paul atreides sees a narrow way through - dune part two scene (2024)

dune part 2 scene (2024) - Paul atreides vision
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[@spicyrice796]

turn up the volume; if I make it louder it gets copyrighted

[@garmoen]

can u upload the part when he holds speech for the fremen?

[@madalitsophiri9289]

yeah 🤣😊♥️

[@AveChristusRex789]

Paul’s face at the end is haunting. The guy isn’t just Paul Atreides now…

[@gamr750]

quite literally. at the end of part 1, in one of his visions, a voice tells him that if he kills Jamis, he will in turn kill Paul Atreides. In winning that duel, he cements his path forward as the quizats haderach.

[@danielplainview2584]

Paul “Muad’Dib” Atreides-Harkonnen

[@opinion56]

anakin skywalker/darth vader was based off paul.

[@SmashAdams]

the inward stare of a bene gesserit / mentat / kwisatz harderarch

[@Bigbob508]

That’s the thing after drinking that he is no longer Paul he is a collection of tones and tons of people

[@tiernanrea1726]

Denis does a fantastic job here with lightning.. Paul looks incredibly menacing with the darkened tone around his face.

[@spicyrice796]

it is surprisingly my favorite scene in the film. there was something so memorable about the close up of his hands, and the gesture he made.

[@tiernanrea1726]

@spicyrice796 Timothee almost sounds like the Baron or Feyd with the slight rasp in his voice, when he states "there is a narrow way through" with the gesture.

[@bahagharingmatsing]

My favorite is when he arrived at the council, and he has this hooded menacing face while walking in the sea of brownish-white drab fremen. Denis did a really good job with the color and lighting, making paul look so villainous

[@CuttingEdges]

The colouration really gives me Alien and Prometheus vibes. It really cements Paul and Jessica as this very alien and dangerous force, on a planet where the natives are so in tune with nature and live in harmony with one another. I just love this scene.

[@2KOOLURATOOLGaming]

He looks a lot more like a Harkonnen

[@houserhouse]

0:22 Right after he says "narrow way through," it shows a brief clip of Paul killing Feyd. Didn't realize this in any of my three theater viewings. Paul saw the whole future. He knew exactly how it would all happen

[@Nazareeni]

🤯

[@henshin587]

Yep, he knew he had to take the two stabs to be able to strike a killing blow

[@tokyodove]

More than that, I feel like he got a glimpse of the Golden Path in that moment, especially when he talks of it as a 'narrow way through'

[@trbz_8745]

like the song by The Chemical Brothers?

[@houserhouse]

@@tokyodove He saw it, and dismissed it, in favor of achieving his revenge. What a coward. Maybe his kid can do something about it

[@killy_brystal]

i noticed that after drinking the w.o.l., the vision of him stabbing feyd was quick, clear, & concise vs all the visions he’s had prior where it was slow, hazy and more abstract

[@Beamber]

Well, that’s because the filmmakers don’t want to spoil the ending!

[@Morfe02]

Plus is literal The visions are possible future THIS IS THE FUTURE

[@hipstertrout2865]

Exactly. Also they were muddled and flipped around. Such as, in the first film we see a vision of him sprinting through battle, quickly slicing and stabbing Sardaukar until coming to a standstill out of breath. In this film, we realize that vision was actually Chani.

[@costco_pizza]

It was at this moment, Paul was finally ready to take on the Sardaukar. It was at this moment he had finally surpassed their capabilities after being hopeless outmatched by them.

[@rx228]

He saw the golden path

[@DoroteoVilla]

And Leto II sees it through.

[@sarasweet3578]

Is this true or just a guess? Genuinely curious because I’m not quite sure what he means by this.

[@LabTech41]

@@sarasweet3578 Paul's journey after the events of the first book are defined by his inability to accept the Golden Path's requirements; he's afraid of it, and ultimately runs away from it, leaving it's execution to his son Leto II. In case you weren't aware, the Golden Path is a course of action, seen through prescience, which ensures Mankind's survival through essentially the Ragnarok of the Dune universe. Thing is, Dune's story is one that teaches two lessons: never trust or follow charismatic leadership, and that all growth and advancement is built upon hardship and pain; as such, the Golden Path ensures survival only after millennia of suffering and oppression... something Paul wasn't psychologically capable of enduring.

[@Urd-Vidan]

​@@sarasweet3578 quite possible that it is a foreshadow of the Golden Path.

[@AUniqueHandleName444]

@@sarasweet3578 It is...kinda true. Paul's visions of the Golden Path weren't as clear as Leto II's. He had a lot more pressing shit going on, and was a far less refined kwisatz haderach than his son. And he really, really didn't want to follow that path, either, which naturally interfered with his ability to delve deeply into it.

[@CognizantCheddar]

He has such mesmerizing eyes. Shame if anything were to happen to them.

[@HeavyDanger]

[@GeorgesPatapon]

I see what you're doing here 🤭

[@sentientmustache8360]

His gaze is so intense it could burn stone

[@SteveNathn]

I read the series for the first time shortly after I heard they were making a new adaptation. The moment I read that part of my first thoughts was how awesome it’s gonna hopefully be in the movie

[@MustafaErtem]

god damn is that a book spoiler

[@yaskinsolano5971]

The hand gestures are amazing

[@piadox]

There is a narrow way through 🫱

[@VlogVibes]

When I first watched the film, the fight with Feyd was quite gut-wrenching. When Paul got stabbed and has his moment with Chani-it really seemed like he was silently communicating his goodbyes to her. She was terrified for him. Gurney, Jessica, and Stilgar’s looks of simultaneous confusion and devastation confirmed that no one else understood the depth of Paul’s plan. It seemed more like pure luck that he was able to come away with the victory. Rewatching the film, especially in light of the scene in this video specifically, you can see Paul’s complete and total control of the duel and conversations as a whole. His moment with Chani changes from, “Goodbye, my love,” to, “Now that I have everyone’s attention-watch this sh*t.” He saw it before it happened. LISAN AL GAIB. Incredible writing. Exceptional acting.

[@MrApplepieforlife]

Nice!!! You got it!! He knew everything that was going to happen, no one could escape because it was already planned!! That’s why he’s the scariest thing in that universe, he already knows your fate.

[@VlogVibes]

@@MrApplepieforlife All it takes is a straight shot of worm excrement! Haha

[@DoroteoVilla]

​@@MrApplepieforlifeHe gets to the point where he knows the future so well that he gets it confused with the past... because he has known it for so long before it actually happens.

[@AUniqueHandleName444]

@@MrApplepieforlife He actually doesn't know he's going to win that particular duel, or in the books he didn't. It was one of the last things he did that he really didn't have total control over.

[@costco_pizza]

Oh come on guys!? Feyd completely outclassed him in the duel. Paul got VERY lucky to win in the end!! Feyd clearly showed he was the better fighter. Very terrifying!!!

[@jeffreypeterson2]

There is such a look of empty despair in his face. He is no longer seeing reality through the lens of a human, but something akin to a machine

[@James-wu2hf]

The way he painstakingly shifts his hand and brings it down, it gets me every time. It's like he's plotting his course through the future in real time; he sees the Emperor, and he knows he must face Fayd. And to do it, he must take an uncannily risky path, manifesting doubt in the hearts of all those he loves -- that is the narrow way through. Villeneuve's cut to the knife solidifies it. It points the way. An absolute masterpiece of a film. A divergence from Herbert's classic in so many ways, yet masterfully crafted nonetheless.

[@NiteSaiya]

He sees more than Feyd. He sees ALL of the "other prospects" like himself and Feyd. He sees a future where multiple Kwisatz Haderachs wage prescient wars on each other, responding to things that haven't even happened, back and forth until all of humanity is tied up into a massive knot and strangles itself to death. A future where rebels like the Fremen can't even exist because the prescients see their every movement, thwart every attack, and invade their every hiding place. Humanity loses all ability to resist the brutal rule of tyrants once the tyrants gain prescience.

[@confessor4943]

Well said!

[@divad7137]

The thing with the Water of Life is that you can clearly see it changes both Jessica and Paul as people and their personalities. However, holding in account how with a person every experience they live it changes them in a way, having the collective consciousness and memories of everyone that ever lived and seeing all kind of probable futures is definitely the cause that both Jessica and Paul are so changed after drinking the Water. Paul at his young age has the knowledge and experience now of a person that lived for eons and that also has the ability to see through the future. That kind of power can be maddening

[@zainiikhwan9405]

If Paul and Jessica, grown up adult, were changed this much, I'm dreading what they have in store for the not yet born little sister 😢

[@Urd-Vidan]

That's why the Benigeseret were selectively breeding people to make their superhuman, able to comprehend and survive the process, someone who's supposed to be Feyd and Paul's son if Paul was female. As you see, Paul's mum was a generation too early.

[@VeelouC]

​@@zainiikhwan9405 yep.. alia is an unborn reverend mother without any training from what I've heard her powers are gonna be wild

[@divad7137]

@@VeelouC yeah, to me I try to imagine this in the following way. She basically has the collective conciousness and memories of everyone who ever live + all possible futures and possibilities all in a clear way while she's IN THE WOMB. Imagine the amount of life experience and memories you have and how that changed you as a person and made you wiser, and how the older you get, more time passes and so comes with lots of experiences. However think of Paul's unborn sister not as a fetus in the womb, as she basically has the mind and experiences, memories of eons. Her life experience and memories is that of a person that lived for eons. And this comes with all the sufferring, pain and grief, all the traumatic experiences their ancestors have experienced, she has that all from the womb. If all these memories changed both Paul and Jessica so dramatically, and Paul is a teenager and Jessica a grown adult, imagine what that would do to a developing fetus 💀💀. This amount of power would change anyone to their core. Because experiences and memories literally change us.

[@CuttingEdges]

The first thing I thought of when I saw Paul here was 'Tetsuo'. Then after the film, I watched an interview with Denis saying how Akira inspired 'Paul's change' and I just sat back and laughed, because he really does look like Tetsuo here - cape and hair.

[@oroboros88]

No idea he took inspo from akira, god I love that frenchman

[@hugehuman1]

So glad to see others pick up on that, my eyes lit up when I noticed the similarities. I hope some people are also inspired to look into Akira after this.

[@ankushdrawsankushiyer538]

Other way around actually, Akira is inspired from the dune novels

[@firekeeperiswaifu3092]

@@ankushdrawsankushiyer538Wasn’t aware Denis was the writer of Dune novels.

[@Miafunfactory]

Full Tetsuo!!!🤣🤣🤣

[@GrandSupremeDaddyo]

When i first saw this scene with the previous sand colour now washed out and almost monochrome I thought "wow Paul looks Harkonnen here" , then in walked his mother.

[@scribese7en]

I love how Paul's psychic presience is portrayed. He doesn’t just know what's going to happen, he doesn't just see the future. He's *living* it. The gestalt knowledge of all of his forebears brought forward and combined to experience all tomorrows to come. And a great many that might not come. It's a lot to take in. More than enough to change a man. Wizen him far beyond the years of even the Baron. Paul Atreides really did die when he drank that liquid. What sits before the camera now is him and everyone before him, all wearing his skin.

[@giglomesh123]

It crazy how Paul and Eren Yeager turned the same when they saw the future

[@AveChristusRex789]

Turns out that seeing the future does things to a man

[@Danarogon]

Almost like Dune is an influential book that has been around since the 60s lol. Jokes aside. Dune would unironically go hard as an Anime show. The inner monologues and inner analysis of eachother's actions and body languages is very much anime & manga-like in the book. And are largely absent in the movies.

[@martinsriber7760]

@@Danarogon 60s.

[@junethanoschurchill6750]

AOT is basically a Dune mecha lmao

[@Danarogon]

@@martinsriber7760Had a brainfart, thanks for correction

[@trev9168]

The aura is crazy

[@MeriZee2703]

I just love this movie so fucking much.

[@AesirUnlimited]

His sense of self is gone. He lives in the past, present, future, and even the potential future. Paul Atreides is no more.

[@ammanbansal2265]

"To know the future, is to be trapped by it." -Frank Herbert

[@heatherbukowski2102]

Eren Yeager left the chat

[@Gunnar001]

So…this is different than the books if he can see his duel with Feyd and how he stabs him in the chest in the end. In the books, his fight with Feyd is a blank spot in his prescient vision and he doesn’t know if he defeats him or not. This scene hints that Paul sees himself stabbing someone with a knife. He says all his visions are clear now, so, I don’t know if he can see how the ENTIRE fight plays out and knows he will win or if he only sees that little snippet and nothing else. Either way, it’s more than what he sees in the book.

[@NuggetEternal]

Somehow I glossed over this detail after watching the film 3 times, lol. I suppose he wouldn't even need to see the fight anyway because of how far ahead into the future he can see. As soon as he was challenged, he knew he was destined to win.

[@Tony_Miller]

I think he sees the outcome of the fight in the movie. Makes sense why he doesn’t seem too worried after getting stabbed by Feyd.

[@LordJagd]

And in the book it’s not a matter of him seeing possible futures after drinking the water of life, but that he can see the “now” with prescience. That’s how he can see the Great Houses in the space above Arrakis and figure out that he can cause the spice to self-destruct, which he used as the ultimate threat in the book. But in the movie he doesn’t really do that. But that’s fine Villeneuve just needed to condense things.

[@CuttingEdges]

Fascinating, it's been a while since I read the book, so I forgot about that. It makes sense, the prescient are hidden from the prescient, so Paul shouldn't see Feyd. However, this vision takes place right after a fatal blow to Feyd, so perhaps this is the moment when Paul's visions of killing Feyd become clear? He is unable to see the fight, hence the fight isn't one-sided to begin with. Surely if Paul could see the whole fight, in the movie canon, it would have resulted in a complete humiliating defeat of Feyd. All Paul knows is the moment right after the fight is won, but doesn't know exactly how to win. So in order to fulfill his "narrow way through" he must cross the invisible path, just as in the book as you stated.

[@MarkArandjus]

It's implied that he sees the whole thing. If the movie would actually show us the whole thing it'd be spoiling itself.

[@Moneo_Atreides]

It is for this reason and this reason only that His Apostles prayed: "Lord, save us from the other paths which Muad'dib covered with the Waters of His Life. " Those "other paths" may be imagined only with the deepest revulsion. -The Yiam-el-Din, Book of Judgment (Dune Messiah)

[@PanPeno]

Dude just saw that Cowboys gonna miss SB for the next century

[@KonaLife]

😂

[@chasemcnab7610]

I can see why Paul’s character inspired the character of the Emperor from Warhammer 40k. This is probably the closest we’ll get to seeing such a being; someone who’s essentially human, but who has lost his humanity in his great powers and gifts of foresight, who sees no other way forward than galactic genocide and conquest on an unimaginable scale. He sees all possible futures and knows this is the best, but that absolute certainty in his sight will cost him everything he holds dear. All that’s missing is a scene where he tells Chani: “The difference is, I *know* I am right.”

[@Sk4M_.RangeroftheNorth]

Paul saying he see's a narrow way through is a reference to Irulan and Mohiam when they walk thru a narrow hallway saying he's still alive and how hes gonna set up The Golden Path. Such an amazing scene.💯

[@arthurjames9807]

Really wish he said “now Harkonnen shall kill Harkonnen”

[@matiasaguilar2500]

He says something very similar, something like "we're harkonnen, so that's how we win, by being harkonnen"

[@firepitch5113]

Never read the books, but that kinda sounds dumb, weren't they always killing each other, that's what I got from the moviesXD

[@SatanicWalnut2]

​@@firepitch5113being raised as an Atreides comes with certain expectations. Paul's father and generations before ruled with relative honor and dignity, as compared to the brutality of the Harkonnens. By choosing to act as a Harkonnen, he's essentially choosing to fight barbarity with barbarity. Basically "my father's way of thinking won't work here. Gotta go evil mode".

[@KonaLife]

@@firepitch5113maybe you should read the book then.

[@blackjack21477]

I appreciated this scene much more the second time i watched it. His hand movements told soo much

[@LokiTheAsgard420]

the golden path 🙏 🙏

[@ZombieShot078]

Makes me wonder if he is referring to events of even later books, rather than just making it through their immediate situation.

[@Sk4M_.RangeroftheNorth]

Amazing scene, Paul just sat like that arm resting on his knee reminds of the old artwork of Paul sat on the throne with sunglasses on and big quiffy hair which is such an iconic picture of Maud'dib.💯⚔🐀⚔

[@w4rl0ck]

Almost like he sees a Golden Path

[@rjun152]

This is literally Michael Corleone

[@k.m.clarke]

Yes exactly . the facial expression at the end is Michael

[@piadox]

Villeneuve compared Paul to Michael Corleone so we may have a hint of how he plans to portray him in the next movie!

[@fullmoon_games]

Can't see it here, but on the big screen you can see the calluses shredded into Paul's hand as he's describing the narrow way. It's a minor detail but bring attention to the hard work Timothee Chalamet put into playing this role.

[@spicyrice796]

if you put on bigger screen you’ll see it. on phone it is pretty impossible tho…

[@juanserna6322]

I waa tripping balls during this part and it was in imax too.

[@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers]

Cinema snacks too spicy?

[@AUniqueHandleName444]

Oh my god, watching this while baked AF would be INCREDIBLE

[@TwinsProductions69]

We are in the endgame now.

[@themuffinloverphysicist]

The next scene is so fucking good.

[@fencserx9423]

When the path is golden, but air is blood

[@JoroTheGreat]

Heavy Akira vibes with Paul’s look especially in this scene, closing thing to a live action tetsuo. Denis mentions how he pulled from Akira for this film and it’s obvious in this scene.

[@k.m.clarke]

He sees the golden path. Ten years from now , God Emperor is released and people walk out of the theatre as Leto II savagely murders the Duncan Idaho ghola early on in the movie.

[@Cletus_the_Elder]

I discarded the memory of the blade embedded in the armor and the hand in the icepick grip.

[@smartpig555119]

No more narrow a path through any obstacle than one made by a blade after all

[@thedragondemands5186]

One narrow path…a *_golden_* path…

[@megapixel4664]

:shoc:

[@FracturedImage]

This scene was haunting Gave me Colonel Kurtz vibes from Apocalypse Now

[@dexnsocius]

he dr stranging this shit

[@danasyl7240]

I wonder if the hand gesture recalls the sardaukar chant scene gesture

[@FelipeKana1]

I wonder who you be cast as Leto II

[@ReckersLive]

Why is this such a good scene

[@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers]

Introverted Intuition (Ni) in full effect.

[@omlg2021]

What the fuck was in that holy water 💀

[@coffee_drinker2912]

Shake my hand, Lisan al Gaib!

[@Mr.Ambrose_Dyer_Armitage_Esq.]

For those who haven't read the books, the "Narrow Way Through" is Princess Irulan's thigh gap.

[@FirstnameSurname738]

Alia in Paul's vision: "my dearest brother, you will now learn the truth about our family and it will hurt you to the core". Being Harkonnen is one of the biggest insults Paul could ever feel.

[@noahlindauer]

Those hand callouses look oddly familiar, Chalamet rock climber?

[@kingsman1713]

"I saw a narrow path and all the possible futures in the street once. I froze up in shock, horror and amazement. Before she slapped me in the face and my case will be held tomorrow for public harassment." -Paul Atreides.

[@Narokkurai]

Spice hasn't just given Paul visions, it's turned him into a Navigator. He navigates the fate of the entire empire.

[@boblob3509]

Dr strange be like

[@zackgreen5361]

Gives me Eren Yeargar vibes

[@ybagain3562]

Me: bro woke up and thought he unlocked THE ALMIGHTY 😭😭

[@MM-hi]

0:21

[@GhostofRhurValley]

First glimpse of the golden path ?

[@TomCruiseOnCocaine]

A genocidal way through. 👋

[@montyi8]

He found out about Reddit

[@zathary564]

This is way better than the one in Endgame

[@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers]

Everything is better than the one in Endgame.

[@ufinc]

not it wasn't, Endgame was a masterpiece meticulously put together in an elaborate plan over 11 years... Dune is a cool movie but just the adaptation of one old novel so...

[@NovelPhoinixTheSecond]

​@@ufincEndgame is incredibly mid tbh

[@ufinc]

@@NovelPhoinixTheSecond you obviously know nothing about great cinema

[@zathary564]

@@ufinc I meant the scene where Dr Strange predicts the future vs this one. Both say "lots of futures but only one in which we win" but Dune does it way better than Endgame's.

[@BrushWayne47]

Eren be like moment...

[@impersonal6650]

He saw the Golden Path but refused to follow it because it required thousands of years of solitude.

[@josehernandez6764]

Isnt that the same hand gestures they do in the chant in part 1

[@Musabre]

Just went and rewatched to check, no it isn't the same. But understandable why you might assume.

[@FurryAzzre]

Me when I do research on human history and recognize patterns that lead to World War 3:

[@AUniqueHandleName444]

You see a narrow way through? I love your optimism.

[@teamvlcn6820]

Something I realized about this scene is that it wasn't a time jump. Paul brought Jessica into his mind to talk privately with her even as people surrounded them.

[@shehansoysa571]

It was a time jump, man. That would be cool, but Dune doesn't have psychic powers like that. Even the communication at the end between Jessica and Mohaim was either a conversation between their inner lives or reading their faces using their Bene Gesserit skills.

[@adambomb528]

Realized this on second viewing. Very clever touch

[@hypatia137]

​@@shehansoysa571 It seems to me a time-jump as well. Because, before that scene, there are many people in that room. Then we see Jessica alone with Paul. As for the much later scene, it can look like telepathy for people who haven't read novels but for us readers, it can well be interpreted as the special communication style between reverend mothers via internal awareness. Their mote-life sparks are speaking in the cosmic pool of other memories. In the book, this is described in WoL ceremony. It happens between Ramallo and Jessica. In the movie, DV used it between Mohiam and Jessica. But DV presented it in a simplest way because full description would have required more budget and time. And it would have distrupted the pacing of the scene. Funny, in the book, Frank Herbert is so insistent on that it is not telepathy. Yeah, old man, it is not like classic and stereotypic telepathy we all know, not X-men type telepathy. But, to be brutally honest, it has a few qualities of telepathy but in a way more esoteric, cosmic and mystic way. Not just brain power, but also soul power. Yeah, they do not read their thoughts, that is one of the reasons why it is not stereotypic telepathy. These Reverend Mothers just communicate with each other without opening their mouths and speaking aloud. Pretty cool stuff. This is hinted in the movie as well. However, it may not be enough for the audience.

[@LordJagd]

Dune definitely has psychic powers. Paul is able to see the Great Houses and other ships above Arrakis in this version of the scene in the book, and Jessica sees all the past lives of the prior Reverend Mothers when she drank the water. Those things are so impossible they might as well be magic, even though Herbert brilliantly frames them as possible.

[@adambomb528]

@@hypatia137 Yeah, I’ve read the book and I kinda just saw this as a creative liberty taken by Denis in the adaptation. The visual language of the scene really makes it feel like it’s happening in the moment as an internal discussion between Paul and Jessica, even if it isn’t exactly something that happens in the book. I mean, I certainly could be wrong, but my hunch is that Denis meant for it to be happening as a conversation they’re having using their newfound abilities

[@Agesilaus.88]

Vindex

[@sarasweet3578]

What’s at the end of this narrow path? What is the goal he’s seeking from this? How to finish the jihad, get revenge, and make arrakis a paradise or something else?

[@Azerez01]

Prevent the absolute extinction of Humanity.

[@AUniqueHandleName444]

@@Azerez01 In this case, he's speaking more to the survival of his family, I think. Although it very quickly becomes intertwined with the Golden Path, for sure.

[@Azerez01]

@AUniqueHandleName444 When Paul was in his Water Of Life induced coma, I'd thought that he was seeing all the Paths before he woke up like Dr Strange using the Time Stone.

[@CuttingEdges]

@@Azerez01 Paul doesn’t care about the Golden Path, Leto II does. Paul only wants to protect Arrakis and his friends and family.

[@arseniysuslov9]

3/10 not dark enough

[@ufinc]

bro thinks he's Dr. Strange smh

[@InsanitysApex]

It was Never the Narrowest Way through I Feared; It was What Must be Done. That Time's Long Past; it's Transformed too: What I Know we All Must Become... But WIll they Transform too, as Destiny Sings: _PsychoCosmoLogical Monsters?_ Nightmarish Horror's aren't Worth a Damn: _MetaGods Fear to Tread upon the Face of these Waters..._ _...And in his End, even Satan Begged... ...But this, this is Only our Beginning..._

[@Crossbones6732]

“One narrow path to victory.” “….Really? I mean, the Sardukar and the Harkonnen’s are absolutely no threat, Fremen supremacy, you sure you don’t see five or ten paths to victory?”

[@CuttingEdges]

Paul is challenging the Great Houses and the entire Empire, with a legion of Fremen who have never engaged in galactic warfare and who are starting with whatever ships they can get their hands on at the end of Dune - ALL WHILST trying to avoid a total invasion of Arrakis and the death of his friends and Chani. So yes, it's a lot more complicated than you're making it out to be. Pauls action have rippling consequences. He will also be going up against the Guild Navigators and Bene Gesserit (who have lost control of their Kwisatz Haderach), who will no doubt use their prescience abilities to aid the fight against Paul - and in case you haven't read Dune: Messiah, without spoiling anything, prescient individuals interacting with other prescient individuals is not a simple task.

[@costco_pizza]

This is what I don't get either. If it were a "narrow way through" with all the other paths leading to their destruction, we should have seen the Sardaukar and Harkonnen actually putting up a decent fight. We didn't see even one Fremen die in the final battle. And where were those bug like ships that bombed Sietch Tabr in the final battle? Those things alone should have killed 1000's of Fremen? And how exactly would the Fremen fight against those things? Kind of ridiculous. I'm pretty sure Paul and the Fremen could have just walked up to the emperor and Sardaukar and won. There didn't seem to be any threat to them at all in this movie.

[@MooseBear-ob2wh]

@@costco_pizza hes referring to a narrow path of victory for the entire Jihad war, not just the climax of this movie lol

[@junethanoschurchill6750]

Victory in the grand scheme of humanity, not just this conflict

[@CognizantCheddar]

Paul has to do several things he wouldn't naturally do in this narrow path, if not for his prescience telling him he has no choice. He has to marry Irulan, a terrible insult to Chani. He has to spare Shaddam's life. He has to agree to a kanly duel with Feyd-Rautha, which in the novel is a blind spot in his prescience so he can't foresee what Feyd will do in it. He has to let his Fremen go on a galactic rampage to subjugate the rest of the Landsraad. He has to deny resisting Houses any spice for interstellar travel, which leads to famine on numerous planets and kills billions of innocents. He has to become a true tyrant. And still later, there's stuff with supernatural genetic engineers, face-changing assassins, scheming Bene Gesserit, and the clone of a dearly departed friend. Pitfalls, everywhere.

[@DanBeech-ht7sw]

Yet another scene filmed in the dark. What is the point? Was the director trying to save money on electricity bills?

[@DiegoM265]

This is basically Doctor Who in Infinity war and we all know how it ended, guess what, he took that narrow way through, duh! I don't know, i always hate when a character become so much powerful, to follow his jurney and struggles is not interesting anymore simply because there is no struggle in what he do, you already know he will succeed, after this scene in the movie everything became boring and useless.

[@adityarajput5039]

Yeah about the part where "he will obviously succeed" I'd suggest checking out books sometime...

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

Not understanding what Dune is about...

[@darrynrenton5693]

Thats like saying what came first? The chicken or the egg... This story was written before both yr examples were even figments in the screenwriters mind... that being said, you should think about reading the entire book series because Paul is far from the most powerful entity.. his story is a dichotomy of how total power and enlightenment for the greater good can not be attained without sacrifice.

[@DiegoM265]

@@adityarajput5039 in Dune part two he succeeded, he won against Feid, the Arkonnen and the Emperor, why? Because he followed that narrow way. Everything in THIS MOVIE after this scene became USELESS.

[@DiegoM265]

@@darrynrenton5693 I'm not talking about books here, this is the movie. If you can't understand what an adaptation is this is a your problem.

[@tmarq4655]

Timothee just doesn't seem to fit the Atreides role for me. Kind of a kid who fails in school or could play some mousy role in a comedy movie. The first Dune was a little better and better rounded.

[@CognizantCheddar]

Paul Atreides is a skinny teenaged runt in the literature. Chalamet was born to play Paul Atreides -- he's physically perfect for the character. Who else has the necessary delicate aristocratic features together with a skinny physique that passes for a 15-year-old boy's?

[@Jack115.]

paul is 16

[@vladimirkochenov4687]

The first Paul was too old

[@Miafunfactory]

Timothy NAILED IT!