(afe, por exemplo, o que é aquele Barão de Harkonnen, que nooojo daquele ser, e NÃO SÓ porque ele é purulento fisicamente, arghh, babando daquele jeito psicopata por rapazinhos sarados... será que no livro ele é exatamente assim?). Então, além do lance da religião, o Tolkien, todo puritano, pode ter sentido repugnância também por coisas como essa e outras visões políticas.
Sim, o Barão Harkonnen era assim no livro mesmo, a caracterização dele no filme do Lynch foi, junto com a da Jessica (minha personagem favorita disparada, vide como é inspiração marcante pra Catelynn do George R.R. Martin, uma das coisas mais fiéis ao livro). Pode ser que ele fosse menos "purulento", mas era ainda mais obeso e moralmente nojentão.
Detalhe: indícios da biografia e psychological make-up de Herbert sugerem que ele baseou o Barão no seu avô que era beberrão e... sabe-se lá Deus o que mais, se é que vcs estão me entendendo...
Resultado: Frank Herbert ficou homofóbico ao ponto de repudiar um dos filhos que é homossexual, o irmão do Brian Herbert, que publica as sequências e prequels da saga.
Vide o
maravilhoso Star Wars Origins sobre as influências de Star Wars e o que a Kristen Brennan falou a respeito do assunto da inspiração biográfica de Herbert.Fica destacado que, infelizmente, à exemplo do próprio avô Frank Herbert se tornou um pai física e emocionalmente abusivo contra os filhos.
Claro que o site contém também um gigantesco artigo sobre as influências pro SdA e sua influência e impacto na imaginação de George Lucas em Star Wars. Obrigatório pra qualquer um que tenha interesse a respeito do assunto.
A respeito da homossexualidade na família do Herbert e sua correlação com a caracterização do Harkonnen.
The other major source for this page is Dreamer of Dune; The Biography of Frank Herbert (2003), written by Herbert's son Brian. It's a wonderful resource, though Dune fans may be disappointed that only a fraction of the book focuses on Herbert's young life or the creative process of Dune - the bulk of the book is about the period after Dune made Herbert rich and famous: how he spent his money, which food and wines he ordered at expensive restaurants, how he dealt with the death of his first wife, how he courted his much-younger second wife (perhaps reflected in the shift from the stuffy Bene Gesserit to the younger and sexier Honored Madres) and lots of autobiographical information about Brian. Dune fans may be unpleasantly surprised to discover that (unless we assume that Brian Herbert is flat-out lying in his father's biography, which seems unlikely), Frank Herbert was emotionally and even physically abusive to his children. For instance, when his daughter Penny refused to eat her dessert, Herbert rubbed it into her hair. But "For the most part, she didn't receive the brunt of his anger, which in its most severe form became physical. I think he felt that boys could (and should) take more punishment, in order to make men out of us." (pg. 131) It's disquieting to wonder if Herbert's relationship with his sons is reflected in Paul's relationship with his "sons" - when Jamis dies, Paul becomes "father" to Jamis' two sons - who are about the same age as Herbert's sons while he was writing Dune - but the boys are so inconsequential to Paul that Herbert doesn't even bother to name them! While he was writing those scenes, Herbert would punish his children as quickly and efficiently as possible so they'd leave him alone and he could get back to his own world - the same thing his father did to him, and his grandfather did to his father. As mentioned above, Herbert used a lie detector on his children in a way they perceived as abusive. It may be comforting to observe that the "pain box" in Dune is colored green, which (if you buy my "color symbology inherited from the Qur'an" theory, above), is the color of the sometimes-difficult path of God. Paul resents being subjected to the pain-test, but when the purpose is explained to him, he exclaims, "It's truth!" In other words, though Herbert treated his children in a way most modern psychologists would probably agree was abusive, he was not intentionally trying to hurt them. He was being the best father he knew how to be. Frank Herbert grew up in an emotionally abusive alchoholic family during the Great Depression, and if I find it difficult to condone some of his behavior towards his family, I can at least appreciate that he faced greater obstacles than I have, and marvel at how many he overcame. Brian Herbert wrote that although his father was a "complex and difficult man," the two of them eventually found a reconciliation.
Tou vendo aqui que a Kristen Brennan RETIROU da página a sugestão de abuso sexual pelo "avô Harkonnen". É por essas e outras que eu sempre gosto de salvar o conteúdo dessa página e cotejar as versões.
É sabido, claro, que uma das principais inspirações pra Paul Atreides era homossexual, o T.H Lawrence, o Lawrence da Arábia.
In his autobiography T.E. Lawrence explains how his homosexuality contributed to his military career. He says that he was initially attracted to soldiering because of the all-male environment, and his desire to impress other men sexually is what ultimately motivated him to become a hero. Rather than writing a gay male hero, Herbert transferred Lawrence's homosexuality to Dune's villain, Baron Harkonnen. According to Herbert's biography he considered male homosexuality immoral, and died without ever expressing love or approval for his gay son Bruce. In a world where gay teens are four times more likely to commit suicide, it's a shame that the stories of real-life gay heroes are often retold so dishonestly. As Herbert knew better than anyone, Paul Atreides was largely based on a real human being, and his great love wasn't a woman named Chani but a man named Dahoum. Paul may have also been modeled partially on Alexander The Great, who many historians call "the greatest military genius of all time." Alexander was also gay, and his boyfriend was a strikingly-handsome soldier named Hephaestion.
Vemos, portanto, que, se Tolkien tinha falhas humanas que o faziam repudiar Duna e parte da verdade sobre o lado negro do cristianismo e do catolicismo histórico ( o que é, sem dúvida, um caso de "jogar o bebê fora junto com a água do banho"; execrar o livro inteiro por causa disso É exagero), o Frank Herbert tinha seu próprio tipo de bigotry babacóide.
E, pelo menos, se sem ela não teríamos a obra, ao contrário do que acontecia com Tolkien, que nunca repudiou Christopher por, por exemplo, não virar católico ( a babaquice ocasional e pontual de Tolkien não era indissociavelmente colocada na obra), o filho do Herbert, tão criticado por continuar o trabalho do pai, não coloca pano quente no lado negro do Herbert, coisa que o CT, às vezes, faz ao, por exemplo, endossar as escondidas de fonte do JRRT,
como aconteceu no caso do Wagner, inclusive na introdução de Sigurd e Gudrun.