Table of Content

• Part 1: The Dog-beings • Part 28: The Tooth!

• Part 2: The History of Humanity • Part 29: Aftermath
• Part 3: Leto in the Senate • Part 30: Traitor's Reward
• Part 4: Leto Investigates the Smuggling • Part 31: The Torture of Leto
• Part 5: The Emperor's Upside-Down Room • Part 32: Czigo and Kinet
• Part 6: Assembly Room at the Senate • Part 33: Traitor's Message
• Part 7: Packing up House Atreides • Part 34: Alia's Conception
• Part 8: Jessica meets Leto • Part 35: Paul's Visions
• Part 9: Jessica's Destiny • Part 36: Ornithopter Escape
• Part 10: Paul's Conception • Part 37: Hawatt's Choice
• Part 11: The Gom Jabbar • Part 38: Sandworm Attack
• Part 12: Harkonnen Castle • Part 39: The Fremen
• Part 13: The Baron's Party • Part 40: Worm Ride
• Part 14: Fighting Robot • Part 41: Jamis Fight
• Part 15: Departing Caladan • Part 42: Jamis's Funeral
• Part 16: Rabban's Wrath • Part 43: Kynes's Death
• Part 17: Atreides Arrival • Part 44: The Water of Life
• Part 18: It's a Trap! • Part 45: Feyd Vs Farok
• Part 19: Shadout Mapes • Part 46: Paul Conquers Shai-Hulud
• Part 20: Dual Alliance / Token of Respect • Part 47: Gurney Reunited
• Part 21: Hunter Seeker • Part 48: Paul Takes the Water of Life
• Part 22: Mining Inspection • Part 49: Rabban's Death
• Part 23: Atreides Ball • Part 50: Alia's Message
• Part 24: Suspected Traitor • Part 51: Atomics!
• Part 25: Duke's Gambit • Part 52: Final Showdown
• Part 26: Beggar Army • Part 53: Epilogue
• Part 27: Battle for Dune • Part 54: Summary
Scenes 1-9 : The Dog-beings.
From the Jodorowsky's Dune documentary we know that the film would have opened with a long continuous shot, starting from approaching the
galaxy all the way through to the streets of the Emperor's golden planet.
The script however starts somewhat differently. It follows a ship through space through to the planet Kaitain at the centre of the galaxy, where it lands
and Dog-Beings leave the ship, travel through a lifeless city, and enter the "Museum Of Man". Inside they find a giant robot on a crucifix. Pressing a
button activates the robot, which projects, through its eyes, the history of humanity onto a screen - starting with the planet Earth exploding...
Quite a departure from Herbert's novel! But it does fit in with some early storyboards by Moebius that appeared in the 1975 French press kit.
The vehicle is crossing the city which is deserted, overrun with dust and vegetation. There are huge vegetal jelly-fish; lots of beetles as big as motor-
cars; and ruins.
Scenes 10-19 : The History of Humanity
The robot eyes project the history of mankind to the Dog-beings, narrating the events before them : "The history of man begins with the destruction of
his mother-planet Earth. There remains no record of the earlier period."
The robot goes on to explain that man conquered all the planets, but was trapped within the galaxy itself by a barrier surrounding it. With nothing left
to achieve "Triumph killed ambition" and mankind became lazy, with machines doing everything.
At this point we are back into familiar Herbert territory, with the eventual "bio-revolution against the machines", or the Butlerian Jihad (although the
script never calls it such).
With the eventual victory the planets agree that they will not "...construct machines imitating the human mind" as well as outlawing wars and atomic
weapons, and the burning of flags. Three hundred years later the good intentions were eventually forgotten, and planets organized into Houses and
elected an Emperor for a newly established Senate.
After thousands of years it was discovered that the spice on Dune "could enable a person to see into the future, and could also prolong life", making
Dune the most important planet in the galaxy.
A ship lands on Dune and two people come out, a member of the "Missionaria Protective" from the Bene Gesserit who has come to "create a religious
myth among the natives" and Pardot Kynes who is studying geological forces. They walk off in opposite directions as the robot proclaims that "These
two people are going to change the course of human history !" and the film's titles overlay the scene.
Wow - That is some prologue! It has a few similarities to that of the TV Edition of Lynch's Dune, but it is pretty different to the usual Dune chronology.
The 1975 French press kit doesn't contain any Moebius storyboards for these scenes, but it does contain a script summary that pretty closely follows
the above scenes:
"There are already more than 20,000 years that the Earth burst... Man conquered the Galaxy, but he realizes that he still lives in an Island: the Galaxy
itself is encircled by an insuperable Magnetic Wall. No one could pass through it. Having nothing more to discover to conquer, the Man engages
himself completely in pleasure, give its power to machines and degenerates in luxury.
"Rising generation, all Genetic Monsters, Makes the Revolution against the Machines, destroys the gigantic Central Computer, burns the flags,
symbols of the Constitutions of each Planet and organizes the Great Galactic League of United Planets.
"Mo more atomic weapons. A Universal Law. Eternal prohibition against who build machines able to replace human labor. The computers are
substituted by Mutants with hypertrophied brains.
"One creates a Neo-Medieval society. An Emperor is crowned, one creates a Senate of Planets which has the ability to elect and depose Emperors. The
value of money is restored.
"One discovers in a Planet lost in the borders of the Galaxy, Dune, a kind of Mushroom, who extends Life during several centuries and allows to see
the Future."
In the next part we'll look at how the story of the Atreides and Harkonnen picks up, and starts to mirror that of the Moebius storyboards seen in the
Jodorowsky's Dune documentary.
Scene 20-22 : Leto in the Senate
In the script, the film, after the prologue, begins with Leto driving a vehicle containing dead Spice smugglers, into the Senate where Duncan Idaho,
Gurney Halleck and Thufir Hawat (spelled Hawatt in the script, presskit and storyboards) dump the bodies before the Minor and Major Houses, and
uncover the other cargo of the vehicle - a pile of blue Spice.
Leto announces that he has discovered that one of the Major Houses is smuggling spice, and promises to find which House is guilty. Leto then
distributes the Spice among the Minor Houses - making him popular among them, but creating anger among the Major Houses. Count Fenring advises
the Emperor that Leto could unite the Minor Houses and be a threat.
This is very similar to the Moebius storyboards, but certain aspects are different in the script. For example instead of Leto's vehicle being a futuristic
cycle designed by Chris Foss it is instead a wagon drawn by 6 horses!
A this point the script diverges from the storyboards. The boards seem to have Leto meeting the Emperor straight away, but in the next part we shall
look at what happens in the script - Leto fulfilling his promise to investigate the Spice smuggling!
Scene 23-28 : Leto Investigates the Smuggling
In scenes that aren't in the book, and don't appear to be in the Moebius storyboards we follow Duke Leto as he searches to discover which Major
Houses is smuggling the Spice.
On Giedi One an army of slaves are building a giant statue of the Baron. Thufir, disguised as a slave merchant, unloads a group of slaves containing
Leto, Duncan and Halleck.
Escaping from the slave prison, Leto, Halleck and Idaho dress up as Harkonnen soldiers and approach the storehouses. Knocking out a Sardaukar
guard, they go inside they find thousands of barrels filled with Spice.
Leto proclaims that the Harkonnen are accomplices, but it is the Emperor who is guilty.
Back on Kaitain, Leto enters the Imperial Palace as is meet by Count Fenring in a reception hall "with pillars everywhere sculptured to resemble
praying mantis insects" who shows him up a stairway into the mouth of a large sculpture of a clown.
In a short video by Mauro Di Flaviano about Jodorowsky's Dune on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/58186366) there is a montage of some Moebius artwork,
and one part appears to show giant praying mantis pillars, although it is unclear where in the storyboards they appear.
Here the story rejoins the Moebius boards with Leto dropping into the Emperor's upside-down room, which we'll look at next time.
Scene 29-30 : The Emperor's Upside-Down Room
Leto slides down into a luxurious room, built upside down.
The Emperor, doing most of the talking, tells Leto : "If you say I'm a spice smuggler, and I say you're a liar just out for power, who are they going to
believe ?"
The room being to revolve and Leto first has to walk from wall to ceiling before the room spins faster and faster, and Leto is thrown out.
In the Moebius boards seemingly Leto lands straight back into the Senate, but in the script Leto is ejected through the clown's bottom and Count
Fenring tells him that the Emperor will give the Atreides satisfaction in front of the whole Senate the next day.
Scene 31 : Assembly Room at the Senate
In the Senate the Emperor announces that the concession of Dune is withdrawn from the Harkonnens, and granted to House Atreides.
Duke Leto and his armies are to move from Caladan to Dune to prevent any smuggling of Spice, and to look after the Imperium's interests.
The Senate, apart from Leto and his companions, applauses this decision.
In the Moebius storyboards we also see the reaction of the Baron Harkonnen, who presence is missing from the scene in the script.
Scene 32-33 : Packing up House Atreides
A small ship flies over the idyllic Caladan landscape and lands close to the Atreides castle. The Reverend Mother Bene Guesserit leaves the ship.
Meanwhile the Atreides are leaving the Castle and boarding a gigantic Guild ship, capable of holding a million people, intended to transport the entire
Atreides army in a single trip. Some people kiss the earth and weep before leaving Caladan for the last time.
In the Moebius storyboards the procession of troops is lead by Duncan Idaho, although this isn't mentioned within the script.
Meanwhile, in the castle, Guild employees and Atreides soldiers are packing up all the possessions. Jessica oversees the moving of a bull's head with
six horns, two of which are blood stained.
Jessica then sees the approaching Reverend Mother and remembers...
What does Jessica remember? Find out next time as we continue our exploration into Jodorowsky's Dune.
Scene 34 : Jessica meets Leto
In a flashback scene (within the "History of Humanity" flashback itself!) Jessica remembers being brought to Castle Caladan by the Reverend Mother
as a gift to Leto from the Emperor.
In the Moebius storyboards Leto removes, using his sword, just Jessica's hat and the veil covering her face. In the script, however, Leto removes all of
Jessica's clothing!
It is love at first sight between Leto and Jessica, but Leto brings his sword down, with force, towards Jessica, stopping just short of her neck.
The Moebius boards finish with Halleck playing a tune on his baliset, but the script continues with its more NSFW theme, and ends with the Duke
caressing Jessica's entire naked body.
Another difference between the scripts and storyboards is that the flashback begins based the Reverend Mother being in the castle, whereas in the
storyboard Jessica remember the first time she saw the Reverend Mother; which we will see next time in Jodorowsky's Dune - Uncovered
Scene 35 : Jessica's Destiny
The script opens on the interior of a Bene Gesserit temple, "with an architectural style both Egyptian and futurist". The Moebius storyboards, however,
are somewhat more cinematic, and begin by showing the Bene Gesserit asteroid in space, and zooming in, through a window, into the temple.
Jessica is lead by several older women to the old Reverend Mother.
A preparation of Spice is injected into the Reverend Mother's skull, causing her eyes to turn white and she proclaims in an inhuman tongue that : "I
know where genetic paths come from, and where they lead".
The Reverend Mother goes on to announce that Jessica will give the Duke a daughter, who will receive the genes of a Harkonnen and give birth to the
Kwisatz Haderach.
Note: The order of this and the previous scene are reversed in the Moebius storyboards, which allows the Moebius flashback sequence to be sequential,
rather than jumping backwards and forwards through Jessica's past.
Scene 36-37 : Paul's Conception
Jessica and Leto are in the Duke's bedroom, which is simple like a monastic cell, and the only decorations are the head of a six-horned bull and a
portrait of the Duke's father, dressed as a bullfighter.
Jessica is naked on the bed, and tries to interest Leto, but Leto sadly explains that the bull that killed his father also attacked him when Leto jumped
into the arena. The bull has blood on two of its horns, one has the blood of his father, the other the blood of his sex.
Leto laments that he will be the last of House Atreides, that Jessica can never give him a son.
Jessica states that Leto will have a son, and taking Leto's dagger she makes a cut on his finger and "helps the Duke penetrate her with his blood-stained
fingers".
Although we don't have images of the full Moebius storyboards for this scene there is an animated version in the Jodorowsky's Dune documentary and
they are less explicit. We see Jessica and Leto alone in a sparse room (possibly Leto's bedroom?) with the head of the "Rhinocorn" visible on the wall.
A fully clothed Jessica embraces Leto and pricks his forefinger with her finger nail.
The Moebius storyboards zoom into the drop of blood on Leto's finger, filling the full frame and then pulls back revealing the drop of blood inside
Jessica, and like the script, shows it traveling towards the ovary to fertilize an ovum.
In Métal Hurlant #107 there is an article titled "Dune le film que vous ne verrez jamais" (Dune: The film you will never see) in which Jodorowsky
describes these scenes:
"In film, the Duke Leto (father of Paul) would be a man castrated in a ritual combat in the arenas during a bullfight (emblem of the Atreides house
being a crowned bull...) Jessica - nun of the Bene Gesserit -, sent as concubine at the Duke to create a girl which would be the mother of a Messiah,
becomes so in love with Leto that she decides to jump a chain link and to create a son, Kwisatz Haderach, the saviour. By using her capacities of Bene
Gesserit - once that the Duke, insanely in love with her, entrusts her with his sad secret - Jessica is inseminated by a drop of blood of this sterile man...
"The camera followed (in script) the red drop through the ovaries of the woman and sees its meeting with the ovule where, by a miraculous explosion,
it fertilises it. Paul had been born from a virgin; and not of the sperm of his father but of his blood..."
Jodorowsky also used this concept in his comicbook "Metabarons"
Scene 38 : The Gom Jabbar
Still as part of the flashback Leto explains to a visibly pregnant Jessica that he can't marry her as he needs to allow the Major Houses to expect an
alliance with one of them, but he promises that he'll never take a wife.
The memories fade and we return to Jessica and the Reverend Mother in the castle. The Reverend Mother berates Jessica for disobeying orders and
giving Leto a son instead of a daughter. Paul must be tested to see if he is the Kwisatz Haderach.
Jessica lets Paul enter the room, and tells him that he must do everything the Reverend Mother asks before she leaves them alone.
The Reverend Mother removes a cube from the folds of her clothing, one of the side is open - "Put your right hand here".
Paul does so without argument, and the box begins to emit an electronic noise, as soon as it does the Reverend Mother holds a needle at his neck, Paul
starts to turn to look, but, using the Voice, he is commanded to stop.
"You have a Gom Jabbar near your neck. If you take your hand away, you will die in 2 seconds" announces the Reverend Mother, who tells Paul that
the box is a test to see if he is really human.
The noise from the box becomes louder and louder as Paul feels like his hand is burning away. Paul bites his lip and digs his fingers into the palm of
his free hand (but he doesn't recite the Litany against Fear at this point in the script).
"Nobody has ever endured such suffering", and the box is turned off, and the pain immediately ends. On the Reverend Mother's instruction Paul
reluctantly removes his hand, which he is relieved to discover is unharmed.
"Pain by nervous induction" laughs the Reverend Mother as Jessica enters. Paul learns that he maybe the "Kwisatz Haderach" and that the legends
sown on Dune may help him and his mother, but that his father will die.
Paul is then commanded, in the Voice, never to reveal that to anyone.
The Moebius storyboards are very similar to the script, apart from the Leto scene at the start and the Reverend Mother's use of the Voice at the very
end. This is also the first scene that is recognizably "Dune" from the novel.
Scene 39-40 : Harkonnen Castle
In the script we approach the Harkonnen Castle, which is on the coast and feels more like the Atreides home than that normally associated with the
Harkonnen.
Through a window we can see Peter (Piter) and Feyd playing chess, but Peter's pieces are spiders and scorpions, while Feyd's are butterflies and wasps.
Peter injects himself with liquid spice while Feyd wonders why the Baron is giving a party as "We've just lost Dune!", but Peter laughs at this notion.
At this point the references for the Moebius storyboards become more sporadic, but we still have a number relating to this scene.
The Harkonnen Castle is now a giant statue, and the storyboards suggest a more cinematic camera move panning up the statue to the head and then
zoom in through the eye to Feyd and Peter playing chess.
Although there are no available references for the chess scene itself there is an image of Feyd burning a butterfly while smoking a joint. Perhaps this is
a butterfly chess piece from the scene?
It is interesting to note the progression of the design of the Harkonnen Castle, from a traditional style build to a giant statue, perhaps combining the
statue from the scene earlier in the script, and eventually into the design done by H.R. Giger.
Scene 41-42 : The Baron's Party
In the Harkonnen drawing room a frantic party is going on, gargoyles are spitting wine into the room, which is an huge swimming pool with platforms
made of crystal.
The Baron enters, being carried on a litter and slaves enter with food for the banquet, but offer each dish to the Baron first, who takes a tiny portion
from each dish before the rest is thrown to the guests who scramble for their meal.
The Baron finishes eating while he is applauded and adulated, and more slaves appear who fasten his anti-gravitation devices to him. Once they are
attached the Baron performs a floating dance throwing meat to his dogs, while Uman Kudu (his master at arms) sings aloud.
Opening the doors into the night club, the Baron floats in followed by Feyd, Peter, Uman Kudu and a group of slaves. A large spherical cake, a replica
of the planet Dune, is in the middle of the room. The Baron hands out pieces of the cake - "A piece of desert? ... A giant sand-worm?"
Uman Kudu cracks a whip and curtains open revealing a group of Guild officials around a wooden packaging case, similar to those seen in Castle
Caladan. The case is opened and a drugged Dr. Yueh is emptied onto the floor!
The Guild officials revive Yueh while servants bring in a slave tied against a pillar. Peter gives Yueh a crossbow and tells him to kill the slave.
Yueh smiles gently and points to the diamond inlaid in his forehead - "The Suk School. Imperial conditioning. ... I cannot kill."
Another crack of the whip and a wall rises revealing a torture room, in which Wanda, Yueh's wife (disturbingly 14 years old and naked), is attached to a
"complicated and sadistic machine".
Peter moves the machine to one of Wanda's hands and turns it into crystal, Wanda screams and passes out. Peter then smashes the hand, leaving only a
stump.
Yueh is once again given the crossbow, but despite his attempts he physically cannot kill the slave.
Peter continues to turns parts of Wanda's body into crystal before breaking them - eventually Yueh takes the crossbow and riddles the slave with
arrows.
The Baron tells Yueh he is to kill Duke Leto, Yueh nods and is taken away by the Guild Officials. Peter is rewarded with syringes of spice and the
Baron tells Feyd "They have all betrayed Leto. We shall betray them all. The Harkonnens can be emperors too."
References for the Moebius storyboards for this scene are pulled from a number of available sources, but they are still missing the torture scene.
Feyd and Peter leave the "eye" with three girls and enter the party, which is less like an orgy than the script descriptions. The Baron is fitted with his
anti-gravity bracelets and, like the script, the Baron dances towards the cake while Kudu sings.
A portion of a poster for Jodorowsky's Dune provides some simplified drawings for the next shots, and in the podcast "Trick or Treat Radio" episode
105 producer Stephen Scarlata explains that the Baron reaches into the cake and throws it to all the happy people at the party, who eat it. Then Peter
brings out Yueh and his wife, who is crystallised. Yueh is asked to shoot people at the party, Yueh refuses so pieces of his wife are broken off until he
agrees and kills everyone at the party.
The storyboards pick up again with Yueh killing all the guests, and agreeing to kill Leto then being led away by the Guild. Peter gets his drugs, and the
Baron talks to Feyd much as in the script.
An interesting scene, not only showing Yueh's conditioning being broken, but also sets up Peter as a master torturer - something that we will see more
of later in the script.
Scene 43 : Fighting Robot
Paul enters his gymnasium and bows before Duncan, Gurney, Thufir and Yueh. He hesitates to speak due to the presence of stranger whose head is
hidden under a hat and behind a large fan.
Hawatt explains to Paul that he is a friend, and Paul says as they are leaving Caladan today he'd prefer not to have a lesson. Idaho knocks Paul down,
telling him not to mix feelings and fighting.
Hawatt removes the hat and fan from the stranger - it is a robot!
Hawatt explains "This robot will judge your courage, your speed and resistance. You cannot defeat him. If you try, you'll die."
The robot is imprinted with Paul's voice, and now Paul alone can stop the fight.
Thufir activates the robot and it stands, monitoring Paul's movements, breathing, the sound of his heart.
Paul attacks and easily knocks the clumsy robot to the ground, but it gets back up and with each encounter the robot becomes more powerful, and soon
Paul is fighting for his life but refuses to surrender. Finally Thufir shots the robot and it explodes.
Leto and Jessica enter the gymnasium to investigate the explosion. Leto understands Paul's frustration and explains he knows that Dune is a trap, but
explains to Paul that the Emperor is fearful that Leto could unite the Minor Houses and break the economic block of the Emperor, the Major Houses
and the Guild.
The Atreides are being set up to fail so that Leto will lose his reputation and the Minor Houses will remain fragmented. One hope remains, if they can
recruit the Fremen the Atreides will have an army more powerful than the Imperium's.
Jessica then (very quickly) teaches Paul how to use the Voice, and proclaims that they will survive.
The Moebius storyboards move this scene into the Guild ship, and begins with another sweeping camera move, zooming through space and into the
window of a gymnasium on the ship.
The available storyboards end during the fight, so it is unclear if the scene continues as per the script, however a glimpse of the script shown in the
Jodorowsky's Dune documentary does match that from the script.
Scenes 44-46 : Departing Caladan
During a rain storm, the last of the cargo is loaded into the Guild ship, and soldiers say goodbye to their families and drink the falling rain.
Leto, Jessica, Paul, Halleck, Hawatt, Idaho and Yueh watch the huge doors to Castle Caladan being closed, and Leto locks them with an iron key. He
places the key in a small bag which he hangs around Jessica's neck.
The Guild ship leaves Caladan, and becomes smaller and smaller until it disappears in the vastness of space.
In the Moebius storyboards the Atreides departed Caladan earlier, so these scenes were either dropped or combined with previous scenes.
Scenes 47-49 : Rabban's Wrath
Having been ordered to leave Dune, Rabban is drunk with anger, and his Harkonnen army are massacring men, women and children in Arrakeen.
Rabban sees the Guild ship carrying the Atreides approaching and spits and swears at it.
At the Palace beggars look longingly through the fence at the fountain and palm grove. Rabban and his soldiers suddenly appear and blow up the
fountain killing several bystanders.
Rabban grabs an old man and asks him how much water the 20 palm trees need - enough water for 100 men every day.
Rabban then has the old man and other survivors bound against the trees before they are set alight.
Entering the Palace Rabban orders every servant killed, Rabban himself slaughtering children with glee.
Finally Rabban orders ever Harkonnen soldier into the hall, and once it is full they are commanded to defecate!
The defecating scene is mentioned by the Jodorowsky's Dune documentary director Frank Pavich in an interview on Indiewire
'In order to insult Duke Leto, David Carradine, Rabban the Beast gets his army, the Algerian army, to pull down their pants in front of the palace and
shit. So there's going to be a scene of 2,000 extras defecating at once. So here's Charlotte Rampling, she agrees to meet with Jodo, she gets the script,
she reads the script, and she says, "I can't be in a movie where there's 2,000 extras defecating on screen!" '
On the Japanese Blu-ray of the Jodorowsky's Dune documentary there is a deleted scene in which Jodorowsky talks about this scene, unfortunately it is
in Spanish with Japanese subtitles!
In the official Jodorowsky's Dune Script from a Ulule crowd funding campaign for Jodorowsky's "Psychomagic, an art that heals" movie, the
defecating scene has been removed, persumably cut from an early draft.
Apparently this scene didn't make it into the Moebius storyboards, but as there are no publicly available images of the boards for this section of the
script it is sadly not possible to know if Rabban's rampage is included in any fashion.
In the next part the Atreides arrive on Dune - although there is no mention of if they appreciated Rabban's gift of moisture!
Scenes 50-51 : Atreides Arrival
The single Guild ship carrying the whole of the Atreides army touches down on the landing strip on Dune, the only other ship there bears the Imperial
emblem on its side.
Count Fenring and his wife are waiting in a truck, and under Fenring's order an army of Sardaukar line both sides of the direct road from the landing
field to the government palace.
Fenring greets the Duke as he exits the ship, and the Atreides being to move down the road towards the palace, while Rabban and his men move from
the palace towards the landing field.
The armies pass each other, but the last line of 10 men from each troop march on the spot, facing off against each other as the rest of the armies
continue on.
Suddenly they attack each other, but two of the Sardaukar who are lining the road run up and, in a fraction of a second, kill the twenty combatants.
Fenring returns in the truck from the palace, picking up the Sardaukar as he passes them, and once back at the landing field they all board the Imperial
ship.
The pile of twenty bodies are being scavenged by a group of beggars, but a group of Fremen scare them off, and cover the bodies with a special cloth
to which they connect a machine which extracts the water and fills up a container as the bodies shrink under the shrouds.
At the Government palace the Atreides soldiers are burning the Harkonnen banners and raising their own coat of arms.
Leto instructs Duncan to help the wounded and Gurney to search all the villages, and they leave in the palace in vehicles raising a cloud of dust.
As the dust clears thousands of beggars fill the square; hooting and pounding small stones together.
Leto raises his arms and imposes silence. Leto tells the crowd that the Atreides are not like the Harkonnens, and they want colleagues not slaves.
The crowd stands and bows, all as one. As they leave some place gifts at the feet of Paul and Jessica: fruit, necklaces, eggs while murmuring "Madhi",
and proclaiming Paul as the child of legend.
When the square is empty Paul gathers the gifts in his cape and Jessica takes the key to the Caladan castle from its bag and buries the key in the sandy
earth. Then Leto, Jessica and Paul walk resolutely towards the palace.
The only Moebius drawings that we have that seems to relate to this scene is a single storyboard page. The low quality makes reading the text
impossible, but it appears to show a caped figure (Leto?) raising his arms before a crowd of people while vehicle arrive or leave. The board is
numbered 18 which makes it perfectly placed for the next scene where Duncan encounters the Fremen for the first time.
Scenes 52-53 : It's a trap!
Duncan and his group of soldiers are in an Arrakeen street, tending the wounded and helping put out fires using buckets of sand.
A group of Fremen stare, with their completely blue eyes, at blood running through tubes for a transfusion.
Duncan and his ambulances continue on to a town in the desert, the aftermath of a battle can be seen; smoke, charred doors and bodies in the streets.
A Fremen emerges from behind a rock, and begins to run towards the Atreides. Suddenly 15 Harkonnen soldiers appear from behind some sand dunes
and block his path.
The Fremen draws a "short, phosphorescent sword" and drags it through the ground, engulfing him in a cloud of dust. The Harkonnen enter the dust
cloud, but they all reappear mortally wounded and die. The Fremen himself emerges and although seriously injured too, he run to Duncan, give the
sword to him and, with no strength left to speak with, points to the sky, makes a negative motion, and finally dies.
Duncan looks up, and realises there are no vultures circling, and shouts to his men "It's a trap!".
The "dead" bodies tear off their rags revealing Harkonnen uniforms and attack the outnumbered Atreides.
More Fremen appear from the desert and release birds of prey who peck at the eyes of the Harkonnens while the Fremen finish them off.
The leader of the group of Fremen, Farok, tells Duncan that the Atreides helped their brothers, and the Fremen have now saved the Atreides lives - the
debt of water has been repaid.
The Fremen depart and Duncan examines the Fremen sword, pulls it from its sheath and it surprised that it gleams and gives out a vibrating sound.
The only Moebius storyboards we have for this scene come from a tweet by one of the producers of the Jodorowsky's Dune documentary Stephen
Scarlata (@xNECKx) who posted an "Interesting shot by shot storyboard comparison of Jodorowsky's Dune & Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope."
https://twitter.com/xNECKx/status/488760301878128640
However it clearly shows Duncan's convoy (presumably of ambulances?) coming across a burning village filled with corpses. Sadly with only those 4
drawings it is unclear if the rest of the scene played out in a similar fashion.
In the next part we return of the Arrakeen Palace, where Jessica meets Mapes.
Scene 54 : Mapes
Jessica is decorating her new bedroom in the Arrakeen Palace, soldiers enter bringing in a group of female Fremen servants. The servants all kneel
before Jessica, apart from an old woman - Mapes.
Jessica instructs the soldiers to leave, and then she confronts Mapes - "Do you think I'm blind ? You're no servant...!"
Jessica announces that there is a dagger hidden under Mapes' blouse.
Mapes draws a white phosphorescent blade from a black sheath - "A gift if you are really Her!"
Jessica states that it will be the instrument of her death if she is not. Mapes asks what the blade is, and Jessica successfully guesses a tooth.
Mapes cries out and falls to her knees and gives Jessica the blade, telling her it is a tooth of Shai-Hulud and to keep it close to her otherwise it would
disintegrate.
Jessica asks why Mapes has put the blade away without shedding blood and Mapes opens her blouse and offers her breasts.
Jessica slashes her right breast, but the blood coagulates instantly and Mapes says "The legend is beginning to happen; you are one of us. You will not
leave this planet alive."
With a gap in the available Moebius storyboard it is unknown if this scene appears in there too, but as this is directly based on a scene from Frank
Herbert's novel, unlike most of the scenes so far, it would hopefully have remained.
Scene 55 : Dual Alliance / Token of Respect
Outside the Government Palace Duncan is showing Leto gifts from the Fremen : distilling devices (stillsuits), jewels, Spice brandy ... and something
special for Duncan himself.
Duncan picks up the black sheath of the Crysknife given to him by the dying Fremen, and it about to pull out the blade when a voice shouts out "Leave
it in its sheath!"
Everyone turns to look as Farok walks forward - the Atreides guards draw their swords.
Duncan explains that Farok saved his life and the guards allows him to pass. Farok tells them that only Duncan may see the blade, and that the eyes of
impure men would stain it.
Leto asks if he would be allowed to view the Crysknife, but Farok will only allow the Duke to win the right to see it.
This offends the Atreides guards and Hawatt exclaims that only the Duke can give orders.
Leto calms everyone, and agrees to honour the Fremen custom as well as the Fremen who died.
Farok stares at Leto and then spits at Leto's feet, the Atreides guards once more draw their swords.
It is Duncan who calms everyone this time, explaining that spitting is a mark of respect, given how precious water is to the Fremen.
Farok asks if Duncan wishes to put himself at both the Duke's and Farok's service, covers his face and walks towards the desert.
Leto announces that the Fremen are the men they need, if they are all like Farok, but Duncan says that being proud and free they will be difficult to
organise.
Leto says they'll need 10 battalions of Fremen, and that they are depending on Duncan. Duncan puts on a distilling device and runs after Farok, they
walk together into the desert, disappearing behind a dune.
While no Moebius storyboards are available for this scene, it is very similar to the original novel by Frank Herbert, although it was Stilgar, not Farok,
as the Fremen who visits the Duke.
Scene 56-58 : Hunter Seeker
Paul's bedroom has an oceanic theme, with painted walls, a cloud shaped window, and a bed that looks like a fish!
Yueh is giving Paul a lesson on the unusual wildlife on Dune - "blue rats, falcons with horned beaks, beetles with butterfly wings".
After the lesson ends Yueh give Paul a sleeping pill, but Paul want to go for a walk. Yueh insists, saying it is Jessica's order.
Paul reluctantly takes the pill and goes to sleep, but immediately gets up and spits out the pill as soon as Yueh leaves the room.
Paul starts to get dressed when he notices the fish's mouth opening and an electronic insect coming out of it. The insect is carrying a miniature bomb,
and is attracted to the noise of the curtains fluttering in the wind, then a moth banging against a nightlight, but then moves towards the sounds of Paul's
breathing. Paul stops his breathing, but the sound of his heartbeat still draws the insect closer. Paul concentrates and stops the beating of his heart. The
insect continues to sweep the room passing inches from Paul.
Outside the room a woman's footsteps can be heard, the handle turns and Jessica opens the door. The insect rushes towards her, but Paul manages to
grab it and Jessica quickly removes the explosive charge and hurls it against the wall while throwing herself and Paul to the ground.
The device explodes, taking a piece of the wall with it, and the noise brings Leto, Yueh, Hawatt and Atreides soldiers running into the room.
Paul points to the tiny device causing Thufir and the soldiers to run off through the corridors, knocking down doors, looking for the operator. But all
they find is an abandoned control panel.
Distraught, Hawatt returns to the room, and tells the Duke that he is too old and that he gives up.
Leto comforts Hawatt, telling him that his lessons saved Paul, and that he can do nothing against a traitor.
A corrupt system has sown bitterness among even the Atreides, but they will fight it and make a better world - "even if we have to set alight the Galaxy
to do it!"