If there is one thing that Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” films are clear, it is because you do not want to play with the Bene Gesserit. They are essentially a cult of space witches, and they are all trained to be as fatal and cunning as possible. They can order you to auction with the voice, and they have occasional access to a Gom Jabbar, a hand -based hand -based needle that will kill you in seconds.
Rebecca Ferguson, who plays in the films “Dune” by Villeneuve as the mother of Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet), the lady Jessica (a witch Bene Gesserit who teaches her son her many skills), has a lot of fun playing such a dangerous character. However, she has regrets about what the first film “Dune” by Villeneuve, in particular, was able to include from Frank Herbert’s source equipment. Like all the cinematographic adaptations, Villeneuve’s “dune” had to drop certain elements of the original book of Herbert, and a large part of the cut equipment would have helped to better illustrate the extent of the way in which the benefits of Bene Gesserit would have been put forward when the film takes place.
Among the scenes that did not make the screen jump – but that Ferguson, in particular, really wanted to include – was a moment of the beginning of Herbert’s novel, in which Jessica discovered a hidden message from another witch Bene Gesserit. The message is a bunch of small points at the back of a sheet; By passing her finger along, Jessica is easily able to decode it. “Your son and the Duke are in immediate danger,” said the message, warning him of the intrigue of assassination against Paul (who is fortunately avoided). The assassination attempt is presented in Villeneuve’s film, but the scene where Jessica discovers it in advance is not:
Rebecca Ferguson hopes that the Dune de Villeneuve in depths the methods of Bene Gesserit
“What I find interesting is the idea that people had to be so tolerant and if before the game,” said Ferguson in an interview in 2024 with Collider. “We often talk about 10 steps in advance; We are talking about being years and light before planting ideas and religious thoughts. One of the [the] Scenes that we did not enter [Villeneuve’s first ‘Dune’ movie]Who was one of my favorites from the book – and I tried to bring us in, but it’s a great moment – is the communication of a profit gasserit to another under the sheet. Sign language. Do you remember? “
She recognized that the Spinoff Max series, “Dune: Prophecy”, plunges more deep into elements like this, but that does not reduce the blow much – since the prequel series “Dune” takes place 10,000 years before Jessica was born. “I mean, that doesn’t give me anything, right?” Ferguson joked. “What am I going to be? Happy for others?”
The good news is that “Dune: Messiah”, the second book “Dune” by Herbert and the third film “Dune” by One Villeneuve will be based, present a lot of besserit to go around. And of course, Jessica does not appear in the new version of “Messiah”, but given the main structural changes that Villeneuve has brought to her films “Dune” so far, it is likely that Jessica will have a role to play in the next one. Maybe she can play the scene in the novel “Messiah” where two women besserit know that they are observed, so that they speak an innocent dialogue with their regular voices while using subtle inflections and facial tics to communicate their true meaning. Their training is so advanced that they can have two entirely different conversations at the same time, with one of them undetectable to the un -driven eye.
It will be a complicated thing to represent on the screen, but I hope Villeneuve takes the risk anyway. Gene Besserit has a lot of cool and advanced communication methods, so Ideadlly we will see as much as possible on the screen.
