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"You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind."

"Submerging in that particular oil was problematic since it took the makeup off, and we discovered the [Baron Harkonnen's] suit was buoyant. We lost a full suit cutting holes in it to weigh him down," says [Donald Mowat, make-up artist]. Nor was it fun submerging underneath the murky depths for [Stellan] Skarsgård. "I don't know what that goo was and was a little afraid to ask," he says. "But it was some sort of sticky emulsion of water, slime, oil and black color." He pulled off the scene to reveal full Harkonnen menace, one of the [DUNE (2021)] homages to 1976's APOCALYPSE NOW. | USA Today • Oct 21, 2021

DUNE (2021)

“See you in Arrakis, my boy.”

She brushed the tears coursing down her cheeks, thought: What a stupid waste of the body’s water! But she knew this thought for what it was — the attempt to retreat from grief into anger.