Alt Shift X took a break, and now we're back -- working on a big Jon Snow video, and more Dune videos. Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: go.nebula.tv/altshiftx Tale Foundry’s Dune genre video: nebula.tv/videos/talefoundry-dune-scifi-or-fantasy?ref=altshiftx Lindsay Ellis’ Lord of the Rings video: nebula.tv/videos/lindsayellis-how-they-adapted-lord-of-the-rings?ref=altshiftx

To add onto Baron Harkonnen being a luxury and sensation obsessed individual; the fact that he's spending most of his time on dune - a place where water is in absurdly short supply and desperately sought after - bathing and immersed in water only adds to the level of self indulgence, greed and cruelty. It's a display for him, a way of indulging in the ability to have things specifically in a manner that deprives others.

My favorite little thing about Dune lore is that the Bene Gesserit wanted Paul to be a woman specifically because they wanted to marry them to Feyd Rautha. The union between Feyd and Paul would be the Kwizats haderach. I've always liked the fact that they are antagonists when the course of destiny was for them to be husband and wife; it's a neat twist.

I love that you describe Feyd-Rautha as a cross between a rockstar and a serial killer, and he's played by Austin Butler, whose two biggest roles have been playing Elvis and a member of the Manson Family. Just a cool coincidence I'm sure, but can't help but point it out.

The most amazing part of the film for me, was that there wasn’t ever a point while I was watching where I was taken out of the illusion or story for even a second, it was enthralling, suspenseful, amazingly produced and well acted, I constantly wanted more information but was NEVER confused about the story. I can’t wait to see the second film.

I always liked the parallel between the old duke's fight against a bull and Duke Leto's fight against the Harkonnen, whose name is based on the Finnish surname Härkönen, härkä meaning an ox.

I've always thought that Irulan was inspired by the real Byzantine princess Anna Komnene, daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. She's famous for writing the Alexiad, detailing the events of court during her father's reign. Ties into the 'adventurer prince' aspect of Paul too, as he'd be similar to Bohemond in the Alexiad.

Hands down the most excellent commentary channel on KZfaq. None of your comparisons feel like a reach, the symbolism you recognize is always insightful, I have never once thought “that’s probably not what the director/writer intended” or, worse, “well, duh, that’s not even subtext” the way I constantly do when watching the bigger commentary or “Easter egg” trailer breakdowns. So excited to watch your video once the movie comes out!

Irulan did do extensive investigations in the books, and she was more than a minor character. Irulan didn't completely agree with her father, and had her own spies that she sent to gather information. And Paul meets Irulan on Arrakis, the emporor sends her there to gather inforamtion about the Attredies. Irulan was very fascinated with Paul in the book, and was a major player in palace intrigue.

No mention of Paul's sister Alia yet, in any of the casting or trailers. I'm really interested to see how she will be portrayed in the movie.

I’ve always respected that this channel believes in quality over quantity. Have loved your videos for years ❤ Thank you! 😊

This Dune remake so far is not disappointing at all. Great take on a very difficult and complex book series. Denis Villeneuve interpretation, storytelling, insights on the technology and choice of visual effects, including lenses, lights and shadows is impressive. He has become one of my favorite directors.

Princess Irulan is my favorite character. I find her extremely complex and tragic. I’m excited to see how they portray her in the movie.

Bless the shifter and his water!

The movie seems to want to promote the importance of Irulan on the same level as book without having her only do narration or something. Given what happens with her later in the books, it’s an interesting choice to see but also understandable.

Your videos are the absolute best man. You have this amazing talent of simplifying complex plots/topics and making them easily understood and very intriguing. Thank you, could not be more excited for Dune Part II

Man I don’t have the words to describe my elation that you’re making videos again. I’m not joking when I say that I’ve watched every video on this channel at least twice. Great stuff Schwifty!

It's interesting that in the books, Bene Gesserit wanted Paul to be born a woman, marry her to Feyd Rautha, and then, their child with their combined genetics would be the Chosen One. Instead, they both end up fighting each other in the end, but their destinies were inter-twined from before.

It’s probably important to note that there’s a 2 year time jump in the book. I’m imagining that’s going to be implemented as happening between the two films.

Ugh I love logging into youtube and seeing a new Alt Shift X video!!! Very much appreciate what you do!

I should get into Dune more and this is really good content, keep it up 👍

I personally liked the additions to Irulan in the TV series. The books had her just do things but I never believed in her motivations because she was so two dimensional.

So happy to have you back ASX. Missed your work big man.

I love how easily you explain this. Great video, the only Dune videos I watch

The shot of Paul facing Feyd is _extremely_ interesting to me, because the set of this trailer and how Denis is framing it feels like a mid point, which is just wild to me. Paul does not fight Feyd at a _mid point_ in the book, and we've seen _nothing_ on Alia. The fleshing out of both Chani and Irulan, and the emphasis on Jessica taking her place as a _sayyadina_ of the Fremen in particular also adds to a lengthening of the storytelling overall. Villeneuve has something up his sleeve here, and I'm very, _very_ curious what he's going to do with his translation of Herbert's work. Great work as always, Alt. So glad to hear from you again!

I love these explanations on Dune, I'm not sure why I didn't get into the books but the latest movie, and lore explained by content creators have gotten me very interested Thankyou for the vid!

How you manage analyse to the complex Dune story into this trailer is fricken amazing. I think I'll watch Dune 2 only once and wait until after you have released your first video with your interpretation then watch it again. I read a few of the books a long time ago but this is like an executive summary of a 300 page report. From the way you clarify the scenes from parts of the different books is sublime. Do you have a photographic memory? Apart from your clarifications I humorously smirked by your uses of words. "..the phallic worm" and the Mike Jagger & Sting reference with the Rockstar/Psychopath description. The entrance to the fight scene somehow sexualised by looking like a vulva. Shame I missed these after re-watching The Expanse just recently. Didn't know you did them as well. Impressive.

Glad to see you’re back! Can’t wait for the upcoming Jon Snow video!

This explanation was just as engrossing as the trailer! Thank you for putting this together.

Awesome video! Forgot how good of a storyteller you are, so glad to see you back! 🍻

This channel is so well made, great videos!

I was introduced to Dune with the SYFY miniseries and absolutely loved it, but it was pretty low budget for a story that epic. I was so happy to hear they were making a movie and visually really loved the first Dune, but found it lacking in action. I can't wait for the next one. I hope it doesn't disappoint, they do seem to be really putting in the work of world building. 🥰🥰🥰

Wooop! Feels like a present every time you release a video! Thanks for the awesome and GREAT content as always! And all the knowledge we learn with it! :D

Good to see you guys upload. Love the channel!

your videos go so in depth and i love how the videos are laid out. so happy you're back!

Alt Shift X showing up to give us little tid bits about good things that make the experience that much better. Thanks for what you do, man.

Awesome insight and meticulous narrative- thanks Alt Shift X!

I could listen to you explain stuff i already know for ever. Thanks for the video

I’m ok with princess irulon being a bigger character in this movie than the book. She always intrigued me with the quotes at the beginning of the chapters so it will be interesting to see how they make her a bigger character in the movie.

8:02 Thank you. Not often do I see reviewers or loremasters speak about the mini series. I get that many hated the cheapness and the funky costumes. But, the Shakespearean direction, dialogues and the truly dreamscape visions were some of the strong points, at least for me. In fact, for me, the show captured a Sci-fi atmosphere that was so unlike its contemporaries that it inspired me in ways that I didn't even know existed. From Linguistics, Science, Archaeology, Architecture to Social Engineering and Religion.

I look forward to your explained videos every time! Thank you for your hard work @AltShiftX!

As to that final quote from Kynes, the entire message that Frank Herbert was trying to convey with the Dune Saga was, simply, Charismatic Leaders should come with Warning Labels.

The marking/scarring of Jessica's nostril could also be from the nose-tubing of her stillsuit, mentioned several times in the books.

We missed you Alt ❤️ glad you guys are back.

Im glad for people like you and Quinn existing. I watched the movie for the first time not knowing anything about Dune and it was meh. Knowing more about it got me hooked and I eagerly expect November

So glad you are back!

PLEASE MAKE DUNE 2 EXPLAINED

I never read the books but my buddy has and always talked them up as being great. I asked him what he thought about the movie adaptation and he said considering how in depth the books are and just how much content there is to cover that the movie did a pretty decent job with condensing the content for the screen. I thought the first movie was quite interesting....I really enjoyed it. Looking forward to this one a lot!

I always love the contrast between the 1st book of Dune and later books. 1st book is Paul the hero. After that, Paul becomes everything he fought against.

simply EPIC btw one of the best breakdowns of what dune is at its core kudos

Your videos are so cool man. Very well done, genuinely excited to see what’s next. This Movie along with GTA 6 might be some of the biggest releases this coming year

When Feyd screams in the gladiator pit, he looks a lot like Matt Smith from the critically acclaimed Morbius movie

Nice to see Dune finally getting proper attention in Hollywood.. The CG of the miniseries and the first attempt were a little atrocious though good for their time. Dune is an incredibly powerful read and was one of the first novels I ever picked up... Glad to see so many a list actors signed on to do it proper justice.

I have been waiting for videos for sooooo long!!!! 🙌🏽🙌🏽

This video essay is the best referenced ive ever seen. Great editing and script

So great to see you back after so long. Excellent video.

Only thing you missed is that House Atreides didn't just "take over the planet Arrakis", they were specifically sent to Arrakis, by the Emperor, in a plot to destroy Duke Leto and House Atreides. Duke Leto was rising in status and influence and was seen as a potential rival to the Emperor. The Emperor used the poor spice harvesting of House Harkonnen as an excuse to make the change. Otherwise, excellent video.

I just want all the unused footage put together into a bloody long multi part series. Love the first film and the 2nd looks just as good.

Was beginning to wonder if you were coming back. Welcome back!

I love your videos. There's nothing I like watching more. Are you still going to do a breakdown on all the sequels?

I watched the Lynch movie before reading the book. I loved it. However, there was quite a bit of sci-fi hand waving, which is practical when you're condensing a story as dense as Dune into a couple hours. When I read the book, I was really surprised how Herbert would describe things that you'd imagine as fantastical to be rather practical and down to earth. Like worm riding. It's every bit as dangerous as you'd imagine. But there's a technique. Who knew? Also, the Fremen attitude toward water is not what you expect. Especially when it comes to water you can't drink like sea water (in the next book). Imagined superpowers come from intense training, selective breeding and in extreme cases, performance enhancing drugs like Spice that can give the user prescience but also mutates the user. Religious aspects had been indoctrinated. People fight with swords and knives? Wouldn't an advanced society have more powerful weapons? Oh they most definitely do. But like everything else, there's a reason for that. Etc... It is kind of the magic of Herbert's world building where he introduces a Universe that seems full of fantasy and then he meticulously pulls away the veil to reveal something much more realistic... much more like our own world. But then, I guess that is the nature of sci-fi and the difference between that and high fantasy.

whenever Alt Shift X posts my day gets better. Thank you

Great vid! Love your content.

So far yours are best to decode everything from part 1 to trailer in part 2 I am quiet obsessed with this Dune series I think so I have binge watched almost every video on KZfaq 😂

It will be interesting to be able to compare all three live action adaptations of Dune and the choices they made once we have a complete picture for Villeneuve’s take. All so far have their own takes on the source material that have influenced the following ones as much as the book itself at times.

What I enjoyed about the Dune books were the explanations which went into such detail . The books seemed to have something about them which may never be captured on a film . The Weirding Way was explained as a development of the individual in a way that allowed the practitioner to transcend the ordinary limitations of the mind and body by rigorous physical and psychological training . Not with gadgets as the David Lynch film portrayed . The voice appeared to be also a physical and psychological training which allowed the practitioner to persuade the subject to cooperate . Not some strange distorted speech patterns but rather a practical application of persuasive powers of the individual . When a section of the book was dedicated to how an individual can bend just the tip of a finger and develop yogic methods to control the body , this to me hinted at the potential of individuals in an ever more complex society such as our own technological society such as the present one in which the individual appears diminished by an endless progression of technology this makes sense of "The Butlerian Jihad " "Thou shalt not make machine in man's image ." To me this essence of the books cannot be captured by the films and perhaps the books are not ever going to be satisfactorily transferred to any other media . They are perhaps subversive books . Maybe we just have to read them to gain our own individual understanding of what Frank Herbert was trying to write about in these epic works .

Such comprehensive walk through!!!

Having just watched dune part one for the first time like three days ago I am beyond excited for part two. So much exciting content coming out in the coming years between andor season two and dine part two it’ll be a good few years for sequels.

Irulan's story throughout the Dune series is more complicated and more important than often clear to the reader, as well as from the Bene Gesserit's point of view. Mind you, there's a subset of the Bene Gesserit that harbors the true memories of very long term plans secret from the vast majority of sisters, including the general leadership. On top of that, the sisters are subject to human emotions like anybody else, despite their self-control training and the demands of obedience from their mothers' memories' voices; therefor personally-motivated defiance and small conspiracies develop. Jessica is one of those aware (somewhat) of her importance in the primary Bene Gesserit breeding program yet defies the sisterhood-a major plot point in the first movie, the gravity of which may elude first time enjoyers of the Dune universe. Large portions of Irulan's tale as written in canon and in Frank Herbert's postmortem (dismissible apocrypha to a substantial portion of the fan base) remains somewhat mysterious. She knows and writes about events she should not know, although she spends a great deal of her life present in the background. As long as the movie version of her character makes sense and remains faithful to canon, and as long as it avoids goofiness and merely gratuitous plots inconsistent with the canon SPIRIT of her character, I'm all in. It was a flaw of Herbert's not to have developed her more; but he likely had not yet fleshed out the magnitude of her importance when he wrote the first books. So far, I am greatly pleased with this cinematic rendition. In fact, the previous movies had diverged or deleted so much from the scripts that I have recently come to realize I have forgotten many details later in the first book. I'm jazzed. I've been obsessed with the Dune universe since introduced to it in 8th Grade. All of my original copies of every Dune book remains in my library; but I haven't read the original trilogy in two or three decades. Time to dig them out of storage!

Pretty amazed that Count Fenring and his wife are showing up in the movie, I had them counted out from the start. My expectations are pretty low but I'd love to be wrong. It's just so difficult for a film to get into the depths of what makes these books so good.

Watched this last night. This movie will sit in my top 10 over all’s best movies. It was lord of the rings long but that’s all good because as you’re watching you don’t want it to end. Stunning visuals, epic storyline that just keeps building up and up and then delivers the punch just at the right time. 5 out of 5 stars. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Excellent synopsis. Well done!

I'm happy that Lady Jessica and Irulan will have bigger role in this movie, they are really good character.

I am Finnish American, and Harkonen is a Finnish name. I managed to talk to someone on Facebook, and they told me that Frank Herbert worked with a man that he absolutely hated and that’s why he made the Harkonens the evil family in the book. I guess the moral is: never piss off an author!

Great to see that Thomas Flight video get mentioned. The Sound Design on Dune Pt1 was fantastic and sadly Sound Design gets overlooked quite often.

What I don't like about the movies is the character changes and some missing plot points, but what I absolutely love is the design of everything. The armor and the technology has this nice box like look to it.

God this guy does such a good job on these videos ❤

can’t wait for _De-yewn, Part 2_ 👌

Excellent, excellent breakdown. Bravo.

I am just amazed at the the quality of intelligent content on this channel. Bravo!

Alt shift may be back, but I am waiting with baited breath for that vagabond alt shwift X to release the next acok abridged.

The increase of the Princess' role in the film actually makes sense from both a filmmaking perspective and a meta-perspective. The entries at the beginning of each chapter, written by her, come from her later role as a propogandist for her Husband, Paul. However, those investigations as a historian would have been her natural inclination. The information came from some experiences. Just because we never see her in motion in the book, doesn't mean she isn't in motion within the book to gain the insights she has. Its a little bit of a stretch, I know. But I can see the progression in the film as a logical next step. Also, Denis isn't simply a fan of the book Dune. He's a fan of the film worlds of Dune. The teaser trailer for the first movie was a Hans Zimmer twist on Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. Joderoski's original 1970s Dune that never got made was going to have the sound track by Pink Floyd. Stylistically, the uniforms of the Atradies is more in line with David Lynch's Dune than either the Book or the Sci-Fi channel mini-series. However, the ornithopers, staying true to the book, clearly took some inspiration from the Sci-Fi channel. Some of the smaller early ads for the first movie included minor Hans Zimmer elements where you could hear chants of "Soo, soo, sook," they cry of the water merchants of the captial of Arakis whom we never even saw in the film. I see this Dune duet of films more like 1981's Excalibur, which was very wrong from the perspective of any single Arthurian legend source but incorporated and stylized ALL of them for a "meta-Arthurian legend" and it was a fantastic homage to the entire body of work. I think this will be as well.

I’m begging you to make a full breakdown of everything that happens in the second half of the book before dune 2 comes out, your last vid dune movie vs book really helped me understand all the context and character motivations while watching dune for the first time

From a lover and an avid reader of Dune Series this is very high quality material and dissection!

I really hope they do Dune Messiah and make it a trilogy. I would love how they deal with Frank Herbert's take on the danger of heroes.

Been with "DUNE" since the Seventys after reading the first paperback book, DUNE. Have since then read the whole series. That is the way, in my mind, to know "DUNE." Movies are nice but holding paper & reading the books give way more info and satisfaction to the mind.

I couldn’t believe my ears, but KickThePJ you’ve got a very recognizable voice and say specific words in a way that I knew it was you! Good on ya for building such a great channel.

This was great! Thank you! 🎉

Such a cool universe, but my favourite is the Bene Gesserit. "Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class - whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy." - Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual

I've missed your channel; it is very nice to have you back. (GoT is "dead to me" -- I hate how they destroyed such a great thing with the final 1-2 years (-_-;).) A very sad side effect of that is beautiful channels like this one have been abandoned. I am glad to see we have some material (Dune) worth your excellent commentary. ((I've missed your voice and beautiful video style.)) Keep up the great work, Cheers -

I almost couldn’t believe that alt shift d released a new video given that the last video they released was almost a year ago and I am very excited for your upcoming job snow and dune videos although they are months away.

Such good vids!!! Thanks man Never took the time to read these books. But always wanted to!!

This should have being a series. Would be a great addition to HBO and become the next game of thrones

House Harkonnen would fit right in as worshipers of Slaanesh, Chaos God of Excess and Sensation.

nice to see alt shift x back! looking forward to more

Wonderful explaination.... How and which software you use to edir your videos??

I love your dune videos, even if my brain couldn’t handle dune after the second book😂

Gosh darn it. Where are the 3rd stage Guild Navigators???

Another amazing video. I hung on every word. Well done!

I was not happy to see Lea Seydoux being cast in this, but man am I excited.