Exploring Giedi Prime: Architecture, Symbolism, and Environment in Dune

an entire planet driven by a singular Obsession military and Industry power this is gy prime the home of the heinens

it's a planet that's almost entirely industrialized it's dark it's polluted and it's dominated by these massive

factories that's completely stripped the land of any semblance of Nature and doing research on this it took us down a

very interesting path the movie actually takes a lot of Liberties on the source material but it's made some brilliant

additions that really help me understand why the heinens are the way they are as the product of this strange environment

a portion of this video is sponsored by bamboo labs and apparently the design of this

planet was inspired by septic tanks I'm not kidding apparently Patrice vert the set designer saw a pile of septic tanks

on the side of the highway outside Montreal and he built this entire planet based on these plastic ripped forms

which kind of makes sense but there's also a more direct [Music]

connection and this is a hyper Aran race that drove entire populations into brutal force labor to fuel their

machines and ideologies this is Hitler's unbuilt Utopia Germania conceived by Hitler himself and drafted by his lead

architect Alber Germania was the ultimate expression of Hitler's megalomania the plan was to raise Berlin

to the ground and build a new Mega City in the image of the Third Reich a physical manifestation of control and

oppression and social dominance although Hitler modeled the city off of something we don't necessarily associate with any

of this the Greeks laid the foundation haha for Western architecture hence the name

classical architecture and they didn't really have a lot of source material to work with in the fifth century BC so

they derived their architectural principles directly from nature which they realize how a logic to them they

use plants and shells or the human body to derive their principles on Symmetry and proportion and Order creating a

guide for architecture that we still use today a couple centuries later the Romans adapted this to create their own

architectural identity that's bigger and grander and more Monumental than ever before all of this was made possible

thanks to their Innovations in Arches and vaults and domes you could say the Romans were one of the first to

effectively and systematically use architecture as propaganda especially on such a large scale they use

architectural strategies to impress upon the people the power and the permanence of the Empire they wanted their

buildings to not just last forever but also look like they could last forever and many many years later Hitler took

all of this and turned it into this see for Hitler the Roman Empire was the symbol of power and stability

there's actually a term for this revival of the classic styles for the Modern Age and it's called neoclassicism you see

this in a lot of public buildings anyways Hitler naturally had to make his buildings bigger than the Romans so he

designed them to be more Monumental to a scale that was incomprehensible the crown jewel of

Germania was this building the folks Hal it was designed to be the largest en closed space in the world here's the

pantheon here's the sphere and here's folks it could hold pulled up to 180,000 people and it was said that their breath

as they chanted in unison would condensate and create indoor rain ironically folks Hal directly translates

into the people's hole but the design completely ignored any sense of human scale now let's look at the heenan's

great holes the resemblance is eerie and it's not a coincidence at at all in fact every detail from the lack of Windows to

the hollow vaed ceilings exude this sense of oppressive power and a complete indifference for human Comfort

Thea or the people's Avenue was supposed to be the grandest of the boulevards and it was designed for these massive

rallies and it's flanked on either sides with structures that are elevated on plins that can see thousands of people

while creating these imposing backdrops that Tower over the street and all of this direct the eye towards one

[Music] thing oil and plastic it's one of the only materials that can Outlast stone or

brick villanu specifically wanted to create a world that was black and plastic which is probably

why despite using familiar architectural elements like columns and boulevards and monuments it still feels completely

alien so what you get is an entire planet that's one enormous Temple to this military industrial complex and

everything here looks machined with these rounded corners and plastic ribs there's almost a kind of HR Giger

machine fetishism across the entire surface of the planet this space literally looks like the inside of a

ball bearing cuz in the end they are a parasitic culture that sucked the life out of the planet even their Harvesters

look like ticks there's this underlying logic here that plastic and oil is life they're key to longivity impermanence

which makes sense cuz materials like fiberglass screenforce plastic could last hundreds or thousands of years

especially on a planet like this where UV Razer practical non-existent which is what typically causes Plastics to break

down but Plastics are typically molded into place so despite this hard industrial machined look these

structures start off as a liquid and this fluid interaction between these different material States is actually a

recurring theme in Dune for example sandworms how is it that they move so fast underground the

dens of the sand must create an enormous amount of friction but they move almost like they're gliding underwater and

that's cuz sandworms create these vibrations that make the sand around them fluid it's actually based on a

concept called liquefaction where essentially vibrations reduce friction between granular material like sand

causing it to act more like a liquid this is what allows the worms to swim through the desert even the Holman

Shields have the same kind of logic of non- neonian fluids they turn hard when struck by an object that's moving very

fast so it's going to protect you from things like a spear but they can be penetrated by slow moving objects and

there's this strange interaction between liquids and solids and gases that add another tactile Dimension to this

[Music] world oh you know making the perfectly smooth fate rout iead was absolutely

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Carbon Link in the description this scene was uh visually incredible but it made me feel extremely

uncomfortable in the theater this Endless Sea of bald screaming crowds and these demonic figures with their creepy

clicky sounds and these ominous ink fireworks and people who are just tiny specks in this colossal Arena and this

deliberate decision to make the Coliseum triangular rather than the typical oval it explains a lot about the

society I hate Architects there's the obvious fact that Fighters they can get backed into

corners or from a visual standpoint the sharp angles compared to rounded ones they do symbolize aggression and Trigger

the amydala which is the brain's fear Center but it's also a form of crowd control each side is forced to face the

other two sides and the sight lines are limited compared to around Coliseum so there's this inherent division in the

crowd that's probably exasperated by this cacophony of screaming heinens cuz sound kind of sucks in angled spaces for

example St Paul's Cathedral in London which is another Dom and circular space it's known partly for its creeping

whisper where a whisper spoken at the right angle can cling to the wall I move across the entire base of the Dome to a

person's ear on the other side so a triangular space it will create dead zones and Echoes and inconsistent Reverb

and since sound has such a huge impact on how we perceive space you can see how it would create not the most comfortable

atmosphere and the more I think about it the more I think the triangle is actually the perfect shape for the

Harkens this cacophony of sound grotesque scale and fear of being backed into a corner and factions and creating

sides it literally Echoes the Harkin's values for oppression and [Music]

[Applause] fear this entire sequence was shot with an infrared camera which captures wave

Lings beyond the visible spectrum which we normally perceive as colors infrared images translate this wavelength into

Shades of Gray and the more infrared light an object reflects the brighter it appears for example the sky scatters

infrared light making it appear darker and kind of for booing while things like plans and skin reflected more giving it

this white glow but this is one of those details that's not originally in the books this idea that daylight or natural

light on gidy Prime renders everything colorless cuz when they're inside you can actually see the colors so what

makes a planet look like this it could be pollution that's fill the atmosphere with particulates that somehow scatters

visible light or it could be this unique atmosphere that blocks much of the visible light and only lets in infrared

radiation or this is what most of the fans have speculated it's that gidy Prime orbits around a dim star or what's

been referred to as the Black black Sun ironic because black Sun shivat Zona is actually a Nazi symbol perhaps the

architecture on guidy Prime was intentionally designed with these dark or non-reflective materials to minimize

Reflection from infrared light but whatever the reason this little detail gives you so many insights into the

Harkin and psyche Dune explores his relationship between humans and their environments on araus the environment

led to the development of religions and technology and culture so what does that mean for a group of people living on a

plastic black and white [Music] Planet there's not a whole lot of

discussion into the hearken and psychology but the sun is the source of nutrition and life beyond just colors it

could mean a lack of proper nourishment or a variety of health issues I mean they definitely have some psychological

issues in the80s psychologists try painting jail cells with this bubblegum pink color called drunk tank pink and

realized that it actually calmed down aggressive prisoners for about 15 minutes and soon they started doing it

in drunk tanks and psych wards and it seemed to actually work until it kind of had an opposite effect the author of the

book drunk tank pink also talks about a study that found weightlifters can't lift as much and athletes don't perform

as well if they look at the color pink as opposed to something like red or blue and maybe studies like this kind of

border on pseudo science but scientists have made associations between colors and emotions and you don't have to be a

genius to realize that this makes you feel warm and comfortable while this makes you feel calm or somber so this is

a long way of saying that environments that are rich in color could evoke a wide range of emotions and depth and

complexity to our experiences while in a world devoid of color this emotional range might be stunted and over

centuries this could lead to an entire civilization where extreme and binary thinking dominates a world of strong

versus weak Rich versus poor pain versus pleasure all these different ways where the

environment can produce these unique Expressions on humanity and how you can phrase these Nuance Customs back to the

environment or the built environment this is why I freaking love Dune but it's not just fiction throughout our

history we've been shaped by the environment and the built environment you can also see how architecture can be

used as a tool to manipulate people cuz more than just functional things architect Ure is a symbol which can be

deconstructed and twisted turning one thing into something completely [Music]

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the air in my lungs wanted to regret you so bad I was Sky ding High fing running away too

scared to admit that I was lying to myself [Music]