The tooth...the tooth

A Few Good Teeth

Well done

Brilliant

You should get some kind of KZfaq award for that comment!

I suppose I need to read it again. One of the VERY few complaints I have about this movie is that the audience isn't made aware how significant that diamond tattoo is. The Imperial Suk School training is known to be absolutely unbreakable. The audience misses out on two things because of this. #1 Having that diamond tattoo basically makes a person 100% above suspicion. #2 It shows just how cruel and manipulative the Baron is. The fact that he fk'd Dr. Yueh's mind up bad enough to make him a traitor would seem like he had done the impossible.

Still a dumb move

Thank you.. I mean cool scene, but was wondering the backstory to the point made.

Leave it to a 4 year old

"You think you've defeated me? You think I don't know what I've gained for my wife!?" They really should have kept that.

LOL! Yep he ded nothing to see here 🤣

"I don't get paid enough for this shit"

Harkonen philosophy my friend, a classic case of “fuck you got mine.”

@@stingerjohnny9951 yet the Dukes men fought till death, a great comparison of the values of each house

They probably wanted to be as free of his tyranny as anyone else.

The day the flesh shapes and the flesh the day shapes.

Very fitting considering that they are greek

i'm so glad you clarified that for me, at first it sounds like he replies "your a ham..." 😂

@@jimmymcgill2557 no your a turkey! 🦃

It's a nice parallel to the Litany of Fear that Jessica says earlier in the film. "...where the fear is gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

And that fact that he turned on his shield before leaning in is what saved him from certain death.

You don't get to be an all-powerful complete bastard without near-supernatural survival instincts, I'll give him that.

​@@bluegum6438he might be cartoonish but he's no fool

@@bait5257 That's what I remember reading, anyway

@@bait5257 so how else would you explain how he survived while everyone else in the room died?

I would say outright malice but I can still agree

Yeah, he was scary in this movie.

It also was easier to make him appear menacing that way rather than showing a floating fat man.

Es muy aterradora, casi fantasmal

He’s eating food while approaching Yueh. Like an animal.

The motif I saw was of Christ the Redeemer.

It might be a reference to " The Death of Marat" a Painting by Jacques-Louis David. It depicts the murder of Jean-Paul Marat(stabbed to death in his bathtub). As soon as I saw this scene, I couldn't help but make the comparisons. So cool.

@@robbramos2047you’re wrong for thinking that. Only people who are stupid sees that motif and not real movie and literature experts. Stop reaching you pretentious douche bag

I thought thry were a bunch of spaniards

@@mad-meh2719 this is also what I thought

I feel like stripping him his character was a meaning against the character,the opposing emperor humiliating and breaking him down.

@@c.glazercrush3994 Oh absolutely.

@@c.glazercrush3994 This had nothing to do with the Emperor. This was icing on the cake for my Uncle. This is him gloating. In the novel he's much more smart in this scene. He has been scheming for decades to eliminate the Atreides. He isn't stupid enough to get his hands dirty. Can't let the Truthsayers know. This is Vendetta being finalized against that loathsome Duke and his witch whore, Jessica.

lol no, you just buy this shit. original Dune was a masterpiece, this is bullshit.

This is such an intense and tragic scene in the books. It narrates him remembering flying kites with Paul when he was a little boy on the hills of Calladen. He mentally says his finally goodbyes to his wife and son and family before finally building the resolve to break the poison filled false tooth, killing him instantly. I had to put the book down after that chapter. So intense and saddening.

I think it’s a reference to Julius Caesar’s quote, “I love treason, but hate traitors.”

I think Ian McNiece sold it well in the Sci-FI channel series. Being both egotistical and intelligent (a rare combination), he wants everybody to know how clever he is. But I don't think it would have worked for Stellan Skarsgard's version of the Baron. He's introspective, not egotistical. More like a brute force of nature; a tornado that you don't see coming until the funnel forms right on top of you.

It would be spoon-feeding information to viewer. Actual scene tells this message enough without saying

No, it just shows that traitors, by definition, cannot be trusted. It's as simple as that.

That is why his name is Vladimir.

That part was a tad rushed. In the book, it was Piter who killed Yueh. After, Yueh tells him “You think I haven’t gained anything for wife?” Leto on the other hand began hallucinating and Piter was asked to see what Leto was saying. Leto’s hallucinations made him mistaken Piter for the Baron. So he actually sprayed Piter, not the Baron.

A wise man once said: "Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean no one is out to get you."

In the book the Baron survives an assassination attempt by Feyd whereby he puts a poison needle in the mole of a young man the Baron will molest. The Baron thought it cunning but it shows how careful he is in looking out for threats.

Because even unarmed, an Atreides is always a force to reckon with.

"You're only paranoid if you're wrong"

I thought this was pretty obvious though. The gesture he made was that he held yueh head to ensure the head will be severed. He would have used one hand if he only intend to slit

​@@xxivkraegen2124nah

Pretty stupid and unrealistic actually. He cuts his head off with a single swipe of a little dinner table knife. Dumb.

@@themightiestpenin the wild sci fi world of dune where a 400 lb man can float through the air with ease and people see the future, this is where you draw the line? Weird

the Director said that Baron here is a Rhino in human form.

The shields are cool to

Yeah and also in Blade Runner 2049 this kind of similar sound effect is used for the floating cameras of Mr Wallace.

@@oneGodtobe yes EXACTLY ! It reminded me of bladerunner too. No surprise it was also Hans Zimmer and pals :-)

I read a comment saying it sounded like rocks being ground together

@@Jarvis466 and then underwater :)

Stellan Skarsgard

part fo the crew, part of the ship

@@capitalismandkindness6774 hahaha pirats of the caribbean reference

Kenneth McMillan's Baron was like the Joker, if he got fat. A Comic-book villain. Ian McNiece's Baron was just the right mixture of egomaniac and intelligence that he made the comicbook-esqe Baron believable. But Stellan Skarsgard's Baron isn't egomaniacal at all. He's cold and intelligent. He doesn't telegraph his presence like a raging bull (Glossu Rabban), so that you know he's coming long before he gets there. No, Skarsgard's Baron is like a force of nature -- a tornado you don't see coming until the funnel forms right over your head.

@@BlackEpyon He's the Alfred Hitchcock cenobite

In the book, he actually knows jessica and paul are still alive because the baron asks him where they are hiding. It's what gives him strength in the final moment. he accepts it and dies by trying to kill the baron to save his love and son.

thats the most horrific part. naked and immobile. no fair fight

At least he died thinking he avenged them by killing the baron,piter and his men.

@@Catarssis347 I think you completely missed the point. Avenging loved ones like that is extremely hollow when compared to what op said. By far the most painful thing is someone dying thinking their loved ones are already dead.

@@jonnyj. no you’re wrong

Well, not really. He has a disease that one of the bene geserit mothers inflicted on him to make him fat. He keeps his imagine of gluttony so no one finds out that he got infected by BG

@@radekhruby142 Really? I must have missed that. When was that mentioned in the books, now I’m curious!

@@stingerjohnny9951 It was in the prequel books. I think its in Prelude Dune: Harkonnen. There is the story about him and the reverend mother

@@stingerjohnny9951 He actually had a big pride in his muscular built before that :D

@@radekhruby142 Is that one of the Dune fanfiction books that happened after Herbert’s death?

I can vicariously feel my own spine popping as I listen to it.

OMG I just realized his back pops and cracks cuz its suddenly in zero g and the weight of his body is now off of it so it expands again, making that popping/cracking sound

​@@ryanfrauenholz8972bruh

the whole character / stellan is ASMR. be it the popping gentle noise of his suspensor device, be it his thick raspy voice, especially in the healing bath

That's not how it happens in the book. The Baron is never close to Leto to be poisoned and still barely manages to escape the room through a side exit. It's Piter who leans over Leto and gets a face full of poison gas since Leto thinks it's actually the Baron. It's in the Baron's own thoughts that he eluded the Duke's revenge only through dumb luck and that he might as well have died in that room. It's one of the very few times we see the Baron actually shaken by an experience, only for that feeling to be compounded when the Sardaukar lieutenant appears out of nowhere to order him around and reprimands him for the Duke's treatment. I like the movie's version as well, since it's more cinematic this way.

@@BLooDCoMPleX Oh. Guess I read it wrong. Sorry

​@@BLooDCoMPleX You're right. The less than stellar but still enjoyable first attempt actually shows this scene more accurately. I like this interpretation better.

@@modemmack Mee too, this scene and the scene with lients/kynes death is just wayyyy better and gives the justified respect to both of those characters, not like in the movie

I liked the scene in the book. The baron is sent into a desperate rush to safety, and is shocked to be tricked when he was most sure of himself. He loses important assets to his plan (the mentat Piter) The baron absolutely does not just lean back and leave as if nothing happened. He is in complete shock.

U black or jewish?

@@timothyandrewnielsen green

😂😂😂

But can you fly too?

😂🤣

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I think it shows that he is still afraid of Leto.

He is smart and calculated at all times, like all good villains.

In the book Yueh is killed by the Barron's Mentat assassin. As he dies he leaves the Barron with final words. The Barron becomes full of doubt and fear afterwards as the posion led to a mess for the Emperor's dogs to discover and relay the weakness to him

He is the opposite of Leto. Leto is a respected scholar-warrior. Vladamir is a brutal and underhanded opportunist.

Harkonnen leaders who aren't paranoid end up murdered and replaced by their kin.

At first I thought that the tear meant that Leto was like "NO! F*ck, I didn't get him!", but recently I had read a comment were someone said that the tear could be a little reference to the book, where Leto had a brief memory of his entire life and raising Paul on Caladan before he died.

It’s never easy sitting down to a meal with your father in law.

That relates to the scene in the 1984 movie where Leto says, with tears in his eyes, 'The water of my life...for Paul.'

I like the Baron, he's a total boss and Duke Leto to be brutally honest failed. He (Leto) knew he was walking into a trap, and even know he was surround by advisors, had the Lady Jessica as his main hump, and a mentat, he didn't ever clue into the fact that his Doctor was compromised.

@@Neville60001 In the 1984 version the tear in the Duke Leto's eye at the end freaks out that Baron, he didn't expect him to cry and doesn't like the new "element" in his plan. He demands to know why he is crying and hence the reason Piter has to lean in and deal with it. I really wish we'd get to see more of Piter, I know he dies and I know most of his machinations happened before all of this takes place but it would have been cool to see Piter in action! Piter figuring out the play, and Piter torturing the Doctors wife simply because I would have liked to have seen what they did to her, and I really want to see these pain amplification chambers. Supposedly Piter tortured her in one of these, as well has getting his rocks off with her.

Yeah he was awesome.

Part 2 will happend

That’s exactly what they were going for.

good roles and actors dont need huge run time in a movie to steal the show like hannibal in silence of the lambs. i believe it was like 15 mins run time for him which even won him an oscar. his presence in this movie was almost at that level

@@MrVad3rhonestly there are actors and actresses in both films that seem to be at that level. I thought the Princess, Emperor, and Feyd-Rautha all stole the show in their own way. Also Duncan Idaho, the Baron, and Stiltgar in the first film.

Why are all Harkonnen men white? Holywood is again trying to sell us some subliminal message in a "subtle" way? Or is there some plausible reason that I overlooked?

perhaps, yet if the situation was reversed that way they would surely die.

@@nIhIl34 lord Leto was considered an honorable lord, his men would have gladly given their lives if it meant a chance to save their lord.

Was that in the books...? Cuzz I'll be very honest with you - if it wasn't I would bet a lot more money that was just unintentional xD Basing that on the assumption that the effect was made via a harness of sorta lifting the actor up and slowly "gliding" him towards the camera - the eery effect of not seeing his face as he glides would also allow for an easy hiding of the harness and ropes :p And yes, I could ofc be wrong - and I do hope I don't come off as too much of a buzzkill xP I just enjoy seeing and trying to figure out how effects in movies are made - a lil "spot the vfx and practical effects" game if you will.

​@nexusvoid367 they probably filmed that same scene 5-10 times (or more), so if it WAS intentional, they chose to keep and use that version where he hits his foot on the table. They probably filmed some where he doesnt hit the table, some where he moves faster, some where he moves slower... then they pick which shot fits the final edit of the movie.

@@ejdolo I do agree that they probably chose to keep it and didn't miss the fact it happened or smth xD I just really doubt they went for that specifically if you know what I mean? I'm not native English nor do I know a lot of the terminology, but basically I doubt the director gave instruction on wanting this in the shot xP But as you said, it's fairly likely this happenedand director could simply see it as fitting, likely in the exact way that the OG commenter said.

Film: He bumped his foot Commentors: This shows he is careless and arrogant and capable of making mistakes which could be foreshadowing that his downfall will be due to his own mistakes out of sheer hubris.

It's not so crazy when you're creating something you care about, and every little detail or moment is an opportunity to showcase things like characterization and visual scrutiny, especially if you're adapting a text already so rich with tiny details like Dune. I get it, a lot of people have beef with "over-analysis", probably because they remember having to analyze a book in school that felt like only your English teacher cared about it. But it's a real skill, not just for consumers, but for creators too. It is how good media is made.

Oooooohhhh well said. Denis knows how to make his films.

Explained the scene very well

you're saying this as though it's different here in the film, but it's not, lol.

@@breadonitsown8950 It is the film really does not show or articulate the mistakes he starts to make like putting Raban in charge of the planet.

@@michaelmichaelagnew8503 Thats not a mistake lol. He puts Raban in charge of Arrakis because everyone thinks Paul and Jessica are death and he wants to make the populace hate Raban so Feyd-Rautha can take over Arrakis and be hailed a savior, setting him up as his successor.

he wanted to have Piter killed in the book. He offered control of arrakis to him and would have him squeeze the people enough for them to hate him. After this scene though the control of arrakis was given to Rabban for the same reason. His only desire was to have Feyd-Rautha come in as a saviour and the result would have been the same either way

@@michaelmichaelagnew8503 Putting Raban in charge of Dune again is not a mistake. He's doing that because he wants Raban to terrorize the planet and then the Baron will put Feyd in charge and the people will welcome Feyd as a savior.

Shouldn't it be ON Caladan?

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Sounds like you got bad ears

@@aaronsanders6162 probably old ears lol

To be fair, a lot of the speaking was in languages we wouldn't know

I understood more of the mumbling in Dune than the muffled non-mumbling in Tenet.

I agree my man, saw it in IMAX too, and it was too loud.

And the way he ate was so damn disgusting lol.

@@shauna.a8701 It’s like The Skeksis from Dark Crystal. You are disgusted, but you can’t look away.

Gotta love Frank Herbert's use of poetic imagery. The guy was a master wordsmith.

@@BlackEpyon Indeed, those words indeed got stuck in my memory.

@@ShepardCZ you had this in your memory?

@@ryanhughes1101 No, I just remembered reading it in the book.

Has it anything to do with the fact that he is going to be resurrected and united with Jessica 5000 years later?

He made up his mind upon hearing his family is dead.

He wanted him close. See the defeat in his eyes.

@@Soothsayer-rs5nb That is a factor. But he would not try killing the Baron without knowing what happened to his family first. The Harkonnens can be very sadistic, and the Duke knows what unspeakable horrors they are capable of, especially to his family if Leto tries anything to piss them off. Remember, there are still 2 Harkonnens left outside the room.

In the book he’s just coming back to consciousness and it takes him a few minutes to remember his last conversation with Yueh. Also the Baron had his shield activated the entire time. So in the book it’s more by habit than strategy why he lived.

@@sks17873 That's true. But in the movie it's a bit different; he's conscious all throughout albeit paralized.

Pretty sure in the book Dr Yeoui says that the Born would never let him get close enough which is why he uses Leto as he knows that the Baron will want to get close to savour his victory.

@@rupertbe ​Where are you guys getting this weird spelling from? It's Dr Yueh, not Yeoui.

exaggerated. movie does not reveal those details nor give you any clues. you know these because you've read the book.

What about the house keeper who was stabbed?

I never read that they couldn’t kill…

Or maybe the Baron is much stronger than he seems? To cut off a head without even swinging is very difficult even if the knife is crazy sharp.

Sonic-Edged. It makes cutting meat easier with less effort.

Mono molecular edged knives are possible in the year 10,000.😉

Lol. Nerds

@@martiedoherty5765 Aren't those hard to make and every blacksmiths ultimate goal?

My thoughts exactly. "How to destroy your own regime: 101." Sometimes, villains are just too evil to exist. And I get really tired of the "Well, I never break my promises, and I said you could join her (the wife) and I killed her so here's some death" its such a trope, I roll my eyes every time I hear it.

I think it is rather an effective example tho, it tells everyone in the room that traitors will not be treated kindly.

@@pko359 And that there's no point in co-operating with him if he kidnaps your wife, cause he'll just kill her, and you anyway.

Well in the books the Baron kept his subjects under control by a combination of fear and greed/addiction. For most of henchmen he probably kept their families hostage via the threat of torture or slavery while providing them some form of "entertainment". I do know that the Baron kept Piter under control via his spice addiction, while it was deeply implied that said mentant was into many perversions (which considering the endless slave pits of Giedi Prime, the Baron was able to provide). As for Head Rabban, his voice was violence and (to a lesser extent) gluttony. With his uncle in power he was free to exercise those against the fremen. Only Fay was more difficult to manage, but he was the heir apparent. Which brings us to Dr Yue. Under the assumption that his wife was alive what would have kept him loyal to house Harkonnen? He hated them and would probably plot against them. In tandem, the Baron showed that the Sook conditioning could be broken, which would have created a mini-crisis in the empire. If the doctor of a great house was broken, then no one was safe. And with his wife dead what use could a broken doctor who could harm people be to the Baron. Thus it was best just to kill him off and hit multiple birds with one stone.

It is because Dune is poorly written

you didn't see the movie?

Fucking moron placed Arakis under Capitalist/Military Dictatorship only to get a chance of revenge against Baron. Asshole. I am glad Baron sliced his head off. Selfish bastard.

@@ArbiterDan Even in the book Yue was almost sure that the Baron had killed his wife already but not 100% sure.

I agree

In interviews he basically said he trained all his life, made all those previous movies as an exercise in order to make this adaptation. The way I understand it, he always wanted to make that movie, from day one. So that might explain a thing or two about the end result we are enjoying so far. Can't wait for the next part.

@@RottenMuLoT Haa, and that recent meeting with James Cameron, isn't it nice?? Canada rules(RIP the beautiful Jean-Marc Vallée by the way),Seen the stupendous cast ,Florence Pugh(blasts me in Midsommar&Little drummer girl),Austin Butler charming scary androgyn face,Léa Seydoux(finest french actress?!!), and the Walken, i wish i didn't know all those but i'd have a coronary in front of the screen....

The Duke was a good man in a universe that was paranoid, ruled by a paranoid Emperor. A good man is popular to the houses, and so the Emperor wants him dead. The Navigators want Paul dead, because they understand more of what is going on and see the Bene Gesserit as their enemy. Hidden among the Fremen and keeping his head down, like the desert mouse, OR becoming the revenging son and leading the Fremen against the Harkonnens and the Emperor by becoming the Hand of God became the choice. Each of the moons of Arrrakis shows how deeply this choice is built in: the mark on the first moon is called The Hand of God, and the second moon has The Mouse Shadow. We shall see what choices Paul makes and where they lead.

Harka is an ox in danish I think

Baron. Each house uses different titles.

He reminds me so much of a high school bully I had. He was almost this fat, and he'd just push you into a corner with his gut... you just couldn't fight back...

@@Rudolph1722 The Baron is even worse given he can actually rub two brain cells together.

Nice

In the books, at least, he is not strong. Or particularly gluttonous. The story can get kind of convoluted. But basically, when he was a young man, the benegeserit basically blackmailed him for his sperm*. Things didn't work out well the first time, so they went after him a second time- and that's where things get fucky. Basically, The Baron is a horrible sadist who gets off on torture and murder. The first time he had a hard time keeping it up. The second time he beat on the Benegeserit woman to keep it up. The thing about the Benegeserit though, is that they have basically total control over their own biology. She basically had several varieties of engineered virus held dormant in her body to use as weapons of last resort- and she basically released a horrible degenerative disease on him that made it almost impossible for him to retain muscle, and easy for him to gain weight. The thing about the Baron was that he was *very* proud of his appearance. He had been quite handsome and his physique, immaculate. The benegeserit in question chose this virus *specifically* to torment him and make him miserable. These days, the baron cannot even move under his own power- he need an anti-gravity harness to get around. BTW, the child of this union would be Lady Jessica, Mother of Paul Atreides. So the Baron is unknowingly conspiring to kill his daughter and grandchildren. Not that he'd particularly care if he did know. *The Benegeserit have a Eugenics program. It's complicated, and if you really want to know I'll explain it, but the hows and why's are pretty involved.

@@AsaelTheBeast That was actually Franks Son who added that. In the original story, it’s implied that the Harkonens do have a propensity to gain weight in their old age, and the Baron CERTAINLY enjoys his food.

also for the fanservice.

@@scottmatheson3346 And we're grateful 🙏

They wanted spicy food.

Yeah they were like "yeah, not today"

@@EddyBMultimedia Remember that you do not have to be the fastest to survive. You just have to be faster than the slowest one.

@@exposingproxystalkingorgan4164 i mean this is the one scenario when thats not the case.

He turned on the shield though. I think the poison was so fast moving (why else would everyone else in the room instantly die) that it wasn't able to penetrate his shield enough to kill him.

@@stanpines9011 but he still got poisoned and almost died and it's weird how he almost died while everyone else dropped dead instantly which means that if the poison is in the body then you're 100% dead so he should've lived without any poisoning or died instantly

@@ancard3118 no-one else had a shield except the Baron

It was a good choice, in the books the poison did absolutely nothing to the baron. He said something like “well that could have been bad” - the problem with that it is made the bro look powerless, you’re hoping he’s heroic and goes out with an impact but in the books other than killing the Barons mentat who was in the room (which ultimately lead to the Barons downfall) he basically died for nothing. The only way to make him look cool and heroic is have the poison do some damage without actually killing off a main villain.

Yes .I wanna sit on it while looking at the body lol

Jesus en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus

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@@marvils3683 Zach really wants to capture a similar dark-militaristic aesthetic and mature themes tackled in Dune but he lacks the skill needed to fully realize that kind of story. He’s decent at action but even then his reliance on slo-mo hinders more than it helps

Thanks for that, I was thinking it was some Harkonnen relic from when they'd garrisoned it previously.

Even better, they had the painting of the old Duke (wearing a matador outfit) hung directly opposite from the bull's head in the same dining room. And the bull's head was preserved perfectly, with even its horns still covered in blood.

​@@xonxt yeah I remember reading and then realizing it was the old duke's actual blood they also had preserved on the horns of the bull. Wow......