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It's Rico Daily. I'm Adam Clark Estus. And today we're talking Dune.

For some, Dune is their favorite sci-fi book. For others, it's a cult classic David Lynch movie

from the 1980s. One thing is clear, it's a story worth telling, and filmmakers are giving it

another shot. Director Denny Villeneuve's adaptation of the epic is coming to theaters and HBO Max

this week, which begs the question, what is it about Dune that keeps us coming back?

Here's Alyssa Wilkinson, film critic at Vox, to help us answer that question.

So I think that Villeneuve's film is incredibly successful. I'm making you feel like you're in

that world, capturing these sweeping vistas, you know, it's set on a desert planet. There's

all these interesting kind of images that come out of it. One of the ones that usually sticks

with people is there are giant sand worms that kind of burrow their way through the desert.

And the way he tells it and leans on visual images that he's been able to render and create

and imagine emphasizes the strangeness of it, the desertty nature of it, the kind of scariness

of it, I think is really important that it's just big and vast and deadly. It also feels bigger

than a lot of science fiction does. Some people compare it to 2001 a space Odyssey, which is

very bold comparison, but I can kind of see where they're coming from. It really is immersive.

They're taking my family off one by one.

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