Dune - "He who controls the Spice...!"

Another Dune request. The sadistic Baron Harkonnen talking with his mentat, Piter, and showing off his violent side in a scene that was too gruesome for the TV Cut. The title of this video, despite not originating in the novel, has become one of the most iconic phrases associated with Dune.

[@0x777]

It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shakes, the shakes become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.

[@pinfold1000]

0x777 the Java must flow!!!!

[@davidbolha]

Brilliant ! 😅

[@TheGhjgjgjgjgjg]

you caffeinated drug addicts need to be purged,look at the filth his tounge speaks!

[@yourgod010101]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@karllosikarlstadt5214]

Jesus Christ Shakespear has nothing on you. :D

[@AdaptableContent]

My old man took me to this movie near Xmas time in 1984. He thought it would be like Star Wars. When he drove us home he was so pissed off I still remember to this day.

[@Aquel29]

Dune is not the classic sci-fi movie with good guys, bad guys and ships. In the book, the plot and characters are more important than technology.

[@GabiN64]

I remember fooling my brother by calling this movie 'Dark Star Wars', a largely forgotten spin-off.

[@ChelseaMyReligion]

@Reluctant Human the act is wearing thin. It brought something to the table initially but now everytime you comment it just projects whatever syndrome you have onto this comment section.

[@luckofthedice]

@Reluctant Human Not another pretentious Dune fan. You make the casual fans look bad.

[@SzTz100]

I know exactly what you mean, I had a very similar experience. My mother was so shocked by this movie, and as a 10 year old I was both bored and shocked by some of these scenes.

[@mattgilbert7347]

It seems clear to me that Lynch found the Harkonnen waaaay more interesting than the Atreides

[@crazyman8472]

The villains are always more interesting, if they’re done right. 😈

[@MrJibbajabbawocky]

The Atreides are kind of white meat babyfaces.

[@jojokintel]

He did! He loved the perversity lol

[@mattgilbert7347]

@@jojokintel and @jojokintel I think you both nailed it. Lynch said something like "our bad guys sure have a lot of fun being evil" in an interview conducted during the actual production.

[@PlateletRichGel]

"I love your gonorrhea my Baron. Your pustules love to me. Only Butters and Cartman could outdo this.

[@brandonthomas3749]

You watch one South Park episode about “the spice” and the algorithm goes crazy

[@rothkokarbine7882]

I got Elsa and doodoo videos.

[@hghtrfnko8634]

He knows about the spice...

[@gustavosmith3980]

you know the math is more complex than just your personal bullshit it references what it thinks you like with other people near you or similar to you or random things based on the numbers, ideas spread

[@Scarletraven87]

It's because other people who watched that, recalled Dune, and went to look for it. It happends all the time.

[@Youngblood457]

I see what you did there

[@shadowarchon7964]

Giedi Prime: Where even simple juice boxes involve killing something.

[@srbrant5391]

I love that scene just because of how effective it is at showing the Harkonnen’s casual brand of cruelty.

[@IrishAnnie]

OMG!! So funny!!

[@M-E-G-A]

Anyone have an idea what these little juice creatures are called or look like in their habitats? I’m curious.

[@srbrant5391]

• GrossMeUp A “pooj” or “poog” I think.

[@Splattertube]

Well yeah. If you want the freshest, of course.

[@cchavezjr7]

They way he tells Feyd he won't tell who the traitor is is so freaking awesome. A childlike giddiness that has that glimmer of insanity behind it.

[@bltmiy]

Interesting film good acting in my opinion as well shout out to your channel and support sent.

[@AltairEgo1]

Because even Feyd, a nephew, couldn't be trusted. Feyd hated his uncle the Baron, and the Baron suspected he might do something to sabotage him, in order to take his place. The Baron was actually pretty smart having layers of secrecy surrounding his plan. Only so many pieces of info allowed to leak, and only to certain individuals.

[@Vaultboy101]

Baron: "MY PLAN!!!" Piter: "The plan"

[@Zeratulr]

Which is plain stupid since it actually was Baron's plan.

[@crystalquasar6841]

My favorite part of the movie.

[@PremierMilenkov]

Piter is one of VERY few people who can get away alive with sassing the Baron like that, I'd imagine.

[@BulletTooth504]

I'm pretty sure that Piter worked out more details of *the* plan than the Baron.

[@stephenwood6663]

It's clear DeVries has an ego to him, but that subtle defiance is telling. It says: "I worked on this plan too, and I know full well that I'm too valuable to kill in a fit of pique."

[@RangerJackWalker]

I love how playful the Baron is when he doesn't want to reveal the traitor to Feyd. Like a child how knows a funny secret.

[@-aa6991]

The guy who played the baron did an amazing job, his line delivery is on point, I just feel so nostalgic everytime I hear him say Piter

[@percyweasley9301]

No, bad portrayal of the baron.

[@Zninety]

The Lynch's version of the baron is far removed from how he was written. The baron was written as possessing a more formidable intellect and calmly analytical.

[@karamanid]

Nostalgia blinds you

[@Blobby192]

@@Zninety the film was an adaptation not a copy of the book judge the film on that

[@thorbat]

@@percyweasley9301 It was a bit off but you can't deny the actor gave it his all.

[@GeorgeBPryor]

I've read Dune and I know this isn't accurate, but the portrayal of the Harkonnens here is just so vile and uniquely disturbing that I can't help but admire Lynch's version in its own right.

[@Gabronthe]

The Baron is kinda silly here but it does a good job at catching the Harkonnens.

[@Blobby192]

remember they all laughed at blade runner when it came out and it was called a flop

[@DavidLopez-tj7jl]

@@Blobby192 You should also remember the theatrical version isn't that good, and that was part of the reason

[@carminemurphy4836]

The Harkonnens were a bunch of Raving Sexual Predatory Perverted Murderers.

[@mrbuck5059]

The dark eldar is worse.

[@ishmaeltheorphan7513]

We have to find Tom Brady..... the spiiiiice

[@fatautisticgaming_1139]

Ishmael TheOrphan the spiiiice he’s the one to obtain it, spice malage

[@ashman187]

brady ad is ironic

[@runsfromsnake]

More than pretty good... the spiiiice melaaange

[@titang6173]

I mean you don’t the same thing if people were always trying to steal your shit!

[@xsailor85]

I doubt Tom Brady would be a Harkonnan.

[@justoutofframemoviereviews656]

Baron: TEN legions of Sardaukar! Piter: My Lord, there is no such force....

[@randomcenturion7264]

Mongolian Throat Singing Intensifies.

[@BarterTom]

“You are so beautiful, my baron.” Someone’s looking for a raise!

[@srbrant5391]

I think he’s just looking forward to not getting tortured.

[@Kevin-xe4kh]

Someone's had their brain surgically altered so that their desires for love & sex have been rewired into subservience to the Baron.

[@Gabronthe]

He's probably just really into his job.

[@thegeneralmitch]

Christ he looks like one of Nurgles favored sons. D:

[@Sigmar_Heldenhammer]

WHO FUCKING SAID NURGLE! YOU SHOULDN’T KNOW WHAT THAT IS! *BLAM* HERESY.

[@matthewschrier6260]

Nice reference..👍🏼

[@BaronVonMott]

The more I learn about the lore and story of Dune, the more it reminds me of 40k...

[@tqk1976]

@@BaronVonMott 40k was HEAVILY inspired by Dune. The Astartes are just jacked up, super powered expies of the Sardukar.

[@srbrant5391]

@@tqk1976 And then there are the Navis Nobilite. And the God Emperor.

[@pschroeter1]

Baron: "my plan!" Pitr: "the plan," I have always thought that was cleverly cheeky of Pitr, in the movie.

[@pschroeter1]

@Marcus-Aerilius Maximus I'm trying to remember if it happened in the movie, but in the book I'm pretty sure about then is when the Baron started thinking he was going to have to "replace" Pitr soon.

[@peachmelba1000]

@@pschroeter1 "One day I will have you garotted, Piter."

[@vaettra1589]

Grima Wormtongue has cultivated his servile role for longer than one can fathom.

[@lakobause]

Ironically I get an ad for skin care wipes at the end of this.

[@keithmartin1328]

So did I 😅

[@milesmouse72]

this is by far one of the best scenes of this movie for raw production value. The austere nastiness of this green room, the bleak industrial look of the actors, and the utter misanthropy and depravity of the baron. Kudos to all the actors and the cinematographer for this one.

[@ianciti]

the one to thank the most for this was david lynch's wacky ass brain.

[@fledermaussohn4011]

i also hope that this style will found in the 2020 remake!

[@OdaVenom]

@@fledermaussohn4011 so weird to know that there's still people out there, expecting something decent, anything at all, from remakes and adaptations.

[@Vingul]

@@OdaVenom David Lynch's Dune was an adaptation of Dune, and it's more than decent.

[@OdaVenom]

@@Vingul almost 40 years ago. So, the last 20 years of mostly pure crap didn't expose the complete impotency of the new Hollywood for you?

[@xenosdrako]

I love the fact that they include biomechanical tech in the designs for Giedi Prime in the Lynchian version. it really harkens back to the old H.R Giger designs for Jodorowsky's dune. I have a real soft spot for obscure sci fi design work and this really works for me.

[@Blobby192]

giger also worked on this movie

[@DavidLopez-tj7jl]

That should've been on Villeneuve's version

[@badhippo]

you could say it "harkonen's" back to H. R. Giger..... [Sorry, i'll let myself out....]

[@xenosdrako]

@@badhippo*that's brilliant haha

[@riverplate0101]

Iloved this version of Harkonnen. He is like a very smart morbidly obese Caligula.

[@worldclass777]

Dune 1984 was and will always be a CLASSIC and a master piece.

[@Ama-hi5kn]

As a long life Brad Dourif fan. He nails the twisted mentat role perfectly.

[@litteralyjustsam5262]

Brad Dourif is easily the best part of this film, there's no competition.

[@dennisbraun5747]

@@litteralyjustsam5262 Yeah, except that he can't pronouce "Landsraad". correctly. Twice!

[@litteralyjustsam5262]

@@dennisbraun5747 lol didnt even notice

[@Dennis_Reynolds_Golden_God]

@@dennisbraun5747 that always bothered me. "LANSDROD"

[@rickacton7540]

youve been a dourif fan for your whole 3 years?

[@Scrapla1]

I saw this when I was a kid and had no clue whats going on and still don't know now 30 years later.

[@mankyscotchgit4986]

Fat man plots against his hereditary enemies, plus weird Lynch shit.

[@chrissgchriss]

I never read the book or saw the movie. When the guy floated I was like damn! Then I thought he was gonna rape that guy! Time to rent this movie.

[@laming2006]

@@mankyscotchgit4986 Pretty much nailed. Weird movie, it was.

[@ulysses2162]

Same here... saw it as a kid on TV with my parents. Didn't get it then, and I don't know, 36 years later.

[@cwell510]

Tried watching it when I was about 11 yrs old, didn't get it then, but enjoyed some of the visuals. Tried reading the book as a teenager, was discouraged because 1/3 of the book is in a made up language with the glossary at the end so you can understand what's being said. Hope the remake makes more sense...

[@robertellis4938]

3:30. "Put the pick in there, Pete. And turn it 'round, real neat." Dr. Seuss has nothing on him.

[@yeetwchybaban]

lol

[@Reactionary_Harkonnen]

😂

[@PsychoholicSlag83]

I saw this scene on tv in argentina when I was a kid. This was when my mom started regretting tuning this "space movie" for me

[@skatetrooper5285]

🤣😂😂 same!

[@SzTz100]

Same here, poor mum.

[@mightynathaniel5355]

What show is this from how do I find this?

[@PsychoholicSlag83]

@@mightynathaniel5355 it's the 1984 movie Dune. Beware, the director shot a 3 hour something film, but the studio trimmed it till incomprehension

[@-Siculus-Hort-]

yeah. this scene scared the SHIT out of me when i was a kid.

[@Germania9]

Only six minutes?! It's amazing this movie can pack this much worldbuilding around the Harkonnen within just six-plus minutes!

[@Th0ughtf0rce]

Which is too simplistic (though undeniably iconic), compared to the book

[@Hatemoth]

"I will have Arakis back for myself! HE who controls the spice controls the Universe!"

[@numberten5054]

'What are you up to there Baron Harkonnen?' 'Oh you know, just floating about'

[@Kaiserhawk]

George Lucas would later use this room to film the Star Wars prequels.

[@fromaggio7654]

"I'll add the rest in later mate." - George Clooney

[@sonicice8340]

Holy sh......ttt the bounty speed racing scene in episode 2...

[@moustachio05]

@@sonicice8340 what room in the scene?

[@OptimisticCynic715]

@@moustachio05 They use these green backgrounds for chroma key cgi or whatever. Most everything is fake in episode 2 and 3, no miniatures, etc.

[@DeepEye1994]

@@OptimisticCynic715 kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqfTfomfp7Gmj5I I'd like to see how many miniatures the Sequels made in comparison...

[@richardlangdon712]

I love Jack Nance's facial expressions. It's like he's the only normal guy on the whole planet.

[@sunsetman22]

Henry Spencer somehow got teleported to the Dune universe and has been hiding in plain sight ever since. hell, the guild navigator even looks like a giant version of the Eraserhead baby lol.

[@AnthonyTobyEllenor-pi4jq]

Jack Nance was one of Lynch's favorite actors, he was very good.

[@mattgilbert7347]

Not when he plays that music box he isn't

[@mattgilbert7347]

@@sunsetman22 the whole first half has major Eraserhead vibes.

[@samuelelias93]

Holy crap this is such an insane movie, Amazing but insane.

[@jq747]

I always loved this portrayal of House Harkonnen. I know the 1984 film wasn't true to the books, but it's just so much more grimy and visceral than the woosy 2000 version. "You are so beautiful, my Baron! Your skin, love to me."

[@user-ou9ei7oi4h]

Cool Name jq747.

[@uriadelavaro3956]

Kenneth McMillans Baron is not accurate to the novel but in my opinion, it is the most disturbing and frightening version of the Baron.

[@ItsTimePictures]

This was rated PG-13. Just imagine! Today would be an instant R.

[@OptimisticCynic715]

They'd say homophobia, but I dunno, I think any Robocop '87 you buy now is an NC-17 edit. Sixteen Candles was PG. The Romantic Lead's girlfriend is pretty much naked, and he loans her out to a stranger while she's intoxicated. Then again there's rarely nudity anymore. 70's and 80's they crammed gratuitous nudity into everything.

[@Gwestytears]

I love how the planet is so polluted, that its just covered in this thick black fog that obscures almost all light

[@mider9996]

Sting looks terrified but smiles like he wants to avoid his uncle killing him.

[@BlitzvogelMobius]

I'm glad people are discovering how brilliant Dune (the movie) was in so many ways. I remember seeing it for the first time, and how huge an impact it left on me. Then I read the book, and it all came full circle.

[@KaosNova2]

IMO, the movie flows well for the first half, the second half of the movie is badly rushed. I just feel that it could work better if it was made in two movies rather than one.

[@Markus-xm4zv]

suemorphplus2009 indeed

[@MackeyDeez]

The Dune series gave me insight on political intrigue and conspiracy

[@JORIS1234HOTMAIL]

Blitzvogel same here 😍

[@phyrr2]

Get Spice Diver's extended cut.

[@scottishzombie]

Kenneth McMillan's performance in this movie was SO good. Totally underrated psychotic character - you never see him mentioned on any top 10 lists, which is a shame.

[@stevensims3342]

It really is. I'm the kind of person who has trouble with most movies and the acting in them. I'm usually never convinced but this movie even with its shortcomings in tech available at the time really gets me. The acting is top notch. I always just watch this with a stare thinking ugh, so good and yes, so underrated! Not a perfect movie but you couldn't and still can't find anything like it. Incredible how Herbert imagined this world with such detail and the mainstream just doesn't get it. Their imaginations nothing like his. He was even writing about bans on thinking machines and making machines in the likeness of the human mind. Like what are we doing now? Trying to make thinking machines in the likeness of the human mind. Love what Lynch derived from the book(s).

[@jculver1674]

I remember him from the Stephen King movie Cat's Eye, too, playing a rich bastard who makes his wife's lover walk around the outside of a skyscraper. He really excels at playing powerful evil men.

[@AlexAlcyone]

He's simply fabulous here!

[@nathanreed9643]

It is a shame you don't see him on any top 10 lists I think he did a better version of the baron than Skarsgard did in the new dune movie his version was a lot more memorable just that heart plug scene alone was a lot better than what Skarsgard did during the whole movie.

[@AnthonyTobyEllenor-pi4jq]

@@nathanreed9643 Skarsgard was massively underused and I reckon that was not to embarrass some of the weak actors in the 2021 Dune, similarly Jason Momoa lit up the screen but I counted he was only shown for 9 mnutes total, he stole every scene he was in.

[@ATMAmusic1]

LOVE this film. I know it doesn't follow the book that closely. But what i love so much is David Lynch's other worldliness. The music, the sound effects, the insanity, the beauty. GENIUS.

[@Orgruk]

Utter depravity & decadence. David Lynch, you did a great job directing this.

[@tylerkeller8869]

His most underrated, underappreciated movie.

[@tylerkeller8869]

I only wish Alejandro Jodoworsky's vision could have been put to film. Unfortunately the budget needed was far beyond any studio or production company was willing to support and the special effects needed were decades behind

[@ODiaboQueDisse]

@@tylerkeller8869 Jodorowsky is an egomaniacal lunatic.. He wanted to make a 14 hour movie, about tarot or something else that sounds deep but it's actually nonsense.. That said, I would actually watch this, and could enjoy it in a clinical sense, just like in an interview with a serial killer

[@sethleoric2598]

@@ODiaboQueDisse hey... least he wrote Metabarons

[@toolthoughts]

if only he had put in more voice-overs

[@Kevin-xe4kh]

This is literally one of the single greatest scenes in the history of cinema.

[@AnthonyTobyEllenor-pi4jq]

I second that, the Villeneuve versin of Dune cannot even come close to Lynch's version.

[@hilbertmobley8218]

Harvey Weinstein vibes coming from this scene

[@tombarter3287]

@@tyrionlannister4920 You're thinking of the wrong pervert.

[@raymondhamill8421]

Yeah but I trust The Baron more than Harvey Weinstein

[@tombarter3287]

@@raymondhamill8421 Me too!

[@Jackcantsleepful]

Well Steve Bannon.

[@Breakstop]

One other thing Harkonnen and Weinstein have in common, they didn't kill themselves

[@textthing]

I love Dourif in this. He really excels at oddball roles.

[@IrishAnnie]

textthing Good In Ragtime.

[@roflomaozedong]

His role is so cartoonish :(

[@boke75]

Sorry, more derivative cartoonish acting, tbh. However, I thought he was great in One Flew Over The Cuckcoo's Nest and Lord of The Rings, tho.

[@roflomaozedong]

@@boke75 great actor

[@nickmattio3397]

“That Is A Sound Observation, Texthing, Most Actors Would Kill For My Career Oddball Roles! Now Dear Brother, Bring Your Tithe Gift To The Baron Immediately Or Suffer An Excruciating Death!!”

[@EMSpdx]

"Concerning my plan... "MY PLAN! "THE plan..." #comedygold

[@ianciti]

i mean to be fair in the book it was the barons plan, that piter did help him set up, and i believe feyd actually also help him plan it as well. this is what happens when you rule with fear instead of with respect. people subvert you.

[@carminemurray6624]

Everyone fears a self basting man. 😧

[@michaelr00ney]

Lynch’s villains are as vivid and disturbing as nightmares, and his depiction of the Harkonnens adds a corporeal, visceral malice that Herbert’s words only vaguely gesture toward. He elicited wonderfully depraved performances from his actors here, and the costumes, make up, set dressing, and effects come together perfectly. Kenneth McMillan is masterful.

[@bltmiy]

Shout to monster energy not for people sensitive to Caffeine and to reid.!

[@kuribayashi84]

Giedi Prime in this version kinda looks like a Warhammer 40k-Hive City to me.

[@sethleoric2598]

If i remember Warhammer was heavily inspired by Dune and in turn Warhammer inspired Event horizon

[@StarFyodperor]

The Emperor protects !!!

[@DaBoomz13]

Needs more skulls and 2-headed eagle reliefs and some techpriests babbling coded prayers.

[@juliovictormanuelschaeffer8370]

@@DaBoomz13 and most importantly, it needs more GOLD!

[@Scarletraven87]

@@DaBoomz13 Lol skulls. I remember a 4th or 5th edition WHFB artwork with a darkelf army, with a huge cliff in the background. The cliff entirely composed of skulls, twice the size of a giant. They really had a mania for that.

[@bastianena]

By fresh chocolate gummy bears alone I set my mind and bowels in motion.

[@dkoz8321]

Xavier Harkonen , Hero Of Great Revolt, slayer of many Thinking Machines ,would be so proud to learn how his family line has progressed in 10,000 years.

[@ChristianMcAngus]

I love that synth music when the Baron's two psychopathic, armor-wearing, be-codpieced nephews are introduced. Classic.

[@clsmithcs74]

When the Baron floats up and laughs maniacally? Beautiful

[@aputridpileofb-movies6542]

I think perhaps one of the most disturbing parts about the whole scene is the cut to peoples faces which show no emotion whatsoever. This is a totally normal thing the baron does on the routinely, they've seen it allll before, it's boring to them. Except for feyd and raban, who are so mentally frigged all the way up that they like it and feel sexual feelings from seeing it.

[@stainlesssteelfox1]

I believe In the book, the heart plug was a filtration device, something to remove contaminants breathed in due to the massive industrial pollution in Gedi Prime's atmosphere.

[@DehnusNorder]

Yeah, but this is more dramatic, one has to sell tickets of course ;).

[@SuperNovaJinckUFO]

It's not in the book at all

[@ianciti]

it wasn't a filter. it was simply a serated rip cord that gripped the heart when the plug was pulled in order to destroy the aeorta ensuring certain death. i forget where i read that but yeah i dont think it was in the original book at all.

[@FingerinUrDaughter]

you believe that because you didnt read the book. this wasnt a thing. granted, the actual scene in the book, like every page of the book, is boring as all hell and makes even less sense.

[@FingerinUrDaughter]

@Jonathan Gray its one of the worst ever written. frank herbert was a fucking hack.

[@crisqo1984]

Same actor who plays Pieter here played Grima Wormtongue. Same kind of role within their respective films, but such a different portrayal for each one. Mark of an outstanding actor.

[@AndyP998]

Although his finest film is One flew over cuckoos nest, top 10 films of alltime

[@Rgoid]

He also played Charles Lee Ray/Chucky from Child’s Play

[@AnthonyTobyEllenor-pi4jq]

He had a really good role in a Star Trek Voyager episode !

[@grahamwatkins2590]

And the Doc on Deadwood

[@HisHolyMajesty]

I wouldn't want to live on Geidi Prime...

[@Spystreak]

HisHolyMajesty Not interested in getting a heart plug and the signature Harkonnen reverse mohawk haircut? lol

[@MelancoliaI]

Fuck it, gimme your ticket then. First, I'mma gonna get a nice place there with leaking industrial pipes and trenches of boiling black machine oil everywhere. Then it's off to my fucked up dermatologist to get my face injected till it looks like overcooked pizza, just the way the Harkonnens like it. I will become morbidly obese and have floating fat suits in all colors for all seasons. I'll spend my days yelling at My mentat with his stupid bushy eyebrows and purple lips and plotting against my mortal enimes, the Atredies. I'm there

[@MelancoliaI]

Must be the Baron's charming personality, winning good looks and boundless humanitarianism

[@bluecollarcanuck]

Looks like somewhere in the distant past, Dick Cheney's family crossed with that of the Kim Jong-Un's...;)

[@SuperSoundtracks]

According to the books, his diseases was brought on by a curse a witch placed on him (or poison, don't remember). He used to be an attractive, athletic man.

[@Beppo85]

"This is what I'll do to the Duke and his family" Well, whatever that was....

[@carminemurray6624]

After I self turkey baste myself here. 😲

[@Hambone3773]

Death rape

[@Danko_Sekulic]

Seeing how he lusts after Paul in the book, and this murder feels eerily sexual, I am too scared to imagine what images are flashing in his mind when he was "uttering" that sentence!

[@Hiyama420]

Baron: BRING IN FEYD AND RABBAN! Piter: 🤌

[@epcotman32]

Ding, ding, ding

[@lemonwedge4640]

This movie was so fuking weird.

[@narmale]

and it was wrong on just about every count lol

[@EstParum]

Thank Lynch for that

[@cleanerben9636]

@Bad Cattitude like got, but with writers that actially care.

[@sethleoric2598]

That's Lynch for you

[@o.m.g7277]

@Bad CattitudeExactly!

[@milesmouse72]

this is by far one of the most epically disturbing scenes I've ever seen. De Laurentiis was a master of bizarre movies. A lot of people didn't like this version of Dune but it's one of my favorite movies.

[@livingbirdproductions1557]

i really enjoyed this scene but the rest of the movie is just clumsy as fuck.

[@jonathanhalloran5350]

Clumsy? Bringing Dune to screen must have been harder than LOTR, especially without modern technology. The adaptation was brilliant, in an 80s sort of way. Dune was a real movie. Phantom Menace etc, all Tom Cruise's sci fis (except War of the Worlds and Minority Report), Avengers, Transformers, Transcendence, Looper, the new Robocop. All sci fis since the 1990s (there are exceptions) are lame flics, not movies. They are all about the CGI and the violence. Dune tells a story about prophecy, drugs, aliens, love, rivalry, loyalty, transcendence, emancipation. The violence and technology remains in the background where it belongs and I think DL did a great job at that. Can you imagine if fukkn James Cameron did a remake of Dune today? I would rip my own teeth out.

[@livingbirdproductions1557]

Jonathan Halloran it's about a lot of interesting things, yes, but i'm talking about how it's done. Almost all the actors are terrible, the pacing is fucked up, montaging 1/3 of the book hurling unintelligible information at you, completely destroying the Harkonnens and the Padishah Emperor, and creating the special effects with a potato

[@jonathanhalloran5350]

TheGolden Floydian Yeah I get it. But you could criticise all movies for clumsy book adaptations. Have you seen the New Hobbit? Sheesh. C'mon man. It's got a knife fight with Sting. What more do you want?

[@jonathanhalloran5350]

... if you're into that kind of thing...

[@flippert0]

Feyd and Captain Nefud are the only ones showing any signs of repulsion when the Baron kills the young guy.

[@sectorgovernor]

Feyd almost looks terrified. He didn't like it at all. But when the Baron looks at him, he pretends he enjoyed it. He clearly fears of the Baron. This Baron is a crazy bloody psychopath.

[@SleepyRickyC92]

The new film didn't show the Harkonnens enough, but I do think Villeneuve's adaptation captured the Baron's temperament more accurately than Lynch's version. I just started reading the first book, and if I'm not wrong this is supposed to be a scene from the early pages of the book where we first get introduced to the Harkonnens. In this scene from the movie, the Baron is shouting about making the Duke Leto know that he is the one who caused their doom, but in the books he appeared more calm when uttering the same lines. The context of the line, if I remember it right, was that Feyd was asking about why the Baron doesn't just assassinate Duke Leto considering they snuck a traitor into the Atreides family, and the Baron explains how it is important to send a message. He wasn't trying to gloat or appear dominating, but rather he was trying to teach Feyd about politics. The Baron in the books doesn't seem like a madman with a short-temper; rather he was presented as more calm, calculated, and sinister, which felt closer to the new film's version of the Baron

[@shaddaboop7998]

Well, Lynch's interpretation of the Baron is pretty much as unhinged and comical as you can get. At the same time I feel like Villeneuve's Baron was too far the other way. OG Baron definitely took a lot of perverse pleasure from destroying the Atreides, he was also a prolific r'apist, a glutton who could never stop eating, he was certainly impulsive, and that impulsivity and arrogance was his downfall. Dune's core theme is really about mastery of the mind and body. "Fear is the mind killer", the Fremen adaptation to Arrakis, Kynes' dying revelations in the desert etc. The Harkonnens are supposed to represent the opposite of that, as unenlightened hedonistic thugs who use brute force to get what they want.

[@gilbertosesparza1265]

great actor.. disturbing scene..

[@JohnDoe-qu7gm]

I found this version of the Baron far better than Skarsgard’s. He’s more vile and grotesque.

[@kerianhalcyon2769]

There's just some sort of weird magic from 80's movies that's been filtered out and forgotten by modern cinema. The weird costumes, the odd postures, the way people walked and gestured to one another...this scene is going to look so different when the new film/series comes out, and I'm not sure how I feel about that.

[@UltimateEnd0]

I agree, this movie is criminally underrated.

[@Fourthson100]

Ah..Don't worry. Denis Villeneuve is a master at his craft. Dune is in safe and capable hands!

[@OptimisticCynic715]

Most stuff is so plastic assembly line now. Doesn't eat into you.

[@srbrant5391]

OptimisticCynic715 I know, right? It’s so blah, so dictated by advertising executives instead of artists.

[@felegyhazifilmklub]

This scene is amazingly weird and genius. It's pretty scarry, but it's have it's own aesthetics...

[@RevolutionV12]

Gibe de spice b0ss

[@Peashant2142]

+RevolutionV12 Melange spice on my balls, let the guildsmen lick it, Melange spice on my balls let the guildsmen lick it!

[@Trenz0]

Orewa Melanjiga daisuki nandayo!

[@88kjk75]

Put the pick in there Pete and turn it 'round real neat

[@hobnails]

Pete the pipetteer picked a patch of pulsing pustules. Pulsing pustules Peter picked. If Peter picked a patch of pulsing pustules, where is the pustule pus peter picked?

[@damonwillis3672]

Such a David Lynch line lol

[@supremelc3667]

You dare to defy the Jingoistic Lakeetra? Is that what happened? 😂

[@carminemurray6624]

Substitute dick for pick ! 😮

[@flippert0]

@@carminemurray6624 😮

[@irkaboysen8713]

I was 12 years old when i watched this movie 12 (!) times in our local theatre...! I know critics hated this movie but i LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT!!! The visuals, the bombastic soundtrack and Kenneth McMillan as the baron and Paul Smith as Glossu Rabban of Lankeveil were sooo impressive...! Especially for a twelve year old boy. I will always be grateful for being able to watch DUNE in 1984! What a time to be a movie fan (Dune, Karate Kid, Ghostbusters, one year later the Goonies...)!

[@ianmangham4570]

I was a little older, great movie, first time I watched it I thought it was the greatest Sci fi film ever seen with the ATOMICS and desert suits /worms, Spice, water of life and the beauty of francesca annis as the Dukes wife

[@irkaboysen8713]

@@ianmangham4570 Yeah, Francesca Annis was great! I miss the 80's...!!!

[@Muppetias]

Nice movie, weird scenes .,..

[@Hollowshape]

Kenneth McMillan's performance as the Baron is extraordinary. It's a completely mad acting part, but he never hams it up.

[@bltmiy]

🤨 this movie is always a classic 🤪 Cheers for u.

[@apina9731]

He totally hams it up.

[@AnthonyTobyEllenor-pi4jq]

One of the very best scenes in all movies ever made !

[@Beppo85]

Um he hams up literally every line

[@MarcusWiderberg]

Classic scene! Very disturbing, very Lynch. But also: 4:54 - "he'll know - that it is I - Baron Vladimir Harkonnen who encompasses his doom"

[@JustSomeCanadianGuy]

"MYYYY PLAN!" "... The plan...." That's the one naturalistic acting moment in the whole movie.

[@flyingrancidm00nfish7]

It's quite a clever and subtle way of Piter saying "that's bullshit but I'm not arguing" without getting in trouble

[@fifthofascalante7311]

I must say, I like him more in the movie than in the book. That said, he is pretty much the same. The movie lacked the time to show off his cunning, but it gave him the beautiful skin. That quirk I really like. Also, you really gotta credit Lynch for these servants 1:35. I like this movie a lot!

[@nocturnalgaming7678]

He who controls the OIL controls the EARTH!

[@zee339]

spice was intended to represent potable water, but oil does seem more likely

[@TheRid16]

I always thought Spice represents vauable spices in Europe during 17th Century, that sparked colonialization to Southeast Asia Or..... Drugs?

[@zee339]

TheRid16 it kind of represents all of that. I didn't get the water connection, because water is also present in the story. but any rare commodity everyone needs is represented by mélange.

[@LPFan33]

opioid

[@TheLegendofFox]

Spice was used for hyperspacial traveling, found only in a dessert planet, mainly made by the slowly decay of a dead animal (giant worms) andin very little quantities. I think it is more similar to oirl than potable water.

[@theblackpearlofbraavos]

This is how I picture Aegon "The Unworthy" Targaryen IV. Particularly in his later years. Gross.

[@srbrant5391]

Who?

[@philippschmitt4142]

@@srbrant5391 a character from game of Thrones

[@srbrant5391]

Johann Kruss Ah.

[@theblackpearlofbraavos]

@@srbrant5391 Yeah. Too bad he didn't show up in the show. Would have loved to see that in a flashback.

[@eugeneflores6153]

@@theblackpearlofbraavos the blackfyre topic is not well flesh out from game of thrones only in the books, so the Aegon the fat wouldn't be mentioned

[@drm2566]

Always loved the Baron Quote; “And he’ll know he’ll know that it I Baron Vladimir Harkonnen who encompass his doom”. Crazy as

[@tree_alone]

"Ahhh, you're dyin' in my arms!" -Baron Vladmir Harkonen

[@Phamelar]

My parents dragged me to this movie when I was in 4th grade - they were fans of the books and told me that I'd like the movie. After that heart plug scene I was seriously freaked out. I had nightmares for weeks. I could sit through the Friday the 13th series and other horror movies with no problem, but that heart plug scene was the most flat-out disturbing thing I'd yet seen on film. I gotta hand it to Lynch, that is a pretty fucked up way to kill someone.

[@sofalso]

I remember to this day two things from this movie: gigantic sand worms and the heart plug. It got burned in my mind as well

[@TheFruitcake1983]

Damn, no one has noticed your comment in 14 years

[@vvebvvaster]

5:26 Just entered the Boss level of the game.

[@ChaosMissile]

Actually does that kind of feeling

[@tylerkeller8869]

David Lynch's MOST UNDERRATED MOVIE!!!!

[@tuttt99]

Brad Dourif. I love him in every film he does.

[@robwest5457]

You are so beautiful my Baron (and Baron leans in for a kiss) When he says "spice," did you all see that loogie he spits out?

[@targaryen208]

...my plan MY PLAN! ...the plan

[@trajano777]

I think this movie captured pretty well how much of a sick drapraved the baron was.

[@patrickschaller2735]

Diseases lovingly maintained in the baron's face....gross but definitely illustrates the Harkonen penchant for vile concepts of amusement and degeneracy. As for the servant and the Baron and the blood splash, I took away from it that the Baron was some type of quacky sex deviant who could only get off watching someone die....This was a scene not for the faint of heart.

[@Jay_Baumans_Stuntdouble]

I love how when the Baron kills the kid, Feyd’s initial reaction is like “This shit is too gross even for me”

[@MrArmystrong85]

Jeez...Jabba the Hut really let himself go

[@Rgoid]

MrArmystrong85 Vladimir Harkonnen actually precluded Jabba.

[@Popcultureguy3000]

Rgoid Java was clearly influenced by the books version of Baron Harkonnen. Hell, I’m sure their are scores of hedonistic intergalactic despots in science fiction that are influenced by this fat, sore-ridden schemer.

[@spwicks1980]

You know the baron made good use of the corpse afterwards.

[@ussbased-a7074]

4:22 for the impatient

[@maciel.4539]

Thanks

[@Baribrotzer]

This movie may have been a failure, but it was an INTERESTING failure - particularly in the weirdly dieselpunk production design. Also some of the wonderfully bonkers lines: "It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of sapho that the thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning, it is by will alone that I set my mind in motion." "Put the pick in there, Pete. And turn it 'round, real neat." "We have just folded space from Ix. Many machines, on Ix. NEW machines. Better than those on Richese".

[@steerpike66]

Brad Dourif has played so many unbalanced creeps that it was a joy to see him as the Doc in Deadwood, playing a ferociously dutiful, sane and compassionate man.

[@DarthRushy]

The Mentat was also Grima Wormtongue, guys.

[@tommcewan7936]

Brad Dourif seems to specialise in playing unsettling weirdos. He was also the creepy chief scientist in Alien Resurrection, and apparently he *almost* got to play Scarecrow in one of the Tim Burton Batman films.

[@imcallingjapan2178]

@@tommcewan7936 It was a Joel Schumacher Batman film, but Tim Burton wanted him to play the Joker in the '80s

[@OptimisticCynic715]

The Mentat was also Good Guy Chucky.

[@IPfreely333]

Ummmm............ he was also CHUCKY!

[@kreion]

@@tommcewan7936 I also saw him in Senseless (1998) - ( a pretty weak film with Marlon Wayans) and he plays a creepy doctor too

[@PERSEUS-NIOR]

You can see Feyd unlike Beast isnt enjoying seeing the boy die is actually terrified and disgusted its only when Baron looks at him he smiles and pretends to enjoy it....a subtle but important detail, feyd may be cruel but he isnt depraved like his uncle

[@sectorgovernor]

Or Rabban. I liked Denis Villeneuve's Harkonnens, but something with Rabban went wrong. He made Feyd the more cruel one, meanwhile Rabban was worse. By the end of Dune Part Two , Rabban wasn't scary at all.

[@fledermaussohn4011]

what a great performance of kenneth mc millan!

[@junkdeal]

He who drinks squished bug juice controls the universe!!

[@Whosetheworst]

In my opinion the most memorable scene of the whole movie. Utterly brilliant ,yet utterly disturbing. Serious film art. This film has always been under-rated. I saw it when I was about 13 in the cinema and I didn't understand it but I enjoyed it and it left a long-lasting impression on me.

[@umleroi]

I always thought the cinematography in this portrayal was very Terry Gilman-esque

[@HC-cb4yp]

You want a look at how alien the future of humanity will be in 10,000 years? Lynch delivers.

[@hammeredandsauteed4644]

Rabban and Feyd’s reactions to what the Baron does to the flower boy. Rabban: “I’d be gouging out his eyes and smashing in his skull instead of molesting him, but otherwise, well done uncle!” Feyd: “Man this dude is one sick puppy. Can’t believe I’m related to this guy…..oh shit, he’s looking at me. Smile and laugh approvingly!” Seriously though, it’s a nice, subtle way of showing the differences between these two. Rabban is just cruel and dull-witted, a true beast with little humanity. Feyd appears to have some kind of threshold of what’s considered acceptable cruelty (or maybe he knows the Baron is thinking of him while killing the flower boy).

[@blueshit199]

great observation, I noticed that too

[@LuDux]

Fun fact: in the book Rabban is the first to suspect that there are more Fremen in the desert than everyone believe. So cruel, but smarter than average Dune citizen

[@sectorgovernor]

This is correct. Unfortunately the new Dune failed to show Rabban's brutality. Instead of, Feyd got his bloodthirsty sadist part , and Rabban was deprived of the one thing he was good at. Meanwhile the 1984 Rabban is dumber and more incomptent than the books Rabban, the 2021( and mainly the 2024) Rabban is more cowardly and less threatening than the books Rabban. So the 2024 Rabban, even if he isn't a total idiot ,like this Rabban, also incompetent, because of his cowardice. The books Rabban (I included his prequel character development) was also proud, even if he wasn't as egoist as Feyd. He was humbling only to the Baron.

[@rikosaikawa9024]

The spice must flow or you’ll feel the Sting

[@ellienixon3437]

“IT IS I WHO ENCOMPASSES HIS DOOM!!!” *flies away, cackling*

[@boredfartless4221]

4:58 I love Rabbans evil laugh, however while the sound is of his laugh and him thumping the chair, the image is of him beginning his evil celebration so it ends up looking like he's making a black power salute.

[@itsallgoodman4108]

My father showing this to me at age 7 did more psychic damage that Oedipus