Desert power. This is only the beginning.
Welcome back everyone this is going to be my dune breakdown video easter eggs i'll
talk about the ending and what's going on with the franchise because obviously this is just part one
the movie itself felt like an amazing first half of a season of television it would be
really weird if they did not do part two and give us the rest of the story if you're brand new to
the channel be sure to subscribe to get all the videos and big spoiler warning for everything
that happens during dune part one so you've all seen a version of dune or you've read the books
but as you saw from this movie there are a lot of differences between this the original movie
the dune mini series and even a few minor changes from the books but this movie like dune part 1 in
2021 is trying to be much more accurate to the books than previous iterations the dune mini
series from the early 2000s also did try to be very accurate to the books which is why it was
much much longer and that's also the reason why they decided to break the story of the first book
into two different movies why they say dune part 1 at the beginning of this film but one of the
first big changes one of the first big easter eggs and references is at the beginning of the movie
instead of doing the thing that the last couple of movies the miniseries have done opening with
the narration from the books they opted instead to open with the sardocar speaking about dreams
the special type of throat speaking was a sarduakar speaking that message
dreams are messages from the deep the way they use that phrase it means two different things
dreams are paul's visions and the deep as in the deep desert the worms the spice is just
foreshadowing what's going to be happening during part one him getting visions but it's
also about paul's ability to see the future and also remember everything from the past through
genetic memory as part of his powers so not only can he see potential futures he can also remember
everything that's ever happened so when the sarduakar is saying dreams or messages from
the deep he's talking about deep as in the deep past like the distant past he's getting messages
from the past in the phrase dreams are messages from the deep is meant to be a metaphor for the
entire dune series not just for what's happening in this first movie the idea that paul's going to
be influenced by the past and it will affect the way that he uses his powers to lead humanity to
this better future that reverend mother mohammed talked about so dreams as messages from the deep
is kind of meant to be a warning and a prophecy at the same time for the entire dune series
like in future movies hopefully they wind up making them children of dune god emperor
of dune messages from the deep takes a more sinister connotation with other characters too
so that's why i say it's a metaphor for the entire series not just for the stuff that's
happening in dune part 1. if you're a long time fan of the book series you probably noticed a
lot of the production design language tried to be much more accurate to original concept art
han zimmer did the music and the soundtrack was amazing but the way they use different sounds
like the sound design of the movie in the way they use that to tell the story is also
incredible the way they end things here is they end just as paul is getting ready to join the
fremen and start to learn more of their customs become one of them and then help train them to
become the most fearsome fighting force in the universe teaching them the bene gesserit fighting
ways that he knows as well as teaching them the secret house atreides fighting methods that makes
them so fearsome to the other forces like the harkonnens like they talk about the atreides
being one of the most fearsome fighting forces in the universe but then the sarduakar are like
hold my beer the idea being that when paul trains them in the bene gesserit fighting techniques and
the house of tradie fighting techniques it makes the fremen even better fighters than the sarduakar
but as you can see during some of the big fights they have towards the end of the film once the
sardikar legions roll in even without the extra fight training the fremen are still very fearsome
and able to kill most of the sarduakar but not all of them there's also a really cool parallel
between the sorted car and the freman 2 because the sardakar are also a pseudo-religious army of
zealots training in a similarly harsh environment of salusa secundus even though we only visit there
briefly during the movie they want to show you that it's incredibly harsh climate but in stark
contrast to the desert it's raining all the time but seleucid secundus is basically the emperor's
prison planet all these sardocar that you see strung up they're trained like this starting
around the age i think of like six or seven and most of the people that enter training wind up
dying before the age of 11 or 12. their training is so hardcore that the ones that do survive to
adulthood like these legions here are the most fearsome fighters in the universe at least until
paul winds up training the fremen even more i feel like this movie did a much better job of
hyping that up and getting that idea across than the original dune movie or even the mini series
but what happens at the end here is that jessica is able to one-up stilgar and even though he's
ready to give them sanctuary within their siege jameis calls jessica out and paul has to fight for
her as her champion the knife that he's fighting jamis with is a kris knife you see a couple of
them throughout the movie they're knives that are fashioned from the teeth of the sand worms that's
why they call it the tooth of shyhalud the great worm and the really cool thing that they did here
using paul's abilities is that jameis winds up being the person in paul's recent visions that
he just had teaching him lessons about the desert guiding him mentoring him even though paul winds
up being forced to kill him in the fight per the freeman's customs so a lot of you ask how did
paul learn lessons through his visions through his dreams of the future from jameis if jameis
died here in this fight there is no actual time travel in the dune universe like nobody
physically travels backwards in time or forwards in time paul's powers passed down to him through
his bloodline orchestrated by the bene gesserit give him a measure of prescience when he's been
dreaming as rev mother mohammed explained to him he's been dreaming versions of the future
but here's the thing paul can't predict the future perfectly he told mohaim that not all the things
that he dreams wind up happening exactly as he dreamed them that's why she gets so pissed
off with him and tells him i hope you live human because your abilities have barely begun to awaken
if you remember the original movie that also plays into that scene of the sleeper awakening paul
awakening his full powers but at this point in the movie that hasn't happened yet so what's happening
here right before paul's fight with jameis is that he's seeing a bunch of potential futures based
on actions that he's thinking about taking even though they only show you some of his visions it's
implied that he has other visions all the time as well so him having a vision of future jameis
teaching him the ways of the freeman was one of the potential outcomes for this had he and jessica
acted differently during this encounter with stillgar and the other fremen so it's implied that
in the timeline where jameis was alive to teach him jameis had not challenged jessica or paul to
fight but he did obviously so the future changed and paul was forced to kill him but paul was able
to benefit from the knowledge that he learned in that potential timeline using his powers they'll
continue to play with this really cool concept in the dune sequels paul viewing multiple potential
futures and having to deal with the problems that comes with that ability because of the outcomes
of a bunch of different timelines are similar how would you choose with paths to take which future
would you pursue it's a lot like doctor strange during avengers infinity war with the time stone
he uses it to view 14 million different possible timelines to find one where they're able to be
thanos for good in fines one so that's the path they take side note too for all the marvel fans
out there yes josh brolin is playing guernie halleck during the movie the war master of house
atreides he was thanos in the marvel universe but the thing with paul atreides is that as a
potential kwisatz haderach his one job as ordained by this whole bene gesserit breeding program
is to lead all of humanity on the golden path the golden path is what the bene gesserit called their
concept of a perfect timeline like what is the best timeline for humanity and they call that the
golden path so over thousands of years they try to create this super being through a breeding program
they can see that perfect timeline and tell everyone how to bring about those events
within the dunes series the term kwisatz haderach literally translates to shortening of the way as
in finding a quicker way to a better future so that's why they were trying to create this super
being i don't want to talk too much about the story beyond dune part 2 because even though paul
does wind up drinking the water of life to fully awaken his powers like we see during the original
dune movie the water of life being the bile of the sand worms and it does amplify his powers
exponentially but dune part 2 if you haven't read that first book or you never watched the original
movie is still very much focused on the immediate problem the war between paul the freeman the
harkonnens and the emperor everything with paul trying to reckon with the golden path timeline
doesn't really become a huge deal until the next story after that children of dune god emperor of
dune and for the most part is actually paul's son leto etredes ii who has to reckon with the golden
path and during the ending of dune part 1 during this first movie they kind of foreshadow this paul
can see a version of the golden path this future that the bene gesserit are looking for but during
this scene when they're in the tent paul starts having this nightmare ranting about wars being
fought under his banner atrocities being committed in his name all over the universe people being
slaughtered everywhere by his followers and it frightens him he's horrified by it so in those
visions what he's seeing is one of the possible iterations of the golden path timeline so he
actually becomes too afraid to pursue the golden path himself he kind of runs from it because he
can't stand the thought of all this death and destruction being done in his name like this
doesn't sound better this is worse if you've ever heard anybody refer to the dune story as a warning
for the savior trope that's what they're talking about and they really won't get into that till
the sequels i think till after dune part two like if they make dune part four part five they do god
emperor of dune so that's why i say his son leto atreides ii really has to deal with pursuing the
golden path and why paul isn't really the kwisatz haderach that everyone thinks he is during the
dune movie or even dune part 2 it's really his son who's the true kwitsats hattarak there's an easter
egg for that at the beginning of dune part 1. when mohaim is coming to give him the test and jessica
kind of explains the whole concept of their breeding program they say that we believe this
person that we're trying to create is very near it's meant to be a bit of a misdirect because paul
is standing very near like oh he's meant to be this powerful person but really it winds up being
his son to be this perfect being that they thought they were creating but here's the thing mohaim
says that they have other irons in the fire like if paul winds up dying we have other candidates
other prospects out there in the universe so there are many other people who can have the
same type of powers to see potential futures and have knowledge of the past but in most of these
other people the powers are much more limited paul's sister for instance who's still a fetus
inside jessica's womb right now at the end of dune part 1 also gains the same kind of powers when
jessica takes the water of life they cover some of this during the original dune movie which was a
very different version of the dune book story and kind of a speed run version of that first book
but talking about some of the other characters about jason momoa's duncan idaho some of you
obviously know him as aquaman in the dc movies or is khal drogo in a game of thrones universe
without letting the director know he actually worked in the sly game of thrones easter egg for
one of these big fight scenes when the harkonnens in the sarduakar are assaulting house of atreides
before he's taken off in the ship when they filmed this scene jason mamoa had just watched
the game of thrones season eight finale and because he played caldrogo during season one
and because of his character's relationship with daenerys and his real-life friendship with emilia
clark while they were filming he dedicated his fight to his khaleesi like he literally shouts
it out that fights for you khaleesi i just saw the season finale of game of thrones last night
but the other cool thing here you may have realized duncan winds up dying
during the events of the film trying to fight the sarda car
and like i said start a car at this point in the story are still the most fearsome fighting
force in the universe so the fact that duncan is able to go so long against them and kill so
many of them just shows you how badass he is but jason mamoa is not permadead
he did die here this body is dead but in the dune universe there's this cool form of cloning called
golas so golas are clones created from the cells of a person who has died and even though within
the dune story it happens all over the universe all the time the practice is kind of frowned upon
but when someone creates a gola they give it all the memories of the original person using genetic
memory and a form of conditioning so creating a gola clone is like creating a semi-perfect
backup of a person but gola duncan doesn't really become a huge character until god emperor of dune
i believe so it's going to be a while before we see him come back and what's happening here as
they're walking out into the desert with chani and the rest of the foremen is they're getting ready
to climb on one of the backs of the worms and ride it to the next siege in this scene of him staring
at her like she says this is only the beginning and you sort of get this close up on her face is
meant to be a reference back to the visions that he was having of her at the beginning of the movie
this moment in the future came to pass exactly as it did during his dream it just at the time
he didn't understand what it meant and now he does understand in fact a lot of the scenes of chaney
at the beginning of the movie where he's dreaming her these attacks on the hearken and ships
that's stuff that's going to be happening in the later movies like you see him dreaming himself in
the armor fighting the harkonnen troops so even at the beginning of part one they're already showing
you scenes that are going to be happening during part two but like i said the next big thing that's
going to be happening is paul learning the ways of the fremen becoming one of them starting his
relationship with chaney then helping teach the bene gesserit the house atreides secret fighting
techniques to the fremen to make them even more powerful than the sardakar then paul orchestrating
his original plan that he had before everything went down to cease all this hostility in the
universe between the harkonnen's, the emperor by marrying the emperor's daughter princess arroulan
we haven't met her yet so i'm assuming they'll introduce her in part two also introducing fayd
harkonnen because he's a pretty big character but they don't feature him anywhere during part one
fayd is the baron's other nephew in rabban's the beast's younger brother i don't know who
they've cast to play that character but they'll probably announce it once they announce the sequel
the thing about fade is that the baron actually views him as his true successor since the baron
himself doesn't have any children of his own that he recognizes at this point in the story fate and
ruban are the children of the baron's brother who i believe was actually ahead of him in the line
of succession but then abdicated his position so the baron wound up inheriting his family's title
i don't want to get too far ahead of the story but we'll also learn in part two about how the bene
gesserit manipulated the baron when he was younger in service of their breeding program because the
baron does have children and grandchildren now it's just that he doesn't know about them also
really cool detail too that they don't get into in part one but you see the baron there he looks
kind of like this floating mass of flesh like what happened to him because he actually used
to look kind of like fade when he was younger he used to be this very beautiful looking man the
reason why he looks like this why his body just degenerated into this lump of flesh is because
of something that reverend mother mohaym did to him when he was younger as a form of revenge it
is all part of this grand breeding program of theirs so we'll talk more about that when they
drop a trailer for dune part two hopefully they'll announce that movie and we'll wind up seeing it
within the next couple of years but it's gonna be a while obviously before they start making it
but if you have any big questions about the story or any big twists or what's going on
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