And Jessica too, being more Harkonnen than even Paul.

Yup😂

Came here to say the same, lol

From his mother’s side, yes. As his maternal family.

Thanks Sherlock

You're not wrong there, the only thing that will kill you in Vader's command (apart from Rebel combat) is being an idiot. As long as you're not you might even get promoted. The Harkonnens are likelier to kill you for not being a moron

Darth Vader only kills when you fail miserably.

Darth Vader actually cared about his storm troopers lol

@AgentMercer Notice how he only kills the snobbish, power-hungry, imperial officers. In a way less violent way than what's displayed here as well.

Darth Vader didn't have pets to be fed

They perfectly encapsulated his character in a few seconds. That's filmmaking right there.

He does it very often

It was silly.

The Fact that they didn't scream or try to escape makes it even more uncomfortable like even the one he didn't kill doesn't make a sound she just stood there shivering in fear

@@Echoo264 They were most likely trained or even "bred" to be submissive like that. Most Harkonnen servants are essentially weak-minded slaves to the main House.

He is harkonnen

@@Brandon-nr8fn I am aware

Paul is included in the video because he is also Harkonnen?

@@costco_pizza His grandfather is.

I was like 'HUH?' And then 'oh yeah, doi'

Surely, he also killed his own father, Abulurd Harkonnen

@@sectorgovernor as the matter of fact the only Atreides he faced on screen was Gurney and we all know how it went

​@@khoanguyenduc2564actually, in part 1 he kill some captured atreides

Hope it pays well, but I guess knowing the harkonnens it probably doesn’t

not if you don't interrupt them. Can't say why they don't learn...

One of the most dangerous places to be in the Soviet Union during Stalin's pre-WWII purges was at the top of the Party.

​@@antestanic2964they die before they can learn

You just need to say''Long live house Harkonnen''

I think it’s implied that they don’t normally act so violently towards their servants (except for feyd when needing to feed his cannibals). The tensions caused by the fremen are causing Rabban to act out

​@@enzocignetti6359Ranbban seemed stressed out throughout the movies, more so in the second compared to the first. I think he's angry naturally, but the pressure of Arakis and trying to appeal to his uncle made it much worse

​@@juannaym8488Yes, Rabban always was hot-headed.

@@juannaym8488 That's also his main difference to Feyd-Rautha. Rabban, for all his brutality, does not enjoy brutality. It is a tool to forces others to do his bidding or a means to vent frustration. Feyd-Rautha on the other hand is outright sadistic and enjoys brutality in every form, physical and psychological. Aso a nice commentary on nature vs nurture.

“Does not enjoy brutality” that’s literally all he enjoys in the books

"Flying fat man" sounds funny until it isn't.

For that scene alone, he deserved what he got.

💀

Well judging by what the Baron was a fan of doing in the books, being killed was probably a mercy after what he probably did to those two children

Considering they were twisted into pretzels, it seems that he didn't use a knife.

That shit had me rolling too. I was the only one laughing 😭😂

"I didn't fucking ask!"

I don't know about you guys, but I would watch a whole movie about this family. lol

The Harkonnens are basically just a Sci-Fi version of the Addams Family...

This was really character accurate. This is exactly what Rabban would do. It's pity that in the end, they made him a pathetic coward.

@sectorgovernor that's probably the point he was a bully who runs away from a real fight. Used to picking on the helpless.

@@karlolson1363 This aspect is true, I also wrote that from this point of view, it can be even true for Rabban. He didn't 'practiced' with gladiators like Feyd and I don't really remember any 1vs1 duel from him either. But I think he became an over the top coward. Btw then why did he start to fight with Gurney in the end instead of running away?

@@sectorgovernorprobably when he first ran away it was a mix of fear and also rationale if that makes sense. Like there’s zero visibility, your troops are getting massacred and your most likely going to die while accomplishing nothing. In the end, it’s more like “i’ve lost everything, here is a man who represents basically my mortal enemy (atreides and fremen (as in working with fremen)), i’m not going to let this bastard live/run away like last time”

@@CountCalcium It can be true, Rabban probably also realized they will be all killed and his tactics were wrong. Gurney and Rabban hated each other, it was personal so it is also correct.

Not really. He just inherited an entire multi-planet empire with a massive military. It’s probably what a lot of rich kids feel when their rich dads die.

So true, but I interpreted his reaction as alot more mixed than that. To me Butler’s acting evokes shock turning to excitement turning to anger (or maybe something more like determination? In like a predatory ‘Now I need to kill Paul’ kinda way)

@@danem.9402 I got the vibe that he wanted to do that for ages and now had immense ressentiment towards Paul for finally doing it/simultaneous admiration for him for doing it

@@MatauReviews yeah that makes sense I like that

That looked more like he was really into it. He was probably thinking "Damn you really did that. Ight Muad'Dib, let's fucking go, I'm so ready right now! Somebody give me a knife."

literally the scream before that loud bang gave me goosebumps in the theater

everyone outside is just like “ah sh*t here we go again”

What was that bang

They are like you go in first 🤣🤣

@@cnarhatrnaz3561 I assumed he grabbed them and has thrown them against the wall

Haha that’s true lol. I see new things within this masterpiece every day😭

Event the weapon is designed to spray and pray.

Yeah, I realized that one, too. The utter and complete indifference towards human life is just so staggering in this adaptation of the Harkonnen.

Also why didnt the freemen just start off by firing the lasers at the harvester...they lost lives needlessly attacking it on foot.

@@richardbradley2335don’t remember the full scene but I know that laser weapons in the Dune universe cause a nuclear reaction upon contact with shields, if the shields were up, it’ll create a nuclear explosion, killing everything in a large radius.

Paul is half Harkonnen

@@abhidahiya4007 barring incest, every Harkonnen is half Harkonnen.

​​@@abhidahiya4007 Paul is no less Harkonnen than his cousins Feyd-Rautha and Glossu Rabban then since their lineage come from their father Abulurd Harkonnen who was the Baron's demi-brother. It's implied than their mother was a Bene Gesserict too in the movies. Harkonnen is not really a pourcentage of blood from an ancestor, it's a family name.

The imperium is cutthroat by nature. The emperor would want the harkonnens kept around BECAUSE they’re an unstable house with infighting and betrayal. He gave the green light on killing the atreides because they were both powerful and fanatically loyal to their duke.

The Harkonnens also control a decent portion of heavy industry and export a very valuable type of wood from a unique tree on their planet. Slave trading as well which the emperor turns a blind eye to. There’s trillions of humans to use as a workforce in the known universe. Who’s going to notice a dent in that figure if a few million are slaves or just killed. As long as the spice flows and Choam company makes profits nobody is worried about the happenings on individual worlds

The Bene Gesserit had to trick the Baron into having sex with Mohaim twice due to the fact he's a homosexual. As far as I'm aware there is no mention of them using them previously but I could be missing mention. But Jessica was part Harkonnen and her dead sister as well. That's the only two I remenber.

​@@SomeNoobWithCE Which makes me think... how did an ugly repulsive looking person father such a beautiful woman like Lady Jessica... 🤔

The Harkonnen leadership were also infamous for plots to kill their own to seize power & remove the competition. Pretty much like Ottoman Dynasty fraticide.

0 days since a workplace incident

But the 401k SPICE match.. 🤨🤔 The Harkonens are overflowing with spice!! The Emperor recommends a net worth of 10k lbs of spice for a comfortable retirement...

nobody wants to work anymore

Yeah he was like “Dude you idiot! Just make up some shit. Say they’re right there in that big mountain in front of us!”

F*ck HR; that department single-handedly turned functional and lively male workplaces into dysfunctional gynocracies where _NO ONE_ is happy because everyone is walking on egg-shells and men can't resolve their differences in the parking lot and put feuds to bed.

HA! Now that made me laugh.

Good, HR's the worst thing that's happened to business since female integration.

@@Viktor_vonthe_Rhaefnhyrstnot like you get to see any women anyways

@@maplerivers No, of course not, actual women are hard to come by; it's mostly just masculine females who act caricaturely male while expecting to be treated conventionally when it suits them. A woman used to be a community-bestowed honorific that had to be earned, as "man" once was with rites of passage and demonstrable maturity.

How stupidly impulsive do you have to be to do that mid fight? Training ain’t easy, the job ain’t easy, and you’d lose the target just as easily. The Harkonen clan is self destructive to absurd levels

@@Dr.Chibbins I suspect the only reason they still exist is because they're part of the Bene Gesserit's breeding program, plus the Emperor likes having weak houses around.

​@@Dr.Chibbins i mean, stalin came very close to their level of killing your own minions and the USSR was still functioning

The aspect where he mostly is against either people afraid to fight back, or people drugged up was quite an interesting aspect. Paul actually learned how to fight, but Ratha never really did.

​@@letsburn00 tecnically he did, if he didnt Paul would have killed him very quickly

@@miriamemanueleforneris3701 I think Paul is an extremely good fighter and like the fight with Janis, he simply did not want to kill him instantly.

Actually I think Feyd is an extremely good fighter, probably better than Paul before fighting alongside the Fremen and becoming the Kvisatz Haderach and on par afterwards. He just trains a lot but then kills defenseless slaves. That's what's so terrifying. He trains a lot but not because he needs to, like Paul, but because he enjoys it

In the same way that modern anarchy is impressive with sweeping negations, but cowardly in practise, the Nietzschean Overman is a great idea until you take the repulsive doctrines to their natural conclusions and see the colossal waste and repetitive, empty morbidity of a lust for power. Violence and cruelty as values can make going nowhere a lot of hard work.

Loved how brutal that scene was lmao

Bro was getting aroused by the intense violence...

Crazy how this comment is word for word what 3 other commenters have said on other videos. Weird.

@@oklafornia3643bots. Dead internet theory, look it up. Or zoomers just have zero personality and act like clones of each other.

"Where have you been all my life?"

Nah he’s bricked up

and youd still get killed

@@kp-legacy-5477 Yeah, but like a month later. And that's enough time to buy a wig and run away!

remember an arm + blade length out of reach

It’s fucked up that you can do everything right and still get killed by a noble with no justice for your death. Space feudalism is depressing broooo

"Chef"?

just ask darth vader

@@magnusdiridian Darth Vader kills only people who failed him misserably

​@@JozefLPslovakiaThe Harkonnens have a pretty loose definition of "failing miserably".

@@JozefLPslovakiapeople keep mentioning Vader is a some tough love boss doesn't realize that Vader has serious issues as well. He kills Captain Needa (who definitely can shows signs of improvement and is willing to learn from his mistake) then jokingly mocks him. In a comic, he literally kills his own stormtrooper just for seeinf his face. Meanwhile, someone like Thrawn would have promoted someone like Needs, like an actual logical person does Vader is an unhinged monster through and through. He is just not a sadistic type

It’s like being on Darth Vader’s Star Destroyer. The incompetent get choked and the hyper competent climb the ranks fast if you can stay in the bosses’ good graces 😅

2 sides of the same coin really. Sadistic and impulsive boss who is incapable of listening to his underling. Feyd is just more efficient about it

​@@quakethedoombringerExactly. At last someone gets it.

Yeah they would advertise the job posting with "rapid opportunities for advancement".

"Great promotion opportunities."

They exist to protect the Emperor. They'd let the Fremen carve Irulan into hamburger and not move without an order from Shaddam.

...or they have no choice because they have no money and power...

Gotta keep them shits on their toes or they'll take your place at the table.

The unrealistic part is that it’s part of their culture, meaning it lasted at least hundreds of years. Caligula for example, his kind of regime wouldn’t have lasted a 10th of that.

@@Mrbluefire95well Caligula was mostly a troll. He was having Trump levels of fun showing the people how corrupt and dysfunction Rome was, hence why he said a horse can do a better job in the senate

Mao Zedong moment

Not even the Fremen. Paul is dead. The Emperor lives. There's only one way he could get revenge: Become the Emperor. There's only one way he could get off the Imperial throne. Death. And let his son fix the galaxy.

@@JoshSweetvale Paul is a dead man, miss him miss him

Ngl, I'm still on the fence about whether or not to be down bad for them or not.

They were overjoyed.

Yo, what did the Baron do to those girls in the scene later?

@@Sriram-ve4ge i wanna know too

@@Sriram-ve4ge I think he literally picked them up and threw them against the wall.

Yea, tv and movie makers get carried away with the "shoot the messenger, you have failed me, and I'm in a pissy mood and taking it out on my minions."

yeah they are basically doing stalin level brutality and we know how that turned out for him in the end.

It's not reality it's a movie jeez

@@Phil9874 dying of natural causes?

And the worst part is had they just listened to their subordinates they would have probably won. The Sardaukar commander even recommends the Emperor to go back into Orbit and he doesn't listen.

It’s kinda thematically appropriate though. Paul and the BG are Herbert’s idea of total self control over mind and body. The Harkonnens on the other hand are incapable of controlling their greed, lusts, rage, or gluttony.

I feel like you guys are forgetting that they literally mention that Feyd is psychotic and likes to kill. Or that Rabban and Vladamir are not good people. Of course they are going to be murderous in their own endeavors.

It's not historically unprecedented. Some monarchs have been extremely violent towards their servants, albeit that usually got back to the servants

It also tells you how replacable human life is in dune remember there are probably trillion people in te galaxy and billions on geidi cause there no flora it might be several billions

No, it wasn't. The Baron, Piter and Rabban did exactly this, at least in the prequel books. Just not with generals and soldiers but with servants

There probably would be... if you didn't need to be filthy stinking rich to get off-world. The Navigators charge obscene prices for space travel. The empire also practices a form of feudalism with semi-serfdom, so defection in general (at least for the common person) is frowned on. Being from Giedi Prime, their morphology is pretty unique and obvious so any defector would be likely hunted down and discovered quickly. Fear is an important weapon in how House Harkonnen maintain their rule.

The system is feudal in nature. Effectively, what happens when the ultra wealthy become so powerful that they are the government and are utterly powerful and no force but another powerful person can beat them. As people have said "the billionaires Don't want to make star trek, they want to make Dune."

I don't want to imagine what they'd do to people who are caught trying to switch sides.

Honestly I don't understand why people can be that naive. Because they are morbidly SCARED for their lives to even think about deflection and as another person said, not anyone can afford the luxury of choice and freedom.

There are. Gurney and Duncan are both from Geidi Prime. Rabban raped and murdered Gurney's sister while he was laying on the floor beaten half to death. Duncan was raised on a reserve to be hunted by Rabban for sport.

Counterpoint: literally any dictatorship of the last century

Which is why House Atreides was becoming the more powerful of the houses. Loyalty trumps fear

Stop bringing reality into movies. It isn't real and the subordinates stay with them is because their family has been ruling for a long time so naturally there are many troops that would come to support them even if they're crazy.

this is why the harkonnens are scary to me, their cruelty and use of fear has made an autocratic regime so terrible it transcends reality in its horribleness, this system shouldn't work in a reality of independent citizenry, but the harkonnen regime and society is so morally in the gutter that nobody has any sympathy whatsoever if one of their own dies, and no sympathy whenever they kill their own. The fact that there is no resistance or rebellion at the dysfunctionality and brutality of the regime and their rulers shows that the majority of the harkonnen people are either so broken that they miserably accept the regime out of fear, or they are so corrupt themselves that they join on the barbarism and actively partake and support this evil society. The former outcome is more terrifying, and more probable because of untold masses who take part in the parades and festivities of feyd rautha's birthday, chanting their support in the stands of the Arena. Unlike Feyd himself, they harkonnen masses seem perfectly happy that their rulers kill their enemies in unfair fights, as the atriedes are drugged, signifying that the harkonnen populace has absolutely no sense of honor. Basically, the existence of the harkonnen regime and its impracticality and impossibility gives me the sense that every harkonnen of their society, from the Baron all the way down to the working class masses attending the Arena battle, are corrupt and iredeemable.

Life is cheap and plentiful in the empire. They're not even really considered "human", but tools. When a tool breaks, you replace it. Real regimes throughout history have done similar, and while those rulers may not have lasted very long... their empires and structures of governance did.

True, and when Gurney arrived there under orders from the new emperor Paul, the people instantly sided with them. They have had enough of Harky oppression. In the end, their planet once again grew trees and its people now shouting the Atreides name.

​@choysakanto6792 os didn't knew that, kinda nice Paul give the planet to Gurney govern

Yup, they were strongest soldiers of House Corrino, atleast they could give them a good fight tò the end

@@miriamemanueleforneris3701 sardukar in general were a huge waste, they didnt kill/hurt anybody. Even in their scenes in book where they ambush some fremen women/kids were given to Feyd

The HR is having a hardtime

Realistically people in that situation would NEVER even think to quit because they would be afraid to even do a wrong move let alone plan escape; and because not everyone has means to escape. It's not like this a prosperous democracy, it's a tyranny where only the ruling house has power.

I mean, i assume the vast majority of north korea's population wants to "quit" as well but that country still exists

they don't have any hair at all

The guys too right? I don't see any Harkonnen with hair

​@@juannaym8488 nah, feyd-rautha behaves like a guy who definitely has a few ingrown ass-hairs.

E-e-entirely...you say?

@@juannaym8488other than Paul and Jessica

“I just killed a building full of virgin girls” “Oh YOU!” (Laugh track)