Paul MuadDib fights with Feyd Rautha. The final scene of the knife duel - Dune 1984

Scene: Afterward, Paul, Stilgar, Gurney, Alia, Jessica, and their army confront the captive emperor, Princess Irulan, and their staff. Paul is challenged to a duel with daggers by the psychotic Feyd. After a short but brutal fight, Paul stabs Feyd in the neck and uses his vocal powers to explode his internal organs, killing him. Paul faces the defeated emperor, relieves him of power, and announces an era of peace for all of humanity. Plot It is a distant galaxy, in the far future year, 10191. Arrakis is a desert planet and the only source of Melange, a vital drug used by Guild Navigators for space travel from star system to star system. Two families, the Atreides and the Harkonnens, fight one another for sole control of the Melange mining operations on Arrakis. When Duke Leto Atreides is assassinated by the evil Baron Harkonnen, Duke Leto’s son, Paul, and Paul’s mother, the Lady Jessica, flee deep into the desert of Arrakis. There, they are befriended by the Fremen, natives of Arrakis. Under the influence of Melange, Paul learns he has special powers and, that he can see into the future. Paul unites the Freman under his leadership, forms an army of warriors, and leads them into battle against Baron Harkonnen and the corrupt Padishah Emperor, Shaddam IV, who is in league with the Harkonnens. Paul vows to avenge his father’s murder, and sets out to liberate Arrakis and its people from the Emperor’s rule, and to fulfill his destiny. Director: David Lynch Writers: Frank Herbert (novel), David Lynch (screenplay) Stars: Francesca Annis, Leonardo Cimino, Brad Dourif, José Ferrer, Linda Hunt, Freddie Jones, Richard Jordan, Kyle MacLachlan, Virginia Madsen, Silvana Mangano, Everett McGill, Kenneth McMillan, Jack Nance, Siân Phillips, Jürgen Prochnow, Paul Smith, Patrick Stewart, Sting, Dean Stockwell, Max von Sydow, Alicia Roanne Witt, Sean Young Music: Toto, Brian Eno (Prophecy Theme) Production company: Dino De Laurentiis Corporation Create: In late 1976, Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis purchased the rights from Gibon’s consortium. De Laurentiis commissioned Herbert to write a new screenplay in 1978; the script Herbert turned in was 175 pages long, the equivalent of nearly three hours of screen time. De Laurentiis then hired director Ridley Scott in 1979, with Rudy Wurlitzer writing the screenplay and H. R. Giger retained from the Jodorowsky production. Scott intended to split the book into two movies. He worked on three drafts of the script, using The Battle of Algiers as a point of reference, before moving on to direct another science-fiction film, Blade Runner (1982). As he recalls, the pre-production process was slow, and finishing the project would have been even more time-intensive: But after seven months I dropped out of Dune, by then Rudy Wurlitzer had come up with a first-draft script which I felt was a decent distillation of Frank Herbert’s (book). But I also realized Dune was going to take a lot more work—at least two and a half years’ worth. And I didn’t have the heart to attack that because my [older] brother Frank unexpectedly died of cancer while I was prepping the De Laurentiis picture. Frankly, that freaked me out. So I went to Dino and told him the Dune script was his. —From Ridley Scott: The Making of His Movies by Paul M. Sammon #dune1984 #davidlynch #muaddib #Atreides #paul #frankherbert #guildnavigator #Harkonnens #Arrakis #Fremen #duel #knifefight #dune #melange #movie #film #moviescene #PadishahEmperor #Shaddam #finalscene #scene #oldmovies #lynchmovie #Dune #olddune #movie1984 #films #paulmuaddib #DinoDeLaurentiis #PatrickStewart #SeanYoung