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It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film and the way it's shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Tasha Robinson, here again with...

Keith Phipps, Scott Tobias, and Genevieve Kosky. On last week's show, we talked about Lawrence of Arabia, David Lean's 1962 classic about old school desert power, and the Arab tribes in World War I who banded together to fight.

Either under the heroic larger-than-life but secretly troubled leadership of the British Colonel T.E. Lawrence,

or with him as just sort of a helpful liaison in the war they were already fighting, depending on who's telling that story.

The leadership in Frank Herbert's 1965 sci-fi novel, Dune, follows a similar

course, but without the tension of a real-life figure to contradict some of the fictionalized epic.

Deneve-Vellinov's Dune Part 1 starts the process of adapting the novel, taking its time in

introducing a struggle between powerful families and a far-flung space opera imperium, leading to a war

that all but wipes out one of them. Timothy Chalemay stars as Paul Atreides, the son and heir of a

clan leader who's been ordered to take control of a crucial and profitable planetary outpost that

produces spice, a powerful halicinogen that enables space travel. But the emperor is deliberately setting Paul's

family against the powerful Harkinen tribe, who have controlled the spice world for 80 years and don't

want to let it go. This movie is just the first half of the story, which, we should note, was made

with no sign of the second half having been greenlit, so we have no idea as of this recording

whether Villeneuve will get the chance to complete his story. But given how Herbert's novel was inspired by Lawrence's life and work,

there are some strong resemblances here, which will lay out after we take a moment to take

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