Frank Herbert's Dune
- This page is about the TV miniseries. For the novel, see Dune. For the 1984 film, see Dune (film).
Frank Herbert's Dune was a three-part miniseries based on the Dune novel by Frank Herbert. It was first broadcast in the United States on December 3, 2000 on the Sci Fi Channel.
A sequel, based on the second and the third novel (Dune Messiah and Children of Dune), aired in 2003, titled, Frank Herbert's Children of Dune.
Dune
[edit]- Voice (Princess Irulan): Arrakis...Dune...wasteland of the Empire...and the most valuable planet in the Universe...because it is here, and only here, where spice is found. The spice...without it, there is no commerce in the empire. There is no civilization. Arrakis...Dune...Home of the spice...greatest treasure in the universe...and he who controls it, controls our destiny.
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: How dare you turn your back on the centuries of our breeding programs?
- Lady Jessica: I'll pay for my mistakes.
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: And your son will pay it with you! We'll do what we can. He may be worth saving. But for the father, nothing.
- Thufir Hawat: I am a Mentat. I trust logic and statistics, not mysticism and prophecy.
- Piter De Vries: In order for the Empire to survive, the spice must flow.
- [Baron Harkonnen and his nephew, Feyd, discusses the Baron's plan for securing a steady income of spice.]
- Feyd: What about the other Great Houses? They're sure to protest.
- Baron Harkonnen: Perverting common wisdom, Nephew, is a mark of all great conspiracies.
- Lady Jessica: We are not like the Harkonnen. You will be treated here with respect.
- Paul Atreides: Well then, if you're right, this place is a trap.
- Duke Leto Atreides: Perhaps. But knowing there's a trap is the first step in evading it.
- Duke Leto Atreides: On Caladan we ruled by air and sea, Paul. And here, we need desert power.
- Duke Leto Atreides: They tried to take the life of my son!
- Princess Irulan: My father will no doubt reward you for such mindless obedience, Captain.
- Baron Harkonnen: I want Leto Atreides to appreciate the beauty of what I've done to him. I want him to know that I, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, am the instrument of his family's demise...the extinction of House Atreides and the ascendance of House Harkonnen!
Muad'Dib
[edit]- Stilgar: Better sometimes to miss an opportunity than invite disaster.
- Stilgar: THERE IS NO YIELDING. IT'S TO THE DEATH, BOY!
- Stilgar: No man recognizes leadership without the challenge of combat.
- Glossu Rabban: SPIES! That's what you are! Spies for the Fremen scum! Fremen scum who raid my spice warehouses! Who destroy royal equipment!
- Glossu Rabban: Send words to the filth of the desert! Tell them what you have seen here! Tell them this is what awaits them!
- Stilgar: What do you see, Muad'Dib, when you go away like that?
- Stilgar: The future, Muad'Dib, just is.
- Guild Agent: The spice must flow.
- Reverend Mother Ramallo: It will take more than courage to survive what's coming.
- Reverned Mother Ramallo: When religion and politics ride in the same cart...the whirlwind follows.
The Prophet
[edit]- Baron Harkonnen: Now let the Emperor mock House Harkonnen, call us swine. Because in the end, his throne will be mine.
- Baron Harkonnen: Why do you think I tolerate the incompetence of your brother? Because it amuses me? Think, Feyd. Think. There must be method to this madness, even though you've been too dull to divine it.
- Emperor Shaddam IV: Have you ever stared into the eyes of a religious fanatic, Baron?
- [no answer]
- Emperor Shaddam IV: Suicide and martyrdom are often the same thing.
- Alia: Goodbye grandfather! You have finally met the Atreides gom jabbar.
- Paul Atreides: If I'm not obeyed...the spice will not flow.
External links
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- Dune (miniseries) quotes at the Internet Movie Database