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Dune • 1965
Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Gurney’s rough humour makes discipline a survival skill. Affection does not stop him from forcing Paul to take a real threat seriously.
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In context
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Gurney Halleck rebukes Paul after the boy says he is not in the mood for a fighting lesson. In Dune’s Caladan training room, he insists that an enemy will not wait for a convenient moment. The card quotes two sentences from that longer lesson; the 1984 film compresses the rebuke.
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- Book I: Gurney’s shield-fighting lesson after Paul says he is not in the mood. — reference 1Book I: Gurney’s shield-fighting lesson after Paul says he is not in the mood.; selected line and sceneReference checked
- Book I: Gurney’s shield-fighting lesson after Paul says he is not in the mood. — reference 2Book I: Gurney’s shield-fighting lesson after Paul says he is not in the mood.; selected line and sceneReference checked
- Book I: Gurney’s shield-fighting lesson after Paul says he is not in the mood. — reference 3Book I: Gurney’s shield-fighting lesson after Paul says he is not in the mood.; selected line and sceneReference checked
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