Feyd Rautha - Blog Posts
We’re Harkonnens. So this is how we’ll survive, by being Harkonnens.
Dune: Part Two (2024) dir. Denis Villeneuve
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
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*
Frank Herbert’s Dune 2000 - Sci-Fi I Adventure I Drama I Fantasy
dune: part two, dir. denis villeneuve (2024) sharp objects, gillian flynn (2006)
Returning to my Dune fanart posting >:)c
Sister portraits of Feyd-Rautha with my two different designs for him. The longer haired one being Feyd as he is in the beginning of the book, gloomy and completely oppressed by the Baron. The shorter haired one being Feyd as he is by the end of the book, older and cockier but far less free from the Baron’s influence than he seems to think he is.
Process pics under the cut
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."
Paul Atreides & Feyd Rautha in Dune: Part Two // Dune by Frank Hubert, Chapter 48
Dune: Part Two, dir. by Denis Villeneuve // A Panathenaic amphora (Greece (Attica), ca. 365BC - 360BC) (x)
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Austin Butler as Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in Dune: Part 2