History NightmareFuel / Dune2021

-->'''Rabban:''' Uncle, how could you let this happen? How can the Emperor...'''[[SuddenlyShouting TAKE]]''' EVERYTHING WE BUILT AND GIVE IT TO THAT FILTH?! ''HOW''?!\\

-->'''Glossu-Rabban:''' How can the Emperor...'''[[SuddenlyShouting TAKE]]''' EVERYTHING WE BUILT AND GIVE IT TO THAT ''DUKE?!'' HOW?!
-->'''Piter De Vries:''' Don't be so sure it's an act of love.
-->'''Rabban:''' What does he mean by that?!
-->'''Baron Harkonnen:''' [[{{Chessmaster}} When is a gift not a gift?]]

-->'''Paul:''' I see a holy war spreading across the universe like unquenchable fire. A warrior religion that waves the Atreides banner in my father’s name! ''Fanatical legions worshipping at the shrine of my father’s skull''! '''A WAR IN MY NAME'''! Everyone shouting my name!

* In this adaptation, Leto wisely puts on his shield before going to check on the injured woman (soon found to be Shadout Mapes) when he senses something wrong in the middle of the night and gets shot in the back by Dr. Yueh. The shield manages to stop the paralytic dart from striking his skin, for a few seconds, leaving him a few extra moments of agony as he tries frantically to grab the dart before it finishes penetrating the shields. The dart's trajectory landed right where he was unable to reach it, leaving him futilely trying to save himself.

*** In an earlier scene, Dr. Yue says that the Harkonnen [[BodyHorror "took [his wife] apart like a doll"]]. This might be what it looked like when they put her back together again.

** The Sardaukar muezzin's chant is not subtitled, but only hearing it sends a chill down the spine. Not only due to the distorted, gastric overtones, or just the question or ''what'' might he be saying, but also to the sheer creepiness of the entire ceremony.

* In this adaptation, Leto wisely puts on his shield before going to check on the injured woman (soon found to be Shadout Mapes) when he senses something wrong in the middle of the night and gets shot in the back [[spoiler:by Dr. Yueh]]. The shield manages to stop the paralytic dart from striking his skin, for a few seconds, leaving him a few extra moments of agony as he tries frantically to grab the dart before it finishes penetrating the shields. The dart's trajectory landed right where he was unable to reach it, leaving him futilely trying to save himself.

* In this adaptation, Leto wisely puts on his shield before going to check on the injured woman when he senses something wrong in the middle of the night. It manages to stop the paralytic dart from striking his skin, for a few seconds, leaving him a few extra moments of agony as he tries frantically to grab the dart before it finishes penetrating the shields. The dart's trajectory landed right where he was unable to reach it, leaving him futilely trying to save himself.
* In the Harkonnen throne room, there's an eight-legged black...''thing'' which looks like it escaped from one of Creator/HRGiger's nightmares, which seems to be kept as a pet by the Baron or Piter. The Harkonnen servants--who are all bald and eerily thin, with white skin, no fingernails and solid black eyes -- also look distinctly alien. Some wear strange gags over their mouths, and react twitchily and deferentially to the Harkonnens' actions, implying a history of brutal treatment from their superiors.

** The overdubbing of the Sardaukar might be intentional - Villeneuve ''wants'' the Sardaukar to be unnerving and uncanny as in the book they are described as such - but Herbert never explains why. Here Villeneuve gives a good representation that makes the audience feel unnerved by the Sardaukar. Their BlackSpeech includes when they signal to each other in the cistern, sounding like insects more than humans.
** During the assault on Arakeen, while the Harkonnen and Atreides forces shout battlecries and yell during the fighting, the Sardaukar have the unsettling habit of silently and slowly descending from unseen perches to sneak up on their prey.

-->'''Glossu-Rabban:''' How can the Emperor...'''[[SuddenlyShouting TAKE]]''' EVERYTHING WE BUILT AND GIVE IT TO THAT ''FILTH?!'' HOW?!

** After seeing the Sardaukar easily slaughter Atreides soldiers, find themselves narrowly outmatched by the Fremen, and barely defeat Duncan Idaho in a 20-to-1 fight, the remaining Imperial troops are consumed offhandedly by Shai-Halud almost before they realize they're in danger. Their only warning is when the vibrations of the worm's approach causes their legs to sink into the sand. Arrakis is such an outrageously ruthless DeathWorld that even the Emperor's elite troops are helpless beyond the walls of the cities.

* Rabban's outrage at the forced end to the Harkonnen's occupation of Arrakis is very startling.
-->'''Glossu-Rabban:''' How can the Emperor...'''[[SuddenlyShouting TAKE]]''' EVERYTHING WE BUILT AND GIVE IT TO THAT ''FILTH?!''

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[{{ItCanThink}} "It knows."]]]]''

-->'''Baron Vladimir:''' [[{{KillEmAll}} Kill them all.]] ''(Submerges himself)''

* Baron Harkonnen himself is pretty creepy looking, like a cross between Jabba The Hutt and Emperor Palpatine. The way he hovers around (from jets that appear to be fused into his spine) is rather spooky. Additionally, his long, trailing robes make it appear he towers over others like a giant, instead of making him appear to float around somewhat ridiculously like a lone fat balloon.

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[{{ItCanThink}} "It knows."'']]]]

** The overdubbing of the Sardaukar might be intentional - Villeneuve ''wants'' the Sardaukar to be unnerving and uncanny as in the book they are described as such - but Herbert never explains why. Here Villeneuve gives a good representation that makes the audience feel unnerved by the Sardaukar. Their BlackSpeech includes when they signal to each other in the cistern sounding like insects more than humans.

** Speaking of the “thing” above, it’s possible that the creature is not an alien, but a mutated human. It has no features (eyes, mouth, nose, etc) but an oddly human-shaped head, and at the end of each limb is a humanoid hand. Considering how depraved the Harkonnen family is, it’s not too far-fetched to assume that their “pet” is either: A) A genetically manipulated human clone, or B) [[AndIMustScream A human who was turned into that thing.]]

** There's also a realistic consequence to the movement of such a large, powerful subterranean creature witnessed in the attack on the spice harvester. Sandworms are so massive that as they approach the surface of the desert, they cause [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_liquefaction soil liquefaction]]. Trying to run from giant underground monster is bad enough, now try doing it when the sand you're standing on starts behaving like ''water''.

* In the Harkonnen throne room, there's a six-legged black...''thing'' which looks like it escaped from one of Creator/HRGiger's nightmares, which seems to be kept as a pet by the Baron or Piter. The Harkonnen servants--who are all bald and eerily thin, with white skin, no fingernails and solid black eyes -- also look distinctly alien. Some wear strange gags over their mouths, and react twitchily and deferentially to the Harkonnens' actions, implying a history of brutal treatment from their superiors.

* The Sardaukar are pretty unsettling. They're portrayed like a {{cult}} of {{Blood Knight}}s who practice HumanSacrifice (with a shot of the many people who get sacrificed) to mark their foreheads with blood before going to battle, and they have a BlackSpeech as language.

** Speaking of the “thing” above, it’s possible that the creature is not an alien, but a mutated human. It has no features (eyes, mouth, nose, etc) but an oddly human-shapes head, and at the end of each limb is a humanoid hand. Considering how depraved the Harkonnen family is, it’s not too far-fetched to assume that their “pet” is either: A. A genetically manipulated human clone, or B. [[AndIMustScream A human who was turned into that thing.]]