New Q&A and a less complicated Dune

[Mahdi]

Lets start with the new Q & A John Harrison has answered, about the weirding way. Unfortunatly the question itself wasn't right (Leto was NOT training his troops in the wierding way, thats just what the Fremen call the Bene Gesserit method of combat). Here is the question and answer:

Q: In the book Dune the Wierding Way was a form of martial arts that Duke Leto was training his men with. Will the Wierding Way be accurately depicted in your movie?

A: This is difficult to answer because I'm not sure the Weirding Way was described so definitively in the book. The Weirding Way is an important element of the story as part of Paul's Bene Gesserit training. And when he is taken in by the Fremen he makes it his mission to train the young men of the tribes with it to create the Fedaykin. This will be explicitly dramatized in the movie, and I believe we've created the proper visual representation of what this form of fighting is. As much as I love and films like The Matrix, it will definitely not be effects-driven like that. It will be much more Zen-like. More of a reliance on strict Para Bindu training and mind/muscle control then on superhuman physical stunts

How did you always imagine the wierding way?

Now, for the less complicated Dune. An Interview with Harry Miller, the Dune Editor, has been added to the features section of the Dune miniseries site. In this interview he makes a disturbing remark about this new Dune:

"Yet, for this type of project, for a television film, he has made the story much easier to follow. He has structured it in a way that you know exactly who people are. You know exactly what the spice is. You know the basics of the story."

A much easier to follow Dune? I don't like that idea, espiecially after the easy to follow prequel novels. Part of the fun of Dune was that it was so complicated, that you didn't really totally understand what was going on, and never do, even after 6 novels. What do you think?