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Feyd is extremely corrupt and has tried to assassinate his uncle, the Baron, several times. After the Baron avoids a poison dart imbedded in a boy he was about to rape/kill, the Baron summons Feyd and tells him the assassination attempts have to stop because he is to be his heir. Feyd agrees. The Baron punishes Feyd by making him to go the slave quarters and kill every female in the pleasure wing with his own hands. |
The Baron tells Feyd that the soldier Feyd killed in the arena was not drugged so that Feyd would look better to the crowd. The Baron says he is giving Dune to Feyd and this will allow him to eventually sit on the throne. |
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During the duel in the arena, the Baron is talking to Count Fenring. The conversation drifts to the Emperor’s prison planet and how the Baron is thinking of turning Dune into a prison planet of his own. This is a very dangerous conversation for the Baron to have as the Emperor has his own prison planet upon which he selects men for his elite soldiers called the Sardaukar. The Count suspects that the Baron might be trying to raise an army of Fremen to defeat the Emperor. |
No conversation between the Baron and the Count in the film.
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The Lady Fenring is present along with the Count to seduce Feyd and bear a daughter for the Bene Gesserit Kwisatz Haderach breeding program. Feyd disgusts Lady Fenring, she wants to seduce Feyd then leave the planet. She eventually gets pregnant with his child. |
Feyd finds Lady Margo Fenring wandering around the arena. Lady Fenring tests Feyd with the pain box and Gom Jabber. She also seduces him and becomes pregnant with his child. |
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This does not happen in the book. |
The Baron installs Feyd as the ruler of Dune.
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Paul and the Fremen ambush Gurney Hallack’s group of smugglers. After they are captured, Gurney warns Paul that there are some men in his group that cannot be trusted. As soon as he says this, fighting break out between some of the smugglers and the Fremen. The fighters are Sardaukar and are looking for Muad’Dib. The Sardukar manage to kill some of the Fremen, but are quickly overwhelmed. Two of the Sardukar are kept alive and later released to send a message to the Emperor. |
Gurney Hallack journey’s into the southern desert with smugglers in search of spice. This group is ambushed by Fremen. Paul takes Gurney down without injuring him. He orders the Fremen to stop attacking the smugglers. |