welcome to the man of Recaps this is Dune part one on the desert planet of Arrakis is a rare
substance called spice which is necessary for Interstellar travel making it the most
valuable resource in the Galaxy so the Galactic Empire has been occupying Arrakis which entails
oppressing the locals it's very much an oil in the Middle East situation Our Story begins with
Timothy Chalamet as Paul Atredis, son of the Noble Atredis House his father Duke Leo is a
real good guy the emperor has just put them in charge of Arrakis which should be a very good
thing but it may be a bad thing the emperor's jealous House of Atredis is getting too strong
so he's sending them to Arrakis and hoping they fail before they leave Paul's mom wakes him up
for a secret midnight meeting with his creepy grandma Paul's mom is from the order of the Bene
Gesserit a group of witch women with psychic like Powers including the voice where they can make you
follow commands she's like yo Paul put your hand in this box and if you take it out I'll kill you
the box hits him with intense pain but she has to see if he can mind over matter but Paul's mom has
trained him well with the famous phrase fear is the mind killer which means you know don't give
into fear I can Master my own emotions they had to test Paul to see if he's their chosen one from
the Bene Gesserit millennia long scheme it's a complicated situation more on this later so Paul
leaves his home world full of nice cool water for the deserts of Arrakis which kind of suck there's
no water out in the deserts you got to wear these still suits which recycle your sweat so
you can drink it they hop in their cool dragonfly helicopters to go see how the spice is harvested
it's a dangerous operation because the Harvesters attract the sandworms they're prepared for this
they just fly away but today there's a malfunction so Paul goes down to help Evacuate the workers
where he's hit with his first wave of spice now spice is not spaceship fuel it's actually
a hallucinogen yes in some ways technology is very Advanced but in other ways not cuz they don't like
computers instead they like using the human mind like Mentats who have trained to be really good at
math so with no computers to calculate hyperspace jumps they rely on Guild Navigators who snort a
bunch of spice and have visions of the future of which route is safe and Paul is especially
sensitive to spice he has his first vision of Zendaya and maybe they make out or maybe she
kills him but now has no time to be tripping out cuz a sandworm is coming and just how big
are these sandworms incomprehensibly large so to survive on this world House of Atredis will need
to cultivate desert power and no one knows the desert better than the locals the Fremen who have
cool blue eyes from exposure to spice they have a very unique culture like spitting is polite thank
you for sharing your body's water with us Duo's like hey I'm going to change things around here
no more oppressing you I want us to be friends but this guy's like yeah I'll believe it when I see it
the former ruler of Arrakis was house Harkonnen real bad people who oppressed the Fremen hard
Baron Harkonnen didn't want to give it up because he who controls the spice controls the universe
but he made a secret deal with the emperor who's loaning him some of his Elite troops the Sardukar
and they launch a sneak attack on house Atredis now they don't use guns in this world either
they're all about hand to hand combat it's because they all have energy Shields that deflect anything
fast like a bullet so everyone trains in knife fighting where you can get in close for a good
slow hit so House Atredis is overwhelmed and baron Harkin's retaken Arrakis he's a real chunky guy
but uses anti-gravity Tech to float around real creepy like he had an inside man here the Atredis
doctor but he only helped the Harkonnen because they kidnapped his wife and so he left Duke Leo
a secret yes it's the poison tooth sneak attack but Baron Harkin in survives with a nice healing
oil bath and by the way his nephew is Dave Batista meanwhile Paul and his mom were captured they knew
to gag her but she had been training Paul in the voice and he's able to do it well enough
they escape but they have no home to go back to but there is one at trad's Survivor their best
fighter Duncan Idaho he picks up and his mom and they seek shelter with a local scientist who's
trying to terraform Arrakis to not be a desert but the Sardar find them so Duncan Idaho makes
his epic Last Stand takes all these guys out but eventually he's killed but he bought time for Paul
and Mom to escape and to avoid hearkening forces they fly into the sandstorm Paul realizes he has
to turn the engines off and let the sandstorm just carry them they make it to safety but not really
cuz they're still in the middle of the desert and humans walking causes rhythmic vibrations
that will attract the sandworms so they got to do the weird sandworm walk where you walk without
without Rhythm and mimic the natural sounds of the desert Unfortunately they don't quite
get it right and soon a sand worm's coming for them but they make it to a rock just in time so
the sandworm stops and Paul stares this massive thing down now they're found by the Fremen this
is one of their leaders Stilgar they're not very friendly to Outsiders so Paul and his mom have to
defend themselves one of the Fremen gets the drop on Paul yes it's Zendaya Paul's dream girl in his
dream Visions they always seem to be in love but for now she's not impressed now to get his honor
back the Fremen Paul disarmed has to challenge him to single combat and Paul's had visions of
this guy too where he becomes his good friend and Mentor so Paul uses his knife fight skills to make
this guy yield then they can become friends but yielding is not allowed this has to be a fight
to the death so Paul has no choice but to kill this guy and he realizes his Visions are not set
in stone so the general plan is to get off world if they can expose that the emperor took sides
against a noble house they can unite the other Noble houses against him and avenge their house of
Trades but now Paul's like actually I got to stay here my road leads into the desert earlier Paul
had his biggest vision of an epic battle where the Fremen united against Imperial forces and Paul was
leading them so that's his best plan to avenge his father but the vision went on to show him leading
that army of Fremen across the Galaxy in an endless bloody war so he wants to avoid that part
if possible but why would the Fremen follow Paul anyway well this goes back to the Bene Gesserit
chosen one thing a thousand years ago they seated this prophecy of an off-world Messiah and Paul
seems to fit all the signs so Paul and his mom are heading off to a Fremen city a "sietch" but it's a
long walk through the desert the Fremen have a faster way to travel they freaking ride on the
sandworms and that's where we leave Paul Atredis for now we'll pick up there in Dune part two if
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