Dune 2 question (movie spoilers)

Maybe both? I think his motives are unclear, even to himself.

But we should remember that the Freemen are a warrior culture, so the goals of a) overthrowing your oppressor, and b) assuming power to control your interests, aren’t exactly at odds.

You may feel like Herbert was just making shite up as he went along. Not just you.

My belief is his goals evolved. It went from survival to revenge to realizing he could take power. At every point he was earnest in his desire, but as he gained experience in battle and gained reverence among the fremen he started to understand how powerful he could be and those desires changed.

I've never read the books so have no clue where it goes from here. That's just what I got from the movie.

I mean they’re pretty technologically advanced with all their gear and stuff they use to survive the desert. It’s not out of the question that some of them knew how to fly. Also they had some of Gunney’s people with them

He’s a reluctant hero. He knows where the road goes if he assumes power. But he can’t stand by and watch the Harkonnens get away with destroying his family and the Fremen. The events of film unfold in such a way that he has no choice but to follow that path.

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He’s a reluctant hero.

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Meh, reluctant in the fact that this started because his family was attacked and mostly killed. But he is not reluctant to gain power once the opportunity arises. Hell he’s the one who brings up the idea of him marrying the emperors daughter and assuming power.

Have not seen the movie but the book makes it clear through Paul’s prescience that, if he follows the path laid out through prescience, the Fremen will commence jihad throughout the galaxy.


He could either fail and die on Dune or he could become Emperor but be a slave to what prescience says will happen.

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My biggest question about Dune 2 is how do the Fremen know how to fly spacecraft? They run out to them at the end and I kept picturing them getting up to the bridge and then just staring at the controls.

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I struggle with this in every sci fi movie. My only answer is that flying a spaceship is like driving a car to them. Even cave dwellers in Afghanistan can drive a car.

Unlike todays airplanes and spacecraft, I would imagine a super future advanced aircraft would have enough computer flight controls that it would be steer and hit gas or brake. Like a car.

Better question might be, are all the spacecraft so common that they know how to turn it on and off? Unlike a car, I find it hard to believe a spacecraft would be so simple as to push the clutch in, turn the key and hit the gas pedal. But who knows?

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if he follows the path laid out through prescience, the Fremen will commence jihad throughout the galaxy.

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He mentions this a few times in the movie... that if he goes down the path, it will lead to holy war.


I haven't read the books, so movies are my only reference.

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Do you blame him? I'd pick Florence Pugh over Zendaya every day of the week. Z's built like a 12 year old boy.

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In the book it is known that he is not choosing the princess over Zendaya at all. Its the one change the movie made that pisses me off. Zandaya in the books is the one who tells him to marry the princess for the betterment of the galaxy and Paul tells the princess that they are wed in name only that Zandaya's character will be the only bed he shares.