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As a wider vista opens up, they see a giant rocky rampart in
the distance.
Paul marvels at the sight. Turns to stare at a new wonder:
ARRAKEEN: a low, sprawling metropolis of sloping concrete,
with occasional spires of carved stone. A city that bows to
the force of the desert by echoing its shapes.
Hawat’s ornithopter and its escorts converge on the
Residency, a brutalist palace of sloping concrete planes in
the center of the city. Twenty DATE PALM TREES stand in the
courtyard.
33 INT. RESIDENCY - GREAT HALL - DAY 33
Cyclopean in scale, built to last ten thousand years.
Thufir Hawat, Paul and Jessica walk in with guards.
38 EXT. RESIDENCY BALCONY - DAY 38
A lofty balcony overlooking Arrakeen. Leto and Gurney look
out through high-tech binoculars. Heat ripples off the
concrete.
Leto scans the city: austere lines, deadly heat waves, dusty
land and dusty sky melted together. The Duke notes the
unexpected SILENCE of this metropolis, almost admires it.
Almost.
LETO *
It’s so quiet. *
GURNEY *
Yeah. *
(beat) *
That’s what worries me too. *
The men lower their binoculars to look at each other with
shared concern.
LETO
Our two most vulnerable points are
the spaceport and the refinery. I
want you guarding them around the
clock. If we can’t harvest spice
and ship it off-world, we’re dead
here.
Officer Lanville moves forward from a small group of nervous
servants.
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