Muad'dib

something funny and highly specific to consider about feyd-rautha from a meta perspective is that all of the actors who have played him either are musicians or have played a musician.

in lynch's dune, feyd is played by Sting, lead vocalist and songwriter for The Police.

in jodorowsky's planned adaptation of dune, feyd was planned to be played by (and his design highly based on) Mick Jagger.

in villeneuve's dune, feyd is played by Austin Butler, who shot to fame for his portrayal of Elvis.

also worth noting: all three of these musicians have — to a certain degree — an element of rebelliousness and sex appeal that characterises their 'on-stage' persona.

i mean, just take a look at this quote about Mick Jagger from Philip Norman's symphony for the devil: the rolling stones story:

"[...] his conflicting and colliding sexuality: the swan's neck and smeared harlot eyes allied to an overstuffed and straining codpiece."

dune is about the forces that humanity lives at the mercy of, both natural and man-made. it's about how power exerts itself upon the powerful, how they're controlled by it as just as much as they control it. it's about how people become locked into a process of history that they as individuals are nearly powerless to control, so much so that even being able to see the future only serves to show how trapped you really are. it's about all of this more than it is about any individual characters and this is something that no adaptation so far has gotten right

concept art by Moebius, for Jodorowsky’s Dune

by  Alex Jay Brady

been thinking about that scene in dune 2021 where rabban has his little temper tantrum, causing the two maids in the room to flinch in fear… cut to piter (david dastmalchian) looking completely unfazed, bored even, by rabban’s rage. i thought it was a really cool way of establishing character through contrast, so here’s more of the same. rabban the beast, and beautiful, perfect, unflinching piter…

paul atreides / GODHOOD

dune: part two, dir. denis villeneuve (2024) sharp objects, gillian flynn (2006)

We’re Harkonnens. So this is how we’ll survive, by being Harkonnens.

Dune: Part Two (2024) dir. Denis Villeneuve

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