Spice = Dune?

[V1rusH0st]

I love the Dune series with a passion, especially the book Dune. I like to believe that spice is a moniker that came from that. The similarities as the first response said are so similar. Mind expansion, transcending space/time, getting answers, knowing yourself. All these things both the spice Melange and DMT spice share.

Cool thread. 8)

 

[Candiety]

There is symbolism in everything. I'd imagine that on some level, the reason it's called spice is because of the TV series and the reason spice exists in the TV series is because of DMT.

Additionally though, I've just realised/remembered that I haven't seen/read Dune! Downloading the series now. Hopefully it's as good as the books appear, though I can't say I have high hopes. Sure I would have seen it, though there is hope!

 

[Metanoia]

Personally I enjoyed the made-for-TV miniseries of Dune and Children of Dune. They're not multimillion dollar budget Hollywood movies, but they follow the books well enough to be very entertaining. The old David Lynch Dune film from 1984 is....different Dune fans either love it or hate it. I myself am the latter.

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[Orion]

There is symbolism in everything. I'd imagine that on some level, the reason it's called spice is because of the TV series and the reason spice exists in the TV series is because of DMT.

Additionally though, I've just realised/remembered that I haven't seen/read Dune! Downloading the series now. Hopefully it's as good as the books appear, though I can't say I have high hopes. Sure I would have seen it, though there is hope!

You know Frank Herbert wrote the hexalogy first right? But yeah I think of Dune when I hear the term 'spice'. But I think mystical spice seems like it might be a common plot device in many fairytales and such.

 

[nlong1189]

THE SPICE MUST FLOW!!!

 

[Doodazzle]

So I was just looking for info on the new dune movie--the one that got cancelled, or didn't. Still not sure.

But hold on....so, in the 1970's some director spent years trying to get a dune movie together. And the movie was supposed to involve--Orson Welles, Mick Jagger, Pink Floyd, Magma, Giger (set design) and Dali (acting, playing a villain). Damn.

So there's a new documentary about this dune movie that wasn't:

Mick Jagger, Salvador Dali and Orson Welles in the Sci-Fi Epic That Never Was: ‘Jodorowsky’s Dune’

 

[downwardsfromzero]

Here's another 'spice melange' for you:

Space Paste Thread - Other Psychoactives - Welcome to the DMT-Nexus

"The spice must flow!":

Space Booze! Space Paste EtOH Extraction SUCCESS! - Other Psychoactives - Welcome to the DMT-Nexus

 

[Metanoia]

So I was just looking for info on the new dune movie--the one that got cancelled, or didn't. Still not sure.

But hold on....so, in the 1970's some director spent years trying to get a dune movie together. And the movie was supposed to involve--Orson Welles, Mick Jagger, Pink Floyd, Magma, Giger (set design) and Dali (acting, playing a villain). Damn.

So there's a new documentary about this dune movie that wasn't:

Mick Jagger, Salvador Dali and Orson Welles in the Sci-Fi Epic That Never Was: ‘Jodorowsky’s Dune’

This is a great topic of interest for hardcore Dune fans like myself If Jodorowsky's vision of Dune had been realized it could have been monumental. There's all kinds of artwork and storyboards and such from that project all over the web. And with Paramount now scrapping the new Dune film, what else do we have to talk about?

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[ichabod]

Apparently, according to one of FH friends, The Spice in Dune was insired by magic mushrooms....

 

[nen888]

..been a while since a read it, but from memory, the final few pages of the final Dune book, Chapter House, mention the 'bitter medicine'

God Emperor of Dune is, in my mind, a multi-reality masterpiece (of any genre)