#- the voice

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my beautiful manic princess

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We live in a timeline where poof from Fairly OddParents is becoming the next tumblr sexyman

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Agnes Pelton (American, b. Germany, 1881-1961) The Voice, 1930. Oil on canvas

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Theodore Roethke, from "The Voice", The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke [ID'd]

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It’s not right but it’s okay rehearsal

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Thank you for everything, James. Rest in power, King.

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So, I cried yesterday listening to this The Voice battle of two men singing Let the Sunshine from the musical Hair

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Theodore Roethke, Words for the Wind; from ‘The Voice’

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Between the Chani post and the Gom Jabbar post I am having more Voice-control thoughts because like. It's clear that the Villeneuve version of the Voice is not just, you're being physically puppeted around by someone else while you're fully aware of what's happening. It's an altered state of consciousness the subjective experience of which seems much closer to being blackout drunk or drugged.

(In the book the Voice is a much more subtle form of suggestion, more in the Jedi Mind Tricks vein of things. But it makes a lot of sense on film to translate it as direct physical control, which is how both Lynch Dune and Villledune do it.)

So maybe if it's a few seconds of control you experience it like a blackout. You can see this in the way Paul reacts to Mohiam using the Voice and the way that experience is visually represented. He is by the door and then he's across the room on his knees and he has a moment of confusion where it seems like he doesn't know how he got there. He is familiar enough with the Voice to realize that's what just happened but for someone who doesn't know what this power is, you can imagine how confusing and disorienting that would be.

And maybe if it's a longer period of control you start to experience it more like Feyd's encounter with Lady Margot, where it seems like he is slipping in and out of being fully coherent, sometimes seeming like he is in full control of his faculties and other times winding up in a hallway he doesn't recognize without being able to remember how he got there. This scene is also shot and sound-mixed to disorient the viewer and give us some of that subjective experience of being in an altered state.

Chani's Voice encounter is somewhere in between these two in terms of duration and we don't get a lot of subjective information about how she may be experiencing it, but I think it's certainly possible that like...she knows she is somehow responsible for Paul waking up but she can't actually remember what she did, or she has some vague half-conscious memories of not being in control of her actions while it was happening, or she does not remember it at all and has to get someone who was there to tell her what happened, and she only finds out what she did by hearing someone describe this horrifying violation as a miracle.

And we are purely in headcanon territory now but I imagine that even if you can't remember what happened while you were being Voice-controlled, your nervous system would still be like HEY WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT and send you into fight-or-flight mode, so you would have this very visceral feeling that something is Wrong in your body without understanding what or why.

Anyway many new levels of horror to contemplate.

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Niall for The Voice

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Theodore Roethke, from "The Voice", The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke [ID'd]

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Farewell, James Earl Jones

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Mike Shapiro is a legend. From the awesome 20th anniversary documentary with Tyler.

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