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To be fair to the film producers, it must be extremely difficult to compress a very complex book into 3 hours (or even a miniseries) while keeping the flavour of the original.
Yes, I do hope the next version improves on the past.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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The hardest part of dealing with Dune is getting Mentats right. With the wrong touch, they will come across as being poor Spock clones.
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About the only easy part of producing a Dune film is the portrayal of "Beast" Rabban; he is just a brute, albeit a useful brute. All other characters have their complexities.
Personally, I think that a good portrayal of Duke Leto would be very difficult. He is a tragic figure who successfully (and honourably) walks a fine line between his loyalties and his duties, but doing so inevitably leads him to disaster.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I partly agree, but ultimately think Paul is still the problem. In part because the book very clearly starts with a young Paul who appears to be younger than he is, yet movies/series start with him being much older, very likely so they can keep with the same actor (and avoid working with kids), which is a fatal mistake. (Muad'Dib makes no sense in any other context.)
Another point lost by some critics is that Paul really is the Kwisatz Haderach. It's not just Paul exploiting man made myth.
(I do think even Frank Herbert lost his own thread during and after God Emperor of Dune, turning the story increasingly into a procedural, if not aimless, soap opera and that his son's awful books continued that trend.)
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A single film? It won't be good.
The trouble is that a movie is too short - look at the "book of the film" for any of them and they are basically a short story padded out to a novel (the exception being "The Abyss" but there they broke with tradition and used a good author - Orson Scott Card - to write it and let him see the damn film first).
So when you take a good, complex book (rather than a Dan Brown style POS) you have to throw away most of the complications to shorten it to movie size. Look at "Enders game" for example, when the book was superb because of all the bits they left out of the poor film.
Dune is such a book - and it needs three or four films to do it justice: run time about as much time as it takes to read the book, probably! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Get Peter Jackson to do it then - but prevent him from adding bits that have nothing to do with the original book - yes Hobbit trilogy, I'm looking at you.
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"Ender's Game " was started out as a short story (I still have the original Analog it was published in). OSC took the short story and expanded it into an awesome universe.
I've read the Dune epic written by Frank Herbert and when his offspring started writing, I read the book in "Dune" chronological order. It is amazing how well the new books fit seamlessly into the original!
I don't think any movie version will be adequate, too expensive with not enough return to the movie industry.
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Some things are perfectly adapted to the medium in which they were conceived, and not so much for others.
Dune is one of these things. There's too much internalization to translate well to the screen without horribly schlock-y approaches, like a narrator or vaudevillian acting.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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When all users are logged out, the lock screen stays displayed forever. How can I change this so that the screen eventually goes blank after an amount of time? This is how my Windows 7 machine worked and I liked it that way.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Set a blank screen saver?
Did I just get trolled? 
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raddevus wrote: Set a blank screen saver?
That seems like a hack at best. Surely what I'm after is just a (deeply buried) setting somewhere.
raddevus wrote: Did I just get trolled?
Nope.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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This is the Lounge.
Try:
https://www.codeproject.com/Forums/1688234/Windows-and-RT.aspx
Less bourgoise, more answerish ...
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RedDk wrote: This is the Lounge.
True, and if I were in an actual lounge, I would be talking about this very subject.
RedDk wrote: Try:
https://www.codeproject.com/Forums/1688234/Windows-and-RT.aspx
Why? The link you provided, along with 23 others, fall under the General Programming heading. Nothing about my question has anything to do with that.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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The link was a Win10 message board for me.
Jeremy Falcon
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Switch off the monitor? 
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Go into the power setting (available via the Control Panel), and select an appropriate power mode. You may customize that by setting how long until the screen turns off, and much more.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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That's a per-user setting. Each person's individual screensaver and power settings work. I'm looking for the setting(s) for when no one is logged in (i.e., the lock screen is shown).
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Windows 8.1 default (system) lock screen customization - Super User[^] This is about windows 8, but it probably applies to windows 10 as well.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Start -> Settings -> Peronalization -> Lock Screen -> "Screen Timeout Settings" (may need to scroll the right part of the diag down).
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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See here.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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I don't believe that's the case. But I could be wrong.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I ain't no Win10 expert inall that fancy jazz... but it's not under power options / ACPI settings?
Jeremy Falcon
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Turns out there are worse things than cancer.
The medicine.
It's nerve wrecking to see a grown man go below 40 kg.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Turns out there are worse things than cancer.The medicine.It's nerve wrecking to see a grown man go below 40 kg.
Not sure if you mean Chemotherapy or the Radiotherapy when you say medicine, but both suck arse in so far as what they do to the patient while trying to cure them. Sorry to you and whomever it is that is close to you that is suffering through this.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Chemo in this case, it has destroyed so many things in him that he doesn't function any more.
My wife is completely destroyed knowing it's just a matter of time before her father is gone.
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