#nefud

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[gotham-at-nightfall]

The plots and treasons of House Harkonnen!

Dune: The Graphic Novel #3

[shiveringsoldier]

Still thinking about Lawrence of Arabia and thinking specifically about Lawrence and Ali being one another’s foils.

We have a rather violent introduction to Ali, but his actions become increasingly nonviolent as the film progresses. Lawrence progresses in the opposite way.

Before we hear his voice or see his face, Ali kills Lawrence's guide, Tafas. He does so quickly and cleanly, firing only one shot, and he shows no remorse afterwards. When Lawrence says Tafas was his friend, Ali simply replies, "That?" Lawrence is appalled by the act and asserts that “none of [his] friends is a murderer.” He also throws in a good heaping of racism, calling the Arabs "a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous, and cruel."

Later in Part I, Ali objects to Lawrence's desire to rescue Gasim, but his objections are utilitarian more than anything else. The Nefud Desert is a cruel, unforgiving place, seemingly impossible to cross. If Gasim isn't dead now, he will soon be, and it would be suicide to go back for him. Lawrence's successful, albeit defiant, rescue mission earns him Ali's respect. But Lawrence is later forced to kill Gasim to protect a newfound alliance. In contrast to Ali's quick murder of Tafas, Lawrence's execution of Gasim is shoddy. He fires several bullets before finally managing to kill him, and he immediately discards his pistol in disgust. Near the end of Part I, Lawrence confesses that he enjoyed the killing. None of his friends is a murderer, but he is now a murderer who enjoyed committing the murder.

In the latter half of Part II, Lawrence leads an Arab army on a mission to take Damascus. During the journey, they come upon the ruins of a village as well as the Turkish soldiers who presumably ransacked the village. Ali, seeing Lawrence’s desire to kill the soldiers, all but begs him not to do it. Lawrence instead leads and gleefully participates in a massacre, gunning down surrendering soldiers without a second thought. Ali participates as well, but reluctantly and only briefly. Ali cries out in horror even when the carnage has only just begun. After his very brief participation in the slaughter, he looks for Lawrence in the chaos and pleads with him to make it stop. In the aftermath, Ali spits Lawrence’s racist words from Part I back in his face: “Does it surprise you, Mr. Bentley? Surely you know the Arabs are a barbarous people, barbarous and cruel. Who but they? Who but they?” Lawrence has become the cold-blooded murderer, and Ali has become repulsed by the violence.

They are also foils in the way they dress, with Lawrence’s white garb and Ali’s black garb. The state of their clothing reflects their arcs as well. Ali’s clothing rarely becomes dirty. There’s some dust on the lower end of his robe, but that’s generally it. Ali gifts Lawrence with his Bedouin attire following his rescue of Gasim. Lawrence dirties his attire when he fails to save Daud. (He blames himself for Daud’s death to the point of viewing himself as his killer.) His clothing becomes positively filthy during the massacre. The last time we see Lawrence in his Bedouin garb, it is still stained with the dried blood of murdered Turks.

I love their arcs individually and even more in tandem. It adds to the tragedy.

[ladesertrose]

“The Nefud cannot be crossed.”

“I’ll cross it if you will 👀”

Side note: His ear looks pitiful but I’m learning 😂

[mlobsters]

rewatching dune (1984) which i've seen a handful of times, fallen asleep during the desert scenes more than once, and have a fondness for but also haven't watched it in at least a decade. i want to watch the new movies but wanted to refresh my memory on this movie again first

something very brazil (1985) about this

talking giant brain creature has a vulva mouth, how could i forget

the shields and the slow knife live rent free in my head

let 👏 characters 👏 sweat👏

uh oh paul's gotta fight the spiky dick

paul's dad gave me willem dafoe double take

i think what was so effective for me in this movie was how memeable it was. i read the book and for some reason it was a slog for me, but that plus the movie really drilled these phrases into my daily thoughts. the sleeper must awaken, arrakis dune desert planet, fear is the mind killer, the spice must flow etc.

so i wonder if one of the main issues with this movie that people have is how much it relies on voiceover. i don't know about the complaints, just that it's generally not liked

👄

sweattty

"you are so beautiful, my baron. your skin, love to me. your diseases lovingly cared for, for all eternity." and they say romance is dead

i remember the heart plug pull vividly but the implied sexual assault while he's bleeding out by the baron, not so much. the gays are evil, guys

i feel like jessica and rachael from blade runner (1982) occupy the same place in my brain. another movie that put me to sleep a lot, with that afternoon sun and the smoke. knocks me right out

pulsating, then squirting for spacetime folding, got it 📝

is this not what hentai jizz looks like?

3 squirts and we made it to arrakis, dune, desert planet

i genuinely like how they do the shield effects

i had to go find clips of dean stockwell as al in quantum leap because i was so sure his voice was so much lower in that compared to this. and yes, it is! good job, brain

duke: "damn the spice!" *gasp*

you know, it's been a long ass time since i watched this. and the constant voiceover of characters voicing their thoughts is really getting heavy handed. show not tell, amirite 🤪 maybe it's because i know the story already, but for the most part i feel like the voiceover specifically to the character thoughts wasn't even explaining anything that wasn't already expressed in the scene anyway most of the time

the effects were nice having the sand blowing off, really helped give it scale

and now paul's gotta deal with the itty bitty flying dick of death!

so they make the bad guy fat with visible illness on his face, a murdering gay rapist and he wears nail polish. oh, and red hair. really hitting it out of the park

i think about this poison gas tooth thing on the regular

captain picard shouting "long live duke leto" while holding the pug and rushing into battle, i started cackling

womp womp with the poison tooth fail ;(

jack nance as nefud / bill smitrovich in life goes on (1989-1993)

i keep thinking he's the dad from life goes on

for whatever reason, the thumpers are what always captured my imagination. i think i just like the sounds.

paul: "Remember, walk without rhythm and we won't attract a worm. It will go to the thumper."

anyway, walk without rhythm and it won't attract the worm how did i not realize until this very moment that song was a reference to dune! haha. walk without rhythm is such a strange turn of phrase

tell me of your home world, usul!

also forgot the lusting after his nephew, sting. they really went all out making the harkonnens the most grotesque

baron: "A poison has been introduced into your body, Thufir Hawat. By milking this, this smooth little cat's body, you receive your antidote. It must be done each day."

i think this must be past the point when i usually fell asleep watching this. i know i've seen it all the way through more than once but apparently milking a cat???? didn't leave an impression. also this just never comes up again. but bro made it to the end of the movie so i guess he was successful in milking it

the truly unfortunate green screening is consistently the worst effect, a shame

reverend mother: "There is a place… terrifying to us, to women." paul: "This is the place they cannot look. Traveling without moving."

lol what. silly girls are afraid of teleportation 😔

pacing is all over the place. it was going okay but then paul's making out with chani, his sister is born and is like 8 years old now (heyo baby alicia witt), we gotta zoom through 2 years of war and boop boop now paul's drinking the blue water and going where no woman can go while they all bleed from their face parts

space cigarettes, no problem. but then they gotta go try to make this glowing golden thing and it's terrible

would be remiss to not include the dick shaped harkonnen ships but i ran out of images ;<

this big showdown with the emperor etc i am hanging on by a thread to not fall asleep/close :p truly lost the plot. way too much worm action, way too long of boring repetitive action sequences

using my image last slot for having the baby kill the baron/send him on his way to become a worm snack

LOL the pug is in this big fremen gathering! captain picard managed to survive and keep the dog alive! good god will this ever end. now we're gonna have the world's slowest knife fight with sting

and now it's raining somehow. sure

oh my god. that took forever. ok well, i can see why this movie has put me to sleep more than once and panned. and there's some really memorable and interesting things about it, and i think it goes fairly strong (with some issues like excessive voiceover) for the first 2/3 or so. but oof. i definitely liked it more 20 years ago :p anyway, i'm glad i watched it again so i could take off the rose tinted glasses before watching the new movies

[gggoldfinch]

the reason iakin nefud wasn't in villeneuve!dune was because no one could ever out-do jack nance's portrayal of him in 1984

[ahandfulwithquietness]

T.E. Lawrence 1917

photographed by B.E. Leeson (member of the Royal Flying Corps at Wejh aerodrome), shortly before setting off on his journey through the Nefud desert to Akaba.

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[orlaite]

everything that happens after Lawrence rides out of the Nefud with Gasim until he rides away and meets Auda is just the most Hays Code and BBFC compliant gay wedding

[raurquiz]

#otd #dune #PaulAtreides #chani #PrincessIrulan #LadyJessica #PiterDeVries #ThufirHawat #DuncanIdaho #Stilgar #BaronVladimirHarkonnen #Nefud #ReverendMother #LetoAtreides #GurneyHalleck #FeydRautha @Kyle_MacLachlan @SirPatStew @OfficialSting @madlyv

[cacatoto-2024]

Tayma

Tayma (bahasa Arab: تيماء, translit. Tyamah), juga disebut Teman atau Tyeman (Kitab Habakuk 3:3) adalah oasis besar yang pernah terdapat permukiman besar hampir sepanjang sejarahnya, terletak di jalur perdagangan kuno antara Madinah dan Dumah (al-Jauf) melintasi gurun Nefud, kini bagian dari Arab Saudi. Tayma terletak 264 kilometer (164 mil) tenggara kota Tabuk, dan 400 kilometer (250 mil) utara Madinah

[gotham-at-nightfall]

Baron Harkonnen retightens his grip on Arrakis!

DUNE: The Graphic Novel #2

[skitskatdacat63]

hello i also adore lawrence of arabia! it's so beautiful! ive got a poster of it and everything lol

Omggggggg I'm so jealous!!! All the movie posters from that time are so beautiful 🥺🥺 also I'm glad to hear from someone's who's watched it :D I only personally know like 3(now 4!) other people who've seen it

But yeah ever since I saw it again in theaters, I've been obsessively thinking about it's beauty 😭😭 I'm so brainrotted by the first half specifically, I need to inject it in my bloodstream. I just love the section when they cross the Nefud, so cool. I often dislike deserts in games cause they're usually vast and barren. But honestly, the way the cinematography of Lawrence portrayed deserts makes me appreciate them more tbh 🥺 I need to get it out of my head though because I keep constantly sidelining whatever I'm doing so I can stare at screenshots and cry LMFAO

[ginesincastillos]

BSO Lawrence de Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia Compositor: Maurice JarreFormato: Mp3Calidad: 320 KbpsPeso: 91 MbENLACE A BSOContraseña: VNDKUUKV_QN2kwMjDV4L2VzfnlrFRPrK4TVdWLi5I5Y Piezas que deberías escuchar: 02 – Main Title (Lawrence of Arabia) (Recomendada) 06 – Nefud Mirage 08 – Lost in the Desert (Recomendada) 09 – Bringing Gasim into Camp 11 – The Voice of the Guns 12 – Entr’Acte (Recomendada) 15 – End…

[rodwhite]

Wrangling about law when "nothing is written"

One of my favorite scenes in the masterpiece, Lawrence of Arabia, shows what happens after Lawrence returns from his journey across the Nefud desert. He has just accomplished the impossible by taking the Ottoman port of Aqaba from the desert side.  Having returned across the deadly, scorching expanse, he is told one of his companions, Gasim, fell off his camel and was left behind. He is advised…

[guhhhhhhhhhhh]

Feeling like Lawrence when he collapses into bed after coming out of the nefud

[andronetalks]

Life-size images of extinct camel species found carved into stones in Saudi Arabia

Phys Org By Bob Yirka October 4, 2023 An international team of archaeologists has discovered life-size images of an extinct camel species carved into rock formations in Saudia Arabia. In their project, reported in the journal Archaeological Research in Asia, the group discovered the carvings on a rock outcropping in the Nefud desert. Historians have found it difficult to learn much about the…