Children of Dune
2003 (mini)
Leto: I will not fear. Fear is the mind killer. I will face my fear, I will let it pass through me.
Paul Atreides: The Golden Path is dangerous... the desert storm that cannot be stopped. You will become that storm; the whirlwind! And nothing will be able to stop you, not even yourself!
Ghanima: History is written on the sands of Arrakis. A chapter has ended, swept away by the whirlwind. One door has closed, but another has opened. And on the other side... our future...
Ghanima: He runs and runs and runs. And when he's exhausted himself, he returns to me, puts his head in my lap and asks me to help him find a way to die. Farad'n Corrino: But why does he want to die? Ghanima: To save himself from the sacrifices he must make, sacrifices for the future of us all Farad'n Corrino: Then there is a place for me in this future? Ghanima: Your blood was spared the day Leto came back to me. Farad'n Corrino: What of our marriage then? Ghanima: (Ghani turns around) As my mother was not wife, you shall never be husband. Farad'n Corrino: Politics. Ghanima: Politics. But in time, there my be love, which is more then my brother will have. (Ghani looks out into the desert) Ghanima: One of us had to accept the agony. He was always the stronger. History is written on the sands of Arrakis. A chapter has ended, swept away by the whirlwind. One door has closed but another has opened and on the other side... our future.
Alia: Help me, Mother. Leto: (sets a knife down in front of Alia) Help yourself.
Leto: Behold me, family! (lets out a sandworm's roar) Leto: I am Leto, Lion of Atreides, returned from the desert to announce Sachar Nabai - The Golden path, to rid humanity of the perversions done in Muad'dib's name and to save it from the abomination know as Alia
Leto: Alia's water. Take it into the desert and spread it upon the open sand in the midday sun. It is our way. Are you going back to Sietch Tabr? Stilgar: I wish to return to our old ways. Leto: The deserts dying, Stil. Stilgar: And the Freman too, I'm afraid. Leto: We're about to go through the crucible, but we'll come out the other side. We always arise from our own ashes. Everything returns later in its... changed form. Stilgar: (Leto hands Stil Pauls ring) Your grandfather's ring... and your father's. Leto: And now the Fremen's, to remind you of Muah'dib. To remind that all humans make mistakes, and that all leaders are but human.
Irulan: (Obviously afraid as her stepchildren fly her near three large sandworms) Fear is the mind killer... Ghanima: (to her brother, Leto) I'm afraid she's about to let it pass through her.
Leto: I'm here, Father, as you knew I would be. We go forward; we go back. Don't be afraid. We're pre-born, my sister and I. Thanks to our mother and the spice... thanks to you! Yes, Father, it is me! Use my eyes, Father. Let me see for you.
Paul Atreides: I meddled in the future, in all possible futures, trying to create them. Instead they created me... and I became trapped by it.
Leto: Knowing there's a trap is the first step in evading it... the first step along the Golden Path. Don't be afraid, Father. The answer is right in front of you.
Duncan Idaho: They say he has gone on a journey... into the land where men walk without footprints. He will not be found. Yet all men will find him.
Lady Jessica Atreides: Concentrate on visualizing the flow of time. It must move, not you.
Leto: A myth I have allowed to persist until I am ready.
The Preacher: You have no idea who I am!
Leto: It is all we may ever have.
Leto: I am a desert creature.
The Preacher: You cannot control the future!
The Preacher: He was trapped by his own prophesy. A victim of what he knew he could not choose!
Leto: So I have chosen! To make a world where human kind can create its own future from moment to moment... Free of one man's vision... Free from the perversions of the prophet's words. And free of future predetermined.
Leto: (tearing) How many nights... I have sat on Dune, just like this, imagining a night, just like this, with. with my father. Just the two of us... talking and laughing. And how many nights I have gone to sleep on the cold floor of the sietch, dreaming of his arms around me, sheltering me from everything I was afraid of, everything I could not understand! The Preacher: (pause) Are you still a good fremin? Leto: Yes. The Preacher: Then will you permit a blind man to go out into the desert, and find peace on his own terms? Leto: Not yet.
Leto: We're about to go through the crucible. But we'll come out the other side. We always arise from our own ashes. Everything returns later in its changed form.
Leto: Remember the words of my father and my grandfather, your duke. They spoke to you of desert power. I am desert power and nothing can stop what is going to happen.
Wensicia: Don't you find it interesting Jessica, how the sins of the mother bloom in the children they bear?
Alia: I hate you. I love you. I will never forgive you.
Leto: To know the future is to be trapped by it, Grandmother. My father knew it but he couldn't escape it. I want more freedom than that! A universe of surprises, that is what I pray for. Lady Jessica Atreides: Is such a universe possible for someone like you? Leto: Possible? Yes. But is it desireable? I have a difficult decision to make, Grandmother. Do I accpet the Atreides mystic, dress myself in our myths, live for my subjects and die for them? Or do I choose another path? A golden path? One that may change me, may change human destiny forever?
Irulan: I did love your son, Jessica. And I would have made him a good wife. Instead I have satisfied myself being a good teacher to his children and friend. Nothing, nothing will harm them as long as I can prevent it. Do you understand?
Lady Jessica Atreides: I don't understand. Leto: No, I know you don't. Because you do not understand time. Lady Jessica Atreides: I can help you, Leto. Leto: Oh, on the contrary, Grandmother. It is I who will help you.
Alia: One day each of you will come face to face with the horror of your own existence. One day you will cry out for help. One day each of you will find yourselves alone.
(repeated line) Leto: My skin is not my own.
Wensicia: You insolent bastard! Farad'n Corrino: Let's not discuss your weaknesses now, mother.
Stilgar: Your grandfather's ring and, your father's
Leto: And now the Fremens. To remind you of Muadib. To remind you that all humans make mistake. To remind you that all leaders are but human.
Bijaz: Forgeting is not having till the words are right.
Lady Jessica Atreides: I hate this planet, Gurrney, stole both men I loved.
Irulan: I am his wife! Chani: You have his name! I am the one he calls wife!
Irulan: (narrated) When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.
Irulan: Must you insist on sneaking away like this? Ghanima: I still feel him (Leto) , Irulan, his presence; sometimes I even think I can hear his laughter in the wind. Irulan: Mocking your decision to marry Farad'n I hope? Ghanima: Why should he mock it? Irulan: I cannot stand by and let you be used as a pawn in Alia's schemes. Ghanima: Is that what you think? That I'm being used? That I've agreed to this marriage as part of some conspiracy with Alia? Irulan: No, but I know you Ghani, there is more to your decision than anyone else believes. Ghanima: Alia wants my grandmother back, Farad'n is simply the means. Irulan: But what do you want? Ghanima: Farad'n's blood on the wedding sheets, not mine.
Alia: We will have a corner on the scarcest commodity in the universe! Lady Jessica Atreides: You will have a corner in hell!