Jodoworsky’s Fnordian Dune

 

Jodoworsky’s Fnordian Dune

Very often, way too often, we hear about some book series and movies referred to as Dune.

Some elitest white-savior fantasy about some poor downtrodden slaves waiting for some white savior foreigner to liberate them.

We're nothing like that, except we have lots of sand, it's very hot, and we have a consciousness expanding substance we call The Spice. We assume it is, at best and our most generous assessment, poorly written satire.

Our most humble opinion is that it's crap, hallucinatory drug fevered dreams filled with prurient nudity, violence, mysticism and pungently surreal images and even some scat porn.

Originally obtained from the Sirius-B I Love Lucy Fan Club, the author identified as Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky, a former mime student, failed anarchic poet, and auteur of mysterious avante-garde surrealist acid frontier esoterica cinematography.

I publish this copy for your entertainment, to the extent that is possible.

Leaked from the Fnoridian Ministry of Disnification, they thought that the hallucinatory fevered dreams filled with nudity, violence, mysticism and pungently surreal images would be impossible to Disnify for cinema, but not titillating enough for Rule 34 pornographic adaptation, and was subsequently banned by the Ministry of Public Health and Sanity from public distribution because of mental health issues that could result. The official report read "This would only serve to make people crazy, stupid, and mean."

You are strongly recommended not to read this, but to instead pretend to know what it says based on rumours and gossip of others and other second-hand sources.

Enjoy.

The FnordianDune, by Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky

20,000 years ago the Earth burst.

Man conquered the Galaxy, but he realizes that he still lives on an Island.

The Galaxy itself is encircled by an insuperable Magnetic Wall. No one could cross it.

Not having anything more to discover and conquer, Man delivers himself completely to the pleasure, gave his capacity to machines and degenerates in the luxury.

Rising generation, all the Genetic Monsters, fact the Revolution counters the Machines, destroyed the gigantic Host Computer, burns the flags, symbol of the Constitutions of each Planet and organizes The Large Galactic Company of Plain Planets.

Never use atomic weapons. A Universal Law. Prohibition to forever build machines which replace the work of the men.

The computers are substituted by Mutants with hypertrophied brain.

Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV.

One creates a Neo-Medieval Company.

An Emperor is crowned, One creates a Senate of Planets which has the capacity to elect and dethrone Emperors.

The value of money is restored.

One discovers on a Planet lost with the borders of the Galaxy, Dune, a kind of Mushroom, who prolongs the Life during several centuries and allows to see the Future.

Immediately this Planet becomes the center attention of the Galactic Empire and, Mushroom-Dollars, the Spice.

To gather the valuable Spice, is very difficult: Dune is a sand Planet without a drop of water, with hurricanes which blow at more than 800 kilometers hour, and Giant Worms of 400 meters length, true guardians of Spice. These worms devour the machines which try to extract the precious substance.

The Senate consists of Major houses and of Minor houses.

The Major Houses are in small number, but have the economic capacity.

The Houses Minor in great number but very poor and are divided; the single person able to make a success of the Union of the Minor Houses is an honest, sincere and revolutionary man: The Duke Leto. Duke Leto Atreides.

The Emperor, passing in addition to capacities of the Galactic Senate, organize an enormous Spice smuggling with the complicity of one of the Major Houses.

Knowing that the Duke Leto discovered this smuggling, the Emperor sends him to Dune as Governor...Helped by a commercial group which dominates the Banks and has the Monopoly of the Space Voyages: The Spacing Guild, the Emperor causes an economic blockade which isolates the Duke Leto in this infernal Planet called Dune.

Jessica, the concubine of the Duke Leto belongs to a Secret society of Women: Bene Gesserit, who, using psychophysiological magic drives make genetic experiments to produce a Messiah.

The only inhabitants of Dune are the Fremen People, divided, warlike, who can remain in the desert by drinking four water drops per day. They use a clothing that they never remove: Stillsuits that transforms physical waste

into water, which they drink. Fremen have the "white" of the eyes completely blue.

The Duke Leto lives in the hope to reinforce his army with Fremen, but these wild people do not understand the political ideas of the Duke. They admire it but do not follow it.

Blockade of Dune is fatal to the Duke. Helped by the Major Houses and the colonists who exploit the desert, the Emperor assassinates the Duke and destroys his army.

Jessica and her son Paul succeed in fleeing and survive the dangers of the desert. They join the Fremen and nourish Spices.

Thanks to a Legend spread by the Bene Gesserit among Fremen announcing the arrival of a Messiah Jessica and Paul become the Religious Chiefs of the Community.

At the Beginning, Paul was wary of the plans of his mother, but thanks to Spice, he undergoes a Vision of his Capacities and realises that he is really the awaited Messiah.

Paul, while mixing political and religion, becomes the Divine Chief of the Fremen. At their head, he destroys the galactic armies. He discovers that the Spice cannot grow without the Giant Worms. He invents a method to eliminate the Worms. Having the capacity to control Spice, he becomes Master of Spice. Being a Master of Spice, He becomes Master of the Galaxy.

Paul, New Emperor, leaves in a Galactic Crusade to change, once more, Civilization.

He succeeds, with all the human ones, to form a Collective Being and releases Man of the prison, Space and Time.

The Emperor's golden planet, Kaitain. at the centre of the galaxy. Dog-Beings leave the ship they just arrived in and travel through a lifeless city, and enter the "Museum Of Man". Inside they find a giant robot on a crucifix. Pressing a button activates the robot, which projects, through its eyes, the history of humanity onto a screen - starting with the planet Earth exploding...

The robot eyes project the history of mankind to the Dog-beings, narrating the events before them: "The history of man begins with the destruction of his mother-planet Earth. There remains no record of the earlier period."

There are already more than 20,000 years since the Earth burst...

The robot explains that man conquered all the planets, but was trapped within the galaxy itself by a barrier surrounding it.

Man conquered the Galaxy, but he realizes that he still lives in an Island; the Galaxy itself is encircled by an insuperable Magnetic Wall. No one could pass through it.

Triumph killed ambition. With nothing left to achieve, discover or conquer, the Man engages himself completely in pleasure, give its power to machines and degenerates in luxury.

Rising generation, all Genetic Monsters, Makes the Revolution against the Machines, destroys the gigantic Central Computer, burns the flags, symbols of the Constitutions of each Planet and organizes the Great Galactic League of United Planets.

With the eventual victory the planets agree that they will not "...construct machines imitating the human mind" as well as outlawing wars and atomic weapons, and the burning of flags.

No more atomic weapons. A Universal Law. Eternal prohibition against who build machines able to replace human labor. The computers are substituted by Mutants with hypertrophied brains.

Three hundred years later the good intentions were eventually forgotten, and planets organized into Houses and elected an Emperor for a newly established Senate.

One creates a Neo-Medieval society. An Emperor is crowned, one creates a Senate of Planets which has the ability to elect and depose Emperors. The value of money is restored.

After thousands of years it was discovered that the spice on Dune "could enable a person to see into the future, and could also prolong life", making Dune the most important planet in the galaxy.

One discovers in a Planet lost in the borders of the Galaxy, Dune, a kind of Mushroom, who extends Life during several centuries and allows to see the Future.

A ship lands on Dune and two people come out, a member of the "Missionaria Protective" from the Bene Gesserit who has come to "create a religious myth among the natives" and Pardot Kynes who is studying geological forces. They walk off in opposite directions as the robot proclaims that "These two people are going to change the course of human history!"

Leto driving a vehicle containing dead Spice smugglers, into the Senate where Duncan Idaho, Gurney Halleck and Thufir Hawat dump the bodies before the Minor and Major Houses, and uncover the other cargo of the vehicle - a pile of blue Spice.

Leto announces that he has discovered that one of the Major Houses is smuggling spice, and promises to find which House is guilty. Leto then distributes the Spice among the Minor Houses - making him popular among them, but creating anger among the Major Houses. Count Fenring advises the Emperor that Leto could unite the Minor Houses and be a threat.

Duke Leto searches to discover which Major Houses is smuggling the Spice.

On Giedi One an army of slaves are building a giant statue of the Baron. Thufir, disguised as a slave merchant, unloads a group of slaves containing Leto, Duncan and Halleck.

Escaping from the slave prison, Leto, Halleck and Idaho dress up as Harkonnen soldiers and approach the storehouses. Knocking out a Sardaukar guard, they go inside they find thousands of barrels filled with Spice.

Leto proclaims that the Harkonnen are accomplices, but it is the Emperor who is guilty.

Back on Kaitain, Leto enters the Imperial Palace as is meet by Count Fenring in a reception hall "with pillars everywhere sculptured to resemble praying mantis insects" who shows him up a stairway into the mouth of a large sculpture of a clown.

Leto slides down into a luxurious room, built upside down.

The Emperor, doing most of the talking, tells Leto: "If you say I'm a spice smuggler, and I say you're a liar just out for power, who are they going to believe ?"

The room being to revolve and Leto first has to walk from wall to ceiling before the room spins faster and faster, and Leto is thrown out.

In the Senate the Emperor announces that the concession of Dune is withdrawn from the Harkonnens, and granted to House Atreides.

Duke Leto and his armies are to move from Caladan to Dune to prevent any smuggling of Spice, and to look after the Imperium's interests.

The Senate, apart from Leto and his companions, applauses this decision.

A small ship flies over the idyllic Caladan landscape and lands close to the Atreides castle. The Reverend Mother Bene Guesserit leaves the ship.

Meanwhile the Atreides are leaving the Castle and boarding a gigantic Guild ship, capable of holding a million people, intended to transport the entire Atreides army in a single trip. Some people kiss the earth and weep before leaving Caladan for the last time.

Meanwhile, in the castle, Guild employees and Atreides soldiers are packing up all the possessions. Jessica oversees the moving of a bull's head with six horns, two of which are blood stained.

Jessica then sees the approaching Reverend Mother and remembers...

What does Jessica remember? Find out next time as we continue our exploration into Jodorowsky's Dune.

Jessica remembers being brought to Castle Caladan by the Reverend Mother as a gift to Leto from the Emperor.

Leto removes, using his sword, Jessica's hat and the veil covering her face.

It is love at first sight between Leto and Jessica, but Leto brings his sword down, with force, towards Jessica, stopping just short of her neck.

Halleck plays a tune on his baliset.

A Bene Gesserit temple with a futurist Egyptian architectural style.

Jessica is lead by several older women to the old Reverend Mother.

A preparation of Spice is injected into the Reverend Mother's skull, causing her eyes to turn white and she proclaims in an inhuman tongue that: "I know where genetic paths come from, and where they lead".

The Reverend Mother goes on to announce that Jessica will give the Duke a daughter, who will receive the genes of a Harkonnen and give birth to the Kwisatz Haderach.

Jessica and Leto are in the Duke's bedroom, which is simple like a monastic cell, and the only decorations are the head of a six-horned bull and a portrait of the Duke's father, dressed as a bullfighter.

Jessica is naked on the bed, and tries to interest Leto, but Leto sadly explains that the bull that killed his father also attacked him when Leto jumped into the arena. The bull has blood on two of its horns, one has the blood of his father, the other the blood of his sex.

Leto laments that he will be the last of House Atreides, that Jessica can never give him a son.

Jessica states that Leto will have a son, and taking Leto's dagger she makes a cut on his finger and "helps the Duke penetrate her with his blood-stained fingers".

The Duke Leto (father of Paul) is a man castrated in a ritual combat in the arenas during a bullfight (emblem of the Atreides house being a crowned bull...) Jessica - nun of the Bene Gesserit -, sent as concubine at the Duke to create a girl which would be the mother of a Messiah, becomes so in love with Leto that she decides to jump a chain link and to create a son, Kwisatz Haderach, the saviour. By using her capacities of Bene Gesserit - once that the Duke, insanely in love with her, entrusts her with his sad secret - Jessica inseminates herself using a drop of blood of this sterile man...

Leto explains to a visibly pregnant Jessica that he can't marry her as he needs to allow the Major Houses to expect an alliance with one of them, but he promises that he'll never take a wife.

 

Jessica and the Reverend Mother in the castle.

The Reverend Mother berates Jessica for disobeying orders and giving Leto a son instead of a daughter. Paul must be tested to see if he is the Kwisatz Haderach.

Jessica lets Paul enter the room, and tells him that he must do everything the Reverend Mother asks before she leaves them alone.

The Reverend Mother removes a cube from the folds of her clothing, one of the side is open - "Put your right hand here".

Paul does so without argument, and the box begins to emit an electronic noise, as soon as it does the Reverend Mother holds a needle at his neck, Paul starts to turn to look, but, using the Voice, he is commanded to stop.

"You have a Gom Jabbar near your neck. If you take your hand away, you will die in 2 seconds" announces the Reverend Mother, who tells Paul that the box is a test to see if he is really human.

The noise from the box becomes louder and louder as Paul feels like his hand is burning away. Paul bites his lip and digs his fingers into the palm of his free hand, but doesn't recite the Litany against Fear.

"Nobody has ever endured such suffering", and the box is turned off, and the pain immediately ends. On the Reverend Mother's instruction Paul reluctantly removes his hand, which he is relieved to discover is unharmed.

"Pain by nervous induction" laughs the Reverend Mother as Jessica enters. Paul learns that he maybe the "Kwisatz Haderach" and that the legends sown on Dune may help him and his mother, but that his father will die.

Paul is then commanded, in the Voice, never to reveal that to anyone.

Harkonnen Castle is on the coast and feels more like the Atreides home than that normally associated with the Harkonnen.

Piter and Feyd playing chess, but Piter's pieces are spiders and scorpions, while Feyd's are butterflies and wasps.

Piter injects himself with liquid spice while Feyd wonders why the Baron is giving a party as "We've just lost Dune!", but Piter laughs at this notion.

Feyd burns a butterfly while smoking a joint.

In the Harkonnen drawing room a frantic party is going on, gargoyles are spitting wine into the room, which is an huge swimming pool with platforms made of crystal.

The Baron enters, being carried on a litter and slaves enter with food for the banquet, but offer each dish to the Baron first, who takes a tiny portion from each dish before the rest is thrown to the guests who scramble for their meal.

The Baron finishes eating while he is applauded and adulated, and more slaves appear who fasten his anti-gravitation devices to him. Once they are attached the Baron performs a floating dance throwing meat to his dogs, while Uman Kudu (his master at arms) sings aloud.

Opening the doors into the night club, the Baron floats in followed by Feyd, Piter, Uman Kudu and a group of slaves. A large spherical cake, a replica of the planet Dune, is in the middle of the room. The Baron hands out pieces of the cake - "A piece of desert? ... A giant sand-worm?"

Uman Kudu cracks a whip and curtains open revealing a group of Guild officials around a wooden packaging case, similar to those seen in Castle Caladan. The case is opened and a drugged Dr. Yueh is emptied onto the floor!

The Guild officials revive Yueh while servants bring in a slave tied against a pillar. Piter gives Yueh a crossbow and tells him to kill the slave.

Yueh smiles gently and points to the diamond inlaid in his forehead - "The Suk School. Imperial conditioning. ... I cannot kill."

Another crack of the whip and a wall rises revealing a torture room, in which Wanda, Yueh's wife (disturbingly 14 years old and naked), is attached to a "complicated and sadistic machine".

Piter moves the machine to one of Wanda's hands and turns it into crystal, Wanda screams and passes out. Piter then smashes the hand, leaving only a stump.

Yueh is once again given the crossbow, but despite his attempts he physically cannot kill the slave.

Piter continues to turns parts of Wanda's body into crystal before breaking them - eventually Yueh takes the crossbow and riddles the slave with arrows.

The Baron tells Yueh he is to kill Duke Leto, Yueh nods and is taken away by the Guild Officials. Piter is rewarded with syringes of spice and the Baron tells Feyd "They have all betrayed Leto. We shall betray them all. The Harkonnens can be emperors too."

Feyd and Piter leave the "eye" with three girls and enter the party. The Baron is fitted with his anti-gravity bracelets and dances towards the cake while Kudu sings.

The Baron reaches into the cake and throws it to all the happy people at the party, who eat it. Then Piter brings out Yueh and his wife, who is crystallised. Yueh is asked to shoot people at the party, Yueh refuses so pieces of his wife are broken off until he agrees and kills everyone at the party.

Yueh agrees to kill Leto then being led away by the Guild.

Paul enters his gymnasium and bows before Duncan, Gurney, Thufir and Yueh. He hesitates to speak due to the presence of stranger whose head is hidden under a hat and behind a large fan.

Hawatt explains to Paul that he is a friend, and Paul says as they are leaving Caladan today he'd prefer not to have a lesson. Idaho knocks Paul down, telling him not to mix feelings and fighting.

Hawatt removes the hat and fan from the stranger - it is a robot!

Hawatt explains "This robot will judge your courage, your speed and resistance. You cannot defeat him. If you try, you'll die."

The robot is imprinted with Paul's voice, and now Paul alone can stop the fight.

Thufir activates the robot and it stands, monitoring Paul's movements, breathing, the sound of his heart.

Paul attacks and easily knocks the clumsy robot to the ground, but it gets back up and with each encounter the robot becomes more powerful, and soon Paul is fighting for his life but refuses to surrender. Finally Thufir shots the robot and it explodes.

Leto and Jessica enter the gymnasium to investigate the explosion. Leto understands Paul's frustration and explains he knows that Dune is a trap, but explains to Paul that the Emperor is fearful that Leto could unite the Minor Houses and break the economic block of the Emperor, the Major Houses and the Guild.

The Atreides are being set up to fail so that Leto will lose his reputation and the Minor Houses will remain fragmented. One hope remains, if they can recruit the Fremen the Atreides will have an army more powerful than the Imperium's.

Jessica then (very quickly) teaches Paul how to use the Voice, and proclaims that they will survive.

During a rain storm, the last of the cargo is loaded into the Guild ship, and soldiers say goodbye to their families and drink the falling rain.

Leto, Jessica, Paul, Halleck, Hawatt, Idaho and Yueh watch the huge doors to Castle Caladan being closed, and Leto locks them with an iron key. He places the key in a small bag which he hangs around Jessica's neck.

The Guild ship leaves Caladan, and becomes smaller and smaller until it disappears in the vastness of space.

 

Having been ordered to leave Dune, Rabban is drunk with anger, and his Harkonnen army are massacring men, women and children in Arrakeen.

Rabban sees the Guild ship carrying the Atreides approaching and spits and swears at it.

At the Palace beggars look longingly through the fence at the fountain and palm grove. Rabban and his soldiers suddenly appear and blow up the fountain killing several bystanders.

Rabban grabs an old man and asks him how much water the 20 palm trees need - enough water for 100 men every day.

Rabban then has the old man and other survivors bound against the trees before they are set alight.

Entering the Palace Rabban orders every servant killed, Rabban himself slaughtering children with glee.

Finally Rabban orders ever Harkonnen soldier into the hall, and once it is full they are commanded to defecate!

The defecating scene is mentioned by the Jodorowsky's Dune documentary director Frank Pavich in an interview on Indiewire

In order to insult Duke Leto, Rabban the Beast gets his army, the Algerian army, to pull down their pants in front of the palace and shit. 2,000 soldiers defecate at once.

Psychomagic, an art that heals

The single Guild ship carrying the whole of the Atreides army touches down on the landing strip on Dune, the only other ship there bears the Imperial emblem on its side.

Count Fenring and his wife are waiting in a truck, and under Fenring's order an army of Sardaukar line both sides of the direct road from the landing field to the government palace.

Fenring greets the Duke as he exits the ship, and the Atreides being to move down the road towards the palace, while Rabban and his men move from the palace towards the landing field.

The armies pass each other, but the last line of 10 men from each troop march on the spot, facing off against each other as the rest of the armies continue on.

Suddenly they attack each other, but two of the Sardaukar who are lining the road run up and, in a fraction of a second, kill the twenty combatants.

Fenring returns in the truck from the palace, picking up the Sardaukar as he passes them, and once back at the landing field they all board the Imperial ship.

The pile of twenty bodies are being scavenged by a group of beggars, but a group of Fremen scare them off, and cover the bodies with a special cloth to which they connect a machine which extracts the water and fills up a container as the bodies shrink under the shrouds.

At the Government palace the Atreides soldiers are burning the Harkonnen banners and raising their own coat of arms.

Leto instructs Duncan to help the wounded and Gurney to search all the villages, and they leave in the palace in vehicles raising a cloud of dust.

As the dust clears thousands of beggars fill the square; hooting and pounding small stones together.

Leto raises his arms and imposes silence. Leto tells the crowd that the Atreides are not like the Harkonnens, and they want colleagues not slaves.

The crowd stands and bows, all as one. As they leave some place gifts at the feet of Paul and Jessica: fruit, necklaces, eggs while murmuring "Madhi", and proclaiming Paul as the child of legend.

When the square is empty Paul gathers the gifts in his cape and Jessica takes the key to the Caladan castle from its bag and buries the key in the sandy earth. Then Leto, Jessica and Paul walk resolutely towards the palace.

A caped figure (Leto?) raises his arms before a crowd of people while vehicle arrive or leave. The

Duncan and his group of soldiers are in an Arrakeen street, tending the wounded and helping put out fires using buckets of sand.

A group of Fremen stare, with their completely blue eyes, at blood running through tubes for a transfusion.

Duncan and his ambulances continue on to a town in the desert, the aftermath of a battle can be seen; smoke, charred doors and bodies in the streets.

A Fremen emerges from behind a rock, and begins to run towards the Atreides. Suddenly 15 Harkonnen soldiers appear from behind some sand dunes and block his path.

The Fremen draws a "short, phosphorescent sword" and drags it through the ground, engulfing him in a cloud of dust. The Harkonnen enter the dust cloud, but they all reappear mortally wounded and die. The Fremen himself emerges and although seriously injured too, he run to Duncan, give the sword to him and, with no strength left to speak with, points to the sky, makes a negative motion, and finally dies.

Duncan looks up, and realises there are no vultures circling, and shouts to his men "It's a trap!".

The "dead" bodies tear off their rags revealing Harkonnen uniforms and attack the outnumbered Atreides.

More Fremen appear from the desert and release birds of prey who peck at the eyes of the Harkonnens while the Fremen finish them off.

The leader of the group of Fremen, Farok, tells Duncan that the Atreides helped their brothers, and the Fremen have now saved the Atreides lives - the debt of water has been repaid.

The Fremen depart and Duncan examines the Fremen sword, pulls it from its sheath and it surprised that it gleams and gives out a vibrating sound.

Duncan's convoy of ambulances comes across a burning village filled with corpses.

Jessica is decorating her new bedroom in the Arrakeen Palace, soldiers enter bringing in a group of female Fremen servants. The servants all kneel before Jessica, apart from an old woman - Mapes.

Jessica instructs the soldiers to leave, and then she confronts Mapes - "Do you think I'm blind ? You're no servant...!"

Jessica announces that there is a dagger hidden under Mapes' blouse.

Mapes draws a white phosphorescent blade from a black sheath - "A gift if you are really Her!"

Jessica states that it will be the instrument of her death if she is not. Mapes asks what the blade is, and Jessica successfully guesses a tooth.

Mapes cries out and falls to her knees and gives Jessica the blade, telling her it is a tooth of Shai-Hulud and to keep it close to her otherwise it would disintegrate.

Jessica asks why Mapes has put the blade away without shedding blood and Mapes opens her blouse and offers her breasts.

Jessica slashes her right breast, but the blood coagulates instantly and Mapes says "The legend is beginning to happen; you are one of us. You will not leave this planet alive."

Outside the Government Palace Duncan is showing Leto gifts from the Fremen: distilling devices (stillsuits), jewels, Spice brandy ... and something special for Duncan himself.

Duncan picks up the black sheath of the Crysknife given to him by the dying Fremen, and it about to pull out the blade when a voice shouts out "Leave it in its sheath!"

 

Everyone turns to look as Farok walks forward - the Atreides guards draw their swords.

Duncan explains that Farok saved his life and the guards allows him to pass. Farok tells them that only Duncan may see the blade, and that the eyes of impure men would stain it.

Leto asks if he would be allowed to view the Crysknife, but Farok will only allow the Duke to win the right to see it.

This offends the Atreides guards and Hawatt exclaims that only the Duke can give orders.

Leto calms everyone, and agrees to honour the Fremen custom as well as the Fremen who died.

Farok stares at Leto and then spits at Leto's feet, the Atreides guards once more draw their swords.

It is Duncan who calms everyone this time, explaining that spitting is a mark of respect, given how precious water is to the Fremen.

Farok asks if Duncan wishes to put himself at both the Duke's and Farok's service, covers his face and walks towards the desert.

Leto announces that the Fremen are the men they need, if they are all like Farok, but Duncan says that being proud and free they will be difficult to organise.

Leto says they'll need 10 battalions of Fremen, and that they are depending on Duncan. Duncan puts on a distilling device and runs after Farok, they walk together into the desert, disappearing behind a dune.

Paul's bedroom has an oceanic theme, with painted walls, a cloud shaped window, and a bed that looks like a fish!

Yueh is giving Paul a lesson on the unusual wildlife on Dune - "blue rats, falcons with horned beaks, beetles with butterfly wings".

After the lesson ends Yueh give Paul a sleeping pill, but Paul want to go for a walk. Yueh insists, saying it is Jessica's order.

Paul reluctantly takes the pill and goes to sleep, but immediately gets up and spits out the pill as soon as Yueh leaves the room.

Paul starts to get dressed when he notices the fish's mouth opening and an electronic insect coming out of it. The insect is carrying a miniature bomb, and is attracted to the noise of the curtains fluttering in the wind, then a moth banging against a nightlight, but then moves towards the sounds of Paul's breathing. Paul stops his breathing, but the sound of his heartbeat still draws the insect closer. Paul concentrates and stops the beating of his heart. The insect continues to sweep the room passing inches from Paul.

Outside the room a woman's footsteps can be heard, the handle turns and Jessica opens the door. The insect rushes towards her, but Paul manages to grab it and Jessica quickly removes the explosive charge and hurls it against the wall while throwing herself and Paul to the ground.

The device explodes, taking a piece of the wall with it, and the noise brings Leto, Yueh, Hawatt and Atreides soldiers running into the room.

Paul points to the tiny device causing Thufir and the soldiers to run off through the corridors, knocking down doors, looking for the operator. But all they find is an abandoned control panel.

Distraught, Hawatt returns to the room, and tells the Duke that he is too old and that he gives up.

Leto comforts Hawatt, telling him that his lessons saved Paul, and that he can do nothing against a traitor.

A corrupt system has sown bitterness among even the Atreides, but they will fight it and make a better world - "even if we have to set alight the Galaxy to do it!"

Outside a cave in the desert Paul, Leto and Hawatt are wearing distilling devices (stillsuits) and they approach an ornithopter. They watch a group of Fremen moving towards them, lead by an old man who moves like a young man - Pardot Kynes. (Note: Kynes is over 400 years old at this point!)

The Fremen note that the Atreides have adjusted their stillsuits incorrectly - apart from Paul. "He knows but he can never have learnt" - "The prophecy is coming true!"

The two groups meet and Leto thanks Kynes for the stillsuits, but Paul says "every gift is a blessing for he who gives it". Again this causes excitement among the Fremen.

Kynes - with the permission of Leto - correctly adjusts the Duke's stillsuits and explains how they work.

Hawatt copies the adjustments and they all enter the 'thopter and take-off into the desert.

Inside the 'thopter Leto is at the controls while Kynes points out features of the landscape; sand-drums, hurricanes etc.

A sandworm appears below them, making a vibrating sound. Kynes explains that they defend the spice-fields. Leto asks why they haven't been eliminated, Kynes says it would be too expensive, and Paul states there is a link between the worms and the spice. This insight impresses Kynes.

They fly over a spice field, the spice is a spongy blue substance, and it gives off a vibrating sounds, like the worms and the crysknives.

A harvester is dropped onto the spice by a wing-carrier (carryall) while 4 "watchmen" craft scan the area. A worm emerges from the desert and heads towards the harvester, Leto is concerned but Kynes explains that the carryall will be alerted and pick up the harvester before the worm attacks.

The watchmen ship can't raise the carryall, but as Leto orders the works to abandon the spice the carryall is spotted in the distance, coming towards them, but it suddenly explodes and crashes into the desert - sabotage!

Leto orders all the craft to land and save the workers, they'll need to carry more men than the 'thopter can carry so they throw seats and whatever else they can out of the window.

With the workers onboard the 'thopter just manages to take off as the worm consumes the harvester. Two silhouettes are seen walking away and Paul deduces that they were Fremen studying their crop techniques.

The men are angry about the lost spice, but are happy to be alive and pass around spice brandy and sing.

Kynes is impressed that the Duke risked his life to save the workers, that he was more worried about the men than the spice.

In the Government Palace the Atreides are throwing a ball. The first floor is divided up into four distinct parts.

The first has the rich industrial classes of Dune and their 50 generals, who are tormenting 3 small beggar children.

In the second section the Fremen are listening to music and playing a game of chess with giant pieces. Among the Fremen are Stilgar, Farok, Duncan and Kynes.

The spice searchers occupy the third area, and is full of eating, drinking and drunken mischief.

Finally, in the fourth room, are the smugglers led by Esmer Tuek. They engage in games of strength, including wrestling a hippopotamus!

Leto, Paul and Hawatt, observing all this from a second floor balcony decide that they have to combine all four parties into one.

Back at the entrance industrialists guests are washing their hand in bowls of water, drying them with towels which they then throw to beggars. The beggars fight for the towels, desperate for the water they contain.

Leto intervenes, telling them to stop this old custom and distribute water to all during the dance. Hundreds of grateful beggars arrive and line up for the water.

 

A group of business men playing cards observe this complain among themselves at the Duke's actions. However Lingar Webt, the Water Trader, tells them that Leto can change the customs as long as he doesn't interfere with their business operations. Among them they control the water, food and transportation on Dune, and if they combine their bodyguards they could form an army to attack the Atreides.

Outside of the palace Gurney shows Leto, Paul and Hawatt a military lorry full of the heads of dead Harkonnens.

Gurney hands the Duke a letter found on a body. The letter bears the authentic seal of the Baron.

Leto takes the letter and reads it; "...Lady Jessica has accepted to assassinate the Duke..."!

Paul objects, but Leto acknowledges that it is formal proof, and order Jessica to be watched.

When Gurney and Hawatt have left Leto confides to Paul that he knows it is a lie, but he hopes to cause the true traitor to now act rashly. He then asks Paul that if anything happens to Leto that Paul must tell Jessica that he never stopped trusting her.

We can see the progression of the character design for Hawatt in the illustrations. Originally he was to have a peg-leg.

Back in the palace Jessica comes down the main stairway and all attention is drawn to her by her natural beauty.

Kynes kisses her hand but keeps his lips closed. Jessica states that one day Dune will have enough water that men will no longer fear losing water when kissing a woman. Kynes realises that Jessica shares the Fremen's dreams -"Did you bring the Kwisatz Haderach ?"

Leto comes down the stairway too, but rejects Jessica's arm - "Your place is in the shadow." Jessica leans on Kynes for comfort.

Leto stands up on the band's rostrum, and proposes a toast. Leto smashes the glass - it's a signal - Atreides soldiers swarm in and the industrialists' generals are brought before Leto, who gives another signal and the 50 generals are beheaded!

A third signal and the walls separating each of the 4 parties are brought down, yet another signal and the hall doors are opened and a crowd of beggars burst in.

Leto announces that this is what is needed on Dune, a united people. He has seized control of the water, food and energy sources on Dune, and tells the industrialists to leave Dune forever.

He offers to work with the other groups fairly and equally if they help the Atreides defend Dune against the Imperium.

However, one by one, the Fremen, the smugglers and the spice searchers each refuse to fight the Atreides' battle, and leave the hall.

The Duke's plan has failed! But the beggars that remain offer their lives to the Duke - who laughs like a madman - "Old men... weak men... sick men... madmen... That's all I have!"

Meanwhile, thousands of Harkonnen ship are crossing through space towards Dune.

What good will the thousands of beggars be to the Atreides? Join us next time as Halleck tries to train them.

Gurney Halleck is trying to train the beggars - "Children, old men, the sick, mothers with their babies and emaciated men".

The beggars, however, no longer know how to fight, and eventually Halleck realises that "they need someone behind them."

He stands in the middle of a group and yells "Charge!" and urged on by Halleck, the beggars attack the Atreides soldiers they are training with.

Meanwhile, in space, the Harkonnen ships have arrived at Dune and are forming a ring around the planet.

Back on Dune, Gurney is showing Leto his strategy, the troops form a giant circle - "The first line contains the old men and the sick, then come the children, the freaks, the blind and the madmen ; then, there are the mothers using their children as shields. The following line is made up of the women and the half-starved men." In the middle of the group are the Atreides soldiers.

On a command the group splits into two, then into four etc, each time the group keeps the same system of Atreides in the centre protected by multiple lines of beggars.

Halleck explains that the Atreides can fire arrows from within the group, protected by a wall of bodies, enabling the solider to kill many Harkonnes until they can get to him.

Within the palace the installation of the protective screen is completed and Yueh activates the shield.

The palace is covered with a semi-transparent dome of light, and from a tower the Atreides watch Harkonnen ships land half a mile away.

Leto states that to legally rule Dune the Harkonnens will need his head to present to the Senate, but they'll be safe within the protective screen.

The Sardaukar and Harkonnen army move towards the palace and are meet by the Atreides army formed into three groups around Hawatt, Idaho and Halleck.

"The sky fills with vultures. The sound of battle can be heard: a deafening uproar, the clash of arms, explosions, wails, military bands, mingling their rival hymns. A black smoke darkens the sky."

Within the palace Yueh runs towards Leto - "Jessica ...! Paul ...! The Harkonnens ... !"

Leto follows him through a series of corridors, they encounter Mapes with a dagger in her back, who tries to warn Leto before dying in Yueh's arms.

They set off running again and find Jessica and Paul apparently dead, laying in a pool of blood. Leto falls to his knees in despair, and Yueh takes advantage of this to inject Leto in the neck. Leto falls down, paralysed.

Yueh removes one of the Duke's teeth and replaces it with a replica one. He tells Leto to break the tooth when the Baron is near to release a deadly gas - "...don't forget the tooth, Leto Atreides, the tooth!"

In exchange for Leto co-operation Yueh will save Jessica and Paul. The ducal ring is taken from Leto and placed into one of Paul's pockets, then two spice searchers (Czigo and Kinet) enter, Yueh pays them with money and spice brandy and they leave carrying Paul and Jessica.

We see the aftermath of the battle, thousands dead, including "babies bristling with arrows" and birds of prey pecking at the flesh.

Only three Atreides are left standing, Duncan, Halleck and Hawatt, surrounded by an ever decreasing circle of Sardaukar.

Hawatt is captured, Halleck is pinned under a net. Duncan, despite being mortally wounded keeps killing the enemy, until finally sixteen Sardaukar grab him and press his chest to a cannon - that Rabban fires - blowing Duncan to bits!

Hawatt is taken away as the Baron want to see him, and Halleck's balisette is crushed by Rabban.

Jumping ahead a few scenes we find Halleck tied to four sticks, baking in the desert heat. He is delirious and screams Jessica's name with hate, believing that she was the traitor.

Rings of soldiers close in a few small groups, a lone figure (Duncan?) taking on overwhelming odds, and at the end of the section a figure (presumably Halleck) tied up in the desert.

In the palace Yueh turns off the protective shield.

A victory parade approaches the palace, with the Baron sat on a throne which is in turn sat on top of a float made to look like the planet Dune.

As they reach the palace the Baron gives an order and Sardaukar enter the palace and bring out Leto strapped to a table - the army cheers at this sight.

 

However when Yueh steps out a hush settles over them, until shouts of "Traitor" begin, and clods of earth are thrown, then the Sardaukar take him away too.

Back inside the palace the Baron demands to learn from Yueh where Paul & Jessica are, but Yueh lies, telling him that only the Duke knows.

The Baron rings a bell and Yueh's wife Wanda is brought out on a stretcher, her body is covered by a sheet and only her head is visible.

Yueh runs towards her, but Piter sticks a dagger into his back, and as Yueh falls he grabs the sheet, revealing Wanda's body, which has been completely crystallized! As Yueh lays dying on the floor Uman Kudu smashes Wanda beside Yueh, and with his last breath he kisses a few shards of Wanda's body, points and laughs at the Baron and then dies.

The Baron states "You can't trust a traitor!" and then asks Piter to interrogate Leto - which we'll see next time!

Piter moves towards Leto and slaps him twice, asking "Where are Jessica and Paul?"

The knowledge that they are still alive give Leto hope, and the Baron tells Piter to do what he wants with the body, but the Baron has promised the Emperor the head.

Piter removes one of Leto's arms, throwing it into a trunk, to which the Baron applauds.

Piter asks again "Where are they?" and as the Duke remains silent Piter continues to remove limbs, with each one asking "Where?".

With the arms and legs gone, Piter decides to remove another of the Duke's appendages and begins to remove the Duke's loin cloth. Uman Kudu realises what Piter has in mind moves closer to Leto.

However when Piter has uncovered the Duke's groin he and Uman Kudu burst out laughing - "He's got no..."

"The Baron quickly gets down from the throne and, eaten up with curiosity, comes closer, leaping nimbly. The Duke presses his jaws together, and the deadly gas begins to escape."

The gas instant kills Piter and Uman Kudu, but the Baron, aided by his anti-gravity devices, is able to take a giant leap upwards, his head breaking through the glass dome in the ceiling.

The Baron's head emerges from the dome, surprising some Harkonnen soldiers in the room above. The Baron orders a mask and some ventilators. With mask is fitted to his face and he descends back into the room.

The Baron checks Piter and Uman Kudu and moans when confirming that they are dead. Soldiers enter the room and purify the air. Then, overcome with a sudden fury, the Baron rushes towards what remains of the Duke and cuts off his head, throwing it into the truck.

The Baron orders the remains to be thrown into the desert for the worms, and that the army go and look for Paul and Jessica, killing anyone they find, Atreides or Fremen. "Total extermination!"

Paul & Jessica are bound and gagged in the back of a vehicle moving towards the desert.

In the front are Czigo and Kinet who are drunk on the Spice brandy. They look back and see Jessica's legs uncovered, laugh and stop the vehicle.

As they start to cut the ropes binding Jessica's legs Paul is able to remove his gag and tries to use the Voice on them, it takes a few attempts but they eventually remove Jessica's gag who quickly asks, in the Voice, "Why are they fighting over me?"

After a brief fight Czigo kills Kinet, and then starts to strangle Paul, but Jessica tells Czigo to let Paul go. Czigo releases Paul and pushes him out of the vehicle, but Paul delivers a powerful kick, killing Czigo instantly.

As Paul and Jessica retrieve the packet Yueh had given to the Spice searchers an approaching worm can be heard.

Paul & Jessica move to the safety of rocks, carrying the package. A mountain of sand moves towards the vehicle and an hole opens beneath it swallowing the 'thopter whole.

Inside the package they find a recorded message from Yueh saying that he and the Duke will be dead, and that if his plan to kill the Baron has failed he hopes that they will avenge Leto's death.

Paul puts on the Ducal ring and tells Jessica that Leto never stopped trusting her. Jessica weeps, despite telling herself it is silly to waste water.

Paul knows the location of the House Atomics, and hopes with the help of the Fremen to have revenge. From the package they erect a tent into which they sit and meditate.

The Harkonnen soldiers guarding Gurney Halleck in the desert have run out of water, and one decides to kill him.

As he moves towards Halleck an arrow pierces his throat, and the other guards are also quickly killed by a group of smugglers lead by Emmer Tuek, who releases Halleck.

Meanwhile, Paul and Jessica hear an approaching 'thopter and they hide among the rocks. The 'thopter appears and a box is thrown out of it, smashing on the rocks, scattering the limbs of Leto.

When the 'thopter has passed Paul and Jessica run up to the remains and fall to their knees. Jessica rearranges the pieces back into the shape of a body and tell Paul "Let me change death into life".

Paul sits on a small hill with his back to Jessica as she lies naked on top of Leto.

As Paul sits on the small hill a host of images pass through his mind: Atreides flags, flames, Fremen yelling, exploding ships, sandworm and faces. After seeing this montage of the future Paul see a montage from the first half of the film.

Paul cries out that he is a freak. He runs to Jessica and explains that he can see the present, future and past.

He tells Jessica that she is the Baron's daughter, and that she now carries his sister in her womb.

He goes on to state that the Fremen will pick them up, and they will call him "Muad'Dib".

Harkonnen troops lead by Rabban are hunting for Paul and Jessica, backing them against a smooth rock wall.

Suddenly a door appears in the wall! Kynes and Farok help them into the secret tunnel, closing the entrance before the Harkonnen can reach them.

Running through the tunnel they enter a cave, Kynes gives Paul and Jessica some stillsuits. As they dress Farok and Kynes uncover a 'thopter and then attach a small distrans to a bat - a message to the Fremen to protect the mother and son - and release it through another hole in the cave.

Kynes tells them to fly the 'thopter directly into the approaching storm. They say their goodbyes as the sounds of Harkonnens are heard closing down the tunnel.

Paul & Jessica fly the 'thopter into the hurricane as Kynes and Farok engage in a brutal battle with the Harkonnens.

As Paul flies the 'thopter towards the centre of the cyclone it is pursued by 3 Harkonnen aircraft, who try and shot them down, but they give up and fly away when the 'thopter disappears into the cyclone.

Inside the 'thopter Paul battles the control, then he and Jessica recite the Litany Against Fear.

Rabban brings the captured Kynes and Farok to the Baron, who is using Feyd's stomach as a pillow, but Rabban has to admit that he hasn't seen the bodies of Paul and Jessica, even though he is sure they died in the storm.

The Baron decides to take Farok back to Giedi One as a gladiator, and arrange for an "accident" for Kynes.

Hawatt is brought in, and the Baron offers him a poison, which Hawatt drinks as he wants to die.

 

The Baron then lies to Hawatt, telling him that Jessica betrayed both the Atreides and the Harkonnen, and asks Hawatt to be the Harkonnen Mentat to enable them both to take revenge on her.

Hawatt agrees and the Baron gives him an antidote, which he must receive every day in order to live.

Well, at least Hawatt doesn't need to milk a cat every day!

Paul and Jessica's damaged 'thopter comes out of the cyclone and lands in the desert.

They jump away, taking their possessions with them, and behind them a worm eats the 'thopter.

After sheltering among the rocks, they set off towards some cultivated vegetation, with Paul planting a thumper to distract a nearby worm.

As the worm destroys the thumper Paul & Jessica cross sand-drums, their footsteps resounding across the desert, attracting the worm.

They just manage to climb into the safety of rocks as the worm reaches them, its mouth in front of them, searching.

Suddenly another thumper rings out, drawing the worm away, and, relieved, they climb higher, using some man-made steps cut into the rocks, which opens into a ravine.

Paul & Jessica walk down into the ravine which contains a garden, where Stilgar drops from a tree and tells them that they can either kill themselves, or be killed.

Stilgar then recognises Paul, and allows him to join the Fremen thanks to Kynes message, however Jessica must die.

Jessica manages to surprise Stilgar, holding him as a shield in front of her as Paul runs towards a rocky wall, knocking out Jamis as he passes him.

With a knife at his neck, Stilgar orders the Fremen to stand down, and Paul turns to see Chani - the girl from his dreams.

Jessica is accepted into their group in return for agreeing to teach the Fremen her fighting techniques.

With an deal struck, and Jamis helped up, they all set off marching, with two Fremen erasing their footsteps.

The Fremen lead Paul and Jessica to the edge of the desert, and a thumper is planted. Stilgar ties Jessica to him and warns her not to make a mistake as their lives depend on it.

In the distance a worm can be seen approaching, and the Fremen chant as it draws near.

While the worm is attracted to the thumper Stilgar, and by necessity Jessica rush towards it, followed by the other Fremen.

Stilgar uses hooks to attach to the worm, as do the other Fremen, and the worm turns lifting them onto its back.

The worm then carries them across the desert towards some rocky hills - Sietch Tabr, a large oasis in the middle of the desert.

Arriving at Sietch Tabr they descend into a large cave, where Stilgar introduces Paul & Jessica to suspicious Fremen, telling them that Kynes asked for Paul and Jessica to be accepted.

The Fremen react when they learn that Paul might be the Kwisatz Haderach and that his mother is a Bene Gesserit.

Jamis, however, is angry and demands proof. He challenges Paul to a fight. Jessica tries to use the Voice to prevent it, but Jamis demands silence.

Chani helps Paul prepare, giving him a Krys, and insight into Jamis's fighting techniques.

With the Fremen forming a ring around them, Paul and Jamis begin to fight, with Paul easily avoiding the attacks, but is unable to bring himself to strike back.

The Fremen believe that Paul is toying with Jamis, but when Paul manages to disarm him, and has the point of the knife against Jamis's chest he asks "Do you give up?"

Stilgar explains that it is a fight to the death! Paul backs away and Jamis takes up his Krys again. Jamis realises that Paul is the better fighter and attacks, at the last minute performing a knife switch, but Paul counter attacks and Jamis collapses dead - Paul's knife plunged into his heart.

The Fremen rush and cover the body and carry it off. Chani and Stilgar ask why he acted like a murderer, playing with his victim. Jessica explains that it is the first time that Paul has killed with a knife.

Stilgar asks what name Paul wishes to be know as now, and Paul picks the name of the mouse that jumps - Muad'Dib.

Meanwhile the water has been recovered from Jamis's body and Chani offers Paul a drink of it so he can recover the water lost during the fight. Paul is disgusted, but at Jessica's prompting he takes a long drink.

Paul then eats from a Spice dish, and immediately falls into a vision, and sees himself standing over the body of Feyd Rautha before being killed himself by Count Fenring.

A ceremony is held for Jamis, and the water that Jamis owned (33 litres, 7 drams and 3 seconds) is presented to Paul in the form of a series of rings.

Not knowing what to do what them he asks Chani to hold them for him, which causes humour among the Fremen given its meaning among them.

Chani and Paul then carry the water down into a cave, which contains an enormous basin filled with water, the sight of which stops Paul in his tracks - "I know this place. I saw it in a dream."

Again Paul has a vision, this time it is of a Fremen religious crusade with Paul as their leader.

Chani and Paul reach the basin, and empty the water into it through a water counting machine.

Chani explains that water, collected from condensers has been kept in every sietch, and when they have enough the Fremen will change the desert into a garden. It is part of Kynes' plan, who, at the age of 386 fathered Chani!

Chani said, "Later I'll show you how to wrap them in a handkerchief so that they don't ring when silence is necessary."

Kynes is wandering in the desert, exposed to the bright sun with only rags of his uniform to protect him, but no stillsuit.

He has a vision of the young version of himself, dress in the suit he wore when he arrived on Dune. (See Part 2)

As the young Kynes talks about the plan to transform Dune the old Kynes kneels down and plunges his arms into the sand looking for humidity.

The young Kynes explains that beneath him the spice is fermenting - "Little worms are beginning to lose their water in the solid mass.. the carbonic gas is going to explode..."

Suddenly a blue sphere of prespice mass emerges from the sand, envelopes him and then explodes killings Kynes.

With the Fremen Sietch a ceremony is taking place. Jessica and the Fremen Reverend Mother are brought into a large cave, and Stilgar explains that with Dune back in control of Rabban they must leave the sietch to a secret location and that the Reverend Mother would not survive the trip. She will try to pass on her knowledge to Jessica.

A baby worm and a basin filled with water are brought in and the worm is dropped into the it, dissolving in the water.

The Reverend Mother administers the Water of Life to Jessica in a strange fashion!

 

As Jessica suffers an epileptic fit, the old Reverend Mother leans over and tells her "The poison is in your blood. If you are HER, transform it or die."

We then see Jessica's vision of atoms and molecules changing within her to neutralise the poison

Jessica opens her eyes and the Reverend Mother proclaims that the poison has been transformed.

As the Reverend Mother passes her knowledge to Jessica we see another of Jessica's visions, a red sphere (Jessica) and a green sphere (the Reverend Mother) are coming together, but a blue sphere appears. Realising that Jessica is pregnant the Revered Mother instructs Jessica to unite with her and calm her fears, and then they combine with the green sphere as the 400 years of knowledge spent as the Missionaria Protectiva, as well as the memories she carried are transferred to Jessica.

Back in the cave Jessica awakens, next to the corpse of the Reverend Mother. Jessica spits into the basin containing the poison, changing it, and the water is passed around in flasks to the Fremen who drink in celebration.

A title card tells us that it is 4 years later, and we are on Giedi Prime.

The Baron, and his guests of Count and Lady Fenring are watching Feyd fight the captured Fremen Farok.

Farok, driven by a madness from drinking elacca, is getting the better of Feyd, but as the blade approaches his neck Feyd shouts "Scum!" and Farok has been conditioned to freeze for a few seconds on this word, allowing Feyd to nick him with his poisoned dagger.

Farok is now almost unable to fight and Feyd turns his back allowing Farok one last attack, but Feyd easily avoids it and kills him with a flourish. The crowd roar "Hail Rautha!"

Later in the Harkonnen castle a meal is being served to the Baron, Feyd, the Count and Lady Fenring.

Fenring has realised that the "victory" was the result of conditioning and a poison dagger, setting Feyd up as a hero to replace the oppressive Rabban on Dune.

The Baron admits this is the plan, but Fenring warns that if the Baron attempts to enlist the 10 million Fremen as an army against the Emperor then Giedi Prime will be eliminated. To prove his innocence the Baron must kill all the Fremen!

That evening Lady Fenring seduces Feyd, conceiving a son that she and her husband hope will be the Kwisatz Haderach, allowing the Bene Guesserit to rule the galaxy, and the Fenrings to rule them!

"Count Fenring, the Emperor's ambassador is plotting genetically: dominating his jealousy, he offers his wife to Feyd Rautha to produce the awaited prophet."

Carrying out the order to kill all the Fremen, a Harkonnen transporter lands near a sietch and move towards it, suddenly Fremen emerge from beneath the sand, killing the Harkonnen and shooting down the transporter as it tries to escape.

Later in the large flat land Chani, holding their son, watches Paul as he listens to Stilgar.

Stilgar tell Paul that today he will call a worm and ride upon it. Paul kisses Chani and his son, and walks off towards a spice field, carrying two hooks and a thumper.

Paul activates the thumper and calls the largest worm ever seen. Chani exclaims the prophecy is being fulfilled, it is Shai-Hulud the white!

Paul sinks his hooks into a ring segment, and the worm turns over until Paul is on top of the worm, a true Fremen!

A Fremen brings his heavily pregnant wife before Jessica, explaining that his son cannot be born, and that his wife will die.

Jessica examines the woman, but announces that nothing can be done. A four year old Alia however says that she will help, and sits on the woman's stomach and makes movements with her hands and feet until the baby is successfully delivered.

In the desert Paul leads an attack on smugglers, and approaches the single survivor, only to discover it is Gurney Halleck! Gurney is overjoyed to discover Paul is alive, but collapses from his wounds.

The Fremen return with Gurney back to the sietch, where Gurney's wounds are treated while Paul goes to tell Jessica the news.

Paul gives Jessica a message found on a Harkonnen - the order to exterminate all Fremen. Jessica tells Paul that is time he killed Stilgar and became leader of the Fremen armies.

Paul rejects this, stating that he has seen the future, and he does want the fire nor the violence. Jessica coldly tells Paul that the leaders are waiting and if Paul doesn't challenge Stilgar then she will.

Paul goes to meet with the leaders, but says that the customs must change, to kill Stilgar would be like cutting off his right hand. Now is the time that the Fremen need to work together and not rob the tribe of its strength and wisdom.

As the leader agree Alia rushes in and talks to Paul, who runs to Jessica's room where Gurney has a knife to her neck.

Gurney still believes Jessica to be the traitor that killed Leto, but Paul plays him Yueh's message to prove the truth.

Fremen fill a cave watching a small worm being drowned to produce the Water of Life. Jessica hands the Water to Paul, warning him that no man has passed this test, but if he is successful he will be the prophet.

Paul drinks in large gulps, and after a few moments of pain Paul announces he has transformed the poison. He kisses Jessica to share the transformed Water and we see their shared vision of the Universe, traveling towards the centre of blinding light, the forbidden place. Paul's face breaks into pieces revealing the face of Leto.

Back in the cave Paul stands before the Fremen and proclaims that he is Paul Muad'Dib, Lisan Al Gaib, the Kwisatz Haderach! Paul's speech convinces the Fremen, and they draw their Crysknives, utter war cries and run into the desert screaming their religious fervour.

They are joined by thousands of Fremen from across the desert, joining the crusade.

Paul leads the army of Fremen through a town defended by Harkonnen, leaving behind the town in flames and filled with dead Harkonnens.

Later the Fremen are killing more Harkonnen, who have formed a cirlce around a pile of shields. When the last soldier is dead the Fremen part, allowing Paul and Stilgar to approach the shields, under which they find a cowering Rabban, who Stilgar shots in disgust.

Rabban's head is raised on a long lance and the Fremen cry in triumph.

In a conference with the Fremen leaders Paul tells them that they have won the planet, but not the war. Paul foresees thousands of ships attacking Dune, lead by the Emperor himself. Paul gives orders to the Fremen and then says to Alia that the Emperor will only find a single child.

Meanwhile, in space, an enormous fleet of space war-ships is approaches Dune.

"These ships, bearing the Emperor's emblem, look sinister. They are completely covered in claws, spikes and teeth."

Many ships have landed in the desert forming a military camp, in the middle of which stands the Emperor's large metal tent.

Count Fenring leads an exhausted and dejected troop of soliders in from the desert. While the soliders collapse and drink water, Fenring enters the Emperor's tent.

In the luxurious tent Fenring reports to the Emperor that they have still not found a single Fremen, despite weeks of searching. The Emperor demands that Fenring finds and exterminates the Fremen.

Leading another army through the desert Fenring finds Alia walking alone. Fenring orders the Sardaukars to halt, and he picks up Alia in his arms. Alia shows him Duke Leto's ring and says she has a message for the Emperor.

 

A hurricane is blowing across the desert, and Paul comes out of a small shelter to look down at the Emperor's encampment, protected by an energy screen. Paul orders the use of atomics to destroy the shield and cannons to take out their air support.

Inside the tent the Baron is brought in, and the Emperor accuses the Baron of being a traitor, plotting to unite the Fremen against him. The Baron denies it, and the Emperor introduces Alia - sister of Paul Muad'Dib Atreides!

The Emperor tells Alia to get in touch with Paul and tell him to surrender, but Alia says that the Emperor no longer gives any orders, that Paul is now the Emperor!

Suddenly the atomic bomb goes off, taking out the shield, and the hurricane, along with thousands of Fremen rush into the encampment.

Back in the tent the room vibrates and walls crack. The Baron grabs Alia, but she stabs him with a poisoned needle, instantly killing him.

Fremen burst into the room, but the Sardaukar manage to escape with the Emperor through a hole in the wall. Outside the Emperor sees the battle - dead Sardaukar litter the ground and Fremen drive sandworms into the encampment.

Other Sardaukar bring the Lady and Count Fenring to the Emperor, and they decide to "surrender" - they have a plan...

In the government palace Paul watches as the Emperor, the Reverend Mother, the Lady and Count Fenring, Hawatt, Feyd and Irulan are brought in.

Paul demands that Hawatt is to be removed from the other prisoners. Hawatt steps forward towards Jessica. Paul steps between them, and reveals that he has seen this moment in his visions - Hawatt holds a poisoned needle which the Emperor has given him to kill Paul, and only then will Hawatt receive his antidote.

Paul offers his life for Hawatt's many years of service, but Hawatt moves past him towards Jessica again. Jessica offers her life and Hawatt turns the needle onto himself, dying instantly. Paul tells the Fremen to honour Hawatt as a hero as they carry his body away.

The Emperor claims that on his order 5,000 Guild ships will attack, but Paul tells the Guild that if they allow the attack Paul will destroy the worms on Dune, and therefore the spice. He demonstrates this power by gassing a small worm.

Paul signals and Fremen uncover a mutant Guild Navigator floating in spice-blue water. The glasses are suddenly torn off the Guild officials revealing their blue eyes. Having revealed their dependence on spice, the Guild is now at the service of Paul.

Paul next deals with the Bene Guesserit, stating that the unborn son of Lady Fenring and Feyd will be a brainless mutant.

Paul informs the Emperor that Irulan will be his wife, but promises Chani that he'll never touch Irulan.

Only Feyd remains to be dealt with, who challenges Paul to a duel. During the fight Feyd poisons Paul. But when he moves in for the kill, Paul is able to counter the poison and kills Feyd.

But still under the poison's effect Paul falls to his knees and Count Fenring suddenly has a blade to his neck. The Emperor orders Fenring to kill Paul, but the Count realises that doing so would only make him a martyr.

The Emperor decides to do it himself, but Paul says he is the Kwisatz Haderach as he lives in everyone, and Jessica, Chani, Alia, Stilgar and Fremen all start talking in Paul's voice - "I'm Muad'Dib".

Paul (and all the Fremen) announce that he is the "collective man", and that the universe has but one path - the Kwisatz Haderach.

The Fremen recover their voices and cry "Mahdi, Lisan Al Gaib, Muad'Dib !"

Inside the Museum of Man the dog-beings are watching the last scenes of the movie projected by the robot.

Thousands of ships carrying Fremen are leaving Dune, the cries of "Muad'Dib" echoes in space.

At the film's end the robot's head explodes (not unlike, perhaps, the heads of the viewers in the cinema!) and the dogs leave the museum, sad that their "master" (i.e. mankind) will never return.

But as they return to their vehicle they decide that one day they will go looking for him.

THE END