Analyzing Evil: Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen From Dune 

Living and devouring the moment is, in fact, one of the best descriptions of psychopaths, which Feyd is mentioned to be in the movie.

Not really accurate to the book Feyd. Who was a scheming scumbag just like his uncle. But still, a good portrayal

​@@Rokaize yeah, book Feyd was just a garden-variety creeper.

@@RokaizeHonestly I kinda like that they gave Feyd more to do than his book counterpart

​@@loonie5468 he's more a sociopath, barely a psychopath. He's far too emotional to be a psychopath

Ahahahha me toooo like how he did eren yeager

I would say Duke Leto the second... The God Emperor of Dune...

@@MajesticDemonLord yessss! Can we call him "a necessary evil"?

@@DavidLopez-yt2ypEren pulled a Paul Atreides. Dune is much older than AoT.

Yes

Bro saw his entire life and house crumble and was just enjoying the spectacle

He seems like he’s just having the best time of his life in every scene he’s in. He really enjoys being evil 😂

"I'm na-Baron, I just got a hot new gf witch momma, I got my uncle's approval, he's gonna make me Emperor, and we got Arrakis back to make us filthy rich! Boy, I can't wait to see what happens next!"

​@TealWolf26 if he sat out the fight with Paul it may have gone differently. The baron and Rabban were dead, so he was the Harkonnen leader. But I guess the fremen or Gurney would have killed him anyway after that.

@skillsmachine9164 I'm sure. Herbert doesn't delve into the horrors of religious and political pograms and war but I wouldn't be surprised if Feyd would have been swept up in "treason trials" for complicity in oppressing the Fremen. He at least likely spared himself torture by volunteering. Unless Paul had some weird fit of sentiment because of their blood relation to protect Feyd but I doubt it. My favorite part about Leto II is that he looks at all the heinous shit that Paul gets up to directly and indirectly and says "Nah, we can do better," dialing up the tyranny to eleven for his Golden Path.

I was genuinely expecting the elvis voice lmfao

he did a good impersonation of Stellan Skarsgård.

I wanted to see more of him too!

He looks like Pennywise and sounds like Heath Ledger’s Joker mixed with Baron Harkonnen

He's also something of a Method Actor as Elvis can attest. We'll see if he'll continue this aspect for future roles.

Yeah. It even seemed like he had a tiny bit of respect for that one fremen that killed few of his men. I mean... he still burned her, so it doesn't seem like it. But just the way he says it, it seemed like he had at least a bit of respect.

In the book, Feyd Rautha makes a grand gesture of refusing the customary removal of his opponent's head as a trophy, and burying him intact since "he earned it", so you're pretty spot on.

The movie version seemed to be very tied into exploring the themes of power and giving into darker impulses. Hence making Feyd have sadomasochistic tendencies, after chasing personal power and adrenaline rush of humiliating and harming others, the thrill would wear off when they are easily overpowered due to his position and skill. Being able to be challenged himself or see others take down those who he doesn’t have power over or subverting his own power, makes someone more of a threat and therefore more of a rush to overpower and humiliate, with that uncertainty of if they can do it to him making it more thrilling. It’s more of a true power struggle, so it endears the opponent in a way for being able to provide that as well as being something he himself values (and can therefore respect). It’s a sick sense of being grounded in the moment as well as delighting in the violence and pain most likely. I think they added the cannibalism to highlight the more twisted side to counteract the less sneaky characterization

The duel was a sham nothing like the novel.

@@Black_Blow_Fly Yeah, but honestly, given that Thufir's entire character arc was cut (so sad about that, but I get the necessity), how the arena scene played out in the movie worked just fine for me. But yeah, I like the political maneuvering and "feints within feints within feints" in the book's version a lot.

Sheesh

Wow! Just like that?

Too bad the movie is boring asf.

@@frankthecat1660Did we watch the same movie? What were you expecting?

@@LucasDimoveo 😴😴😴

Mee too 😅. He was an interesting character and I was hoping (since he is Pauls age and his cousin) that they would reconnect. I did not know the books back then, but I had the feeling that his death was a waste. I also dont like characters dying this young. He was 17, just a teenager. Thats terrible.

“She won’t talk” “Tell her that’s fine, I already know everything I need to know. Only pleasure remains” *Flamethrower clicks on* Jesus! 😅 that’s cold as ice……or should I say

tbh it sent chills down my spine when he said "take his body to my quarters" cause its obvious what for after the scene when the knives are presented to him. Then the following two lines "my darlings are hungry. There was no food on the flight for them" or whatever was too much and came off corny to me. Woulda been perfect if he didn't say the last two sentences in my opinion. Much more ominous.

@@Rizziculousyeah that would have suggested something equally as dark

My darlings haven’t eaten a while *shudders*

Well... he care his pets.

that quote doesn't show the ferocity or genius, it's just showing how he's psychotic.

I interpreted it as a show of how messed up the Harkonnens are, especially given the Baron’s “inclinations”

House Ouroboros

@@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45 I know that element is there but given how much Butler based his performance off of Skarsgard, it made it feel like one person being in love with himself.

To me it was all about power. The Baron tried to show his power over Feyd by initiating this invasion of personal boundaries and intimacy in public. Feyd countered this by not only not being intimidated or shamed but by grabbing the Baron and kissing him back in a full Power Move.

I don't agree. What does kissing him have to do with living through him? I see no correlation honestly. I just honestly think its just an extreme embrace. That's why feyd kisses him back in gratitude.

Thats an odd take. How did he win Paul's soul? Paul already knew the path he was going down. Plus his Father and friends had been slaughtered by the Harkonnens, whilst Feyd had been on the other side of that outcome.

Good analysis!

@@skillsmachine9164In the movie Paul acknowledges that he'll have to embrace his Harkonnen heritage in order to avenge his father, or something along those lines. And then becomes the religious figurehead of a jihad that kills billions and wipes multiple planets. So he becomes even more heartless than Feyd; fully embracing his Harkonnen heritage through the brutality of his reign.

@seann2751 hey yeh i get that ive read the books too. Just at no point does feyd think at any point in his own mind that Paul is losing his soul to him. As far as feyd has thought this was just a great fight and a chance for more power through the emporer. I doubt he'd even given 2 seconds thought to the possible jihad.

In the BTS of this film, Austin Butler revealed that he saw Feyd Rautha as an "eater of souls" who longs for worthy opponents to kill and consume the energy of. Paul killing him, especially in such an underhanded way, must have shown Feyd that he was right. Hell, Paul also said earlier that he needed to fight like a Harkonen. Paul may have killed Feyd, but it was indeed feyd who took his soul. Just adding to your interpretation!

Lol I know exactly what you mean, I thought the same. Like he's crazy and evil and he loves it, and that can make for a good villain

Paul's speach to the Fremen was friggen awesome though. Got absolute chills. Before they destroyed house Harkonnen.

❌ *loud buzzer noise* it was actually lady jessica, chani, and irulan - who were also the only ones standing after the duel. those three were as much mains as paul was

I found him more interesting than Paul, even though Paul was great.

Nope - Stilgar !

@@zainash3320 oh yeah? which of his five different lines besides "as it was written!" enthralled you? 😆

It's more like "I have a pervy Uncle McTouchy who dresses me up like a doll"

A guy can could spend a lot of time breaking down villains in 40k. Since, everyone is a villain in 40k. 😂

@@stephengordon576 hmm, more of a spectrum of morally ambiguity, perhaps. Lorgar though, oooph, really more of a villain than anyone else

@@hamishsewell5990 truth. Inserts obligatory ‘Fuck Erebus’ here.

breaking down a character from the horus heresy is quite the mountain of work. Especially a main staple like Horus Lupercal. A LOT of reading

@@silentsorrowbane Not to mention the various inconsistencies in writing and characterizations that one has to diligently parse through when analyzing a character due to various different authors handling the same characters with their own interpretations and biases (as well as a lack of proofreading in some books).

It was corny asf.

@@josecipriano3048always gotta be someone like you in the comments

@@josecipriano3048it definitely was epic… if you think otherwise i don’t know how you have any fun in life

The book does have t he Fenrings wondering if Feyd had been raised Atreides what he might have been like. Actually, it is kind of interesting, both Feyd and Paul's grandfather engaged in blood sport to earn the respect of their people, except Feyd fought and killed humans, while Paulus fought bulls. I reckon Feyd might have been another Paulus had he been raised more like an Atreides.

In another timeline they would have been spouses…if Paul was a girl

​@@technofilejr3401 As the Bene Gerserit intended.

Rabban - the beast - was a bully. A strong man, but a coward. Physically strong, mentally weak. He lacked understanding of the people he was fighting, of the people he was using, of himself. He lacked any discernible mental virtues - even lacked admirable vices. There was no way he could win a war, if you follow Sun Tzu's logic. Feyd was a far more dangerous cat.

This channel is a goldmine of villain analyzes.

The only issue I had is that I wish they delve into is how he serves as the foil to Paul. As in the book, that’s what he was.

@@osmanyousif7849oooh yes good point!

@@osmanyousif7849 There is a point where they do it but, like much of Villeneuve's worldbuilding in the films, it requires the audience to be paying attention and not relying on spoon-feeding the info to them. Paul passing the Bene Gesserit test in Part 1 is symbolic of him being someone special, is built up and presented that way. In Part 2, although they don't show the actual test, Feyd also passes it at the hands of Margot Fenring. That, and the later discussion between Fenring and Mohiam, clearly sets him up as a mirror to Paul. Paul is, at heart, kind, caring, compassionate, and loyal to his friends. Feyd is, to put it mildly, not. Paul is forced reluctantly into his first fight to the death and takes no pleasure in it. Feyd's first fight where it is implied it's the first time he's ever been at actual serious risk is something he embraces and enjoys. Paul fights against becoming the monster he fears he will, Feyd revels in being the monster he is.

I lowkey think they struck an ambitiously delicate balance with Feyd. He had effectively a flat character trajectory, but the ‘pet the dog’ moments he got did slowly chisel away at my first impressions of Feyd as a purely psychopathic freak. So that, by the end, he and Paul (who has had negative growth throughout the film) didn’t seem all that different. So on the contrary to the commenter above, I believe a good deal of effort was put into Feyd’s role as a character foil to Paul?

@@keith6706 , well, that part is definitely shown. My bigger issue, though is the fact that as Paul goes down the darker path where we’ve been into question the whole prophecy, if they gave characters like Feyd a little bit more development, it would give us the chance to question the whole concept of, “Is Paul really the lesser of two evils?”.

Drown*

Also Feyd not even ten minutes later: _Intense make out sesh with his uncle_

May thy knife chip and shatter

Yeah a very loving family 🥰

@@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45 Wtf. That wasn't in the movie.

Almost every other part of the movie after that sucked in comparison

I went back to the movies for mainly the whole giedi prime sequence

@@jenniferh9612 same.

The thing that could have made it better for me is the blood be the only color in this black and white scene.

Are you not entertained!? - Feyd probably

Literally a masterpiece

LISAN AL GAIB

#RememberRakis

I think him fighting on behalf of the Emperor was more of a way to get a chance at the throne. If Feyd had won the fight and with Paul out of the picture, Feyd could then have the chance to wed Irulan himself.

@Maglors_grief You are almost certainly correct. But that also assumes any of them would have survived had Paul died.

whole honour thing is from the movies and not books

Bene Gesserit*

@@lydiaboll2872 Thanks ☺️

This!!!!

good pick

I second this

Dune: Part Two if it was a Marvel movie

@@flaya11 I hate the fact that you're right...

He was directing servants to take a dead body (that he had just unalived) to his quarters because his harpies, ' his darlings ', were hungry. He makes my skin crawl.

Or just House Harkonnen

YESSSS PARK YEON-JIN PLEEEEEASE

Not a villain, but also Moon Dong-eun from the Glory! She is no saint herself, even if she is the protagonist.

The Glory was fucking phenomenal. Honestly almost all of the main characters can be analyzed

And then when he said “I’d like to thank my little buddy Forrest for teaching me that” I cried

Why would you disrupt the movie to celebrate one of the most evil creatures in the movie? That’s twisted and indicative of something about you that’s not a good thing.

@@cheeseburgerinparadise7124 Hmmm... I'm not sure if u get my comment 🤔 lol

@@cheeseburgerinparadise7124are you mentally deficient?

@@cheeseburgerinparadise7124he's joking by making a made-up scene in the movie, did ur mother drop u on ur head as a baby?

He was a close second for me. I just really liked Paul once he put his big boy pants on after they went South. Butler and Chalamet absolutely blew their rolls out of the water.

😂😂😂

@@lydiaboll2872 😀

I second this

Was just going to comment that, he should start his own audible service.

Pretty close, all that’s missing is a shot of him in a thong

And by the Bene Gesserit and their plots throughout the history

The hero's son is the one that truly unleashes it