Daily Dialogue — September 28, 2011
Baron Vladimir Harkonnen: I will have Arrakis back for myself! He who controls the Spice controls the universe and what Piter did not tell you is we have control of someone who is very close, very close, to Duke Leto! This person, this traitor, will be worth more to us than ten legions of Sardaukar!
Feyd-Rautha: And who is this, traitor?
Baron Vladimir Harkonnen: I won’t tell you who the traitor is, or when we’ll attack. However, the Duke will die before these eyes and he’ll know, he’ll know, that it is I, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, who encompasses his doom!
— Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Kenneth McMillan), Feyd-Rautha (Sting), Dune (1984), screenplay by David Lynch, based on the novel by Frank Herbert
The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is terrible exposition, suggested by Teddy Pasternak. Dune suggested by tracinell.
Trivia: David Lynch disowned the extended television cut. The name “Judas Booth” that appears as the screenwriter in this cut, is a combination of Judas, the apostle that betrayed Jesus Christ, and John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln’s killer. With this in-joke, David Lynch meant that the studio betrayed him and killed the film. The director’s credit is the usual in these cases Alan Smithee.
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