A quote from House Harkonnen (2024)

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Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

Baron Vladimir Harkonnen : I said I would not harm them and I shall not. But Arrakis is Arrakis and the desert takes the weak. This is my desert.

VLADIMIR HARKONNEN (10,110–10,193) Commonly referred to as Baron Harkonnen, his title is officially Siridar (planetary governor) Baron.

“The desert takes the weak. My desert. My Dune.” One of the wealthiest members of the Landsraad, House Harkonnen is the bitter rival of House Atreides. This sinister family is ruled by the cruel, hedonistic Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.

“Power over spice is power over all.” So begins “Dune: Part Two,” which from onset continues its predecessor's fascination with power and the destructive ends to which it drives. Denis Villeneuve's newest opus takes a thematic zag where the first film zigged.

“We are House Atreides. There is no call we do not answer. There is no faith that we betray.”

“Think on it, Chani: that princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine—never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she's bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine—history will call us wives.”

Even though Jessica and Duke Leto aren't married for political reasons, they have an intimate and loving relationship. Jessica has beauty, grace, and great inner strength. Through Paul's visions, Jessica learns that she is the secret daughter of Baron Harkonnen.

What did Baron Harkonnen do to the boy? ›

However, the baron, played by Kenneth McMillan, is still extremely predatory and a very grotesque character. In one scene, Baron Harkonnen physically attacks and kills a young man. The baron embraces the young man as he does this, implying romantic or sexual feelings towards his victim.

The imagery of Baron Harkonnen bathing in oil is another unsettling aspect of the character and one that doesn't appear in the books. This substance is actually a healing mud bath, which according to Villeneuve, was inspired by a dream in which Baron Harkonnen emerges from underneath oily liquid like a hippopotamus.

As any Finnish person would know, "Harkonnen" is just a misspelling of the very ordinary last name "Härkönen" which makes the entire Dune thing seem extremely silly.

Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is the leader of House Harkonnen, one of the wealthiest members of the Landsraad and Duke Leto Atreides' most dangerous rival.

Harkonnen, however, is just English with a weird accent and some sound effects. We didn't have anything to do with it. Are Chakobsa and Harkonnen a posteriori languages? I couldn't help but notice familiar sounding words in Harkonnen, and...

Paul Atreides saying "May thy knife chip and shatter" before fighting in Feyd-Rautha is a sign of him pulling from the Fremen culture he's become integrated with. The line is a common saying among the Fremen, especially as a taunt before a fight.

Jamis: [Paul's vision] The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. A process that cannot be understood by stopping it. We must move with the flow of the process. We must join it.

Why does Baron Vladimir Harkinen float? In Frank Herbert's novel, it says that the Baron is so fat he's unable to carry his own weight. He's forced to. use belt mounted dispensers that nullify the effects of gravity, which allow him to float midair, like how we see in the film adaptations.