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From: "Damon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: The Films They Dare Not Make Today
>
> >Just read The Butlerian Jihad. It takes place 10,000 years from now and
> &g
Damon said:
> How is that possible? I thought the events of the original book took
> place in 10191.
That date is 10,191 after the founding of the Spacing Guild. According
to the appendices to _Dune_, the Battle of Corrin, which decided the
supremacy of House Corrino, was fought in 88BG (i.e. "Be
Just read The Butlerian Jihad. It takes place 10,000 years from now and
10,000 before Dune.
How is that possible? I thought the events of the original book took place
in 10191. According to the above account the date would be 22003!
I read the 1st book in the series and thought it rather unre
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From: "Matt Grimaldi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 2:14 AM
Subject: Re: The Films They Dare Not Make Today
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > As to Dune: As a jew I was uncomfortabl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> As to Dune: As a jew I was uncomfortable with the motif
> of the books but not enough to prevent my enjoyment of
> them (or at least the first one; I found the sequels
> tiresome). I was made more uncomfortible when I learned
> that the name Sadakars (spell?) given to
In a message dated 1/30/2003 10:47:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> Those are some of the shocking but unavoidable post-9/11 messages of many
> Hollywood films shot pre-9/11 - films that would likely not
> get produced
> today. (At least, not uncensored.)
As to Dune: As
Julia posted:
Post-9/11 Hollywood: The Films They Dare Not Make Today
By Mimi Brickmeyer, The Hollywood Investigator
January 24, 2003
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15020
This is an interesting article, and I realize that to some extent Brickmeyer
was endulging in a little
This is from another list that was threatening to get into something
really ugly over Dune. (So far, just this and a mock flamewar.)
Post-9/11 Hollywood: The Films They Dare Not Make Today
By Mimi Brickmeyer, The Hollywood Investigator
January 24, 2003
Terrorists are cool and cuddly, jihad
