up in a chain reaction if you start messing around, so swords and knives are considered the safest and most precise means to go after your opponents.
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You misunderstood the Gom Jabbar, it's not a test for Bene Gesserit potential. In the book it's a test to see if you can rise above your animal instincts to avoid pain, with the knowledge that a single touch from the needle at your neck will kill you. The idea is if you recoil from the pain you touch the needle and die, therefore preserving the evolutionary trajectory the Bene Gesserit have in place. In all of Frank Herbert's books Paul is never 'confirmed' to be the "chosen one", it's actually implied to be his son Leto II.
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Probably for the best that you glossed over the whole prequel novels, the backstory of why thinking machines are forbidden. Some people really HATE those books. Most of the thinking machine characters were very cheesy villains, but Herbert's son did a decent job of laying out a backstory that includes the origins of the Bene Gesserit, the Mentats, the Spacing Guild, the Emperor, many of the great houses that play important supporting roles, the Harkonnen/Atreides feud, and the Fremen, as well as establishing lore for the technology of the Dune universe, without it all feeling like fan service.
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There is spice out there somewhere else. Just undiscovered. In the books they learn that Dune used to have water until the sand trout arrived. It was also found out that the sand trout were brought to Dune, meaning they exist somewhere else in the universe. Sand trout make it possible for the planet to produce spice
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