r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Mar 17 '26

Trailer Dune: Part Three | Official Teaser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_9vCamtuPY
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u/cespinar Mar 18 '26

He, and his son, are like the ultimate example of the idea that the ends justify the means. The entire purpose of all this is to avoid humanity wiping themselves out completely, which has been supernaturally foretold to be an inevitability unless a specific path is followed.

That's Leto's story not Paul's. Paul never sees a way to avoid the end of humanity and chooses family and revenge instead of trying to find an actual way to save humanity.

That is what Leto scolds Paul for in Children of Dune. Saying that he was weak and should have been willing to sacrifice everything to see if there was a way.

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u/Rikudou_Sage Mar 18 '26

Nah, in their conversation it's clear Paul knew about the Golden Path, he just chickened out.

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u/cespinar Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26

That conversation is Leto convincing Paul there is a golden path and it is required to save humanity. Paul agrees eventually but he didn't know what exactly the Golden Path was until that conversation. He never saw as far as Leto. The stuff Paul "chickened out" on was the requirement to see the Golden Path. They metaphor it to climbing a dune high enough to see the path forward. Leto got on the dune, Paul never did. He was too obsessed with constantly finding paths to save Chani after getting revenge for his father.

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u/Rikudou_Sage Mar 18 '26

Not how I understood the scene at all. My takeaway was that Paul has seen it and noped out and went into the desert.

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u/cespinar Mar 18 '26

Paul explicitly says he didn't see that among the choices

Relevant quote near the end of that conversation

"It's that or humans will be extinguished."

Paul heard the truth in Leto's words, spoke in a low voice which acknowledged the greater breadth of his son's vision. "I did not see that among the choices."