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alia atreides & marie fenrig.
"i'm nobody! who are you?" by emily dickinson / chinese shadows, the rabbit by ferdinand du puigaudeau / photography by chris bell / lyra wren / the girl king, dir. mika kaurismäki
dune really explores every possible way someone can die without actually dying. paul's childhood self dies the night his father does. his atreides heritage dies when he seeks revenge. paul himself dies when he drinks the water of life. jessica the wife dies the night leto does. jessica the mother dies when she drinks the water of life. the girl alia could have become dies in the womb. stilgar dies when he becomes a follower. the fremen die when they leave their home to fight paul's war for him. the narrative treats every one of these deaths as a tragedy, as a palpable loss; the ghosts of who these characters were or could have been remain to haunt the narrative long afterwards.
(expanding on my original tags from this post)
Lady Jessica + outfits
DUNE (2021) dir. Denis Villeneuve Costume Design by Jacqueline West and Bb Mrgan.
Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen & Marie Fenring, father and daughter.
"I'm Nobody! Who are you?" by Emily Dickinson | Jacek Jędral, Untitled, 2020 | "Black Bathing Suit" by Lana del Rey | Moebius' Dune concept art, 1974 | Imogen by Herbert Gustave Schmalz, 1888 | "Poacher's Pride" by Nicole Dollanganger | unknown | "Anecdote of the Pig" by Tory Adkisson | The Abduction of Ganymede, Gustav Moreau, 1886 | Snow Maiden, Viktor Vasnetsov, 1899 | A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
My lungs taste the air of Time, Blown past falling sand…
DUNE (2021) | dir. Denis Villeneuve
Marie Fenring and Alia Atreides ( au where marie never died and they stayed as friends :// )
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since y’all liked the other drawing i made of alia and marie, decided to make another one :’)
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Character designs by Mœbius for Jodorowsky’s unproduced version of DUNE. I’ve featured some before.
Paul could have fallen on his knife at any time.
The books, and the most recent movies, present Paul's descent from 'somewhat innocent son of Atreides' to 'dark Messiah' as something he had no control over, to an extent--the power of the prophecies, of the Bene Gesserit manipulations, of the political forces at work, and of eventually the actions of specifically Jessica were just too powerful and too inescapable. It is presented as a tragedy, with all of the inescapability that entails. There is no choice.
But there is always a choice. There always has to be a choice. These machinations only work if they have the right tool. So what do you do when you want to escape being the figurehead, the spark that lights the fire that is the Jihad? You must take away that spark. Permanently.
But that's the thing, isn't it? The only way out was so drastic Paul would never have taken it. To fall on his knife would be to leave behind his mother and his growing sister and Chani, it would be to betray Stilgar, it would be to end the male line of House Atreides (remember how gender works in this world, remember how women cannot hold power outside of religion) and betray his father, it would be to give in to the Harkonnens.
But to fall on his sword would also be to deprive the machinations of the Bene Gesserit of their Kwisatz Haderach, the corrupted fundamentalist faith of the Fremen their Messiah, the looming Jihad its figurehead and focal point. Perhaps it wouldn't be enough, perhaps the focus would have simply shifted to Jessica or even Alia, gender roles notwithstanding, but it's still a powerful act, a powerful message to send--that one would rather die than act to cause death.
Or perhaps the route the galaxy would go without the Jihad would be worse in the long run. Perhaps the Fremen would stay an oppressed people; but I want to believe that Chani (specifically Chani in the recent movies) is correct, that the Fremen need no outside Messiah and would have freed themselves. That maybe the galaxy wouldn't get better, but it certainly wouldn't have gotten worse.
And isn't that awful? For a non-tragic ending to require such a tragic choice?
“You were never my friend.”
Alia Atreides and Marie Fenring ( paul of dune )
Interesting illustrations from the Jodorowsky’s Dune screenplay which sold recently on eBay.
Have you seen Moebius’ take on Feyd-Rautha?? I love the 2024 film but the femboy appreciators were robbed in this way. They really said ‘one mountain cannot contain two twinks*
Lady Jessica (Francesca Annis) White dress w/dark trim.. Dune (1984).. Costume by Bob Ringwood.
REBECCA FERGUSON — Dune: Part One (2021) dir. Denis Villeneuve — Dune: Part Two (2024) dir. Denis Villeneuve
Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (1818) - Caspar David Friedrich // Paul Atreides on Caladan - Dune (2021) dir. Denis Villeneuve
