In the top ten of stellar fashion (if this is not a pleonasm) are the t-shirts of the crew of the Enterprise on Star trek, Dave Bowman’s astronaut suit in 2001: a space odyssey (converted into Madelman clothing), the Jedi tunic (we leave the interesting topic of what his underwear is like for another article) or the rags that highlight Charlton Heston’s great body in Planet of the Apes. But if there is a really cool wardrobe element in science fiction that has set a trend in the genre, it is the stillsuit.
It is about the clothes worn by the Fremen nomads, the leathery inhabitants of the planet Arrakis, the desert planet known in the universe as Dune. The stillsuit allows you to survive in the most excruciating heat (although, to paraphrase that jocid space marine from Aliens, is a dry heat) by recovering and converting it into drinking water, which is sucked through a tube, from sweat and other bodily discharges such as urine and feces. I do not say this so disgusting, it is said by the imperial planetologist and ecologist, and honorary Fremen, Liet Kynes, when explaining the operation of the suit to the Atreides staff in Frank Herbert’s novel and the films that have been made about it. she. In the last one, that of Denis Villeneuve, they have turned him into a woman to increase the female quota since the giant worms, which are hermaphrodites, could not be sexually changed.
In the novel, the stillsuit, worn under “the loose desert clothes” and the anti-reflective Jubba cape, has a shiny, crisp surface, covers the forehead, includes a filter that is worn over the face, and has adjustment straps that it must be tightened to avoid friction. It is worn with matching desert boots. With it you do not lose more than one thimble of moisture a day. With this description you ask for a stillsuit at Mango and see who knows what they give you. David Lynch in his pounding Dune The 1984 film still depicted the stillsuit as a padded jumpsuit, anticipating the ubiquitous parka from Uniqlo. Lynch’s men’s stillsuit includes abdominal chocolates and jockstrap packet, and that nothing is missing in the galaxy. Well worn, as worn by Paul Atreides (Kyle MacLachlan, that chin!), It allows you to move with enough ease to defeat the very evil Feyd Rautha (Sting, that whole!) In a mortal duel, who in his Harkonnen combat uniform , worthy of Rammstein on a crazy night, also emphasizes the contracting party. At Dune de Villeneuve, the stillsuit follows the same idea (the same pattern: voilà the trend) but with more accessories as it were. Disconcertingly or in a subtle reference to unisex fashion, Chani (Zendaya’s) stillsuit also marks a package. Javier Bardem’s Stilgar seems to be a bit tight at the bottom, maybe that’s why he’s always with a bad face.
In a commendable (I hope) exercise of professionalism I have gone to The Science of Dune (Benbella Books, 2008), a fascinating exploration of the real science behind the Dune by Herbert to clarify whether the stillsuit, to which the book dedicates a chapter, is scientifically plausible. Synthesizing the detailed technological and thermodynamic explanations of Dr. John C. Smith of NASA, an expert in celestial mechanics (the way spaceships pass the ITV?): No. Well, what a shame.
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