It really doesn't matter what sex Liet is.
Liet/KynesΒΉ is clearly a male character in the novel. It doesn't make any sense as a female, the same way the Reverend Mother wouldn't make any sense as a male. Some characters have a psychology that wouldn't make sense in the opposite gender. Liet/Kynes is one of them.
Lady Jessica is quite deadly when it is needed in the books
Lady Jessica (and the Bene Gesserit in general) can be extremely deadly if necessary in the books. But they are not the usual "
empowered badass kicking ass independent super-mary sue" modern Hollywood template that they seem to have applied to her. Bene Gesserit only use their fighting skills as a (very) last resource.
As for director's feminism, while the Imperial society is very much patriarchal women do play very important role in the books and there are several amazing and complex female characters.
Well, that's the point. The more feminist the director, the
less amazing and complex female character are gonna be. Modern feminism is about repetitive aseptic perfect female characters, and males that look mostly like violent pseudo-nazis or cucks (provided they're white, of course).
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ΒΉ It's not a spoiler. You already have the same actress playing both of them in iMDB cast.
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papamihel (1616)
4 years ago
"Liet/KynesΒΉ is clearly a male character in the novel. It doesn't make any sense as a female, the same way the Reverend Mother wouldn't make any sense as a male. Some characters have a psychology that wouldn't make sense in the opposite gender. Liet/Kynes is one of them."
I don't think that's true.
Liet is like an opposite of the Reverend Mother. She is the guardian of the past, and Liet is the bringer of the future.
His father was the key to the transformation of the Fremen but if he had a daughter instead of a son I'm not convinced it would have changed anything.
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kukuxu (5409)
4 years ago
Liet/Kynes is basically a scientist that is obsessed with the project of terraforming the planet and devotes his life to that project.
Femwashing him is like adapting the Frankestein novel and femwashing (and blackwashing) Victor Frankestein. It makes no sense.
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papamihel (1616)
4 years ago
Buddy, there is no point of fighting every battle. Let's save it for really important ones.
In terms of the book's narrative Liet/Kynes is a way-station - someone who points Paul to the path to his destiny. An analogue of a wiseman\witch in a medieval romance, if you will. It's really not that important if it's a man or a woman.
I also might point that discovering that Liet is a woman will be a further proof to Atreides forces that they are dealing with something very strange and new on Arrakis.
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kukuxu (5409)
4 years ago
In terms of the book's narrative Liet/Kynes is a way-station - someone who points Paul to the path to his destiny.
Liet/Kynes is much more than that. One of the reasons why Dune is such a great novel is that every secondary character has its own (meaningful) plotline. You could write a spin-off novel about the story of Jessica and Leto Atreides, or about the story of Dr.Yueh and his wife, or about Kynes and the terraforming of Arrakis, or you could focus the novel in Stilgar or Hawat and it'd work just fine.
I also might point that discovering that Liet is a woman will be a further proof to Atreides forces that they are dealing with something very strange and new on Arrakis.
Well, I agree with that. They'll be discovering something new, strange and scary in Arrakis: wokeness.
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Strazdas (2472)
3 years ago
>Buddy, there is no point of fighting every battle. Let's save it for really important ones.
But there is. The entire point is to not give the crazies an inch or they will take a mile.
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