I suspect the gender divide due to COVID has much to do with the divide between "essential" and "non-essential" work, as defined for purposes of the public health response. Questioning the gender ratio in those fields may be an unusually effective way of examining gender imbalance in our society as a whole.
Prepare, I say, to be disappointed by Dune, the 2021 movie, if you appreciate the novel, I predict. HBO's Game of Thrones showed producers how to adapt word to screen. Feature films are short stories. Dune cannot, in my view, be reduced to a couple of short, CGI-driven stories. It all may work just fine for those who have never read-- and would never read-- the novel, but for us who have, prepare, again, for despair and disappointment. Dune, the movie, will not, cannot, be Dune.
I was ready to dress as Travolta from The Boy in the Plastic Bubble if need be to go see that movie in the theaters. Even if Villeneuve himself gave me a free no questions asked screener DVD, I would still wait to see it on the big screen. The guy makes big visual *movies*! Seriously bummed out too :(
I suspect the gender divide due to COVID has much to do with the divide between "essential" and "non-essential" work, as defined for purposes of the public health response. Questioning the gender ratio in those fields may be an unusually effective way of examining gender imbalance in our society as a whole.
Prepare, I say, to be disappointed by Dune, the 2021 movie, if you appreciate the novel, I predict. HBO's Game of Thrones showed producers how to adapt word to screen. Feature films are short stories. Dune cannot, in my view, be reduced to a couple of short, CGI-driven stories. It all may work just fine for those who have never read-- and would never read-- the novel, but for us who have, prepare, again, for despair and disappointment. Dune, the movie, will not, cannot, be Dune.
I was ready to dress as Travolta from The Boy in the Plastic Bubble if need be to go see that movie in the theaters. Even if Villeneuve himself gave me a free no questions asked screener DVD, I would still wait to see it on the big screen. The guy makes big visual *movies*! Seriously bummed out too :(