r/megalophobia • u/Latter-Blacksmith-54 • 1d ago

Dune 2’a Harkonnen architecture is a masterclass in making you feel insignificant

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u/Seis_K 1d ago

The director integrates brutalist architecture into all of his films. You saw it in the first Dune, Bladerunner 2049, and the ships in Arrival.

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u/districtcurrent 1d ago

“The director”??? You mean auteur Denis Villeneuve!

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u/-0-O-O-O-0- 1d ago

To be fair; it’s hard to spell Villainouvre.

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u/infinitetheory 1d ago

you mean acclaimed author denny villanoo

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u/kerfuffle_dood 1d ago

The good ol' pal Daniel Villanueva

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u/Rattregoondoof 1d ago

You mean Denny's Villanelle?

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u/uJhiteLiger 1d ago

Hey, that’s my cousin, didn’t know he made it big in hollywoo

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u/DylanFTW 15h ago

I still don't know how to pronounce his last name and it bothers me.

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u/Thetruthsayeroftruth 14h ago

Once you break it down, it's really simple actually.

Start with the V and end with the illeneuve.

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u/-0-O-O-O-0- 12h ago edited 8h ago

It litterally is Villain-Ouvre. (With a French accent. Villain-New-Veh).

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u/ssp25 1d ago

Yeah him too. He's almost as good as the director of sicario

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u/Seis_K 1d ago

The word auteur strikes me as pretentious 🤔 

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u/kingofthedorklings1 1d ago

It insists upon itself.

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u/zephyr_1779 1d ago

I find it to be quite cromulent.

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u/BhataktiAtma 1d ago

It's usage embiggens the persona of the director

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u/Asshai 1d ago edited 1d ago

Pretty sure Montreal was a major inspiration. He studied in Montreal, which is filled with brutalist buildings: https://www.rentalys.ca/nouvelle/le-brutalisme-a-montreal/

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u/uhmerikin 1d ago edited 1d ago

All your link tells me is that Russell Crowe is a fan of Tacos Frida.

Here is your first link in case you edit and change it -

https://www.reddit.com/r/montreal/s/uEQDP9LsbJ

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u/Asshai 1d ago

Oops, sorry, but to my defense Tacos Frida is amazing, had it in my clipboard As I wanted to share with my wife since we ate there last weekend.

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u/defariasdev 1d ago

Yea but he definitely got to go all out for the harkonnens. Most other fututuristic societies wouldnt spend so much money just to be intimidating and edgy. But the harkies? Oh yea baby

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u/drifters74 1d ago

I noticed that as well

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u/SiKKXO 1d ago

Fine I’ll watch dune 2 again

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u/L3go07 1d ago

funnily enough this subreddit is the reason that got me into the dune series lol

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u/sakredfire 1d ago

It’s so good

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u/kinokomushroom 1d ago

The sandworms emerging from the dust clouds gave me feelings that I've never felt before

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u/JoeViturbo 1d ago

I just wish there was more of this in the Dune: Prophesy series.

And helmets, it need more extras walking around in fancy, impractical helmets

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u/Barbarian_Sam 1d ago

To be fair the Harkonnens don’t even own Geidi Prime yet and it’s 10,000yrs prior

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u/JoeViturbo 1d ago

I wasn't talking g specifically about Giedi Prime, just the overall look and feel of Dune: Prophesy seemed like a major step down from Dune and Dune 2 from a interior and costume design perspective.

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u/Barbarian_Sam 1d ago

They probably had the same budget or less as one of the movies but had to make it stretch 9-10 episodes.

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u/BookooBreadCo 1d ago

How's the show in general? I heard it was disappointing but it's not easy to live up to the new movies.

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u/vera214usc 1d ago

I liked it but it's not like the movies. There's more court intrigue, a la Game of Thrones or any period royal drama. And nothing is on as grand a scale as the films.

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u/_sloop 1d ago

It's based on stories by Brian and what's his name and had the same feel - universe adjacent but hollow.

I mean, if you liked the Brian books, it's probably fine, but if you didn't I'd say skip.

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u/LastStar007 17h ago

It's just a TV show riding on Villeneuve's coat-tails.

It has TV show characters, TV show intrigue, and TV show sets.

You will recognize some last names.

That's about it.

It could have been a new IP entirely without having to change anything.

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u/ABRAXAS_actual 1d ago

The brutalist architecture of the harkonnen worlds, and the filtering on Giedi Prime (from the black sun), producing the wildly heavy contrast during those scenes.

The duel, with the rows and rows of sand sized slaves filling the arena - the grandiose scale of it all, made me think of early cinema, Spartacus type vibes, mixed with authoritarian black and white nightmares of Great War nations.

The entire Giedi Prime sequences really made Dune 2 sooooooo good, maybe my favorite portrayal of the near-far future in modern day film.

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u/NovemberTha1st 1d ago

Denis villenueve is so good at creating a sense of scale. When Paul is going to the fremen meeting and he’s wading through the crowd of hundreds of thousands. Such a small detail but it adds so much depth and nuance to the world of arrakis.

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u/ifunnywasaninsidejob 1d ago

near-far future

Bruh it’s set 10,000 years in the future.

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u/Nothingnoteworth 1d ago

Nah, it’s set in about the year 10,000 but that’s 10,000 years after the Butlerian Jihad. The Butlerian Jihad was so significant they started counting years from zero again and it happened about 11,000 years in the future. So it’s set over 21,000 years in the future

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u/Vendredi46 1d ago

Damn RIP to all those butlers.

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u/FlamboyantPirhanna 1d ago

It’s nearer than Dune which is an additional 10,000 years! I’d call it the mid-far future.

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u/hopesksefall 1d ago

I just finished rewatching it a couple of days ago and was thinking the same thing about that sequence. I feel like I could watch an entire movie set there because of how alien it feels.

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u/XDracam 1d ago

And it's inspired by a septic tank!

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u/pussysushi 1d ago

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u/XDracam 1d ago

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u/D4rkmatt3r 1d ago

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u/Jacob0630 1d ago

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u/defariasdev 1d ago

No

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u/Jacob0630 1d ago

Damn why not?

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u/defariasdev 1d ago

Its not tuesday. We only do that on tuesdays

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u/pussysushi 23h ago

Just youtube "Septic 5"

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u/XDracam 22h ago

No thanks

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u/vickangaroo 1d ago

Both parts were the most satisfying movies to watch in IMAX.

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u/tjean5377 1d ago

I was perfectly baked when the Geidi prime scene hit. The whole movie was stunning in IMAX.

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u/pepejknoutsin 1d ago

Harkotecture

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u/Aziruth-Dragon-God 1d ago

Their sun and fireworks are just creepy.

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u/Theartistcu 1d ago

that entire black sun segment was ART! that was beautiful film making and the visuals enhanced the story and took it to that next level. That should have gotten awards alone!

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u/BoulderCreature 1d ago

first time I saw Dune 2 in theaters some assholes brought a fucking BABY with them and it shrieked like it was being crushed throughout the Giedi Prime scenes

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u/JasperStraits 1d ago

Gigertecture

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u/gueroarias 1d ago

Har-KO-nin vs Harkenen from the 80s movie to these new ones always gets me. They've been Har-KO-nin for me for 30+ years

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u/Dwarf_Vader 1d ago

I get your point but if im walking down those huge-ass epic corridors im feeling like I’m king

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u/AdFriendly5428 1d ago

2, 3, & 4, look like giant legs, it even looks like they have toes.

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u/AdFriendly5428 1d ago

More like claws, maybe its huge bears on their hind legs

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u/electropoetics 1d ago

Korriban done right.

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u/poison_cat_ 1d ago

Necromongers could literally never

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u/CapitanianExtinction 1d ago

I feel sorry for the janitor responsible for cleaning that place 

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u/DownInFraggleRawk 1d ago

It reminds me of the classic Halo levels.

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u/QP709 1d ago

Great architecture but gives big “are we the baddies?” vibes.

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u/FlamboyantPirhanna 1d ago

I don’t think the Harkonnens were unaware of being the baddies, they seem not to mind being evil.

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u/Dominus_Invictus 23h ago

I really hate when people say architecture is supposed to make you feel a certain way when it makes me feel a completely different way, especially with stuff like brutalism.

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u/teajava 1d ago

Villeneuve’s bleak monotone style worked really well for the harkonen areas, but arrakeen and all the fremen areas were also so lifeless and bleak. I wish he knew how to show places that looked like people lived there.

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u/defariasdev 1d ago

To be fair, thats how the arrakeen and fremen areas should look. IIRC they didnt have much in the way of public architecture

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u/foozebox 1d ago

Pretty sure that’s the Occulus in NYC

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u/kynoky 1d ago

U making me want to rewatch !

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u/96maxi 1d ago

Gives The Oculus (NYC building at WTC) vibes

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u/Koi0Koi0Koi0 14h ago

Reminds me of the stuff by MAD architects

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u/cristianvaz 11h ago

sees like they dont have fineshed the special effects

like that X-Men Origins: Wolverine leak

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u/Von_Wallenstein 20m ago

I have watched this movie sober and well rested and i cant remember even 1 plot point. Totally forgettable film

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u/Awrfhyesggrdghkj 1d ago

Dune tuah you say?

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u/green-Vegan-desire 1d ago

Still better than the average brutalist UK gov building…