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Yesterday I saw the last Dune movie with my gf. Very nice. Main actor's a little one note & cut a touch confused but what can you do. Great props, great shots, pretty good cast, so solid on all the other fundamentals.
So this morning I watched this video comparing Herbert & Tolkien :
The main thrust she has is that Tolkien believed deeply in escapism whereas Herbert believed in ... social realism/critical realism applied to made up stories, I guess? I see exactly what she means, but I'm not sure we've got a word for it. I hesitated to say "grittiness", but I'm not sure that works - I tend to think "gritty" is a word that indicates a form of close-to-life horror, but it isn't exactly the opposite of escapism, is it?
So escapism, the opposite of escapism (social/critical realism ?), grittiness... what do you think they mean in the context of SF/Fantasy?
So this morning I watched this video comparing Herbert & Tolkien :
The main thrust she has is that Tolkien believed deeply in escapism whereas Herbert believed in ... social realism/critical realism applied to made up stories, I guess? I see exactly what she means, but I'm not sure we've got a word for it. I hesitated to say "grittiness", but I'm not sure that works - I tend to think "gritty" is a word that indicates a form of close-to-life horror, but it isn't exactly the opposite of escapism, is it?
So escapism, the opposite of escapism (social/critical realism ?), grittiness... what do you think they mean in the context of SF/Fantasy?