The Politics of Dune Explained In FIVE Minutes 

Yup! That's why I can't wait for part 2 of Dune. I want to see the Baron quake in his suspensors before the emperor's humble court noble

Yup, there are three basic types of power in this universe. Economic, military and political. The Atreides had a lot of political and military power, the Harkonnens had a lot of economic power. The Emporer was able to get the Harkonnens to wipe out the Atreides (almost), in a way that diminished most of their economic power.

@@chrisdoe2659 two birds with one stone

Whoa.. that just blew my mind. REALLY puts the movie into another perspective and adds such depth to the political landscape.

@@chrisdoe2659 Plans within plans ...

Dude? Let me guess; you’re American. 😂

The only spoiler is at the end, saying that they need to keep Arrakis dry for the spice production. The movie and at least the fist half of the book I've read so far leave the question of why they don't terraform Arrakis to be more habitable open, at first saying it would just be too expensive. The guild doesn't even let Leto Atreides deploy weather satellites.

Watching a 5 minute lore video was very refreshing

Huh?

@@CadetKosmov thanks for spoiling it bro

Ass poop. Got it.

lol

The entire video summarized in one simple sentence. I love it.

And Amber Heard with Elon Musk's frozen embryos is the beginning of bene gesserit

More like Oil-Cocaine, to be more accurate

I just went and saw it again and I don't really like movies but my sibling does so we went again to a cheeper laid back theater.

@@wonderstuck-gg For and a WHOLE a lot of people, This WHOLE movie did justice to the original novel and story ENTIRELY and captured a lot of the visuals of the book through pure cinematic aesthetics and creativity as it’s fantastic and phenomenal movie and one of the greatest films of the 21th century already! MASTERPIECE of a movie here!

As I said, The new Dune movie is a MASTERPIECE!!! It’s fantastic and phenomenal movie and one of the greatest films of the 21th century already! MASTERPIECE of a movie here!

@@wonderstuck-gg sibling? 🤔 we say brother and sister here on earth 👽

Yup 😊

What about Ben gessrit?

@@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl There's an interdependence between those three factions within the tripod. The Bene Gesserit are able to move in and out of that structure yet exist outside of it.

@@goyasolidar then it is four factions not three

@@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl it is said by a member of the Sisterhood. They don't see themselves as one of those three. They see it as... three unruly children, or pets, that they - the Bene Gesserit - has to wrangle together for the future of humankind as a whole.

@@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl As I've said, the BG intrinsically exist outside of the power structures of the Imperium and that's how they prefer it, moving behind the scenes and being beholden to none.

@@stevenp3176 Indeed

Yeah but since they are women that means they actually don't know anything.

@@sophiaperennis2360 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Its not just the memories of the women but also the fathers and grandfathers who are breed for their genetics toward the goal of Kwisatz Haderach. See children of Dune and God Emporor of Dune to begin to understand why the Bene Gesserit test for humanity and kill those who fail the test.

@Ryan Mosey Way to inject unnecessary divisiveness

"Dune", the first book any way, is good for at least 3 or 4 reads over time. There are so many concepts in the plot that become known once you are familiar with the book and Herbert's writing.

How do I read dune

@@chimdinduobidike3821 buy the book and start from the beginning

​@@chimdinduobidike3821just buy the book??? Nah I'm kidding 😅 there are 6 Dune books that the author Frank Herbert wrote. The 1st book, titled "Dune" is the one most people read, but if you like that one you can then read the other 5

@@chimdinduobidike3821watching videos like this one for context before reading will help. It’s not as hard to read as people say so just go for it

Lol. Watch the old Dune to man as it has got bad ass moments too plus such actors as Sting and Patrick Stewart.

Stop it! Eyes are for screens. Leave your imagination and your critical thinking in the 20th century where they belong, along with handwritten notes and using a phone to actually call people. 😂 just kidding, that’s great lol.

same, on your first point

​@@AntoniOrszykowski Yes. It's a classic.

He had me at CHOAM = Space Amazon 😂

I loved that choamazon logo

Gekoloniseerd

@@lewakar What? what are you even saying?

Almost like Spaniards coming to central america... We come to rule you.

@@unwokeneuropean3590 yeah, that scene in Apocalypto still resonates with me

All I could think when I saw that scene was "oh shit, everyone in one place. they're gonna all die"

I was disappointed that they didn't show them folding space, they just went from leaving Caladan to walking out onto Arrakis.

@@emgee44 Legendary space folding sequence in the old movie, lol. I think it's because it's not really explained anywhere in the canon how it actually happens, so any depiction is fanciful. Even the navigators are still pretty mysterious to this day, not to mention how they operate. Dune is just a very mysterious universe all over.

dune is all about space crack

It would actually… in theory. I don’t know if the holtzmann engines run on spice, need spice to function or if only a navigator can operate them, but assuming the navigator only points the way, you could technically just yolo it and run in blind without guidance accepting the fact you most probably won’t make it to the finish line.

@@Ballin4VengeanceOnly the Navigators need spice to see a safe page, the engines are all tech. In the prequel novels they did that during the AI war to win, use Holtzman engines in a blind jump. The attrition rate was about 10%per jump.

Reminds me of the movie fantastic planet

You definitely commented that before watching the video

The duplicity and mistruths found in SOME politics and organized religion. We ought to be careful with blanket statements put forth as all-encompassing fact.

Oh, im jealous!!! Im also watching today in thailand, but in pattaya & no imax here... maybe its an excuse to go to bkk haha

Have a good time. It opened in Canada yesterday where I am.

Make sure to read all 6 books. Everything clicked by book 5, it was at that point I finally felt like I understood the Dune universe

What did you think of the books?

Just watched It ; Absolutely breathtaking. Must watch on the biggest screen possible

I always assumed the guild muscled out any real competition that even considered getting around the ban

Noone who would have the resources has the need for it. Because the Guild is good at keeping everyone else comfortable with the Guild. The only party that could have both the means and the cause would be Ix, perhaps. And I am not sure about their motivation... Bene Tleilax has the obvious motivation, but they probably don't have the technical capability to make a ship that can "jump".

@@Aeolusdallas ...leaving only the sole traders, smugglers and privateers to pick up the crumbs?

@@misterjei well we know there are smugglers at the very least

Well there are still smugglers I assume, since they are mentioned in the series occassionally, I gotta assume they aren't guild affliated.

And, of course, the Bene Gesserit were based upon the Jesuits (hence the similar name). They didn't exist in the HRE, but substitute the Dominicans (or any other order) and...

There are similarities, and differences. House Corrino rules through military power. The emperor of the HRE was never a great military power, and both elected by a small subset nobles (not a Landsrat) who had inherited that privilege, and also invested by the Catholic pope. The emperor was not always the male progeny of the previous emperor, in part because not all emperors had male progeny. And, unlike kings, the emperor could not invest and divest nobles under his jurisdiction at will. The emperor and the pope jointly invested the bishops of the empire, but only the pope could divest them again. The HRE was disbanded by Napoleon Bonaparte in the 18th century. (Purely by military might; he was not a member, let alone the emperor, of the HRE.) The Thirty Year War was the most terrible war Europe had ever seen, and inevitably part of the HRE was part of that war. It did not tear apart the empire though. Members of the empire had been at war with each other before and afterwards as well.

@@davidwuhrer6704 House Corrino didn't rule through military means: it's literally said that the combined military power of the Landsraad would overpower House Corrino, just like in the HRE. The Ottonian and Habsburg dynasties definitely had powerful armies of their own. I'm unsure why you think the Landsraad is anything other than a small group of select nobles.

'The Holy Roman Empire was Neither Holy, Nor Roman, Nor an Empire' - Voltaire

@@TheAventine Haha, yeah, and the Empire of the known universe was neither an empire nor encompassing the known universe, so it fits really well.

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This video was made a week ago what r u talking about

@@shreyasrd2034 He;s been making Dune videos for years. But also worth noting that this channel was successful back when Game of Thrones was on too becuaes it used to be mainly a GoT channel, so it's not entirely luck

Yup

Dude, he knew what he was doing 🥴

George RR Martin wishes he could do court politics as well as Frank Herbert, lol

@@warestari2000 George Martins politics is just to create fake dinners that turns to be manslaughters and other types of gore trauma

@@reflectcard6258 where do you think he got the idea? The red wedding &noble warriors leading their families into traps was a DIRECT lift from dune Hell without dune &berserk GOT probly wouldn't exist

@@o-wolf I know, I was just stating, and Martin seems like he really like to do that

I love berserk but I don't think kentaro miura had any inspiration on George's writing I could be wrong but I doubt it .

^ this. These videos are great, and will be super accessible to those that haven't read the books!

I was thinking just that!

More like opiates. Don't get the oil comparison

@@alexram5679 without oil the world would grind to a halt

First two books are completely worth it, the other four of the main series are way denser and not as interesting. The ladder 8 books are great for simplicity since they are written by frank herberts son who was not as great a writer

Can't relate, books are so good with a lot of thinking involved. Hard not to enjoy.

Audible my friend. I’ve listened to so many books I don’t think I would have been able to read lol. Also good narrations.

@@blackpyxy9583 that’s exactly how I ended up getting through it, it was fully voice acted so it was a great time

@@EsotericCat The first 3 books written by Frank are Paul's story. God Emperor of Dune is the story of Paul's son, Leto II. The next two books focus on the Bene Gesserit, who have come to power 1500 years later. Frank died before finishing what was to be the final novel. Then his son and Keven J. Anderson saw $$$$$, pretended to find "notes", and wrote copious amounts of bullshit that prove that if the notes existed, they were not followed, they don't understand the source material, and write for an audience that like explodey stuff and blood/guts/gore - but no intelligent philosophy that will make people debate it decades after.

Jeff bezos

Spacing Guild is NASA

Duke Elon Musk?

It's almost here. First: Musk Heavy Industries. Then: House of Elon!

@@TraceguyRune SpaceX

tbf the fremen religion and mysticism is mostly just the bene Gesserit's tampering. Before the Atreides arrive on Arrakis, the fremen are very much removed from the politics of the imperium

How about Benne Jeserit…. (Jesuit 😉)

I think bene Jeserict planted those prophecies

There is also Ix and the Tleilaxus.

did he 'miss' those details then, or are those topics for another day.. "brevity is the essence of wit"

@@StayFractalesque He didn't "miss" anything, he just explained everything that NEEDED to be explained for the context of THIS movie alone. Not unnecessary explanation that would confuse people.

I don't actually know but this is how I see it too. It seemed to me that all great houses have their own 'home planet' besides the planets they are charged with. The Corrino family being somewhat of an exception bc they messed up their original home world but since they are the emperor family they just took another.

Not wrong. You are 100% right.

They were assigned to it around 1500 years ago. Before them, it belonged to another house and the Atreides were a minor house millennia before that.

@@lizajameson7339 - seems like 10,000 years is enough to establish ancestry… my point being, wouldn’t the people of Caladan still be loyal to the Atreides(es), rather than the house appointed to replace them? also, follow-up question… why did the Harkonnens get Arrakis AND Geidi Prime, when it seemed like the Atreideses had to give up Caladan to take control of Arrakis?

@@lizajameson7339 That is information written by Frank Herbert's son and not canon. He has not upheld the canon and brilliance of his father's world. I would not hold what he has written as "Dune fact".

That scene flagrantly deviates from the book, in that the fight takes place in the open and also not in underwear. It doesn't make as much sense, but it is more dramatic this way. I find Jessica's answer to Stilgar's inquiry unsatisfying. It makes sense, but the audience might not realise that her answer is not the actual reason why Paul fights the way he fights.

Very cool analysis!

Paul is validated 3 times in the movie. His test with the Reverend Mother confirmed that he is not a mere instinct based man and has deeper thoughts than expected of men. His near-death with the Hunter Seeker showed that he was not the careless fool he was earlier and then when meeting the Fremen he is accepted as one who exists within their circle.

@@davidwuhrer6704 Jessica can't tell him "Paul is used to using a shield" since she has no idea who he is or how the Fremen fight.

@@SantomPh I don't understand. Surely Lady Jessica would know her own son, and that the still suits aren't shielded. In the book they even fought in their underwear.

Complete agree! FANTASTIC video for newcomers!

If only the people were in in-universe colours. Instead of this blackwashed travesty.

@@TomorrowWeLive wait so those banners in the video are the correct colours?

@@TomorrowWeLive Stfu, Dune is literally set in a Middle Eastern-esque desert planet, how is it “blackwashed” for these characters to be the most appropriate skin colour for that environment?

@@heilmodrhinnheimski Black people in any media role=blackwashing. haven't you heard?

It's not small at all, we just don't have a lot of info precisely on how big it is and and other, minor houses. What we know for sure from the second book is that there are over 10.000 planets colonized by humans, hundreds of billions of people, maybe thousands of billions humans.

@@pedroeldiablo811 thats huge, but (pretty well thought out) estimates from the star wars empire say there's about 100 quadrillion citizens. That's 100 billion times a billion. I guess in that comparison the dune universe seems a bit small.

Lmao 😂, nothing absolutely nothing could be further from the truth A single guild highliner could beat the entirety of the starwars and star trek Dune is small because all living humans are addicted to spice which allows a small group to control what is otherwise impossible to control, dune is a universal empire, starwars and star trek would probably be isolated and ignored . That's how big dune is

​​@@pedroeldiablo811 True , even 10000 must have been propaganda considering how easily the scattering happened. They didn't just start exploring , they just knew where to flee and finally go where they wanted without guild dictates 10000 was what the emperor was allowed to control by the guild As for the strength, its horrifying even cause the tleilaxu must have had tens of thousands of worlds and yet they were considered " weak" and couldn't quite attack a major house or the witches Who in turn could not dare the emperor most worlds were peaceful colonies who ignored the empire most of the time and couldn't be forced to fight

The book does explain this all anyway though

@@j0nnyism yes but it's not clear as the book is HIGHLY complex so it's important for others to break things down for them. That's why the op comment said "You actually cleared up a few details from the book too" because the book isn't easy to read at all.

I'm not sure it's a shame or a good move that they didn't really bring up the CHOAM shareholders and Noble/imperial House venn diagram being basically a circle.

It's nobles houses then 'CEOs, Executives, and Board Members of various economic cabals', because capitalism evolved from feudalism to mercantilism and finally today's imperialism/capitalism. Up until 1900ish most/all British Prime Ministers had been Lords.

@@queeniegreengrass3513 We have replaced the landed aristocracy with a moneyed aristocracy.

That totally makes sense. Duke Bezos XIII, Baronness Nancy XC of the House Walton.

Harkonnen is bald because they're descendants of House Bezos

At least WB got their money back , seeing the issue with COVID I guess they will lake part 2

@@hamzanajji8615 don't they need to get double the budget to get their money back. Hollywood accountancy.

@@diverguy3556 I think it's a good rule of thumb. But because of that Hollywood Accounting, we will never actually know what it makes or what it cost to make. So... yeah, it's all guessing.

Sequel was just confirmed!

The 1984 movie confuses more issues than it clarifies.

The movie is crap

PHENOMENAL film and a masterpiece of modern sci-fi cinema entirely! LOVE this movie for what it was able to achieve and be and I’m so glad many others agree for what it was able to achieve!

i want to read the books too, but my english prevents me

@@widjiro the books were translated to many different languages! You should see if you could read it in your native language:) I read mine in Polish ;)

Does your edition of the books still come with the glossary at the end? I remember reading through it and it spells out pretty much everything regarding CHOAM, Laandsrad, the guild etc

I wish he'd been cast as the emperor. He was born to play the hyper realistic power player.

@d R One can but hope.

@@graceskerp Can you please compare Dune to Game of Thrones for me? With analogies of who is the "real power in King's Landing," which Houses are the underdogs/most unpredictable, who is most ambitious etc.? I know nothing about the Dune universe. How do you recommend getting into this series? What are the books/shows/movies to watch?

@@dawn-blade Sorry for the delay. I didn't read Song of Ice and Fire nor follow GoT that closely, so any contrast/compare will be superficial. Firstly, unlike Westeros the noble houses in the Dune universe don't play a large role in the story. They certainly do fight among themselves, but they wisely make no play for imperial power. The Emperor's Sardaukars make sure they behave themselves. The most ambitious and dangerous is House Harkonnen. Another compare: Dune is filled with characters who have their own agendas and goals. Finally Dune has an important fringe group which everyone ignores or dismisses until they show up at the front door. They're led by a charismatic individual who succeed in kicking in the door, but with dire results for both himself and the empire. Getting into the series: OK, start with the book. It's a dense read, certainly not a weekend or beach book, but it is worth the effort. Films: Lynch's fundamental problem is the story can not be told in one feature film, just too much background and characters. If you can find it, there's the SyFy's version. It has its problems, doubtful casting choices and the budget definitely shows in the special effects and sets. However, it's far more faithful to the narrative than Lynch's. Finally, check Quinn's Ideas and Nerd Cookies TY videos. They both do excellent analyses of all things Dune.

Yeah his voice and narrative is very distinct.

You sh rd the books. mn

Oh heck yeah

@d R What about his son Jared Harris

@@technopirate304 Jared Harris is in apple tv+ Foundation so I´d highly doubt it, but he does look like what I imagine Shaddam IV as.

@@edvardkvist3656 Yeah I watch that show as well. We can only dream. Jared's absence is seriously apparent on The Expanse

@@technopirate304 I guess we'll see, though I find that Jared's overall character lacks a bit off authority for him to play the emperor. Do you understand what i mean by that?

But SEE it soon! It’s excellent!

The movie is a great ad to read the books…looked stunning, not a lot of substance…they glossed over spice!

If you are avoiding Quinn's video but you are anticipating the CHAPTERHOUSE DUNE video then you are a little late - you are officially a Dune aficionado!

lol this WHOLE channel is about Dune entirely, I'm sure he made a video on everything you said here.

Wow ... that would be perfection.

Or Andy Serkis

@@MagicRobot95 ... was thinking of him as I left my reply because honestly, I think he's more likely to get the job.

THAT would be amazing!!

If I recall correctly David Dastmalchian said that he got a preview of what the navigators will look like and they are totally inhuman in appearance. They are going to be extremely elongated, which, to be fair, fits Doug Jones to a tee