He who controls the pronunciation...

[featherynscale]

I think I've been watching Dune for a week now. Well, to be fair, we're on Children of Dune now. 6 hours of Dune. I don't think it took me that long to read the book.
So, with all the problems in the world today, what I'm wondering is, who decided that it would be a good idea to pronounce the word for Paul Muad'dib's 'death commandos' as "feh-dyke-in"? In my mind it's always been "feh-dah-keen", like 'fellaheen' and 'mujahadeen' and other words like that. So the viewing has been punctuated by snickers every time Paul says "feh-dyke-in".
10 geek points to me, for complaining about pronunciation of words that don't even exist in real language.
The other thing that bothers me is that the events of Dune seem so timely and topical, and that they probably were timely and topical when the books were being written. It just makes me feel like we haven't made a whole lot of progress in the way we make policy about desired commodities found in desert regions.
Bah, 10 geek points for comparing sci-fi to politics.

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[diermuid.livejournal.com]

I think I didn't like the second Dune because it was high ideals and low budget. So it ended up campy. Even the original movie pulled some wierd stuff, glossing over all the buildup so they could get to the battle. So when people died, it didn't seem as tragic as it did in the book. Plus it doesn't give you any clue as to why they would have created the ghola later. (I still say it was a flesh golem with a goofy name ;-)


I had forgotten that Chani died... but the really cool part was when there was some accident and a charred Paul comes out and sees despite his eyeballs being toasted. That was pretty morbid... and at that point, it was walking the thin line between scifi and trying to invent a new religion.

I also hated the spoiled brat that Alia had become... it was like adding Oliver to the Brady Bunch.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Nah. Flesh golems are stitched together, ghola are grown in...errr...tanks. (blech.)

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[diermuid.livejournal.com]

True, but I stil think one was pirated off the other, considering the closeness in names. And since I read Gygax first... ::grin::

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Yeah - the ghola is a golem-relative... but there were golems before Gygax.

They're part of Jewish legend as early as the 16th century. So, incidentally, is the phrase 'kwisatz haderach', which relates to the ability to either be more than one place at once, or the ability to 'fold space' so as to step from one place to a distant place in no time. I think one of the titles in Dune for the Kwisatz Haderach is "he who is many places at once".