Why the fuck is Dune considered "unfilmable?"

[Anonymous No.15640467]

350 pages into this for the first time and it couldn't be easier to film so far. I've seen the Lynch and the miniseries and know like everyone else of the upcoming films, but where in the fuck does this difficult to adapt reputation come from? It's as straightforward as can be.

Are people that read this just unimaginative retards or what?

[Anonymous No.15640571]

I will have you know that you need to disavow Dune or your silence on the issue will actually be speaking louder than words ever could, since if you do not disown Dune you are practically praising it.
And we can't have that here on Dune free /lit/.

>don't make me make another Dune hate thread.

[Anonymous No.15640740]

Shit book.

[Anonymous No.15640839]

>>15640467
Name one (1) thing wrong with Dune.

[Anonymous No.15640850]

Better not think about what will happen to part 4

[Anonymous No.15640862]

>>15640839
Nothing is wrong with it, as far as I'm concerned. I love it, and I'm sure OP does, too. OP is taking issue with the idea that it's "unfilmable." And I honestly agree with him, I read Dune and it never came across as impossible to film. Sure, it has visions and dream sequences and the weird inner world of characters sometimes (like Jessica and Paul), but those have been depicted well on film before.

When I think of "unfilmable" science fiction books, the one that alwas comes to mind for me is The Book of the New Sun. I truly think that actually is unfilmable, because so much of its power comes from the huge amount of uncertainty in its narrative and plot. We're never quite sure if Severian is telling the truth, we know he's ignorant and misunderstands multiple things throughout the plot, and the deep future world he inhabits is so alien that we're sometimes not even sure what, exactly, he's describing, what it could possibly look like. These are all part of the appeal of BOTNS, and they'd be ruined if you tried to film it. This is not the case with Dune. Herbert is always pretty straightforward about what things look like, feel like, etc..

[Anonymous No.15640960]

Most of the writing in Dune consists of characters thinking about things or infodumping each other. Even the action scenes like Feyd vs the Atreides prisoner in gladitorial combat is full of thinking.

[Anonymous No.15641199]

>>15640839
It's juvenile.

[Anonymous No.15641238]

>>15640960
What the fuck kind of retard response is this? Have you read any book ever? Almost all of them are people constantly relaying their thoughts.

150 pages into Dune and:
>Paul has been tested with magical pain box and learned of prophecy
>Paul meets individual characters that all give him something useful while relaying their relationship
>Practices deadly sword fighting with Gurney
>Moves across the galaxy to Dune
>Seeds of mistrust and intrigue are planted as Jessica, Paul, and Duke Leto explore the new palace
>Paul is almost assassinated by a remote control bug
>A search of the compound happens
>Duke Leto has a war council
>Some shit about a special knife and Duncan Idaho stomps in swinging his big dick

OHH MAN SO UNFILMABLE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HAPPENING JUST THOUGHTS AND WORDS

Jesus Christ.

[Anonymous No.15641265]

>>15641238
yeah the problem is actually that too much happens, all at the beginning, and then the book jumps forward several years and abruptly ends. it's not a bad book, and it's not unfilmable, you'd just have to actually adapt it instead of trying to turn the book into a movie as is.

[Anonymous No.15641273]

>>15641238
Unironically this. I think it would make a decent avant-garde 3-hour film. Think of long shots on a desert and consice dialogue, sort of like the Mad Max but substitute madness by an eternal sense of calmess and you have something with more artistic value than ninety percent of what HW shits nowadays

[Anonymous No.15641293]

>>15641273
hola, señor Jodorowsky?

[Anonymous No.15642171]

>>15641199
thats a good thing, ya boomer

[Anonymous No.15642176]

>>15641273
You're a pedo and you're going to get the rope soon, old man

[Anonymous No.15642194]

>>15641238
Yeah I guess you can boil it down to Jackson's Lord of the Rings and still make a good epic adventure move. But in doing so Dune will lose most of its thematic content.

[Anonymous No.15642233]

The people who try to film it have literally never read the books. It’s obvious that whoever is directing these movies has always completely disregarded the source material in order to make “le epix scyfy muvey”.
It couldn’t be simpler.
Read book.
Film what book says.
DUH.

[Anonymous No.15642281]

>>15640960

What's a fictional alternative then? A samurai film?

[Anonymous No.15642349]

It is come to my knowledge that they call it difficult to film due to its multiple options on how to describe the emotions put in dune and the multiple points of view it throws on the table

[Anonymous No.15642501]

>unfilmable
>has been filmed multiple times