Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Christopher Walken, Léa Seydoux, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Charlotte Rampling
OUR RATING: ★★★★☆
Story: Sci-fi adventure sequel directed and co-written by Denis Villeneuve. Dune: Part Two (2024) continues the journey of Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) as he unites with Chani (Zendaya) and the Fremen while on a warpath of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, he must prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.
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Best Quotes from Dune: Part 2
Power over Spice is power over all.
Princess Irulan: In the shadows of Arrakis lie many secrets, but the darkest of them all may remain. The end of House Atreides.
Paul Atreides: This world is beyond cruelty.
Jessica: Your father didn’t believe in revenge.
Paul Atreides: Yeah. Well, I do.
Stilgar: [as he wipes Jessica’s tear] Never give your water away, not even for the dead.
Jessica: You believe in Paul?
Stilgar: There are signs. Yes.
Jessica: Reverend Mothers are tasked with holding the memories of all the Reverend Mothers that came before them, so I’ll be given centuries of pain and sorrow.
Paul Atreides: Is it dangerous?
Jessica: It’s lethal for men. That’s for sure.
Chani: You want to control people, you tell them a messiah will come. Then they’ll wait for centuries.
Paul Atreides: I’m not the Mahdi. I’m not here to lead. I’m here to learn your ways. Let me fight beside you. That’s all I’m asking.
Stilgar: [in Chakobsa, referring to Paul] The Mahdi is too humble to say He is the Mahdi. Even more reason to know He is! As written!
Jessica: [to Paul] You must drink the Water of Life. And your mind, it’s going to open and you will see. You will see! The beauty and the horror!
Shishakli: [referring to Paul] You care for him now?
Chani: He’s not like the other strangers. He’s sincere.
Chani: [to Paul] You sandwalk like a drunk lizard.
Jessica: [to the unborn Alia] You’re right. If we want to protect your brother, we need all the Fremen to believe in the prophecy. We must convert the non-believers one by one. We need to start with the weaker ones. The vulnerable ones. The ones who fear us.
Paul Atreides: You’ve been fighting the Harkonnens for decades. My family’s been fighting them for centuries. I know everything about them. Their habits. Their ways of thinking. You know everything about the desert. You harness the very power of it. We can stop them together, bury them in the sand where they belong. So that this planet can be yours once more.
Stilgar: The constellation that points to the North Star, we call Muad’Dib. “The One Who Points the Way.” That is a powerful name. Now you are our brother. Paul Muad’Dib Usul.
Chani: Your blood comes from Dukes and Great Houses. We don’t have that here. Here, we’re equal. Men and women alike. What we do, we do for the benefit of all.
Paul Atreides: Well, I’d very much like to be equal to you.
Chani: Paul Muad’Dib Usul, maybe you could be Fremen. Maybe I’ll show you the way.
Baron Harkonnen: Tighten your grip, Rabban. Or feel mine on your neck.
Paul Atreides: [referring to his dream] Nothing’s clear. It’s only fragments. I’m in the South, and I’m following someone. And it triggers a holy war. Millions and millions of people starving to death, because of me.
Stilgar: Don’t try to impress anyone. You’re brave, we all know that. Be simple. Be direct. Nothing fancy.
Paul Atreides: Nothing fancy.
Stilgar: Hey, I’m serious. Nothing fancy, or you will shame my teaching.
Paul Atreides: I won’t shame you. I understand.
Stilgar: Shai-Hulud decides today if you become Fremen, or if you die.
Chani: [in Chakobsa] Will you always be with me?
Paul Atreides: As long as I breathe.
Jessica: [referring to the unborn Alia] She’s also wondering why you don’t believe in who you are.
Paul Atreides: I do believe. I believe I matter to these people. And I believe I’m making a difference in this war.
Jessica: Do you not think I also feel the weight of the prophecy?
Paul Atreides: It’s not a prophecy. It’s a story that you keep telling. But it’s not their story, it’s yours.
Paul Atreides: They deserve to be led by one of their own. What your people did to this world is heartbreaking.
Jessica: We gave them something to hope for.
Paul Atreides: That’s not hope!
Emperor: So, my dear daughter, how would you deal with this prophet?
Princess Irulan: If this Muad’Dib is a religious figure, you can’t use direct force.
Princess Irulan: Repression only makes a religion flourish.
Princess Irulan: You’ll only end up humiliating yourself.
Emperor: You underestimate my Sardaukar.
Princess Irulan: You underestimate the power of faith.
Emperor: You’d send assassins?
Princess Irulan: No. Prophets get stronger when they die. Let the conflict on Arrakis turn into war. You then bring peace. As a savior.
Emperor: You’d be a formidable empress.
Princess Irulan: Muad’Dib means kangaroo mouse. An unusual war name for a Fremen.
Reverend Mother Mohiam: We are Bene Gesserit. We don’t hope, we plan.
Reverend Mother Mohiam: The Baron’s youngest nephew, Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen, will inherit Arrakis. He may be the answer.
Princess Irulan: Feyd-Rautha? He’s psychotic.
Reverend Mother Mohiam: That’s irrelevant. The question is, can we control him? And I intend to find out.
Feyd-Rautha: You tried to kill me.
Baron Harkonnen: This morning you were a playboy, feared and envied, but tonight you’re a hero. My gift to you.
Paul Atreides: When our resources are limited, fear is all we have.
Paul Atreides: Spice opened my mind, Gurney. I can foresee things. If I go South, all my visions lead to horror. Billions of corpses scattered across the galaxy. All dying because of me.
Gurney Halleck: Because you lose control.
Paul Atreides: Because I gain it.
Gurney Halleck: [to Paul] No need to be a prophet to see what’s ahead. Your path leads to war. You know that. So, war is coming. What will you do when you feel its breath upon your neck?
Paul Atreides: He who can destroy a thing has the real control of it.
Feyd-Rautha: [to Rabban] You humiliated our family. You humiliated me. Kiss, or die.
Alia Atreides: [as Paul hears her voice] You cannot see the future without seeing the past.
Paul Atreides: If I go South, I might lose you.
Chani: You will never lose me, Paul Atreides. Not as long as you stay who you are.
Alia Atreides: Oh, brother, my dearest brother, you are not prepared for what is to come. You’ll now learn the truth about our family. And it will hurt you to the core. Paul. Don’t worry. I’m with you. I love you.
Paul Atreides: The visions are clear now. I see possible futures. All at once. Our enemies are all around us. And in so many futures, they prevail. But I do see a way. There is a narrow way through. I saw our bloodline, Mother. Written across time.
Paul Atreides: We’re Harkonnens. So this is how we’ll survive. By being Harkonnens.
Chani: This prophecy is how they enslave us!
Chani: This is none of your business.
Gurney Halleck: Rabban Harkonnen himself killed my family. He gave me this scar to remember him by. This is all of my business.
Paul Atreides: You think I’m stupid enough to deprive myself of the best of us?
Paul Atreides: [in Chakobsa] Do you smash a knife before battle?
Stilgar: Take my life, Usul. It is the only way.
Paul Atreides: I’m pointing the way!
Paul Atreides: [in Chakobsa and English] There is no one in this room who can stand against me. Your mothers warned you about my coming. Fear the moment. But you think you could have a chance. But you’re afraid. What if I could be the One? This could be the moment you’ve been praying for, all your life.
Paul Atreides: [in Chakobsa and English] I am Paul Muad’Dib Atreides, Duke of Arrakis. The Hand of God be my witness. I am the Voice from the Outer World. I will lead you to Paradise!
Princess Irulan: Did you counsel my father to exterminate the Atreides?
Reverend Mother Mohiam: Of course I did. Why else would it have happened?
Princess Irulan: You tried to sacrifice an entire bloodline.
Reverend Mother Mohiam: And I was right to do it.
Reverend Mother Mohiam: But there is one way your family can remain in power, and through you, the continuation of our stewardship. One. Way. Are you prepared?
Princess Irulan: You’ve been preparing me my whole life, Reverend Mother.
Jessica: Paul didn’t have a choice, Chani.
Chani: I won’t be fighting for him. I’m fighting for my people.
Jessica: I came to wish you best of luck.
Chani: I’d wish you the same, but it seems you’ve won your battle.
Paul Atreides: [to Chani] I want you to know, I will love you as long as I breathe.
Reverend Mother Mohiam: Consider what you’re about to do, Paul Atreides.
Paul Atreides: Silence!
Reverend Mother Mohiam: Abomination.
Emperor: As a servant of the Imperium, you will bow at my feet.
Paul Atreides: Your feet? You’ll be lucky to keep your head. I’ll take the hand of your daughter. She will remain safe. And we will rule together over the Empire.
Paul Atreides: You have to answer for my father.
Emperor: Do you know why I killed him? Because he was a man who believed in the rules of the heart. But the heart is not meant to rule. In other words, your father was a weak man.
Paul Atreides: I’m happy to finally meet you, cousin.
Feyd-Rautha: Cousin? Is that right? Well, you wouldn’t be the first relative I’ve killed.
Paul Atreides: May thy knife chip and shatter.
Feyd-Rautha: [as Paul stabs him] You have fought well, Atreides.
Jessica: You should’ve believed. You chose the wrong side.
Reverend Mother Mohiam: Side? You, of all people, should know. There are no sides, Reverend Mother.
Gurney Halleck: My Lord, the Great Houses have answered. They refuse to honor your ascendancy.
Stilgar: We await your orders, Lisan al-Gaib.
Paul Atreides: Lead them to Paradise.
Alia Atreides: What is happening, Mother?
Jessica: Your brother attacks the Great Houses. The Holy War begins.