Inspirations for Dune saga!
Posted: 02 Sep 2012 10:35
Now there are countless sites about origins of star wars , star trek etc. but what about Dune? Anyway, here is threat where fans can post stuff that they thing inspired Dune (Altought we can never be sure)
Dune
1.Hamlet's conversation with the ghost of his dead father is echoed in the conversation between Liet Kynes and the ghost of his dead father Pardot Kynes.
2.Alia geting captured just to kill to kill the Baron is similar how from wikipedia "knight named Miloš Obilić, pretended to desert to the Turkish forces. When he was brought before Murad, Obilić pulled out a hidden dagger and killed the Sultan by stabbing him in the neck and heart. "
Dune Messiah
1.Paul is Messiah to Fremen that should make live better but he only makes more trouble just like Hitler to Germany.There's a scene where he compares himself to Hitler — "He killed more than six million. Pretty good for those days... Statistics: at a conservative estimate, I've killed sixty-one billion, sterilized ninety planets, completely demoralized five hundred others. I've wiped out the followers of forty religions..."
Children of Dune Alia (a redhead) is an "Abomination" (mad witch) red hair was supposedly a mark of a witch and favored by Satan himself t(he Baron is Also ginger). In the Balkans, people unfortunate enough to be born with red hair were said to be doomed to rise as vampires when they died, if they weren't vampires already. In some parts of Eastern Europe, babies born with red hair were once common targets of infanticide. (from Tv Tropes)
God Emperor of Dune
1.Leto' II is God Emperor just Like Pharaoh in ancient Egypt
Other
Salusa Secundus=SS also Shaddam Corrino IV consideres himself to be number 1 Sardaukar officer just like Hitler considered himself to be number 1 SS officer
Sandworm is most likely inspired by ,,The Mongolian death worm"
Frank Herbert talks about Spice
Dune
1.Hamlet's conversation with the ghost of his dead father is echoed in the conversation between Liet Kynes and the ghost of his dead father Pardot Kynes.
2.Alia geting captured just to kill to kill the Baron is similar how from wikipedia "knight named Miloš Obilić, pretended to desert to the Turkish forces. When he was brought before Murad, Obilić pulled out a hidden dagger and killed the Sultan by stabbing him in the neck and heart. "
Dune Messiah
1.Paul is Messiah to Fremen that should make live better but he only makes more trouble just like Hitler to Germany.There's a scene where he compares himself to Hitler — "He killed more than six million. Pretty good for those days... Statistics: at a conservative estimate, I've killed sixty-one billion, sterilized ninety planets, completely demoralized five hundred others. I've wiped out the followers of forty religions..."
Children of Dune Alia (a redhead) is an "Abomination" (mad witch) red hair was supposedly a mark of a witch and favored by Satan himself t(he Baron is Also ginger). In the Balkans, people unfortunate enough to be born with red hair were said to be doomed to rise as vampires when they died, if they weren't vampires already. In some parts of Eastern Europe, babies born with red hair were once common targets of infanticide. (from Tv Tropes)
God Emperor of Dune
1.Leto' II is God Emperor just Like Pharaoh in ancient Egypt
Other
Salusa Secundus=SS also Shaddam Corrino IV consideres himself to be number 1 Sardaukar officer just like Hitler considered himself to be number 1 SS officer
Sandworm is most likely inspired by ,,The Mongolian death worm"
Frank Herbert talks about Spice