Cut scenes like this make it clear how close to the book the film really was. It's a shame that Lynch didn't divide the original book into a trilogy, which probably wasn't a popular idea back then, but one that would totally work now.
@CodyRicheson The first draft of the script (written by David Lynch, Christopher De Vore and Eric Bergren) did divide the movie into two parts, with the first film ending with Paul and Jessica escaping into the desert.
"Do you see, Emperor? Do you see your traitors needle? Do you think one who gave their life to three generations of Atreides would give them any less now?"
The cast from this film is truly awesome. There will never be a better Paul, Thufir or Gurney. I hear their voices when I read the books. Toto's music is quite effective as well.
Thufir is a tragic figure in Frank Herbert's Dune (the novel) and in today's renewed (and horrible) Dune books; not because he lives alone to die alone but because he has proved to be the worst mentat in the universe. His calculations are always wrong, thus bringing death and disasters on House Atreides many times. He should have committed 'Seppuku' soon after Paul grandfather had been killed at the arena. When he says "three generations..." he means the failure to serve as mentat all along.
The heart plug was a metaphor for poison. In the book, Thufir had been poisoned and secretly fed the antidote. The trade off: kill this "upstart Duke" and the antidote would be provided. In the book he chooses to die anyway; in the movie, he speeds things up a bit.
the fact they removed this scene from the original movie angered me so much. Never had a book brought me so close to crying before. Even now, as I watch this I am nearly brought to tears. The face Thufir Hawat gave his own life, instead of that of his Paul's, out of so much love. THAT is what makes Dune the best book I have ever read.
@SusanoRipper The heart plug was originally used to drain infected blood, the harkonnens live on such a polluted planet, but the baron abused it and turned it into a torture/execution device.
Nice job , thank you, I once had the Fleer cards, but not this one, but there were definitely lots of of unusual images among the ephemera :)
There were also quite a few oddities too, a couple of books (one hardcover) that had oil paintings.. I think they were directly from storyboards or something (But recycled for a book for children)
Cut scenes like this make it clear how close to the book the film really was. It's a shame that Lynch didn't divide the original book into a trilogy, which probably wasn't a popular idea back then, but one that would totally work now.
CodyRicheson 5 days ago 2
@CodyRicheson The first draft of the script (written by David Lynch, Christopher De Vore and Eric Bergren) did divide the movie into two parts, with the first film ending with Paul and Jessica escaping into the desert.
DuneInfo 5 days ago
What on earth were they thinking cutting this.
Gantzer1 1 week ago
"Do you see, Emperor? Do you see your traitors needle? Do you think one who gave their life to three generations of Atreides would give them any less now?"
ionia23 1 week ago
I think they cut it because Paul pronounces Atreides different from the rest of the movie.
JaytheOstrich 2 weeks ago
I don't think David Lynch was the correct choice for this film and I say this as a fan of David Lynch.
ContrastY 3 weeks ago
the scene is good...why was it cut out?
brmoogma 3 weeks ago
Wow. I have never seen that scene before. Thank you for posting it.
eternalwolf777 3 weeks ago
The cast from this film is truly awesome. There will never be a better Paul, Thufir or Gurney. I hear their voices when I read the books. Toto's music is quite effective as well.
PimpDragon108 3 weeks ago
Thufir is a tragic figure in Frank Herbert's Dune (the novel) and in today's renewed (and horrible) Dune books; not because he lives alone to die alone but because he has proved to be the worst mentat in the universe. His calculations are always wrong, thus bringing death and disasters on House Atreides many times. He should have committed 'Seppuku' soon after Paul grandfather had been killed at the arena. When he says "three generations..." he means the failure to serve as mentat all along.
ylaviv 1 month ago
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if it were 0bama they would of had gay sex together with arab children. *lulz*
runsaber1 1 month ago
@runsaber1- If it were Obama, the Padasha would be dead, along with the right-wing Harkonnen trash!
HinaLupo 1 month ago
Fail, Feyd.
DarthRushy 1 month ago
@DarthRushy Feyld ;)
TGAA 4 weeks ago
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DarthRushy 3 weeks ago
Why did they cut this I wonder?
SuperMrSaturn 1 month ago
Three generations of you... what he meant by this quote, he saw the future or something?
FuckinLittleDreamer 2 months ago
@FuckinLittleDreamer Thufir served Paul, Duke Leto and Leto's father, this the 3 generations of Atreides to which he is referring.
DuneInfo 2 months ago 4
@DuneInfo Ah right, thank you.
FuckinLittleDreamer 1 month ago
@FuckinLittleDreamer
He was quoting himself from earlier in the book - "I have served three generations of Atreides students, and you are the finest of all of them"
jcfbell3001 1 month ago
Wonderful scene and brilliant acting
wagneraster 2 months ago
This is such an emotional scene, I don't know why they removed it.
darkjediMIK 3 months ago 2
@darkjediMIK No one does.
navyrayne 3 months ago
The heart plug was a metaphor for poison. In the book, Thufir had been poisoned and secretly fed the antidote. The trade off: kill this "upstart Duke" and the antidote would be provided. In the book he chooses to die anyway; in the movie, he speeds things up a bit.
dr3wkitty 5 months ago
the fact they removed this scene from the original movie angered me so much. Never had a book brought me so close to crying before. Even now, as I watch this I am nearly brought to tears. The face Thufir Hawat gave his own life, instead of that of his Paul's, out of so much love. THAT is what makes Dune the best book I have ever read.
geganerd3 6 months ago 21
@geganerd3 Well, that and the thought of Virginia Madsen doing prama-bindu exercises - lower body. Ahem.
AnkleSpur 1 week ago
LOL? what Thufire removed? why he died?
SusanoRipper 6 months ago
@SusanoRipper it was a heart plug, the bug fat guy that floats puts it in all of his slaves
hawtwassabe 6 months ago
@hawtwassabe Is it in book? I know only about special poison.
SusanoRipper 6 months ago
@SusanoRipper The heart plug was originally used to drain infected blood, the harkonnens live on such a polluted planet, but the baron abused it and turned it into a torture/execution device.
Gideon235 3 months ago 2
Brilliant scene. That was so not fair they cut this out of the film.
WildBuck007 7 months ago
sad..
81Szczery 7 months ago
Nice job , thank you, I once had the Fleer cards, but not this one, but there were definitely lots of of unusual images among the ephemera :)
There were also quite a few oddities too, a couple of books (one hardcover) that had oil paintings.. I think they were directly from storyboards or something (But recycled for a book for children)
I WISH to hell I'd kept them.!
Jtronique 7 months ago