Dune has its fair share of questionable and downright outrageous moments across the canon, but Dune: Part Two promises to fix a silly scene from the 1984 movie. The classic epic's fantastical science fiction forward premise produces some of the greatest world and story-building details for its captivated audiences but every so often borders on the strange or absurd.
Director David Lynch approached the text for his 1984 rendition of Dune. He failed, at times, to illustrate the classic's already complex characters, settings, and weird moments, with a portion of his scenes caving to silliness in the name of science fiction.
Dune 2 Won't Have Feyd Rautha's Notorious Winged Underwear
Sting in Dune (1984)
Lynch's Dune went particularly wrong in depicting the younger nephew of the House Harkonnen, the militarist empire bent on assuming leadership over the desert world, Arrakis. What should have been a sadistic and terrifying villain in Dune (1984) transpired as the English musician Sting in winged underwear. The notorious movie scene features the Harkonnen nephew Feyd Rautha stepping out of a steam bath in what is assumed to be a show of antagonistic power, but really, it comes across as a complete joke of a villain in futuristic undergarments - a characterization mistake Villeneuve'e Dune: Part Two is presumed to avoid altogether.
Dune 2 Is Already Fixing Feyd Rautha
Austin Butler in Dune_ Part 2
Villeneuve has already voiced his fear of the Harkonnen depiction coming across as a joke in his Dune renditions. Approaching the novel's particularly intense characterizations and with Lynch's failure to achieve their depictions believably in mind, Villeneuve has been met with the challenge of illustrating the Harkonnens as ghastly villains without slipping into silly, unconvincing portrayals. Villeneuve's depiction of the Baron Harkonnen (with a sickly complexion, the bald head of all of his followers, and an impressively overpowering disposition) successfully passed for the evil overlord of Herbert's novel, and it seems his success with Feyd Rautha will follow suit.
In the Dune: Part Two official trailer, Feyd Rautha (Austin Butler) is completely devoid of the design features that characterized the villain in Lynch's Dune. Feyd Rautha is shown with the bald head of the Baron (Stellan Skarsgärd) and the garments of a militant, a far cry from Sting's quite comical presentation. Where Sting's Feyd Rautha went wrong, Villeneuve's Dune: Part Two will hopefully succeed in bringing out the worst of Herbert's villain and fix the onscreen legacy of one of Dune's worst antagonists.
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