Children of Dune (2003)
James McAvoy: Leto Atreides II
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Quotes
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Leto : I will not fear. Fear is the mind killer. I will face my fear, I will let it pass through me.
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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 Muad'Dib. To remind you that all humans make mistakes, and that all leaders are but human.
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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.
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The Preacher : [feeling Leto's sandworm skin, speaking in Fremen language] This is no good!
Leto : [spoken in Fremen language] This is all the good we may ever have.
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[repeated line]
Leto : My skin is not my own.
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Irulan : [obviously afraid as her stepchildren fly her near three large sandworms] Perhaps a slightly higher altitude would be advisable, Leto.
Leto : Do you know, my father used to love being this close to the ground when he flew?
Irulan : And you, of course, know this intuitively, don't you? Just like how you knew to fly it without any training.
Leto : Don't forget your Bene Gesserit training, step-mother. Fear is the mind killer.
Ghanima : I'm afraid she's about to let it pass through her.
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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.
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Alia : I heard about your little stunt in the desert.
Leto : Well, I prefer to think of it as expert flying but carry on...
Alia : With your encouragement of course!
Ghanima : Our Father's memories were very instructive.
Alia : Well, I suppose I should be grateful I don't have to tell your grandmother you were lost to a worm before she was supposed to see you.
Ghanima : That would have been an unpleasant task, wouldn't it?
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Gurney Halleck : My loyalty is to House Atreides.
Leto : Well, I am House Atreides.
Gurney Halleck : And what of your Aunt?
Leto : My Aunt is lost; lost to forces she could not control. Forces that wish to destroy House Atreides.
Gurney Halleck : What have you done to yourself?
Leto : I have made a choice, accepted a destiny, nothing more.
Gurney Halleck : My eyes can see it; but my mind refuses to believe.
Leto : Believe it Gurney. Remember the words of my father and my grandfather, your Duke. They spoke to you of Desert Power. Well, I AM Desert Power, and nothing can stop what is going to happen.
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Leto : I am a desert creature.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Leto : A myth I have allowed to persist until I am ready.
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Leto : It is all we may ever have.
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Leto : Put the weapon away, cast out. That is what you are? Adopting the cameleon colors of a smuggler tribe in order to keep your true identities hidden.
Sabiha : Allowing us to survive, trading Spice.
Leto : That's not all, is it? You're breeding Sand Trout. I've seen the holding pens. Selling Worms off-planet you hope to break the Atreides monopoly on Spice.
Sabiha : It is dangerous for you to know these things.
Leto : More dangerous for you; none of your Worms survive long away from Dune.
Sabiha : Not yet.
Leto : Not ever.
[takes a drink of Spice]
Sabiha : You're already saturated with Spice.
Leto : Then it can no longer harm me. I have survived the Crucible Sabiha. I have silenced the voices within that would have possessed me. Only I remain now; to do what I must do.
Sabiha : And what is that?
Leto : Save the desert.
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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.
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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?
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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.
[using the Voice]
