A thing that sticking with me about Dune Part2 [SPOILERS] once Paul takes the waters of life, he stops being the protagonist. The film isn’t from his POV anymore, we don’t see his visions, the camera rarely meets him at eye level. He’s not a character anymore, but a force people must navigate.
hey love of my life, you've read dune right? can u explain the kwistaz haderach scheme like im 10 years old
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where the definition of kwisatz haderach gets more complicated is when you start to pay more attention to the worldbuilding side of things apart from just looking at the role he plays in the larger story.
yeah idk how people walked away from this book thinking paul was the hero like. dude.
like it’s not even subtext it’s simply just THERE. “am i the son of my honourable father?” “you look like you’re evil grandfather.” “why is nobody acknowledging the kindness in cruel violence but me smh” “i’m god now you should fear me mother” HELLO???????
i know hawat is talking about the old duke and not the baron there but it’s a reoccurring thing in the last few chapters where characters notice “paul is looking more like his grandfather” both from ppl who know he’s the baron’s grandson and those who don’t.
and it’s a really interesting thing that he’s meeting his harkonnen grandfather’s fate by becoming a villain but also parts of his atredies grandfather’s the way he boasts and agrees to risk his life and fight feyd at the end when he doesn’t have to when the old duke died fighting a bull for sport.
actually realizing paul and his split parantage reminds me of zuko great grandfathers being firelord sozin and avatar roku. inside you there are two wolves—
try as they might, and they will try, they will never successfully franchise-ify dune. there's twenty four books. there's six books. four of them are good. the four good ones are good because every plotline is attached to three separate subplots all intertwined in a delicate braid. if you remove any plotline the whole thing collapses. every character has a mirror and a counterpart and a narrative foil. dune family trees look like the back of a tapestry. the final line of the first book is about how being a concubine is good actually. dune adaptations are not supposed to be marvel movie posters filled with actors you recognise, every character should be played by some unknown little freak. the longer the series goes on the more it becomes about politics and economics. about 40% of each book is internal monologue. at its core it's space wizards versus bdsm warriors on cocaine planet and trying to deny that is rank cowardice.