The Ending Of Dune 2 Explained

If you're feeling spicy about rebellious real-world metaphors and subversive mythmaking, then here's everything you need to know about the ending of Dune: Part Two.

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Essential plot details | 0:00
How it all goes down | 0:55
Tackling the white savior | 1:49
A critique of religion | 2:33
Capitalism metaphor | 3:26
Another possible explanation | 4:14
The future of the franchise | 5:12
The vision of Alia | 5:59
Chani's possible new role | 6:55
Denis' designs | 7:47
Alternate ending | 8:46

Voiceover By: Tim Bensch

[ranajoypanja]

The biggest question in Dune is, how do they get off the sandworm??

[chrismeyers]

That last scene with the duel between Paul and feyd-rautha was almost exactly how I imagined it. I remember my heart pounding as I read it even though I knew Paul would win; I felt the same way watching it.

[Nightsight]

Did anyone else notice actor Everett McGill (the 1984 Dune's Stilgar) as the Sardukaur leader in the throne room when the Fremen break in? Great cameo!!!

[arkfounder]

Moral of the story: Don't cheat on Zendaya.

[shriekingbushpigshrieking]

I'm glad you mentioned the betrothal would not bare offspring.... it's an important point highlighting Paul's love for Chani.

[krishnanavajothikumar]

10/10 Masterpiece. This is my generation's our LOTR Return of the King, Our Ben Hur and Our Lawrence of Arabia. Denis Villenueve has made a movie that will be spoken of 50 years later as a masterpiece 🔥

[bloodaonadeline]

people have to stop this moronic “white savior” thing. The Fremen were white in the book there is no “white savior.” it’s also not propping up paul as a savior in any real sense.

[twassell]

This movie is on par with empire strikes back in my opinion! What a great film going experience! And i havent been to the theater since oppenheimer. Maybe once a decade movie right here.

[mrrios]

Spoiler Alert





Personally, i loved that paul calls the baron grandfather and then kills him. Its more poétic than the novel

[Weathernerd]

That was one of the best sci fi battle scenes I have ever seen but it left out some key parts of the Dune book and I have mixed feelings about the movie overall.

The first major thing the movie overlooked was the Guild. The Guild Navigators need the spice to fold space. In the book Paul didn't have to ask to ask the great houses to accept him instead he threatened the Guild. Paul said all ships must withdraw or I will flood the spice fields, drown the worms and stop spice production. The Guild Navigators could see the future and they could see that Paul would follow through on his threat. You might be wondering how the Fremen had enough water to do this but in the book Siech Tabr was one of many sieches and each sieach had a big resivor, the Fremen had been slowly collecting water for centuries and by this point they had a substantial amount of water. Some of the great houses wanted to fight Paul but the guild wouldn't fly their ships to Arrakis.

The second major thing the movie failed to explain was why Paul couldn't stop the holy war. Both the book and the movie made it clear that Paul did not want an interplanetary holy war because it would kill billions. Imagine you realize that you can't defeat a powerful enemy without help and you can see the future. When you look at the future you realize you need a crazy groups help to defeat you're enemy but if you go against the crazy groups beliefs you see 100 guns pointed at you and then blackness. Paul saw that the only way to stop the Harkonens was to be the Fremen's prophet but if he went against the Fremen's beliefs he'd be a false prophet and quickly overthrown. Paul hoped to slowly tame the Fremen but in the book he wasn't too successful the holy war still claimed alot of lives. The book did alot better of a job explaining this than the movie. Also in the book Chani much more understanding of Pauls marridge because Paul made it clear that Irulan was his wife in name only and all his affection would go towards Chani. Chani also understood that Paul needed to let his Jihadists blow off some steam if he wanted to keep his head. By the end of the book Chani had also come to the realization that even she didn't like Paul using the Fremen for political gain the Harkonen's needed to be overthrown. Paul didn't have to threaten the emperor to marry Irulan, Paul pointed out that a marriage would make both houses stronger and the emperor could save face making the coming war less sever. The moral of the book was clear repressing people to the point where they become religeous fanatics and then trying to use their religious fanatacism for political gain is a bad idea and you would likely lose control. It was kind of a metaphor for us exploiting middle eastern countries for oil.

In the book Paul's 6 year old sister Alia stapped Barron Harkoonen with the same poisoned needled that the Barron tried to assassinate Paul with and then levitated the dying baron into a sandworms mouth. I thought that was a much more fitting end to the barron than just getting stabbed. Paul sister was known as Saint Alia of the knife after she disposed of the baron.

Finally the movie did not make it clear that Paul saw a future where all of humanity was destroyed. You might wonder why there are no computers/robots in Dune. The are a few prequal books to Dune and in one of the prequels humans fight a war against robots. There are two main robots Omnious and Erasmus. Erasmus is a mad scientist robots who accidentally creates mentats in one of his twisted experiments. The robots are about to wipe out the human race but then Norma Cenva a brilliant mathametician invents faster than light ships and creates the guild, women on a jungle planet Rossak inhale some cave gasses and the first Bene Gesserit Witches are born and a mentat esscapes Erasmus's prison. With the help of the newly formed guild, the first Bene Gesserit sisters and the first mentats it seems like humans defeat the robots. Much later in the serioes you find out that a copy of Omnious and Erasmus made many copies of themselves, a copy escaped and humans must band together to fight off the robots again. Paul sees that if Harkonen's take over they will leave the galaxy in bad shape and humans will fall to the robots.

[VictoriaWElise]

I enjoyed this film more than the first probably because of the importance of Paul’s ascension. Looking forward to the final film to see how they continue from part 2. Timothee did an incredible job

[marsh]

The thing I don't understand.... If the prophecy is totally made up by the bene gesserit then how come Desert Spring's tears woke Paul? If it's just because he is from a powerful bloodline that can survive it anyway then why did he need the tears, and why did the tears bring him back to life "as was written" in the prophecy?

[brandonhill]

Chanis character was way different in tge 2nd half of the movie than the book....and her early irritation is off-putting

[LucyLioness]

I like that the film left off with the image of Chani struggling to maintain her composure after what she has seen Paul begin to do. This film really upped the ante set up by Part 1 and the characters’ growth was improved so much

[Musgravex]

Holy shit this was such an amazing movie to see. Only a little bit disappointed we were still not shown any navigators. I wanna see them

[Mowbee]

Watched the movie today my word, absolutely fantastic and epic.

[sindotj]

Watching Dune 2 in IMAX took this masterpiece to another level...

[howell]

You can look at this from 2 perspectives you clearly see it through a anti religious scope. However this is also a self fulfilling prophecy that bolsters the messianic trope and gives the Stilgar perspective no matter what he does he is the one

[sumerian]

Good movie. Changes : No born Alia, no water of life orgy, no Paul's son getting killed, no Baron Fenring, Chani being way more angry and contrarian than in the book (this one, I dont see the point, and I didnt like), contrary to the movie Paul's coma was lived in relative isolation and played out slightly differently (Jessica tried to revive him in an isolated room for days, and then asked for Chani's help; they were afraid he wouldn't wake up and the Fremen started to have doubts of if he was dead), no Thufir Awat, no Navigators, holy war starts a bit too fast.

[rebeuhsin]

You messed this up very badly. Paul does become a monster, but in the book the reader never knows for sure that Paul is correct or not. He thinks the path he tries to follow is the only way forward to a better galaxy. Paul does not think it leads to happiness for himself, he is sacrificing himself. Paul thinks the massive war is justified, but he might be wrong. Is he wtong? It seems he is, he bought his own BS. (He basically Thanos). Herbert was disappointed that readers often thought Paul is a hero. The movie is making it clear. Btw, it's not capitalist. It is feudalist, mixed with socialist, it is nothing about money. It is about who gets one resource. The corporations mentioned are owned only by the aristocracy, there are no free markets. Everything is either a collective, or a monopoly setup by the crown.