I’ve said this here before but I was so scared it was going to be horrible until I watched that first trailer and saw the headboard of Paul’s bed was exactly as described in the books, if someone was going to have that level of attention to detail I knew I’d love it. Also seeing the ornithopters in the trailer completely took me out, that design is so good

Dune sicko who read the book at least once a year since I was 11 or 12, watching the gom jabbar scene: 

Thinking about the portrait and the bull 😭

It is absolutely the funniest thing imaginable that Frank Herbert wrote a book about how you should never trust charismatic messianic leaders and how people like Paul are the bad guys and the hero’s journey is bullshit and he got so incensed when everyone said “wow! Paul!! What a great hero!!” that he immediately wrote a second book calling them all dumbasses

You ever think about how Paul’s life was locked into a single horrible future by choices made before he was born and every attempt he made to escape it was doomed. You ever think about his grandfather’s portrait hanging facing the head of the bull that killed him, the bull that was always going to kill him once he ran out of ways to dodge it. His father was dead the moment he left Caladan and tried everything he could think of to escape that fate but the bull was always going to be there

This is one of the things that kept drawing me back to the book as a kid and still hits for me. The movies do it so well too, the quick cuts to the bull and the portrait and the little matador statue as little sic transit reminders every time things start falling apart. The way Leto dies looking up at the bull’s head on the wall, still covered in his father’s blood

Paul was doomed and he knew he was doomed and he did every single thing he could to change his future and it only pushed him closer to it. The music does so much intense story work in this series: the theme that plays during his vision of the galactic jihad in the tent in the first movie is what’s playing during his speech to the Fremen in the second. It was always leading here

I am so crunched for time before the festival and I lost a day today to the migraine and I’m going to lose most of Saturday due to plans but also what if I did a Dune rewatch this weekend

@checkervest I just watched these like last month but now I want to watch them again