'Dune: Part Two': What does Paul tell Baron Harkonnen? | 6ZOPLFI | 2024-03-02 10:08:01
'Dune: Part Two': What does Paul tell Baron Harkonnen? | 6ZOPLFI | 2024-03-02 10:08:01
One of many largest modifications Dune: Part Two makes from Frank Herbert's original Dune is the destiny of Baron Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgård).
In each versions of the story, the Baron perishes by the hand of a member of the Atreides family. In Herbert's Dune, that honor falls to Alia Atreides, Paul's two-year-old sister who has all the talents and skills of a Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother. However provided that she isn't even born yet in Dune: Half Two — the adult model of Alia is performed by Anya Taylor-Joy, although! — Paul (Timothée Chalamet) winds up killing the Baron as an alternative.
The murder happens at the end of the film, after Paul and his Fremen troops have cornered Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV (Christopher Walken) and the Harkonnens on Arrakis. By this level, the Baron has been reduce unfastened from his medical equipment and is crawling up the stairs to the Emperor's throne. Paul storms in and greets the Baron as his grandfather (a revelation he discovered after consuming the Water of Life) earlier than stabbing him in the neck with a Fremen Crysknife.
As he kills the Baron, he tells him, "You die like an animal." It's a brutal, dehumanizing statement. But there's more to it than simply plain insult.
Paul's last phrases to the Baron hyperlink again to the Gom Jabbar.
A big aspect of the world of Dune is the Gom Jabbar, a poisoned needle the Bene Gesserit use to test a subject's humanity. In the first Dune, the Reverend Mom Gaius Helen Mohiam (Charlotte Rampling) administers the check on Paul. In Dune: Half Two, Woman Margot Fenring (Léa Seydoux) administers it on Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen (Austin Butler).
Through the check, a Bene Gesserit holds the Gom Jabbar to the neck of the topic, who places their hand in a field that inflicts immense ache on them. If they're able to control their impulses and maintain their hand in the box, they may reside, having confirmed their willpower and humanity. But when they act on intuition and withdraw their hand because of the pain, they'll die at the tip of the Gom Jabbar. For the Bene Gesserit, anybody unable to regulate their impulses is an animal — and in addition more durable to regulate. That's why they put potential Kwisatz Haderachs like Paul and Feyd via the check: an animal shouldn't have that sort of power.
That brings us to Paul and the Baron. In calling the Baron "an animal," Paul is insinuating that the Baron is more instinct-driven than clever. There's also a extra literal degree to the line: Paul stabs the Baron in the neck, proper where a Gom Jabbar would hit.
But wait, there's more! Paul's line additionally alludes to the Baron's demise within the ebook. When Alia kills the Baron in Herbert's Dune, she pricks him with the Gom Jabbar, which means he dies precisely like all "animal" who failed the Bene Gesserit's check of humanity.
Whereas I nonetheless assume we have been robbed of seeing a two-year-old homicide the Baron in Dune: Half Two, Paul's line nonetheless makes for a strong nod to the Gom Jabbar, and to Alia's use of it in Dune. To twist a phrase from Herbert, we're getting meanings within meanings inside meanings.
Dune: Part Two is now in theaters.
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