In Dune Part Two, the movie opens with Paul Atreides speaking to his unborn sister in the womb. Alia Atreides is one of the most interesting and magical beings in the entire Dune lore, with the power of prescience unlocked when Jessica drank the Water of Life to become a Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother. Appearing in the film only as an embryo, voice, and vision, St. Alia of the Knife will have a larger role in Dune: Messiah and beyond, if Denis Villeneuve adapts the rest of Frank Herbert's novels.
Media used:
Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024) dir. Denis Villeneuve
Dune (1984) dir. David Lynch
Dune SyFy Miniseries (2000-2003) dir. John Harrison, Greg Yaitanes
Dune: The Graphic Novel (2020) art by Raúl Allén, Patricia Martín
0:00 Spice visions
1:22 Learning the Harkonnen truth
3:06 Alia's power
4:26 St. Alia of the Knife
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I think that the Dunes universe is the most splendid and underrated in all of sci-fi/fantasy literature.
Only second to LoTRs in scope.
sci-fi*
@@Emucratic I don't want to offend anyone and therefore change the comment, but reading various discussions in various forums I saw that everything that includes magic or powers that go beyond even future science is considered fantasy. To be fair, a small majority of people define Dune as sci-fi. Thanks for the idea!
In the movies, Paul does not learn of Jessica's pregnancy "off-screen," but during their flight from the assassins who attacked in Part One, while they are secreted in the still-tent that they were supplied with.
thank you so much for the explanation. would love to hear more
I think ALIA will be Dune Messiah (film)'s opening narrator; Chani, Irulan, Alia. ;)
Good breakdown homie!
nice video! I want more videos
Thought Dune 2 really missed the point by not having Alia put the screws on the Emperor and the Reverend Mother and kill the Baron. That sets the scene for the reader/viewer to understand how evil the Atreides are. First read Dune in the 70s and to this day think it is one of the all time great works of literature. Herbert hit a grand slam with Dune.
Definitely. Instead of a reverend girl we have a talkative reverend fetus. Paul kills the Baron (?), there is no Kwisatz Haderach, no supernatural ways nor weapons (??), a rather unpleasant Jessica (???), a reluctant Paul regarding his leadership (????). Dune part 2 was a great disappointment for me. Episodic, underdeveloped… the only one I liked was Chani.
Fear the moment..
Even with minor changes in the plotline, these are great novels and with current FX, they can be brought to the screen with more stunning visuals than anyone could have imagined in the first Dune version. All they need are to give out free samples of cinammon at each showing of the movie. 🤣
I dont get how Vladimir Harkonnen can control Alia when supposedly female benes can only access their female ancestors...
Bene Geseret can access their male memories but refuse it because it gives them great fear. In the books Paul says to Jessica to look but she tells him she can't, its too fearful. Alia was born without that fear, without an ego formed, she didn't have those walls. Thus abomination. She also had the Atreides wild genes and had limited presciences, although not nearly to the extent of Paul or Leto II.
Also the Baron while twisted is one most evolved humans. He is himself as much Atredies as he is Harkonnens. Only Leto the Second is metal stronger.
@@MrMackievelli thanks for refreshing my recollection
@@MrMackievelli I'm not sure... in the first book it also says, that it would kill them to look in the male past. Or am I mistaken? Maybe the Baron itendifies as a woman... this would solve the problem :-) But at least this dystopia Frank Herbert has not foreseen.
I dislike the fact that she was left out of the movie…. They could’ve gotten a child to play that role again
Nope!! I don't want to risk spoilers for Dune Messiah. I'm not going to watch this video.
Read the books first. It will get you over the hump.
Dune should have been 3 parts. The Two Year time jump included. I'm actually quite disappointed in the current movies.
Holy... I thought the bleach blonde with the googley eyes as Alia was a JOKE. FFS..