Take any person who was once fat and became skinny OR was once skinny and became fat. Compare their moral fortitude between both states. Skinny people are simply better.
Being skinny indicates the capability for discipline and self improvement, being fat indicates you're a hedonistic frick who chases short term dopamine rush. It's not a coincidence that gluttony was deemed a deadly sin.
He's meant to represent the American government's insatiable lust for oil (spice) even and especially at the expense of poor desert people. It makes sense he'd be morbidly obese.
>full russian name
Delete your post. Harkonnen (almost certainly, like every name ending in "-nen") derives from the common Finnish name "Härkönen".
It's one of our few claims to fame.
Problem is that Harkonnens have Russian names, the Harkonnens oppression of sand people is allegory of first Tsarist Russia and then commie homosexual exploitation of Afghanistan for oil and minerals, but nice try.
the Harkonnens are supposed to be over-the-top evil as a contrast to the nobility of
House Atreides. So they engage in hedonism and ever possible vice. The Baron can't just be fat, he has to be as fat as humanly possible and riddled with disease.
The movie kinda ignores this in favor of making them more generically fascist. Sorta cool visuals aside they kinda suck in the movie and the Baron comes of as kinda of a moron in the second one.
>the Baron comes of as kinda of a moron in the second one.
he comes across as a moron in the books too if you keep track of his actions and ignore Frank's limp attempts to convince you he's some kind of machievellian genius.
>Why was he fat
he is addicted to binge eating like he's addicted to boys.
Baron is a midwit but also an experienced tyrant. Unlike his eating and perversion, he is quite patient when it comes to political power challenges. his biggest flaw is underestimating people.
He wasn't disgusting enough. They dialed it back too much. He should have been a lot more diseased looking and even fatter, so when he floats, it looks truly hideous. Not gay enough either
Being fat is a clear and unmistakable sign of greed, lack of impulse control, lack of principles and short sightedness. In other words, many of the traits associated with being evil. It is a mark of moral, mental and physical degeneracy.
There is no such thing as a good fat person. Only "nice" (weak, timid and spineless) ones.
im reading the book and i still cant picture it. do his suspensors literally hold him up and let him float in the air? thats kind of what im picturing. or are they just normal suspenders that hold up pants?
Harkonnen rule through vice. Its like their reward, they encourage this sort of behavior
The baron vices are little kids and food. His nephew ha an harem. His captain is addicted to semuta.
its a visual allegory for someone who is possessed by Greed
Because fat people are worse than skinny people
>citation needed
Take any person who was once fat and became skinny OR was once skinny and became fat. Compare their moral fortitude between both states. Skinny people are simply better.
> this anon again
You are weak and disgusting.
and fat
Being skinny indicates the capability for discipline and self improvement, being fat indicates you're a hedonistic frick who chases short term dopamine rush. It's not a coincidence that gluttony was deemed a deadly sin.
He's meant to represent the American government's insatiable lust for oil (spice) even and especially at the expense of poor desert people. It makes sense he'd be morbidly obese.
>American
yeah, your post clearly shows the state of American education
Frank Hebert himself said that bro
then why the hell does he have a full russian name
Finland was a Russian colony for a long time.
Russia is Finland's rightful clay.
>full russian name
Delete your post. Harkonnen (almost certainly, like every name ending in "-nen") derives from the common Finnish name "Härkönen".
It's one of our few claims to fame.
Agreed, tha harkonnen obese are an allegory for those fat american fricks.
The Harkonnens are an allegory for Russia, unironically. The Empire is the Britsh Empire and the Fremen are Beduins. Paul is Laurence of Arabia.
The atreides are what? The french empire?
Problem is that Harkonnens have Russian names, the Harkonnens oppression of sand people is allegory of first Tsarist Russia and then commie homosexual exploitation of Afghanistan for oil and minerals, but nice try.
They have Fingol names
But it still works
cursed by bene gesserit iirc
bene gesserit put curses on the families they needed for breeding a Kwisatz?
They slipped in a fat gene
He HAD to be evil (all fat people are evil)
>a fat gene
Put down the fork and go for a walk, lardass.
That's not canon shit on the awful son's sequels.
you remember incorrectly lol
Nah, the chick that was hitting on Feyd had previously poisoned him which made him fat and diseased.
He was a seeker of sensation. The fat was simply a result of that, or a sensation all its own because it was offensive. And the baron loved offending.
Because he was based on L Ron Hubbard, who was a fat redheaded pederast obsessed with wealth according to Herbert.
>according to Herbert
Also according to anyone who isn’t Tom Cruise
Because greed, avarice and gluttony are at the core of his character.
He's a vile homosexual and almost pedophilie in the book so of course he is fat
>almost pedophilie
How does one become an "almost pedophile"?
Why did he bathe in olive oil and balsamic vinegar?
Why don't you?
The real question is why wasn't he gay
He was in the books.
He's a hedonist without selfcontrol. Both with food or fricking kids that look like Paul.
the Harkonnens are supposed to be over-the-top evil as a contrast to the nobility of
House Atreides. So they engage in hedonism and ever possible vice. The Baron can't just be fat, he has to be as fat as humanly possible and riddled with disease.
The movie kinda ignores this in favor of making them more generically fascist. Sorta cool visuals aside they kinda suck in the movie and the Baron comes of as kinda of a moron in the second one.
>the Baron comes of as kinda of a moron in the second one.
he comes across as a moron in the books too if you keep track of his actions and ignore Frank's limp attempts to convince you he's some kind of machievellian genius.
What were his big frick ups again? I can only recall him totally underestimating the fremen and being heedless of Rabban's warnings?
>Why was he fat
he is addicted to binge eating like he's addicted to boys.
Baron is a midwit but also an experienced tyrant. Unlike his eating and perversion, he is quite patient when it comes to political power challenges. his biggest flaw is underestimating people.
>eat big takeout and then take vape hits and breath the vapor slowly out in big cloud
I have become the Baron.
>Why was he fat tho
He was a seeker of sensations. He just really liked to eat and frick and stuff.
He wasn't disgusting enough. They dialed it back too much. He should have been a lot more diseased looking and even fatter, so when he floats, it looks truly hideous. Not gay enough either
true. i guess it was disgusting enough for herbert and maybe the time the book was written. but he's not fricked up enough for today.
>being a gluttonous homosexual reflects your moral character
wtf that's fatphobic and racist tho fr fr homie
This is his daughter btw
This woman managed to knock a feeling loose from my stone heart. And I hate her for it.
It's worse than that, dude. He's fat and a monstrous boy-rapist.
Fatness is a form of corruption, so it's easy to telegraph subliminally that someone is corrupt by displaying their bloated corpus.
Being fat is a clear and unmistakable sign of greed, lack of impulse control, lack of principles and short sightedness. In other words, many of the traits associated with being evil. It is a mark of moral, mental and physical degeneracy.
There is no such thing as a good fat person. Only "nice" (weak, timid and spineless) ones.
im reading the book and i still cant picture it. do his suspensors literally hold him up and let him float in the air? thats kind of what im picturing. or are they just normal suspenders that hold up pants?
Harkonnen rule through vice. Its like their reward, they encourage this sort of behavior
The baron vices are little kids and food. His nephew ha an harem. His captain is addicted to semuta.
because fat people are cool villains
weightlets instinctively treat us badly even when we try to be nice to them so we are in the right to be evil
The reason we treat you badly is because we have to look at you
Just stop being fat ffs
post face
Why was he bald tho
Why couldn’t he just be evil and hairy
obesity is a defect in your character that signifies an inability to contend with your gluttony
He was a handsome, strong Chad once. Don't frick with the Bene Gesserit.
I would eat infinite delicious food if I had infinite money and knew I could still get laid while being a fatass. Really, I kind of envy him.