Dune Page #4
- PG-13
- Year:
- 1984
- 137 min
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FADE TO:
Paul enters the room and Jessica closes the door
behind them.
JESSICA:
Paul, this is the Reverend Mother Gaius
Helen Mohiam. She is going to... observe
you...
(to Reverend Mother)
Please...
--
REVEREND MOTHER:
Jessica, you know it must be done. I
enjoin you to stand guard at the door and
practice the meditation of peace.
JESSICA:
Your Reverence.
PAUL:
(inner voice)
What does she fear?
(out loud)
What about my Father?
JESSICA:
Paul... please, Paul... listen to the
Reverend Mother and do what she tells you.
Jessica leaves the room. The Reverend Mother speaks
to Paul using The Voice, a Bene Gesserit training
which permits an adept to control others merely by
selected tone shadings of the voice. It sounds as if
two people are talking -- one normal and the other
gutteral and slightly electronic. The effect is
strange, yet subtle.
REVEREND MOTHER:
(using The Voice)
Now you come here.
Paul finds he cannot help but obey her, yet he
fights her controlling him.
PAUL:
(inner voice)
She's using The Voice.
(out loud)
No.
She sees him struggling.
REVEREND MOTHER:
(inner voice)
Some strength there. Surprising!
(out loud)
Come here.
The Reverend Mother holds up a green metal cube.
REVEREND MOTHER (CONT'D)
See this... Put your right hand in the
box.
Paul stares at the hole in the box.
--
PAUL:
What's in the box?
REVEREND MOTHER:
Pain.
Just then, she raises one hand to his neck. Paul
sees a glint of metal. He tries to back away.
REVEREND MOTHER (CONT'D)
(The Voice)
STOP! Put your hand in the box.
Paul's hand goes in. Fear passes over his face.
PAUL:
(inner voice)
The Voice again.
REVEREND MOTHER:
I hold at your neck the gom jabbar. Don't
pull away or you'll feel that poison. A
Duke's son must know about many poisons --
this one kills only animals.
PAUL:
Are you suggesting a Duke's son is an
animal?
REVEREND MOTHER:
Let us say I suggest you may be human.
Your awareness may be powerful enough to
control your instincts. Your instincts
will be to remove your hand from the box.
If you do so you will die. You will feel
an itching -- there... see? Now the
itching becomes burning... heat, upon
heat, upon heat.
PAUL:
(whispering)
It burns.
REVEREND MOTHER:
SILENCE... SILENCE.
PAUL:
(inner voice)(struggling to compose
himself)
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little death that brings total
obliteration. I will face my fear... I
will permit it to pass over me and through
me.
--
The Reverend Mother moves her face up to his. Her
ancient face with its metal teeth gleaming inches
away breathes hotly. She is smiling.
REVEREND MOTHER:
You feel the flesh crisping?
36. THE HAND - PAUL'S MENTAL IMAGE
Paul's inner mind sees his hand on fire with all
sorts of sores. The skin is bubbling.
37. INT. JESSICA'S CHAMBER - CASTLE CALADAN - NIGHT
REVEREND MOTHER:
Flesh dropping off.
38. THE HAND - PAUL'S MENTAL IMAGE
He pictures this. The destruction of his hand is
complete -- now only blood spurts out and burns.
39. INT. JESSICA'S CHAMBER - CASTLE CALADAN - NIGHT
Paul's face registers extreme pain.
PAUL:
(cannot help the explosion)
THE PAIN!
REVEREND MOTHER:
NO!! ENOUGH!! Kull wahad! No woman child
ever withstood that much. I must have
wanted you to fail. Take your hand out of
the box and look at it, young human.... Do
it!
Paul pulls his hand out of the box. No sign of
anything wrong. He turns his hand, flexes his
fingers. He looks to the Reverend Mother.
REVEREND MOTHER (CONT'D)
(explaining)
Pain by nerve induction... A human can
resist any pain. Our test is crisis and
observation.
PAUL:
I see the truth of it.
--
REVEREND MOTHER:
(inner voice)
Could he be the one?... Maybe... but will
he be ours to control?
(out loud)
You know when people speak the truth?
PAUL:
I know it.
Suddenly the Reverend Mother holds her hand against
Paul's head. She closes her eyes.
40. INT. RESERVOIR - SIETCH TABR - NIGHT - REVEREND
MOTHER'S MENTAL IMAGE
She sees a blurred image of Paul's earlier dream.
She sees the beautiful girl turn. She hears a
muffled voice say "Tell me of your homeworld, Usul".
41. INT. JESSICA'S CHAMBER - CASTLE CALADAN - NIGHT
REVEREND MOTHER:
Your mother wants you to tell me about
your dreams. I only want to know one
thing.... Do they come true?
PAUL:
Not all of them... I know which ones will.
REVEREND MOTHER:
Perhaps you are the Kwisatz Haderach.
PAUL:
What is it?
REVEREND MOTHER:
(profoundly)
The person who can be many places at
once... the one who bridges space and
time.... He will look where we cannot.
PAUL:
Where?
REVEREND MOTHER:
Do you know of the Water of Life?... the
Truthsayer drug?
PAUL:
I have heard of it.
--
REVEREND MOTHER:
It is very dangerous... very painful. The
Bene Gesserit sisterhood drink it to see
within.... There is a place terrifying to
us... to women. It is said a man will
come... the Kwisatz Haderach... he will go
where we cannot... Many men have tried...
PAUL:
Did they try and fail?
REVEREND MOTHER:
They tried and died....
(she calls out loudly)
Jessica!
Jessica enters immediately and sees with great
relief that Paul is still active.
REVEREND MOTHER:
I sense your teachings in him. Ignore the
regular order of training. His safety
requires The Voice.
PAUL:
I've heard enough of my safety... What
about my father?... I heard you talking.
You speak as if he was dead. Well, he
isn't!
JESSICA:
Paul!
She tries to hold him.
PAUL:
Well he isn't... and he won't die... Tell
me he won't die!
REVEREND MOTHER:
What can be done has been done.
PAUL:
MOTHER! Tell me!
The Reverend Mother covers herself and moves quickly
to the door.
--
42A. Through 45. (Deleted)
HOME PLANET OF HOUSE HARKONNEN - As seen from space,
the black planet as we saw it in Paul's filmbook.
The surface of the planet is a vast sea of black
oil. A small cable car traverses high above the sea
toward a gigantic black city in the shape of a
rectangular box over 100 stories high. Before the
city there are rows of huge black towering steel
heads atop massive furnaces. SMOKE billows out of
their mouths.
48. INT. CABLE CAR - GIEDI PRIME - DAY
Inside the cable car stands PITER. In one hand he
holds the cylinder with DUKE Leto's ring imprint.
PITER:
It is by will alone I set my mind in
motion.
It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts
acquire speed -
The lips acquire stains -
It is by will alone I set my mind in
motion.
48A. INT. GREEN PORCELAIN ROOM - GEIDI PRIME
Somewhere in the interior of Geidi Prime, we are in
a green porcelain room. Two large Harkonnen
soldiers, using large hoses, are washing down the
walls and floors of the room. WE MOVE DOWN into the
water rushing along the floor towards troughs.
Closer, WE SEE bits of flesh, hair, and blood.
The car zooms past gigantic faces, and the furnaces
far below ROAR with tremendous power. The city now
looms gigantic and overpowering -- millions of
electrical cables stretch off the top into dark
energy taps above the city.
--
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