What was Baron Harkonnen eating?

During a dramatic meeting with Isaac's Duke, Harkonnen shows all his cruelty while eating ragged meat. Skarsgard knew the perfect delicacy for his all-consuming character.
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How did Baron Harkonnen get fat?

When that daughter proves genetically undesirable, Mohiam kills her and returns to Harkonnen for a second try; at this point he drugs and viciously rapes her. She exacts her retribution by infecting him with a rare, incurable disease that later causes his obesity.
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What did Baron Harkonnen does to the boy?

In the scene from Dune I just referenced, a young slave boy is murdered by Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, a large, boil-covered monstrosity who wears a harness that allows him to float like a lethal balloon.
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How did Baron Harkonnen survive the poison?

While speaking with an incapacitated Leto after the attack, the Baron is nearly killed by the poison gas released from Leto's tooth, but is able to survive since he had his shields up. Last viewers see of the Baron, he's undergoing a healing process in a terrifying tub of black goo.
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Was the Baron eating the duke in Dune?

"The Baron quickly gets down from the throne and, eaten up with curiosity, comes closer, leaping nimbly. The Duke presses his jaws together, and the deadly gas begins to escape."
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What was Baron Harkonnen bathing in?

2 Answers. Show activity on this post. A cast and crew interview with the film's director indicates that it's 'a healing mud bath'. During one of the most striking visual scenes, the wounded Harkonnen rises ominously from a healing mud bath, a vision that came from the depths of Villeneuve's subconscious.
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What was wrong with Baron Harkonnen?

It's implied that the Baron's weight was simply the result of his unchecked gluttony, but in the Expanded Dune universe, it's attributed to the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam purposely infecting him with a degenerative disease when he raped her.
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Why do Harkonnens have heart plugs?

A heart plug was a medically implanted device seen in David Lynch's 1984 film version of Dune. Presumably used on human Slaves or enemies the Harkonnens wished to torture to death, it was a small object sewed into the chest of the victim, seemingly over the heart.
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What is the Harkonnen pet?

A Tarantuwolf From The Comic Book The Metabarons by Alejandro Jodorowsky.
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Why can the Baron fly Dune?

The Holtzman Effect, coined by Herbert as a scientific theory based on the repellent nature of subatomic particles, is responsible for many of Dune's technological phenomena. This includes shields, space travel, artificial gravity, and even the apparatus allowing the wicked baron to move about.
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Why are there no computers in Dune?

In the Dune universe, all technology and computers were destroyed during the Butlerian Jihad, a holy war against thinking machines. Hence the importance of the mind and thinking without using computers.
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Why is there a pug in Dune?

The most common explanation for the pug's inclusion in a Lynch's Dune is a nod by the director to the European renaissance period. There are a few animal motifs used in the film that have metaphorical significance to the characters and themes, yet the pug seems to be the most out of place.
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Why does Baron Vladimir Harkonnen float?

Unable to support his own weight, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen has employed the use of suspensor belts. These belts have the ability to nullify gravity in a controlled way. By utilizing suspensors, the villainous Baron Harkonnen is able to move around freely without the aid of others.
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Is Baron Harkonnen a snake?

Near the beginning of the movie, based on how he is sitting, you might even mistakenly believe that he has a snake body. In a later scene, you'll confirm that he's actually floating and you can see his feet through his robes.
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Is Baron Harkonnen Jessica's father?

As a result of the Bene Gesserit breeding program, Jessica was the illegitimate daughter of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen and Tanidia Nerus.
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Is there a pug in Dune 2021?

Here's the thing: there are no pugs in Frank Herbert's Dune. House Atreides does not have a cutesy family pet. They have honor and courage and ferocious fighting skills, but no family dog.
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Who is Sardaukar?

The Sardaukar are the military force used by the emperor and Baron Harkonnen to destroy the House of Atreides. Trained under brutal conditions, the Sardaukar had only one purpose, to serve their master without questions.
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What is a shield in Dune?

The "Dune" universe features a game-changing ultimate shield made to deflect fast objects and projectiles. Bullets, for instance, are irrelevant because they are deflected automatically. The only thing that can go through those shields are slow objects.
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Why are there no guns in Dune?

Also some knives, like the Fremen's crysknife, is a sacred object. Crysknives are taked from the teeth of the great sandworm, giving them an extra oomph of honor and religious prestige. So that's why there are “no” guns in Dune. It's because it's smarter, and objectively cooler, to fight in close quarters.
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Why are there no droids in Dune?

Star Wars plays fast-and-loose with its self-aware droid population, and it wasn't until Solo that there was something resembled the reverse of the Butlerian Jihad — droids revolting against their human masters. In Dune, there are no droids because droids eventually try to take over and enslave you.
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Why do they still use swords in Dune?

It's a way of fighting that is very fast. It's like a chess game, you have to plan in advance and distract the adversary. It's a very specific, new art form of combat.”
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What are the nose things in Dune?

A nose plug worn to collect moisture from exhaled air.

From Dune, by Frank Herbert. Here are a couple of additional quotes: "In the open desert, you wear this filter across your face, this tube in the nostrils with these plugs to insure a tight fit.
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How big is a legion in Dune?

A legion contained ten brigades (totaling about 30,000 men).
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Is there Earth in Dune?

Remnants of Earth Exist Throughout the 'Dune' Universe

And later in the saga, Leto II, who is capable of the Bene Gesserit skill of exploring all the memories of his ancestors, will often spend lots of time reliving historically recognizable events from Earth.
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Did Star Wars copy Dune?

It's no secret that Star Wars borrowed heavily from Frank Herbert's science-fiction novel Dune back when George Lucas dreamed up his galaxy far away in the 1970s. 44 years later, not much has changed, but The Book of Boba Fett is helping to improve one of the most thoughtless ways Lucas ripped off Herbert's work.
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