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That Darn Girl posted: "Dune - Budget of $165 million - 2 hours and 36 minutes Click on a vendor to purchase (FTC Affiliate Disclaimer) In Theater Home Premiere Paul Atreides wakes up from another dream about a young Freman woman. While he lies to his mother,"
Paul Atreides wakes up from another dream about a young Freman woman. While he lies to his mother, Lady Jessica, about the visions, he practices his voice with her. Paul, like Jessica, has telepathic abilities, but they have to find the right tone to command people to do what they say. After the lesson, Paul meets with his mentor Duncan. Paul requests to go on Duncan's next mission, but Duncan says no. Paul explains that he has had visions of Duncan's death. And Paul fears it will come true if he doesn't go on the mission. Duncan refuses and tells Paul to continue his fight training with Gurney. Later, Paul tells his father, Leto, the ruler of Caladan, that he is not ready to lead. Leto assures Paul that when the time comes, Paul will serve as the next Duke of Caladan. Paul attends Leto's takeover of the Arrakis from the House of Harkonnen, ruled by Baron Vladimir. Leto's faction will have control of the 'spice' produced by Arrakis. 'Spice' extends the human lifespan and is a critical element for interstellar space travel. Taking over 'spice' will ensure unprecedented financial gain for Leto and his people. While Vladimir hands over Arrakis freely, he does it with a trick up his sleeve. Vladimir weakened the spice harvesters, created a plan to kill Paul, and added a mole in the House of Atreides. Vladimir will take back his spice and control. Paul will have to step into Leto's shoes and use all of his training to save Atreides, his family, 'spice,' and the Fremen.
Based on Dune by Frank Herbert, this remake is one of the finest visual movies of all time (FTC Affiliate Disclaimer). Viewers become engrossed in Frank's world with the costumes, scenes, creatures, and machinery. At some moments, you can almost smell the spice in the air. The actors embrace their characters and allow the source material to be the focal point of the movie. Seeing a film of this scale on a large screen is a must. You can not be late for this movie. The first 10 minutes cover the entire backstory for each house and the importance of spice. Now what they gave the audience in visual effects, they lost in some of the audio. The internal voices in Paul's mind become hard to understand when several voices overlap. It would be ok, but this internal dialog is significant to the story. Understandably, producers wanted the fighting scenes and sound effects to be grand, but it shouldn't come at the cost of dialog. While you won't pay to see it again, you will be glad you saw it in theaters. Whether or not you purchase it is up to you. But don't wait too long, because part 2 is in the works.
I give it 3.5 out of 5 stars
The glass can't hear you. Command me - Lady Jessica
A great man doesn't seek to lead. He's called to it - Duke Leto
Mood what's mood to do with this. You fight when the necessity arrives - Gurney
How dare you use the voice on me - Paul
Nothing survives such a storm. They're dead - Glossu
Redaksi posted: " MediaBantenCyber.co.id - (MBC) Sleman, Tim berjuluk Bajul Ijo alias Green Force Persebaya Surabaya berhasil mempertahankan tradisi tidak pernah kalah saat melakoni pertandingan Sepakbola melawan tim Macan Kemayoran Persija Jakarta. Hal tersebut dapat dil"
MediaBantenCyber.co.id- (MBC) Sleman, Tim berjuluk Bajul Ijo alias Green Force Persebaya Surabaya berhasil mempertahankan tradisi tidak pernah kalah saat melakoni pertandingan Sepakbola melawan tim Macan Kemayoran Persija Jakarta. Hal tersebut dapat dilihat dari hasil pertandingan PENUH GENGSI dan PRESTISE antara Persebaya Surabaya vs Persija Jakarta yang berakhir dengan Kemenangan 1-0 untuk tim Green Force Persebaya Surabaya dalam lanjutan pertandingan Liga 1 BRImo yang berlangsung pada Selasa (26/10/2021) malam, di stadion Maguharjo, Sleman, Yogyakarta pada Pukul 20.00 WIB.
Pertandingan dua tim besar legendaris di tanah air tersebut berlangsung dalam tempo cepat, dengan membuat hasil dramatis untuk kemenangan tim Bajul Ijo alias Green Force atas salah satu tim seteru abadinya Macan Kemayoran Persija Jakarta. Dan kemenangan dalam laga dramatis serta sengit tersebut disambut suka cita dan riuh oleh para supporter fanatik Persebaya Surabaya yaitu Bonek.
Pertandingan kedua tim musuh abadi tersebut berlangsung dalam tempo cepat dan sengit. Dan kemenangan Persebaya Surabaya diraih berkat gol cepat pada menit ke-25 dari sontekan kaki pemain Persebaya Surabaya asal negara Jepang Taisei Marukawa, setelah memanfaatkan peluang dari kesalahan pemain belakang Persija Jakarta. Dengan mulusnya pemuda asli Hiroshima, Jepang tersebut menggiring tepat hingga berhadapan dengan penjaga gawang yang tanpa pengawalan penuh pemain belakang Persija Jakarta, dan tanpa ampun tendangan cukup keras Marukawa menghujam ke jala gawang Persija, 1-0 untuk keunggulan Persebaya Surabaya.
Hingga babak pertama usai, tim Persebaya Surabaya berhasil unggul 1-0 atas lawannya tim Persija Jakarta. Dan memasuki babak kedua, tim Macan Kemayoran terus berusaha bermain ngotot dengan melakukan serangan Bergelombang dan terus mengurung ke jantung pertahanan tim Persebaya Surabaya. Dan tercatat hingga delapan kali penjaga gawang ketiga Persebaya Surabaya bermain sangat bagus dan berkali-kali menyelamatkan gawang yang dikawalnya dengan penyelamatan aksi yang brilian dan cemerlang.
Dan hingga berakhir jalannya pertandingan babak kedua yang sangat sengit dan seru tersebut, Persebaya Surabaya tetap memimpin keunggulan 1-0 hingga akhir pertandingan, dengan catatan penguasaan bola 60 Persen dikuasai oleh tim Persija Jakarta.(BTL)
elspeth posted: " In honor of Mr. Obama's most recent attempt to gaslight us, I thought a repost of this July 2021 Word Nerd Wednesday post was in order. Our entire culture has been upended using ambiguous language and sleight of hand. Sadly, most of us have fallen for"
In honor of Mr. Obama's most recent attempt to gaslight us, I thought a repost of this July 2021 Word Nerd Wednesday post was in order.
Our entire culture has been upended using ambiguous language and sleight of hand. Sadly, most of us have fallen for the ruse in one way or another. Rather than list all of the lies that have been re-framed as truth to great effect, I want to focus on one particular phrase and how our misunderstanding of it has been used to exploit us in a bid for power.
There is a tendency in our country among media, academic, and politically elite institutions to rail against conservatives engaging in an endless "culture war" while ignoring the greater threats of climate change, economic inequality, and lack of affordable health care.
These are straw man arguments, designed to keep Americans from thinking about the reality of what it means to wage war, what it means to wage a culture war, and who is really waging said war. I'll start with an example.
Let's assume I have a next door neighbor named Larry, whom I dislike. Larry has never actually done anything to me personally. He lives a different lifestyle from me. He believes different things than me, and his likes and dislikes differ from mine. In fact, he disagrees with much of what I hold dear. He's never mean, though. He always waves hello, and he even picks up the newspaper off my driveway every morning when my family is on vacation so that it's not obvious that our home is unoccupied for the week. We're never going to be besties; that much is clear, but overall, we coexist well enough.
One day, I decide that I can't stand Larry's smug politeness nor his disagreement with my beliefs. So...I take a brick and throw it through his windshield. I want him to pay attention to me, to engage with my beliefs and ideas. I know that if I throw a brick though his windshield, we can no longer play this game of polite coexistence. He has to confront me, because I broke his windshield!
When Larry comes out of his house to confront me about the brick in his driver's seat and broken windshield, imagine if I said to him, "Why are you so upset about a broken windshield when I just heard that the guy in the house on the corner is selling marijuana out of his garage? Isn't shielding your kids from a potential drug dealer more important than a stupid broken piece of glass that your insurance company can take care of before the day is out?"
My response to Larry sounds ridiculous on its face, and most people would readily say as much. However, many of these same people will screech and howl that conservatives are waging a culture war, simply by noticing something absurdly inappropriate, and noting that said thing is absurdly inappropriate. The issue of course, is that we have a large swath of people who are offended by the very idea of appropriateness. We have reached a place in our culture where standards, which all societies have, are considered evil. Hegemony, they say (ooh! there's another good word), must be resisted at all costs. I just decided to take a detour to discuss hegemony in its purest form, rather than get stuck with Antonio Gramsci's interpretation of it:
noun: hegemony; plural noun: hegemonies
leadership or dominance, especially by one country or social group over others."Germany was united under Prussian hegemony after 1871
Opposite:self-government
Origin
mid 16th century: from Greekhēgemonia, from hēgemōn 'leader', from hēgeisthai 'to lead'.
I have a minor quibble with this definition, because it indicates that a dominant cultural standard, even one that flows from the top down, necessarily undermines self-government. Any Christian can tell you that isn't true. Any wife in a traditional marriage can tell you that. Any child can tell you that having family rules doesn't negate the necessity of each person to exercise self-government.
For what it's worth, I'm not particularly enthralled with top down control any more than the next American. Free markets are good, the ability to move up in socioeconomic status is good. This of course, makes our current wholesale embrace of Gramsci and his understanding of hegemony even more ironic. But that's a topic for another day. We're trying to decide what a culture war is and how we have come to misunderstand who is waging one in our current cultural moment.
I have a question: Who started the war between me and my hypothetical neighbor, Larry? Was it him, or was it me? The answer should be obvious. Now who started the culture war? Is it the people who push boundaries and rebel against everything that mankind has known (and largely agreed) to be good, true and beautiful since the dawn of civilization? Or is it the people throwing the bricks through the window of created order and natural law for the sake of destroying cultural cohesiveness?
Someone suggests, "Disregarding the necessity sexual self-control in favor of unchecked desire is the road to freedom", handing men and (mostly) women all manner of options to sever the tether between sexual behavior and reproduction, including killing babies in the womb. "Larry" objects that this diminishes the value of both mothers and children, and the retort is always some version of, "You just want to infringe on women's freedom!" Who started the battle?
Someone suggests, "Marriage should be available to anyone who wants to marry no matter their sex", and not based on the natural law that under girded it since the beginning of mankind. Larry objects, "Once we do that, we shatter the foundation which has proven to provide the best outcomes for children". The retort is, "Love is love, you bigot. Nothing about this is going to lead to worse outcomes for children." Did Larry throw the brick?
Someone asserts, "Men and women are interchangeable; so much so we can simply do away with the concepts, and let people choose their sex." Larry objects, "But wait. We're supposed to be living in the age of science. Biology is clear. Male and female are concrete, biological reality. Doing this will create utter chaos. Especially for children." The retort is more ranting about bigotry and marginalization, along with the idea that the slippery slope thing is just a fallacy. Larry, with his wheelbarrow of bricks!
Time for the next frontier. "In order to acclimate children to this new, more tolerant and loving reality, they need to be taught from an early age that two mommies are natural, two daddies are natural, men as women are natural, and women turning into men is natural. The best way to do that is through exposing children to these sexual realities from a very young age; in school, at the library, even via television programming for preschoolers". Larry, growing increasingly concerned, objects more strenuously. He is treated to invective and ridicule from all corners of the media, academia, and on social media. He is called a bigot. He is threatened with the loss of his job. He is told to shut up or else.
Instead of choosing to start a culture war based in bigotry, discrimination and cultural hegemony, Larry would have been better off trying to save the planet, which is about to be destroyed by climate change.
He hasn't even figured out yet that the teacher at school has been teaching his son Justin that he is an evil oppressor, and that his son's best friend from church, Michael, is being taught that he is the victim of Justin's evil oppression. When he objects, he'll be accused of selfishness for complaining that I set his house on fire when people in Guatemala are suffering under a corrupt and oppressive regime.
Larry needs to get his priorities straight instead of being distracted by stupid culture wars, our former President says to the parents whose daughter was violently assaulted by a gender fluid boy wearing a dress for admittance to the girl's bathroom.
Former President @BarackObama: "We don't have time to be wasted on these phony trumped-up culture wars, this fake outrage, the right-wing media's pedals to juice their ratings." pic.twitter.com/bmMnet8q5X
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