I thought Stilgar was one of the best characters of the movie. Loved the humour he brought, and his portrayal as a zealot. Someone who is funny, kind, smart, wise, yet so easily swayed. Seeing his transformation from the person we first saw in Part 1 to a blind follower was just so incredibly sad, and so disturbing, so terrifying. Religion is such a corrupting force, which can infect and cripple entire societies. "A concise summary of -organised religion- Dune": th-cam.com/video/4HB7zqP9QNo/w-d-xo.html I also love the parallel between Cleese and Stilgar, always seeing Messiahs.
100% agree on Stilgar. The underlying themes of how religious fanaticism can spread like a virus and blind or corrupt people is the most interesting theme of the film. I have not read the books, so I don't know where this is going, but it seems that Paul Atreides might live long enough to become the villain.
@@moronsmincemovies Trust your intuition. Without giving away too much, the second book, Dune: Messiah, is an epilogue of sorts. Frank Herbert wrote it in large part because he felt readers of the first book hadn't understood its message, viewing Paul as nothing more than a traditional hero who got the girl and fought the good fight for the natives. Dune: part 2 definitely leans darker than I remember the first book. Though it's also an audiovisual medium where less is left to the imagination, and so we get to see an (arguably more accurate) interpretation of the book and its themes highlighting that which so many who read it might otherwise fail to realise.
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I thought Stilgar was one of the best characters of the movie. Loved the humour he brought, and his portrayal as a zealot. Someone who is funny, kind, smart, wise, yet so easily swayed. Seeing his transformation from the person we first saw in Part 1 to a blind follower was just so incredibly sad, and so disturbing, so terrifying. Religion is such a corrupting force, which can infect and cripple entire societies.
"A concise summary of -organised religion- Dune": th-cam.com/video/4HB7zqP9QNo/w-d-xo.html
I also love the parallel between Cleese and Stilgar, always seeing Messiahs.
100% agree on Stilgar. The underlying themes of how religious fanaticism can spread like a virus and blind or corrupt people is the most interesting theme of the film. I have not read the books, so I don't know where this is going, but it seems that Paul Atreides might live long enough to become the villain.
@@moronsmincemovies Trust your intuition. Without giving away too much, the second book, Dune: Messiah, is an epilogue of sorts. Frank Herbert wrote it in large part because he felt readers of the first book hadn't understood its message, viewing Paul as nothing more than a traditional hero who got the girl and fought the good fight for the natives.
Dune: part 2 definitely leans darker than I remember the first book. Though it's also an audiovisual medium where less is left to the imagination, and so we get to see an (arguably more accurate) interpretation of the book and its themes highlighting that which so many who read it might otherwise fail to realise.