Can't Stop Thinking About How Even Though They Don't 'die,'--"his Vital Signs Are Too Low To Be Detected"--

Jodorowsky’s Dune (2013) dir. Frank Pavich

Imana Nushif - Brian Tyler

A song sung entirely in the fictional Fremen language from the heartbreaking scene of the birth of Paul and Chani’s twins. As heard in Children of Dune, 2005.

been thinking about that scene in dune 2021 where rabban has his little temper tantrum, causing the two maids in the room to flinch in fear… cut to piter (david dastmalchian) looking completely unfazed, bored even, by rabban’s rage. i thought it was a really cool way of establishing character through contrast, so here’s more of the same. rabban the beast, and beautiful, perfect, unflinching piter…

What is the future if you die?

Frank Herbert’s Dune 2000 - Sci-Fi  I Adventure I Drama I Fantasy

I know people like to interpret Paul as an outright villain of the story and while that's not unreasonable, I personally love another interpretation.

It doesn't matter if you are a kind person with good intentions, it doesn't matter if you are smarter that anyone else and it doesn't matter if you can literally see the future, NO ONE has the right to hold absolute power over other people.

Systems with strict vertical hierarchy cause oppression. There is no way around it. Even that one guy who you think is better than that shouldn't be put at the top.

Paul being portrayed with many positive character traits doesn't muddy the message, it enhances it.

dune: part two, dir. denis villeneuve (2024) sharp objects, gillian flynn (2006)

something funny and highly specific to consider about feyd-rautha from a meta perspective is that all of the actors who have played him either are musicians or have played a musician.

in lynch's dune, feyd is played by Sting, lead vocalist and songwriter for The Police.

in jodorowsky's planned adaptation of dune, feyd was planned to be played by (and his design highly based on) Mick Jagger.

in villeneuve's dune, feyd is played by Austin Butler, who shot to fame for his portrayal of Elvis.

also worth noting: all three of these musicians have — to a certain degree — an element of rebelliousness and sex appeal that characterises their 'on-stage' persona.

i mean, just take a look at this quote about Mick Jagger from Philip Norman's symphony for the devil: the rolling stones story:

"[...] his conflicting and colliding sexuality: the swan's neck and smeared harlot eyes allied to an overstuffed and straining codpiece."

dune messiah // children of dune

even a desert mouse can survive //