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An interesting video, but you've gotta work on your pronunciation! A quick search of interviews will help you find out how to properly pronounce Denis Villeneuve's last name. Try: "vil·nuv".

I completely disagree on several assertions. The Dune universe is not hyper-capitalism. It is feudalism straight through. One of the aspects of feudalism was the suppression of innovation and new ideas. The entrenched cabals of feudal Europe would resort to torture and murder to protect their privilege. I have no clue what the definition of hyper-capitalism is. In our modern world the marketplace determines who wins. If a corporation is observed to be too large and is constricting the growth of society, government intervenes to break it up. Standard Oil and AT&T were far larger than any of the current modern tech companies of today. The FCC and SEC seem to have the same appetite if one of these hyperscalers are viewed to constrain innovation. The reason why I say the hyper-capitalism assertion fails is because in the Dune universe, those who benefit from the feudal system are the sovereigns. A premise of CyberPunk is that the sovereign loses power to the corporation. That is not the case today nor the case in Dune where the houses hold the sovereign power. If you believe that we are nearing a CyberPunk universe, ask the oligarchs of Russia and China where the rules are looser what happens when a sovereign is crossed. My other major disagreement is on the concept of religion. It goes along about religion is linked to the necessity to survive. I can't even begin to comment why this statement is asserted. This must be a future tense thing as Christianity and Islam have major aspects of the individual giving themselves up including their life to prove their devotion to God. Eastern religions like Buddhism, reflect the same thing even if it is not God itself. How many individuals have given up their lives in the name of their religion? Did not do it so that they could survive. My take on Dune is nothing makes sense. Herbert needed a setting. It makes no sense that the more brutal the world, the more competent the warrior. If that were the case the Fremen should have won a long time ago. And in our world the Taliban would rule the world. Yet for some reason the best warriors in the world are produced by the soft and prosperous United States. The entire tech makes no sense. If Sandworms suddenly showed up Earth and were immune to water, they would have been quickly blown to bits by WWII technology. Herbert wanted Feudalism in space, and distorted into a dystopia WarHammer 40K style so he could write his book. If you try to justify why people have to fight with swords, suspension of belief will make you go insane. I agree with others in that Paul is the villain. He allows the deaths of tens of billions in his name. His son is hundred times worse. The Bene Geseritt were so unconcerned with humanity, that they cultivated the Harkonen line for their genetics experiments. The Harkonen's are the least depraved. Paul's father is still a man who ruled as an overload who did not have to answer to any of his subjects.

clubs emerged from NEIGHBORHOODS. my neighborhood buddies in the 60s wrenched on bikes. we weren't badasses, but it was theater that we enjoyed playing from time to time. the cultural revolutions of the 60s didn't fail, either. we simply ran out of human beings.

“the Atreides, while not saints because they engage in the system of Techno-Feudalism, …have a sense of civility and morals others do not.” 2:52 I dispute this as a contrast. This is HOW that House is specialized in their political context. They represent the integration, deployment, and exploitation of those comfortable values and skills in the fierce political interplay. We err if we think them to be doing anything other than what all the major factions are doing.

thank you

I think hyper capitalism is a weird buzzword to throw in there. Elites have always hoarded wealth regardless of the system. Dune is definitely techno feudalism in space tho.

I love your videos, you always approach films from a unique and relevant angle that I don't hear anywhere else !

Well, people tend to suck. Being alone can be quite peaceful. There's less bs and less belligerence.

I disagree with the statement that the movie added intelligence to the sardaukar which was lacking in the books. The movies substitute the entire plot line developing the sardaukar and revealing the emperors use of a prison planet to forge this incredibly skilled force in favor of a bland warrior culture. The books didn’t rely on overt exploration of the culture of the sardaukar and instead relied on the development of parallels between them and the fremen to imply the depth of their culture. The movie, not the books, treat the sardaukar as generic shock troops.

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Speaking of the "Pandemic". Fear is indeed the mind killer. And when fear is utilized properly by those in authority, multitudes surrender their autonomy out of the desire for survival and safety. Great video man, keep up the good work.

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Really good analysis! I’d love to hear you analyze other films/shows in longer form. You’ve got a good voice & humorous personality! Love when the algorithm throws a small channel in my feed and it ends up being gold! Good shit man!

I very much enjoyed this film. It was a pleasure to watch.

I haven't watched this movie and don't plan to. I read the book and it sucked. The ending in the book was ridiculous and it sounds like the director/writer just transferred most of the book onto film.

"first half is good but the second half and ending is where it lost the audience" Sounds like 98% of Shamalongadingdongs movies, at least the family is consistent.

In which industry is nepotism good?

You know what I’d love to see? Nepo kids taking mom and dad’s resources and getting themselves the best education they can (even if it’s in the same industry) and honing their craft skill or trade with small projects and scaling up. Thank you for this review you saved my husband and I 30$ and our time which is just invaluable 👍🏽

M night shalamalama-ding-dong. Enough said.

Thanks for the review man, saved my time haha

hi there i watched your video yesterday and i enjoyed it i was kind of baked lol.

Interesting how you view this movie through a lens of greater meaning! Dementus, Joe and Furiosa definitly seem to give insight in the development/rebuilding of civilization. Dementus seems to operate from a survival of the fittest paradigm. There is a loose societal structure but he is rather chaotic and lives in the moment. He has no greater vision beyond seizing power and having fun. Though powerful he's like a child/animal. Joe has a greater vision for society and the future. He seems better organized and capable of maintaining power. He (ab)uses religion to create structure. He cares about creating a legacy but he's still very selfish and his society is unsustainable like a house of cards because he's a tyrant who uses people like disposable tools. Furiosa has the potential to create a better future. She has experienced both paradise and suffering and still maintained her humanity. To quote max: " if you cant fix whats broken you'll go insane"

I'll watch excerpts with hemsy, nothing

Love the original Mad Max trilogy. I don't care about this film at all though.

More people need to see this movie.

I loved it. I think OctoBoss was a cool design for a villian. Also, i saw the winged bikes and thought for a moment "Wasteland Winged Hussars?!" 🙌

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Excellent analysis. Just like you I went into the movie theatre expecting a bland simple tale but was impressed by the subtle storytelling. Challengers is a fantastic piece of cinema.

"We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us." This is a symptom of all ossified, failing societies, not only capitalism. It occurred with every prior organizational structure of society; many, many times in modern, classical, and ancient history. It happened to the Romans, Greeks, Ottomans, Hindus. The Egyptians, the Boat People, so on and so forth back as far as you can trace it. When a people is too successful for too many consecutive generations, they lose touch with the practical, deny reality, stop reproducing, lose creative drive and only the consumptive drive remains. They engage in increasingly more depraved & decadent behavior until finally the infrastructure is crumbling, the culture is in ruins, and the people themselves are burned off like a forest fire by some calamity they could've defeated if their society was still healthy. Often the calamity is simply a neighboring civilization with vim & vigor encroaching and overtaking the depressed one. The particular form it takes today is specific to technological, post-industrial, globalized society, but this societal depression is the same waveform returning as it always does when a people grows decadent and directionless. I'm no Abrahamist, but it's true what is said... the last shall be first and first shall be last, for many be called, but few are chosen. Just look at the birthrates of rural vs urban, religious vs atheist, developed vs undeveloped. We are on the cusp of a great turning of some kind and it will be away from cosmopolitanism, decadence, indulgence, & likely toward discipline, deprivation, and simplicity.

Make life what you will. Whether good or bad, that’s life.

I would love a sequel documentary style more info on the cult from the beginning

I liked it. It felt like a short from VHS but given the full film treatment.

These three are just a very messy, chaotic and toxic throuple.

Wow. I TOTALLY agree with the critique of the plot summary as revolving around “whether Strauss passes a job interview”! That’s exactly how I felt. In a movie about the FATE OF HUMANITY, I couldn’t care less about the bureaucratic scenes of political backstabbing. Great performances? YES. Did I care about the characters? Nope.

very interesting points! like you, i initially wasn’t too excited to see it and i didn’t think it was going to be worth seeing in theaters. one of my friends said it was really good though so i gave it a shot and i’m so glad i did. imo, i feel like this is one of those movies that is better on a big screen

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I’m not sure Jodorowsky would want to touch Oppenheimer because his movies seem to focus more on surreal fantasy (which I love). I think Kubrick would have been more of a fitting director for this material. But I think your analysis is spot on. The courtroom scenes felt underwhelming and unnecessary. It would have been more interesting to focus on the spiritual and philosophical journey Oppenheimer went on after the bomb.

Great clip. I just have 2 corrections: The directors name is pronounced JodoRowski and it's "nuclear bomb", not "nucular bomb"

Your research is shallow, sorry but the phrase of the Bhagavad Gita that Oppenheimer says when the bomb explodes is based on his own account, did you sse the interview of real life oppenheimer after they dropped the bombs? At the very least did you read American Prometheus? That phrase is intrinsical to Oppenheimer.

Jodorowsky would have made Oppenheimer a hero😂like he would have ruin dune by making paul a hero

I agree this movie is so good. Everyone is a vilain and there is so many rooms for making many analysis

I think the movie was very subtle when they wanted to highlight the attraction between men. Also, most of the time the way that men's bodies are shown, the way that they are subtily hypersexualized are not common. Most of the time it is women's bodies that have these gazes. I agree with the female gaze but I'm also wondering if there is somehow a queer gaze?. I remember the way that Patrick was introduced when he arrived at the hotel. There were these men that hypersexualized him and judged him for no reason. At first I thought it was somehow the way that Patrick sees himself. However now I think there is a queer gaze toward him to show that maybe he is attracted to men.

Thank you for acknowledging the subtext of the movie, specially the homoeroticism, i feel most reviewers just gloss over that when its a fundamental part of the movie!

Add more b-roll and I bet you'd grab more attention.

The same quote opened Hell's Angels.

Am I a Canadian-Flavoured American, or an American-Flavoured Canadian?

Destroying Civilization for Fun and Profit

Really bold analysis not just of this show but of modern society, and very astute and true. Nicely done.

did know one pay attention to the plot vault tec wanted to outlive the population to gain full control of the world not drop the bomb themselves