Level – Advanced
Plot – More than twenty thousand years into the future, humankind is spread across the universe living in a feudal society with the Padishah Emperor at its head. The Emperor has recently given control of the desert planet Arrakis to House Atreides. Despite its hostile desert climate, Arrakis is a valuable holding, as it is the only planet that produces the profitable crop called spice (also known as melange). Spice is a highly addictive drug that can be ingested as a mind-altering substance to increase human lifespan, allow interstellar travel, and open the human mind to higher cognitive functions including prescience.
Dune by Frank Herbert 1965
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Oscar nominee Denis Villeneuve (“Arrival,” “Blade Runner 2049”) directs Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ “Dune,” the big-screen adaptation of Frank Herbert’s seminal bestseller of the same name. A mythic and emotionally charged hero’s journey, “Dune” tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, who must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet’s exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence—a commodity capable of unlocking humanity’s greatest potential—only those who can conquer their fear will survive.The film stars Oscar nominee Timothé