Why do the eyes turn blue in Dune?

Herbert's novel states that blue eyes are a result of being addicted to spice. Perhaps not wanting to imply that an entire race is addicted to drugs, Villeneuve includes a scene explaining that the Fremen's eyes have turned blue simply because of their constant exposure to spice in the sands of Arrakis.
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How did they make eyes blue in Dune?

Rather than a traditional blue or green, we actually covered it in sand color. So that was our screen, the idea being that because this was generally going to be Arrakis or it was going to be the desert, it was going to be that color.
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Why is Paul Atreides eyes blue?

The Dune trailer shows that Paul spends an extended period of time on Arrakis as he helps Chani protect the planet, meaning his blue eyes are a symptom of either ingesting the drug for power or consistently breathing in enough on Arrakis that he has a constant state of activity from Spice.
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What are the people with blue eyes on Dune?

Eyes of Ibad is what the Fremen call their blue-within-blue colored eyes, the result of spice addiction.
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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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Does Paul from Dune have powers?

Abilities and skills

Prescience: As the Kwisatz Haderach long sought out for by the breeding programme of the Bene Gesserit Order, Paul possessed a powerful ability to bridge space and time with prescient ability.
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Why are Mentats lips red?

Mentats habitually drink “the Juice of Sapho,” a kind of hyper-coffee that increases their mental acuity twice over or more. Naturally, Sapho is addictive, and eventually it has the side effect of staining a user's lips an obvious red.
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What's in their noses in Dune?

Filt-Plug by Frank Herbert from Dune. A nose plug worn to collect moisture from exhaled air. On parched Arrakis, the wise traveler wears filt-plugs and a breathing mask over the mouth, to conserve moisture.
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Why do they wear nose plugs in Dune?

Urine and feces are processed in the thigh pads. In the open desert, you wear this filter across your face, this tube in the nostrils with these plugs to ensure a tight fit.
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What does spice mean in Dune?

Melange (/meɪˈlɑːnʒ/), often referred to as "the spice", is the fictional psychedelic drug central to the Dune series of science fiction novels by Frank Herbert and derivative works.
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Is a real stillsuit possible?

How feasible are actual Stillsuits for future astronauts on Mars? Fortunately, we've been doing something similar to Dune's Stillsuits for a while now on the International Space Station. "There is an entire closed-loop system onboard the [International Space Station] dedicated to water," NASA says.
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How do they breathe in Dune?

In the film Dune, when the Duke and Pual put on the desert suits, they are instructed to breathe in through the mouth and out through the nose when in the open desert.
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What did he breathe out in Dune?

It consisted of a false tooth with a cavity and false cap. The cavity was filled with poison gas. It was designed so that, when the bearer bit down hard on the cap and breathed out hard, the cap would break and the poison gas would be expelled into the immediate area.
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What are water rings in Dune?

Water Rings were metallic counters that represented the volume of water released by a body of a dead Fremen processed through a deathstill. They were manufactured in denominations ranging from 50 liters to 1/32 of a drachm (a drachm being 1/150 of a liter).
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How does the Armour in Dune work?

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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What do the tattoos mean in Dune?

Specifically, they denote a very particular sort of character in that universe. They're known as Mentats, and they're essentially human computers capable of unfathomable calculation and insight.
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What are the heart plugs in Dune?

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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Where did the spice come from in Dune?

Spice melange is formed deep beneath the sands of Arrakis, where the fungal excretions of sandworm larva mixes with water to form a mass that eventually explodes to the surface due to the planet's extreme heat. Collecting the melange is extremely difficult; the explosions are deadly and the material hazardous.
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Does Paul Atreides turn into a worm?

During an assassination attempt, he appears to transform into a small sandworm and defends himself before reverting to an innocent one-year-old. Genetically, he is noted to be very unusual; as he grows older, he displays an uncanny intelligence, but is very withdrawn.
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Is Paul Atreides a human?

Administering the test to a man is highly unusual. However, Paul is a highly unusual man. Paul is the culmination of generations of deliberately calculated breeding, as part of the Bene Gesserit's program to create a super being, the Kwisatz Haderach.
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Is Paul Atreides really the one?

Like many other heroes, particularly in science fiction, Paul is “the One,” a messiah-type character whose arrival people have been anticipating and expecting to bring about great change. Throughout the novel, Herbert makes cryptic references to the Kwisatz Haderach.
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What does Baron Harkonnen do 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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Why does everyone fight with swords in Dune?

Humanity went back to close combat, where you fight with knives and blades because it's the only way you can kill someone through those shields. You can penetrate the shield slowly with the blade.”
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How did Harkonnen survive the gas?

But grievously harmed Harkonnen escapes by air, by kicking the anti-gravity device he needs to move about into instant overdrive. ""He can switch it on and off. That's what makes him hover and and float in the room," Skarsgård says.
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