Frank Herbert - Creator of Dune Documentary

I do believe, Frank Herbert wrote one of best and most important pieces of literature of our time, not just limited to the genera of Science Fiction.

Great documentary and very thorough. Everything I wondered about, and wanted to know about the Man, Frank Herbert.

I owe such a debt of gratitude to this man Frank Herbert and also to Denis Villenueve for opening a universe of thoughts and feelings and for opening my eyes to many relevant issues. Thank you for this historical information on this great man.

You put full spoilers of dune in this with no warning. This is supposed to be an author documentary not a spoiler review or dune.

Does anyone have a source for Yevgeny Zamyatin’s supposed influence on Frank Herbert? I’m a massive fan of both authors and had suspected that Frank was influenced by Zamyatin when I first began to read the Dune books. Just wondering if there is any real confirmation for this influence or if the writer of this video just suspected some sort of influence as I did.

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Frank Herbert wrote a short story with a similar theme to the movie "Arrival". I haven't seen Arrival yet.. Can anybody give me the Herbert short story title? He wrote many shorts and novels..

Wow. How could they possibly do this. Sitting or lying, in the public WAYS.

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Thank you very much for this educational, fascinating and illuminating profile on Frank Herbert. It was admirably comprehensive.

Yes, he is the greatest science fiction writer until now.

Can you provide the references for what you say? Where did you get that his parents were in an esoteric group?

"My desert. My Arrakis. My Dewn."

Very good

I was absorbed by the original. Dune but I could not have told you about his environmental concerns. No doubt he has influrnced my views. I see his book as one of the greats

Best selling science fiction of all time . The goat . Not woke . But definitely awakening

I like brian herbert i think he was telling the truth about the butlerian jihad and sandwormz and hunters .

You barely touched on another central theme of Dune…theocracy, religious manipulation.
“When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.”

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction

A really enjoyable & thorough examination of Herbert. Thank you. I learned SO much.

Scientific fact films can be taken from the Qur’an instead of science fiction films:
Where the miracle of plant photosynthesis🌿 and the properties of oxygen is 1100 years before Allâh gave this knowledge to the English scientist Joseph Bastelli,
It is prove that the science from Allah revealed it gradually according to each era,
Qur'an 15:21["And there is not a thing but that with Us are its depositories, and We do not send it down except according to a known measure]
[ 1]:*Miracle of An Oxygen 🌿in Quran 6:125 ["So whoever Allah wants to guide - He expands his breast to [contain] Islam; and whoever He wants to misguide - He makes his breast tight and constricted(16) as though he were climbing into the sky. Thus does Allah place defilement upon those who do not believe."]
*This verse is a cosmic miracle that contains the characteristics of oxygen

what a cluster fuck naritive

Good documentary but Dali wasn’t “an actor” and definitely wasn’t French. He’s only of the biggest artists/painters in history, Spanish.

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Imagine how many GREAT BOOKS never see the light of day, despite so many tat-titles being published every damn year.

He was a Libertarian and you absolutely can explore natural resources and be environmentally responsible.Only Extremists think otherwise and his writings are definitely a warning against all kinds of extremisms.

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I believe that Dune is the greatest Science Fiction story ever written. With that said, it was enlightening to look deeper into the life of the creator. Herbert was not a contridictionary man. His political beliefs are actually more honest than almost anyone today. Being politically conservatice while living with an open mind to express creativity and self reflection is a libertarian truth. in 2024 it seems that people like Herbert should be spolighted as how we can be indiviudals and not be a slave to "group think".

“Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seed of its own destruction”
Frank Herbert

I believe Asimov to be the greatest with Herbert a close second.

Herbert built on Asimov's Foundation series. That should have been mentioned. Lucas ripped them both off of course.

Thank goodness we seem to have moved beyond the idiotic notion that drugs doesn't do much else than screw up your mind and body and does not grant special abilities. As to Dune, it was an interesting read but probably overrated imho.

Frank Herbert created Dune to warn us about charismatic leaders...like sandworms! 🌵🐛

i wish i could have met Frank Herbert. a true god among men...
herbert's attitude about ecology didn't really align with the 'climate' hysteria in our modern times. his was more like: don't pollute and encourage the conditions that bring the type of ecology you want. no need for drastic 'solutions'.
we have the tech and knowledge to live in harmony with nature.

IF you have read the book and like the book, David Lynch's Dune is perfect. The SciFi Channel version is great too. The current films, Part 2 is coming out this week, they're beautiful but too woke and they change stuff. Herbert's female characters are already central in the books plus they have superhuman abilities, so I don't see the need for additional wokeness. Seriously, everyone is treated just fine in Frank Herbert's books. Conservatives want all the right things, just as progressives do -- they just want to use different methods! Also they make Duncan Idaho a bit too hypermasculine of beefcakey not to mention kind of militaristic -- it's a tired kind of treatment. Duncan Idaho is an ideal regular guy, who has lots of abilities. He's a great fighter, a fine musician and poet, and presumably a great lover too. What makes him special is what's on the inside, you know what I mean? He's a greathearted poet-warrior from the days of legend. The kind of guy that makes you glad to be a human being. He shouldn't look like a GQ cover.

I was fortunate to meet Frank Herbert at a SF convention and he took kindly to me and explained how he meditated for relaxation by hunting grouse behind his home with a handgun. It involves staying in a state of "relaxed readiness" and "watchful waiting" with your mind blank. When bird flushes you follow it with you eye and hand, and point and shoot. "Point and shoot," said the great man. "Point and shoot." He had me practice the motion with him until I got it.

Years later I read a paper on Herbert that explained as a teen he had been taken on as an apprentice by an a hunter from one of the coastal tribes of Native Americans in the Northwest. From the hunter he learned many things about the world and about his own mental and intuitive abilities. He kept up with the tribe through his life and some of his conservation work was oriented toward preserving and improving their coastal areas.

About his political philosophy, I think it comes out in his books. The Galaxy is ruled by authoritarian elites who vie with each other for power. Real politik in today's terms. Frank's answer to the problems of life was pessimistic. He didn't believe that real freedom and individuality were possible for humans as we are now, even though most conservatives will say we are all free to choose whatever we want, responsible for our actions, blah, blah, blah.

When Paul becomes Emperor he becomes the least free being in the universe, but he fights to give the human race a new existence where we will be free to choose our future, never go extinct, and develop as we want, far into a limitless future.
Quite a guy!

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I don’t think it takes place in an alternate universe, as stated. I’m pretty sure I remember something about the Atreides being descended from Greeks in the Brian Herbert expanded universe, which is supposed to be based on Franks notes. I’ve thought Dune was us, 20k yrs from the present.

Around 20 mins in you mention Dune is set in alternate universe.

To be clear it's not separate like Star Wars is, but set in the far future and Earth is mentioned in the book. At 1 point in Dune Messiah Paul compares his rule to those of 20th century dictatorships on Earth.

It’s crazy to think that this man won the Nobel prize for writing that book

Blue eyes in the thumbnail...well done.

The sheer volume of imagination he generated is astounding.

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Dune, along with Stranger in a Strange Land and the Illustrated man were the three books that started my interests in novels instead of comics. All three were difficult to read and time consuming for me but I stuck with them. I was one of those who didn't think Dune would ever be turned into a movie because of it's complicated plot. I was thrilled when the 1984 version came out but I have to admit the current inconnation is probably the best movie I have ever seen. It's not for the simple sophomoric mindset of gamers who will get bored by it's attention to detail but it makes the experience for me a complete emulsion into the world of dune on the level of Lawrence of Arabia and that's saying something

What makes you think dune is set in an alternate universe? When I read it I saw no reason to believe such.

I love the Dune universe for many reasons but one big reason is there is no corny and dopey characters like R2D2 or C-3PO

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Im gonna start a war by starting that I believe his son is 10 times the author of Herbert senior.

The problem with novels (especially Sci-Fi) that explore deep human issues is that the intent of the author is often missed or misconstrued because so many lack the critical understanding to take things at beyond face value. Starship Troopers is another example of this. I think the just released Dune 2 movie does a decent job of showing the reader that the path that Paul is taking is not a good one, but it necessarily lacks the finesse of the books. It has to be literally spelled out in the interaction between Paul and Chani and her reaction to Paul's change in attitude. This is a source of some consternation for devoted fans of the novels.