re: Dune

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But Villeneuve is a huge feminist, and probably felt that Chani's portrayal in the book was a product of the times it was written in and had to be changed for a modern audience. Completely ignoring that the all woman group, the Bene Gesserit, are who truly run the empire.

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Agreed the other part that bothered me was breaking the Fremen into 2 factions. Souther fanatics and Northern realists. It is known through history (and modern times) that people who are oppressed to turn to religion and "skepticism" is a luxery of people who aren't fighting everyday to survive and escape their oppressors. It was like he was afraid to portray the Fremeb as they were written because that would be a poor stereotype of muslims and he needed to show them as free thinkers.

MFer. The muslims that are living in the conditions similar to the Fremen are radical and religious in the real world.