#the moebius feyd is insane

[wulfhalls]

Stg this is not a bully anon, but a legit question. Please completely remove a certain individual from the equation even. Are you for the stark, industrial, imposing, naked mole rat of it all that was chosen for Geidi Prime in the newest Dune movies or are you for a glam it up sort of fashion, hedonism at its finest over the top rococo inspired insanity? To narrow it down, even, a Feyd Rautha hair truther, cheating cheater-ton meant to mirror Paul to add more oomph to a barely there side character, or the bald I’m taking all of the nastiness of Harkonnen and adding a warped honor? I want to hear your take.

so. I do love the industrial hellscape leni riefenstahl metropolis hr gieger brutslist aesthetic of it all right and I see what denis is going for like wow look at the bad guys they're personified toxic waste! so the post water of life ceremony reveal can be a well. a REVEAL. wow ur blowing our preconceived notions of good guys bad guys out of the water ect. very in ur face stuff which with everything else going on who can really fault him. but. I think it would have preferred the other approach. not just because cunty moebius feyd gilded space versailles extravaganza ect but this blurring of morality and good/bad from the beginning would have added more. also changing the feyd being the best of the harkonnens to being the worst of them really. it took away something. also if austin butler was in a long ass blonde ass wig I would have been much more forgiving of his. everything

[nitewrighter]

Why does Feyd always look gnc af in all the arts? Is he like that in the books?

In the books House Harkonnen is a lot more 'decadent' and 'flamboyant' in general because Frank Herbert's a homophobe and seems to have a serious grudge against bright colors and things being pretty just for the sake of being pretty, but also Feyd's kind of supposed to be a dark reflection of Paul--a pretty boy around age 16 being bounced around by machinations that have been around much, much longer than him. The book emphasizes Feyd being a pretty boy, and Feyd also having a harem--but Feyd himself also plots to kill the Baron to take his seat, but eventually ends up falling begrudgingly within the Baron's control. Feyd's physical appearance in the book is described as "well muscled, with a round sullen face and full lips, and dark hair in close ringlets."

When Jodorowsky was trying to adapt Dune, he had the artist Moebius draw up a bunch of concept art, and they actually wanted to cast Mick Jagger as Feyd Rautha. And this was 1975 Mick Jagger so...

This guy...

In this outfit.

Which like... not gonna lie would have blown 70's audience's tiny minds.

But Jodorowsky was too weird and artsy and horny and Dali was there also being weird and artsy and horny and he wanted to light a giraffe on fire and also get a helicopter and the movie didn't get made but anyway watch the Jodorowsky's Dune documentary because it's insane and the efforts to make this movie did end up influencing sci-fi for the next decade and a half.

BUT fast-forward to 1984, David Lynch adapts Dune, and casts Sting as Feyd Rautha.

(Yes I could have used the codpiece picture but this is his actual outfit for most of the film)

In the David Lynch movie they kind of eschew the whole 'Feyd-plots-to-kill-the-baron' subplot and just have Sting!Feyd be all "Neheheheheh Uncle Baron lets me murder stuff >:]"

So like... arguably, a lot of people get counter-culture vibes from Feyd Rautha and that's why they like casting rock stars for him, because rock and roll itself in the 70's and 80's kind of toed this line of both masculinity and flouting gender norms, and the "Rockstar lifestyle" itself was also a combination of "cool" and "decadent" and "Fucked up" which fit for Feyd and the decadence and flamboyance of House Harkonnen.

Which kind of fits with Frank Herbert's values because I'm pretty sure Frank Herbert hated rock and roll, because Iron Maiden literally wrote a song entirely about Dune and they asked him "Can we title our song 'Dune?'" and Frank was like "No I hate your music." So they titled it "To Tame a Land."

But anyway when you take all of those factors into consideration, it's not surprising that a lot of people's interpretations of Feyd Rautha look GNC as fuck.