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SPOILER A question about the novel’s ending

posted 2 years ago by DancingintheDark (1805)
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Does anyone else feel that the Baron’s death is underwhelming in the novel. I hope the film takes some artistic liberty and adds to this scene. I feel as though the Baron gets off way too easy in the novel. He gets scratched by the Gom Jabbar and then nothing, no writhing in pain, no pleading for help, just scratched and dead. I mean wtf, did this piss anyone else off?
I thoroughly enjoyed the novel, and this is my only complaint btw.

[–] AmeriGirl26 (15100) 2 years ago

Wow, really? In the '84 film he got tossed into the mouth of a sandworm, and the 2000 miniseries had him choking to death on the poison before he died and his body floated momentarily before the camera went back to everyone else.

Of course, the book also doesn't show the crossing from Caladan to Arakkis at all, so that's another area that was severely lacking that the previous films made up for (to a degree). '84 film and 2000 miniseries both show the process of all the Atreides ships flying into a giant space carrier run by the Navigator's Guild, and reveal the secret process the Navigators use to fold space between Caladan and Arakkis before the giant carrier ship appears in its new location in orbit over Arakkis.

The new film makes it more streamlined and underwhelming, showing the Navigator's Guild bringing a giant, cigar-shaped ship that has a portable wormhole built into it that the Atreides' ships fly through to Arakkis, without ever seeing what the Navigators look like.

[–] DancingintheDark (1805) 2 years ago

Yes! That’s exactly what I mean, Dune ‘84 not only to took the artistic liberty of floating the Baron into the mouth of a worm, which was awesome, but before that, Alia ripped out his nipple piercing plug things, causing him to writhe and spray blood everywhere. I loved that!
I just read the novel and although I was aware the Baron’s death would be different from Dune ‘84, I was still hoping for some form of suffering from the Baron (being such a loathsome character and all), and there wasn’t much of anything, just a scratch from the Gom Jabbar and maybe a gasp.
Dune ‘21 did take some artistic liberties (ones I appreciated) during the tooth scene, as well as adding the Baron bathing/healing scene, so maybe/hopefully Denis will hook us up with some added flare when it’s time for the Baron to meet his demise in the second film.

[–] kenburke (2396) 2 years ago

I did not like the Baron's demise in the first movie. It was a classic case of "cruelty to animals".

[–] DancingintheDark (1805) 2 years ago

First movie, Dune ‘84 or Dune ‘21?

[–] kenburke (2396) 2 years ago

'84.

[–] DancingintheDark (1805) 2 years ago

I just got it! The cruelty to animal but is in lieu of the worm having to eat him right?

See, I loved that, it was like an extra fuck you to the Baron, one last twist of the blade…. I hope Denis throws in something extra like that, maybe not exactly that but something that allows us to watch the Baron suffer a bit. I don’t understand why the novel failed to relish in his demise, it was so cut and dry.

*SPOILER* A question about the novel’s ending

SPOILER A question about the novel’s ending