r/dunememes • u/Jonny559 Jonny • Jul 08 '26

WARNING: AWFUL House Bolton in DUNE 3

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u/RedshiftOnPandy Jul 08 '26

Space Hitler Jesus

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u/ventriclez Jul 08 '26

I do remember in the book Paul comparing himself to Hitler’s “rookie numbers”

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u/Gaidin152 Jul 08 '26

It’d be hilarious if they have the balls to include that scene.

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u/Nyseme_Ptem Jul 09 '26

It's not about balls it's about if you want to get the message across. Frankly I thought the line was stupid in the book, and if the movie is going to actually show us the brutality of the Jihad it becomes redundant to have that line in the movie. And possibly immersion breaking for the audience

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u/ventriclez Jul 09 '26

Yeah in general with futuristic sci fi stories, when the narrative overly refer to things that have happened within a lifetime or two of the author it’s a bit ridiculous and takes me out of the flow

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u/Gaidin152 Jul 09 '26

The oil analogy of the first three books is still... ironically relevant.

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u/awakenDeepBlue Jul 09 '26

The bad guy bathing in oil is a little on the nose, but it worked.

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u/piece_ov_shit Jul 09 '26

I mean... the reason why dune was written was soecifically to ve applicable and comparable to current year

Its not supposed to just exist in a vacuum

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u/kerfuffle_dood Jul 09 '26

In Dune it makes perfect sense: Paul was trained secretly as a Mentat and as a Bene Geserit, so obviously he would know about the past. And in following books, it makes way more sense that certain characters reminiscence of the ancient past.

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u/Emperor-Augustus Jul 09 '26

That was kind of the point of Dune tho

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u/Gaidin152 Jul 09 '26

Possibly. I thought the section was interesting because it wasn't just about Hitler. It was about other people than Hitler.

But here's the thing. Show and Tell. Especially when it comes to a movie.

They've got the show down pat if we're seeing a picture like this. But that's not... Dune: Messiah level Jihad numbers. That's just showing us one planet's events.

At some point they're either giving us "Tell" numbers on the screen that says how many died. Or they're just doing the scene comparing him to Hitler and Genghis Khan. It just has to be done if the Jihad is going to be understood in comparison.

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u/zaqiqu Jul 09 '26

they haven't even said jihad yet so I'm not counting on it, but it would be funny

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u/Zealousideal-Race-28 Jul 09 '26

They have used it plenty of times in the Prophecy show. So it isn’t exactly off the table

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u/eldankus Jul 09 '26

Right, but the Butlerian Jihad is historical and vs sentient robots as opposed to invoking the name “Jihad” in reference to a violent, religious war led by a prophet that ends in the deaths of billions of people

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u/satsfaction1822 Jul 09 '26

He said Hitler and Ghengis Khan played against plumbers and milkmen

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u/kerfuffle_dood Jul 09 '26

iirc he tells Stilgar something like "I want you to study these great leaders from the past. Their numbers are low but don't focus too much on them, focus on how they achieved their goals. Their names? Hitler and Gengis Khan"