“Memory Never Recaptures Reality. Memory Reconstructs. All Reconstructions Change The Original, Becoming

“You know the ancient tongues.” “I know many things…”

REBECCA FERGUSON in DUNE (2021) dir. DENIS VILLENEUVE

Rebecca Ferguson modelling the headpiece that was made for her costume as Lady Jessica for DUNE (2021) by Hungarian designer Virag Kerenyi via kerenyivirag on Instagram

[..] You’ll bear my sister: St. Alia of the Knife.

DUNE 2021 | Denis Villeneuve

Dune (1984) 🎥 David Lynch

REBECCA FERGUSON — Dune: Part One (2021) dir. Denis Villeneuve — Dune: Part Two (2024) dir. Denis Villeneuve

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

I'm rereading Dune in honour of the movie, and I had genuinely forgotten how absolutely vicious Leto's wit can be. Two examples:

Halleck stirred, said: "I think what rankles, Sire, is that we've had no volunteers from the other Great Houses. They address you as "Leto the Just" and promise eternal friendship, but only as long as it doesn't cost them anything."

"They don't yet know who's going to win this exchange," the Duke said. "Most of the Houses have grown fat by taking few risks. One cannot truly blame them for this; one can only despise them."

Pretty sure some of the heads of other houses just woke up several planetary systems away in a cold sweat, with the vague feeling of just having been verbally flayed.

"This is a carryall," Hawat said. "It's essentially a large 'thopter, whose sole function is to deliver a factory to spice-rich sands, then to rescue the factory when a sand-worm appears. They always appear. Harvesting the spice is a process of getting in and getting out with as much as possible."

"Admirably suited to Harkonnen morality," the Duke said.

I think the Baron is beyond feeling someone else roasting him from a system away, as it happens far too often, but still.

Finally, a gentler example:

"Gurney, take care of that smuggler situation first."

" 'I shall go unto the rebellious that dwell in the dry land,' " Halleck intoned.

"Someday I'll catch that man without a quotation and he'll look undressed," the Duke said.

I wish we'd had time to see this in the movie, because even though a fair amount of this is him putting on a bit of a show for his men, it's still hilarious.

Golden days

Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen & Marie Fenring, father and daughter.

"I'm Nobody! Who are you?" by Emily Dickinson | Jacek Jędral, Untitled, 2020 | "Black Bathing Suit" by Lana del Rey | Moebius' Dune concept art, 1974 | Imogen by Herbert Gustave Schmalz, 1888 | "Poacher's Pride" by Nicole Dollanganger | unknown | "Anecdote of the Pig" by Tory Adkisson | The Abduction of Ganymede, Gustav Moreau, 1886 | Snow Maiden, Viktor Vasnetsov, 1899 | A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin

John Schoenherr, for The Illustrated Dune.