Feyd's Cannibal Pets | Harkonnen Harpies Explained | Dune Lore 

I have been looking through the entire internet for a detailed explanation of how the Harkonnen Harpies exist. Thank you 😍

Please stop using ai voice tho.

@@alexmalex82 she keeps telling you ppl, it's not AI...mmkay?

Hello, could you please source all songs/tracks in your video? What is the background track throughout the video?

"waaah women have it so bad in harkonnen land" everyone has it bad, sweet cheeks.

This video was entirely written by ChatGPT presumably.

@@aaron4820 entirely written is doubtful but assisted probably

@@aaron4820 but also why does it matter

@@aaron4820 Jesus Christ if thats true.

@@aaron4820 😆you're probably right. Voice definitely sounds AI.

To be fair Chani is Paul's Pet in the series just treated much better in the books.

Or maybe he was just mocking him

I wonder what he thought of Jessica, the perfect wife and outstanding mother who unleashed havoc on the universe.

@@AnnaBellaChannel she’s the literal girl of his dreams, and he remains fully faithful to her. Book Chani has a discernment about him (Paul) that book Chani lacks. A much stronger character.

​@@SuperStella1111Book Chani have that Book Chani lacks?

Good call....

i think it's also due to the fact feyd does not share the same interests to his uncle 😅

Pedo-sadism? No way! Killing teenage girls/women for absolutely no reason? Sure thing! PG-13!

💯💯

They could've just used 12 year old boy actors and then heavily implied it and had corpses of them left over. Game of thrones style.

Sadly, that would track.

Well many of the Republicans pointing 'peddle file' fingers are historically the biggest closet pedos themselves, so....

looooooooool

Agreed

Guess the baron no longer likes his homo relations in this movie

No a chair dog is coming & so are D wolves , Lanza Tigers…

where are all these designer dogs i hear of. Every time i let my dog 'design' my outfit my GF gets mad that my shirt is covered in slobber

These creations are nothing to Futars , new face dancers or phibians …..

raw diet

No, dogs don’t eat each other. Or us.

Ahhh, right. Great.

yes, they do seem to serve exactly the same purposes.

No doubt, they even referenced black hawk down in the first one

I also thought of them being female human skeksis with them being called harpies

I just made the same comment and scrolled down and found yours. I agree1

What did that mean?? What was he trying to say?

that she will be his pet after he kills pauls, and asks if there are any special intrusctions for taking care of his pet.. @@marcyc1695

@@marcyc1695 He was suggesting she was Paul's pet like the "harpies" were Feyd's.

I thought that was a threat to chani and how her death would be a slow long torture.

@@Nazuna500 oh

I think Everyone in The Harkonnen Homeworks has been celebrating big time knowing The Harkonnen House is completely extinct.

Paul pulled the same move Feyd used on the Asian guy

@@appa609 Asian is an antiquated notion in a post earth universe. He's not asian. He's a migrant from one of the great hosues.

@@neglectfulsausage7689 Cool, but we are on Earth in our universe rn, so describing the actor as "Asian" is correct and you're being weird for no reason

@@seadee2834 shush orc

@@seadee2834 yeah man asian is outdated he looks yellow just call him yellow.

It was theorised that the Spider pet was Yueh's wife that the Harkonnens had taken apart and reassembled.

@@JohnLloydDavis I don't believe the spider pet was her, mainly because when the Baron says to Yueh that he could join her, he immediately killed him. That leads me to believe that she had already died.

@@MattsCollection yes, that’s why I said theorised but I think your right. It shows the utter depravity of the Harkonnens being able to have those ‘pets’ as playthings.

@@MattsCollectionwell she could've died as a person but her body was still functioning as a pet or it could also have been a wordplay on Baron's part. Not like his wife matters to him.

@@MattsCollection Another reason is that Dr Yue's wife is a Bene Gesserit and Reverend Mother Gaius would definitely know when she sees it

Yeah, there's no speculation. It's displayed.

Unless I recall wrong though, the BGs create the spice themselves, they don't create braindead female bodies to do that for them. They just produce their own spice endogenously for their own use.

But their tanks volunteered to be tanks.

@@codename495 That's the story the males tell. The females... well.

Honestly I cant wait for birthing tanks. Women will lose their stranglehold on reproduction they currently have, because they'll have artifical wombs as competition, which heavily depriciates their value in our society, so men don't need to beg women to mate with them. That would bring about true equality between the two groups.

That is one option another one is the Gladiator official playing the role of Chairon that would wear a beaked mask and wield a brand to poke at dead gladiators, and a sledgehammer to dispose of any gladiators caught playing dead.

Oooh - Nice parallel! The mocking of the old Duke Atreides would be totally Harkonnen behaviour.

Yeah to

Dig even deeper....Hãrkä in Finnish is "Ox" or "Bull".

My first thought was they were like picadors glad I wasn’t the only one

Thanks for the added context! Yes, that's what I was referring to. It was equal parts fascinating and horrifying to read about Kuru and CJD in researching this video.

@@NerdCookies Another consideration is, of course, that the harpies would be vulnerable to build-up of environmental toxins in the meat they cannibalize, similar to people with a very high tuna/whale consumption. Eating the top of the food chain on Giedi Prime would probably be pretty unhealthy. So who knows, maybe there's a Kreutzfeld-Harkonnen Disease that would affect them?

@@NerdCookiesI would highly recommend the book “Deadly Feasts” is terrifying but fascinating.

Guess meat’s back on the menu 😶‍🌫️

I did wonder about Kuru when I saw that statement. Made me think about the prion diseases like Kuru, Scrapie and CJD. @@NerdCookies

agreed. "throw her to the dogs. this is good meat."

Well said👍

Funny that he describes him as a rockstar considering Sting played Feyd in the 1984 version.

Sociopaths develop emotional attachments. Psychopaths don't.

@@ST4X-0N-ST4X Limited that they might as well not exist.

I assumed he was unable to kill anyone because everyone on board was strictly needed for survival so he could not give into his impulses.

Thatd be a dope book or movie

Now that you mention it, the bald, black and white aesthetics are pretty similar.

Perhaps, only Cenobites can make Harkonnens pay for any vile thing they do in their miserable lives, and not just to themselves, but unfortunately to many other people.

They’d imprison and torture the Cenobites😂

Pinhead: "I will bring you to ecstasy and agony you can barely imagine." Feyd (offscreen): "Like...THIS?" Pinhead (chokes down vomit, staggers back a few steps): "No, NOT like that, you sick fuck! What the hell WAS that??" Feyd (smiling): "Here, let me show you..."

I don't think all of those maniacs in the stalls saluting and shouting, "Feyd-Rautha!" were in any mood to revolt.

It’s just as easy to rule through fear as it is through love.

Because it's a depraved world. Not that unlike our own current world.

They lived off slaves and depravity and plus they were extremely wealthy, even more than The Emperor himself. "Can you imagine all that wealth?" "You've never met a Harkonnen before, they're BRUUUUUUTAL!" :-Old man with heavy footsteps.😉

I attribute the apparent impotence of the entire society in Geddi Prime to their ever addictive need for Spice with which the Harkonnens are able to subjugate the entire population of the planet by outright denying them the consumption of spice and forcing them to endure the effects of spice withdrawal.

It's not well written. It's just written comically evil, nothing more.

@@Kintabl Better than Lynch's version at least

@@Kintabl No. I think it works well to show the evil nature of the Harkonens. As the video mentioned, they ARE meant to be evil. The idea that extreme evil becomes comical is only really true in children's shows.

@@KintablIt's not comical. These signs of depravity are prevalent among the wealthy elite in the real world. Lookup porta potty in Dubai or child trafficking among the elites.

​@@Kintabl Lol, the Harkonnens are even more "comically evil" in the books

They did remind me of my cats. Cute, but obligatory predators who will mercilessly kill and devour anything they can.

That's wise advice, once I had a cannibal harpy and it got sick, cost me an absolute fortune.

@@snigie1and make sure it gets enough food. You know, after a really hard day i once forgot to feed my harpy. And well, that evening my mother in law came over. It was a mess, i can tell you...

A cannibal harpy is for life, not just for Sanguination Day

@@heiniknallkopp9688 'forgot'... I completely understand

They must be very hungry.

@somerandomname3124 I don't know if they're hungry, but they sure are itchy

In my defense I didn’t know I had it yet.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 ​@@user-hj9vo8sr8j

So you got it now then

Because that’s probably exactly what they were. House Harkonnen doesn’t give two shits about the environment of worlds they claim, it’s just there for their pleasure after all. If they have to use harmful chemicals to create a spectacle, then so be it.

And along those lines l thought the depiction of Geidi Prime's star as a "black sun", or a sun with a black hole eating away at its core, thereby killing the full light spectrum and instead bathing everything exposed to its rays in blinding, glaring shades of black, white, and grey, was a stroke of genius that accentuated the starkly brutal nature of Harkonnen society.

The more I found out about the Harkonnens the worse they get, fucking hell 😂

@@ndhickson3599 Then you'll love to learn about an assassination attempt on the Baron that involved a poisoned needle hidden on a young boy's thigh, simply because that's where the Baron would put his hand.

There's a band called Cannibal Corpse. You're one typo away from a strange promo poster though with Cannibal Harpies.

With red hair.

That would have been so messed up while also multiplying the Harkonnen's Evil-o-meter up to 9000.

Yes, good call on Denis part for leaving children (mostly) out of the Harkenon carnage. If you read the book, you know what the Baron would do to young male children. Audiences couldnt handle that.

@@Broomy718Basically Disney and Hollywood.

@@Broomy718 Not just to young children but even his own nephew given some of his dialogues when he "admires" Feyd's physical prowess.

Definitely get most of it in messiah

I have a hard time believing we wouldn't see more of the Spacing Guild or Navigators in Messiah.

Not Bene Tleilax, but these films almost completely ignore Mentats as well

@@riftplut0474 They should split Messiah into two movies.

there were no gholas , or face dancers in Dune, they were introduced in Dune Messiah when the Bene Tleilaxu gave Paul the mentat ghola Hayt (Duncan Idaho) as a gift/trap

Same!

Prion diseases exist primarily in the nerve tissue. If you remove the brain and spinal cord an infected corpse is, uh, relatively safe-ish.

@@oldschooloverlordI guess that's why he offered them lungs 😆

kuru

In the book bio-engineering is strictly forbidden by the Orange Catholic Bible and the commandments set forth post Butlerian Jihad.

It's over the top, the Emperor and Landsraad wouldn't tolerate it.

@@stevekillgore9272 😂 probably not.

Or Baron's pus filled face.

That was in the book...

Sadly they were cannon

Not canon and never in Herbert's books as falsely mentioned above

@@kosk8800 sorry, but your wrong ...the Barron mentions them when he captures their.

He wants to look after chani ?

Yeah, you need to say more

Personally they remind of the Caananites of the Old Testament

Thats interesting because in my mind they were Russians (to parallel Caladan being the US and Arrakis being the middle east) and I definitely got that in the movie with the brutalist architecture, the grey palette, the wealth disparity, the militaristic culture. Obviously it’s not a very culturally sensitive thing but this is a book written by an american during the cold war so what do you expect lol.

​@@WhitePony-zu5pi The Canaanites were portrayed and demonized in the Old Testament as evil, decadent "Ba'al worshippers" but none of this was true...they were not evil or decadent, nor did they really worship Ba'al...he was a lesser god in the Canaanite pantheon... Ba'al's wife, the Goddess Astarte (Ashtoreth), was their primary, most powerful God...the Canaanites of Sodom and Gemorrah were really Goddess worshippers....and they were portrayed as immoral and decadent b/c part of their Goddess worship ceremonies included ceremonial sex in the temple....with a large conch shell in the temple as a holy artifact, representing the Goddess 'vagina' and birthplace of all Creation (this is all truth of course, I couldn't possibly make this up)

The Harkonnen slave girls wore semi-opaque gowns. In fact, they are uncannily similar to the frosted plastic-sheet gowns worn by Kanye West's current wife.

Their clothes kinda reminds me of a dominatrix full latex suit, I wonder if it's a way to hint at the fact that they're here to inflict not only sex but also (and maybe more importantly?) pain on demand to Feyd My other theory is that they have nice clothes because they are important in feyd's eyes, contrary to the other slaves who only have a kind of a simple plastic sheet for clothes. It would be an indication of their status

@@hukihuki4135 That's right Feyd dresses his dominatrix cannibal hoes in nothing but the finest black latex lol

You can notice that Villeneuve is very decent with depiction of intimacies. I can imagine that there was pressure on him to depict more sex and I'm glad he didn't. If he wanted to be really true to the source material, he would have no shortage of opportunities (to name one above all, the Fremen orgies in which even children participated), but he had to leave some things out completely. I'm no purist, far from it, but I think sex is overused in movies and TV shows. It's just a way too cheap attention grabber that Villeneuve didn't need.

@@becausebuzzbomb6133 orgies with children ?? What ? 😭

The Baron is Feyd's uncle, not his father. Feyd's father is Baron Harkonnen's youngest half-brother, Abulurd Rabban, who had renounced the Harkonnen name and all rights to the title when given the subdistrict governorship of Rabban-Lankiveil.

​knew this guy would enter the chat as soon as I read dad.

​@andrewmitchell5807 He's right though. If you make a comment, check your facts.

@@juletaurus ofc he's right, I was gonna make the correction if he hadn't already

*uncle ... wasn't exactly important to my comment, lol but correction noted. I knew he was the baron's nephew. Just brain-farted.

I believe the relevant distinction, as explored in the books, is more along the lines of 'animal vs human' than 'good vs bad.' The greatest fear of the Bene Gesserit was the rise of a Kwisatz Haderach who was animal, not human. The Harkonnens are undeniably animalistic, whereas the Atreides were generally human, but with the same susceptibility to animalistic urges that any sentient being may be subject to. I find the exploration of human-animal hybrids in the later books compelling, as deeper explorations of these themes.

Atrides arent really broke-ass. They have second best army in Imperium (Behind House Corrino). They also had a lot of political influence . Leto even make plans to replace house Corrino with army of Fremen and spice.

@@funtecstudiovideos4102 You are missing the point. Do you know who Leto the 2nd is and have you heard a thing called Golden Path in his tyranny?

@@snakeplissken1933 it have nothing to do with house atreidess being supposed broken ass.

But there is ambiguity. The noble and loving Jessica turned to be the Barons only child! Paul and more so his son turn into tyrannical dictators.

Yes, it was very creepy scene, I wanted it to be longer.

Since computers and all forms of automation are banned, I suppose the Harkonnens need mentats in training to manually write the data on the hologram (which should be allowed).

Pensive sandboi 😂

Well, they were adapting a book after all, so naturally they followed muadip. And they showed a lot of the harconens, they only left out the baron being pdf file and so.e mass murder scenes that don't move the plot forward. As a matter of fact the movie could have been R with Paul's storyline too! They completely missed the water of life orgy for starters

I agree, but pensive sadboi is like 90% of the latter half of Dune

I mean it's great production design etc but I wasn't exactly in a hurry to check back with Harkonnens for more violence cruelty and perversion. I guess I remember wishing for films to be rated R when I was 12

Found the Transformers fan

Feyd is a product of his environment, like Paul, and he acknowledges that Paul's code of honor is harder to uphold than Feyd's throatslitting frenzies.

@@danielplainview2584 That’s very interesting. Thank you

Definitely would be rated R

they didn't have any of these things , its just a body horror gotcha by hollywood to titillate desensitized audiences

The colosseum scene was filmed using infrared cameras.

It's an offense to puppies actually XD.

I don’t mean this rudely; but I think you’re thinking of an adaptation as just a remake of an existing product, but it’s not, especially when it’s a new medium from the original. When you choose to adapt something, making the new version good on its own merits becomes more important than preserving original features. So if an editor thinks a well known scene is dragging down the pacing and only exists to include a feature of the book; then they might recommend it is removed to enhance the new version. Similarly, they will add things where the new version seems to be lacking. The mind may have conjured up any number of Harkonnen horrors that are not written down in Dune, but the film production needs to make these explicit. Meanwhile, (I’m sorry to pick this example because there are plenty of more neutral examples I’m sure, but it’s the first that came to mind) they excised a lot of the book’s homophobia regarding the portrayal of the Harkonnens. They are decadent, indecent and incestuous, but that can be shown without the homophobia, so they took that out to make the film more in keeping with modern sensibilities. Whether the project succeeds as an adaptation is not the same as whether it succeeds as it’s own project, which is more important in the moment (as the original still exists, but the new version needs to be well received to make money). Sometimes they are terrible adaptations and terrible movies and sometimes the original property was poor and an adaptation can’t save it, but filmmakers are nearly always trying to make a decent product in the moment, rather than focussing just on being faithful to an original. If you’ve not seen it Dominic Noble has a series on here called Lost in Adaptation that looks at films through the lens of whether they made good or poor choices when adapting it which is very good and I would recommend it.

Much appreciated!

Agreed I was thinking the same thing.

Well considering the fact the women are dead and bloodied when they open the door, it is assumed y'all could draw your own conclusions

he threw them to the wall, you can see they corpses for a moment