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The role of storytelling: Are people too busy for stories today?
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In the Dune epic, Frank Herbert recreates a familiar history of rebellion to absorbing effect.
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Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part 2 brings to the big screen a beloved cult epic, starring some of the biggest celebrities of today’s generation: Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, Florence Pugh, Lea Seydoux.
In many ways, Frank Herbert’s 1965 science-fiction classic is an archetypal story of love, war, moral doubt and the pull of destiny. Yet its more meta-elements reveal two aspects of storytelling that help it remain ever relevant.
