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“I love that sweet smell of decay that surrounds me in forests and woods. A kind of mulchy, deep, rich rot that has no connotation of death or ending, but rather of life and age. A sense of perpetual destruction and rebirth.”
It's because a lot of white people want to be Paul or Jessica — royalty who use a colonized population for their own grab at power. I may believe that the Dune movies are a critical commentary on the evils of colonialism and religious propaganda, but I have to concede that way too many people are probably watching these movies and going
"WOW, I'd love to be like Paul and have an army of indigenous people serve me in becoming a tyrant!"
There are unfortunately a bunch of chuds out there only invested in the action and spectacle of it, but the themes are loud and clear for anyone actually paying attention to the movies.
Those themes will become even more obvious if Messiah/Part 3 gets made (and it probably will), especially if Villeneuve doubles down on the critical gaze in the narrative that is already Paul-critical.
Dune is set in a crapsack universe where power corrupts, political/economic/religious hierarchies cause untold misery, and spice is an allegory for oil. Chani was right and the Fremen deserved better.