Tor is - that’s who.
https://www.tor.com/2019/02/05/how-to-handle-the-baron-harkonnen-in-a-modern-dune-adaptation/
Seems there’s pressure on the new cash grab with the label “Dune” on it to edit the story itself to take down aspects of one of the best all time sci-fi villains - the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.
His “Gay” issue, “Fat” issue and an aspect of gay - that he likes ‘em young.
Seems it doesn’t pass Triggypuff’s standards for what we should be allowed to see, read and THINK. I’m not sure the novel directly said the Baron’s faults were related to - either direction - him being a villain. But today there’s tons of people ready to scream at the slightest thing - to champion any fashionably radical fake cause rather than doing the long and high personal sacrifice of pushing for a real one.
Just One Man’s opinion - but I think that the book was forward thinking - that perhaps by coincidence he was a fat queer who liked boys. They don’t fight him coz of that, they fight him coz he’s a monster tyrant and the enemy of the family of the hero of the story.
Would you diminish Paul then for some reason…
OH! Wait! The Triggypuffs are doing just exactly that -
https://www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/2019/02/08/dunes-paul-atreides-is-the-ultimate-mighty-whitey/
https://prometheanplayground.wordpress.com/tag/white-savior-trope/
So, we’ll have Baron Harkonnen be either non-sexual, not too fat, maybe THIN...Uh, what about the Suspenders - well cheaper to get some goodwill prop and spray FlexSeal on them for a quick space age rubber - he’s got LITERAL suspenders. He’s a WHITE Hick - whitey is evil! It’s ok to be racist against whitey. Then they’ll get a token black actor to play Paul. Hallp us, them Harkonnen whitey be oh-pressin’ us…
Heh, Herbert is Rolling in his grave.
They’d butcher Dune worse than the movies butchered John Norman’s “Gor” series…
The authors of Last Unicorn and Clan of the Cave-Bear will go "What WAS I thinking... Compared to what they did to Dune, they only changed a few things, nothing that big..."
I actually welcome this. The Triggypuff stupid whining.
COZ - this will get more people to BOYCOTT the movie. I think I’m going to find some way to contact investors and organize a writing campaign. IF they are going to adapt the books but butcher them, just DON’T make the movie - we’ll make sure it flops. AND - frankly, the p---y hat, triggypuff crowd will do the work and probably some vandalism too without even being asked - coz when you give them a tenth of an inch they hate you worse for not handing them a mile on an ethically sourced silver platter.
IMO there should be NO movie made of Dune, save Jodorowsky's version. Period.
See downthread, I went over this much more but here's a TL/DR...
It’d be a 14 hour nightmare that’d bankrupt the studio that made it but become a Rocky Horror Picture show with sci-fi Dune geeks having a weekend watching it in settings and costume. Worth it just to give modern illustrators the opportunity to worship Giger and Moebius - and to digitally resurrect Dali to be the Padishah Emperor!
Jodorosky or NOTHING for Dune.
Furthermore - well here’s an example to show how pathetic the Triggypuff outrage is - now starting to feel mature on the way to getting old - there are plenty of people now who have no idea the era it was written in. I hadn’t been born or was in tye-died-diaper covers. BUT I read a lot of scifi written in that era via the library/used bookstore and saw lots of the “Grindhouse” movies thanks to them being dumped to VHS.
One of my favs - “Women in Cages” - early Pam Grier before her “Blaxploitation” superstardom.
Best/worst of the “Women in Prison” films though that’s up for debate. Pam plays an expatriate American who due to the very real racism at the time leaves America and somehow manages to become warden at some 3rd world country prison. There she soaks in reverse racism, especially against white American prisoners “Don’ this make yew jus pin foh th’ cotton fields back home?” and takes her lesbian pick of the female prisoners, torturing them in a dungeon when the are naughty or refuse her.
Want a ‘Destructive, negative gay stereotype’ to shriek about when its re-made? Well since they’ve scrubbed out anything respectable and Tarantino’s “Grindhouse” revival is still legendary perhaps they’ll re-do this movie… Then the SJW’s can stand and hold signs and scream and scream and scream all they want, at least with some issue.
