Rewriting scenes in "Dune".

[Anomalocaris]

If I may ask, what's so great about Dune.

Never read the book(s). Only saw the most recent movie with the gay thirst trap (not my type, by the way), but I suppose I just don't see a representation of the social issues I prefer.

dune was great in the sense it pioneered a genera of sci fi that tries to weave large scale social and economic commentaries into the story line, sort of like putting relatable characters into a section of Edward Gibbon’s decline and fall of roman empire that is then projected into a world wearing the troupes of space sci fi. 

issac asimov try to do some thing similar years before with the foundation series, but he didn’t know how to create relatable characters and the gimmicks of space sci-fi was still embryonic in the days before sputnik

but soon everyone is doing it and if you take away the original novelty value, then it is not really exceptional,   This can be attested by the fact that much of the duneverse is being carried forward by tripe written by the same guy who also wrote much the Star Wars fan fiction junk, and it is little worse for the wear.