Who gets raped in Dune?

Vladimir and Mohiam (10153-10154)
Subsequently, Mohiam returned to Giedi Prime to conceive another child. The Baron stunned Mohiam with a neural scrambler and viciously raped her upon her arrival, conceiving Lady Jessica in the process.
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What did Harkonnen do to the boy?

Some of the best full-length horror movies I've ever seen were a few moments in various David Lynch movies. 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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What did the baron do to the boy?

There is a scene (warning: NSFW) where the Baron kills a slave boy by popping out his heart plug, purely out of pleasure. In both the movie and the book, the Baron has sadistic sexual tendencies.
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What happens to Baron Harkonnen in Dune?

Baron Harkonnen himself is poisoned with a gom jabbar by Paul's sister Alia Atreides, still a toddler physically but an adult Reverend Mother mentally, who reveals that she is his granddaughter to him just before his death. His remaining heir Feyd-Rautha is killed in ritual combat by Paul Atreides.
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What is 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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Why is the Baron so fat?

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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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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Who is the real villain in dune?

Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is the main antagonist of the original Dune Saga, serving as the main antagonist of Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune (and its many adaptations) and the posthumous overarching antagonist in its 1969 sequel, Dune: Messiah and the 1976 novel, Children of Dune.
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Is Lady Jessica in Dune pregnant?

Jessica undergoes the ritual of spice agony and replaces the dying Fremen Reverend Mother. But Jessica is pregnant during the ordeal, exposing the fetus to the same awakening of ancestral ego-memories.
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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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What was 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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Is Jessica pregnant in Dune 2021?

Paul's mother, the Lady Jessica, is secretly pregnant with Alia when she and Paul are discovered by the Fremen in the deep desert of Arkais. After undergoing a ceremony in which Jessica drinks "the water of life," her unborn child is made into...well...a super baby!
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Does Paul turn into a worm?

Anderson's continuation of the original series, Hunters of Dune (2006). Even at a very young age, this Leto shows signs that he may be more than he seems. During an assassination attempt, he appears to transform into a small sandworm and defends himself before reverting to an innocent one-year-old.
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How does Paul Atreides go blind?

Among the schemes of his enemies were the detonation of a stone burner near where Paul and his forces stood in Arrakeen, which resulted in his physical blindness. Upon Paul's recovery from this incident, he shocked all by his ability to 'see' despite not having eyes.
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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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How evil is Baron Harkonnen?

He is the only Dune villain to be Pure Evil, so far. His sexual perversion is hinted at in the 2021 film due to showing his young male slaves who are dressed somewhat and act shyly submissively and having him strip his rival, Leto.
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Why does Duke 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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Why did Jessica have a boy Dune?

However, because of her love for Duke Leto, the Lady Jessica disobeyed her fellow Bene Gesserit and gave birth to a son instead of a daughter, to give him an heir, Paul.
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Why does Jessica cry so much in Dune?

Shadout Mapes gave Lady Jessica her crysknife because she believed Paul was the Messiah. Stilgar said “I recognize you” when he met the Duke's son. And, after the young Atreides instinctively knew how to wear his stillsuit, Dr.
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Did Paul's parents marry Dune?

Although not formally married to Paul's father Duke Leto, Jessica belongs to the order of the Bene Gesserit, a matriarchal group of telepathic pseudo-witches, who are pretty much Dune's version of the Jedi.
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Why was Leto Atreides naked in Dune?

The actor wanted director Denis Villeneuve to remember him

During a climactic confrontation with Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgård), Leto appears nude before him. As Isaac told Entertainment Weekly, this moment was among the most memorable of his experience making Dune.
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