Fear is the mind-killer
Dune - book, film, and score
“I asked Greg Fraser, the cinematographer to bring a level of darkness in the scene that will feel almost like you are like having a nightmare”
Dune director Denis Villeneuve breaks down the scene where Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) is challenged to a test, the Gom Jabbar, to see if his humanity will overcomes his animal impulses.
Dune origins, enter the fugue…
I conceived of a long novel, the whole trilogy as one book about the messianic convulsions that periodically overtake us. Demagogues, fanatics, con-game artists, the innocent and the not so innocent bystanders all were to have a part in the drama. This grows from my theory that superheroes are disastrous for humankind. Even if we find a real hero (whatever or whoever that may be), eventually fallible mortals take over the power structure that always comes into being around such a leader.
Dune Genesis by Frank Herbert, originally published in the July 1980 issue of Omni Magazine - good article.
Is Feyd-Rautha hot?
“Feyd-Rautha is a highly intelligent sociopath who murdered his mother, craves pain and humiliation, and is sexually vulnerable. And thus to many… hot.” Also, kudos to Austin Butler for finally loosing the Elvis accent.
“Walk without rhythm and it won't attract the worm… Don't be shocked by the tone of my voice. Check out my new weapon, weapon of choice”
The Christopher Walken Dune connection - he choreographed and danced in Weapon of Choice by Fat Boy Slim, and now he’s Emperor of the Known Universe in Dune Part 2.
“Wherever you have a goat and you have a piece of wood, all I want to say is the goat better watch out because it’s probably going to end up being a bagpipe”
"Something I wanted to always do. Invent instruments that don't exist. Invent sounds that don't exist." Hans Zimmer, Dune composer, gives his in-depth analysis and insider's look at how the score was created for Denis Villeneuve's 2021 film.