In a roundabout way, this is a self-fulfilling prophecy. And the Duke was in a position to enlarge his force, to make it ever bit as strong as the Emperor’s.”īecause Duke Leto (Oscar Isaac) had built a great army thanks to Gurney (Josh Brolin) and Duncan (Jason Momoa), the Emperor saw that one of the Great Houses was getting ready to take power away from him. But, much later in the original novel, Thufir Hawat puts it like this: “The Padishah Emperor turned against House Atreides because the Duke’s Warmasters Gurney Hallek and Duncan Idaho had trained a fighting force - a small fighting force - to within a hair as good as the Sardaukar. So, why does the Emperor want to screw over House Atreides in the first place? In the film, several characters say that the Emperor was “afraid” of House Atreides, or as the Baron says, “jealous.” But why does the Emperor want to trick the Atreides into going to Arrakis, only to turn around and send the Harkonnens to get rid of them all? In the film, the answer is vague. Why does the Emperor have against House Atreides?ĭave Bautista plays Glossu Rabban, the nephew of Baron Harkonnen.
Use the harsh conditions of Arrakis as a trap for House Atreides.Pretend to give House Atreides control of Arrakis.In all versions of Dune, that scheme is as follows: In the 1984 version of Dune, the Emperor was played by legendary actor José Ferrer, and very early on in that version, we are let in on his schemes. Paul's speech in this scene is pretty much word-for-word as it is in the book, including Paul’s promise that “From the throne.I could make a paradise of Arrakis with a wave of my hand.” In the new film, Paul (Timothée Chalamet) references this fact when he tells Liet-Kynes (Sharon Duncan-Brewster) that he could become Emperor because the Emperor has no sons and Paul could marry one of the daughters. His daughter is Princess Irulan, who, eventually, marries Paul Atreides- not for love, but political convenience. In the book, he is Shaddam Corrino IV, the 81st Emperor from House Corrino and notably the last of such Emperors. In the movie, he’s the guy offscreen who has screwed over House Atreides. In Dune: Part One, everything that happens in the film stems from a series of decisions that the Emperor has made.
José Ferrer as Emperor Shaddam IV and Virginia Madsen as Princess Irulan in the 1984 David Lynch version of Dune.
0 kommentar(er)
