Yeah, it's one of the worst changes from the book - Stilgar is a believer from the beginning, and is even described by other Fremen as being kind of a religious fanatic who sees prophecy everywhere. It's an unfortunate change, as this was one of the most important themes in the book, the way that fanaticism debases people.
It's a bummer that Stilgar doesn't go on that journey in thia film, especially consider how much it beats us on the head that the prophecy is a cynical manipulation.
I think they applied Stilgar's whole arc to the "northern" Fremen concept. They go from skeptics who laugh in Paul's face to being indistinguishable from the southern fanatics by the end. Paul even has a line similar to the one posted above, but applied to the Fremen broadly ("They used to be friends, now they're followers").
I do wish we got to see Stilgar go through more of a transformation himself, but I like Bardem's performance enough to overlook it.
That's so lame, many of Paul's fever-dreams are agonizing over this exact thing, the transformative impact of the jihad and seeing it ripple through culture and history. The other changes AOCapitulator mentioned are pretty bad/annoying, but I am really not a fan of this one.
Yeah, it's one of the worst changes from the book - Stilgar is a believer from the beginning, and is even described by other Fremen as being kind of a religious fanatic who sees prophecy everywhere. It's an unfortunate change, as this was one of the most important themes in the book, the way that fanaticism debases people.
It's a bummer that Stilgar doesn't go on that journey in thia film, especially consider how much it beats us on the head that the prophecy is a cynical manipulation.
I think they applied Stilgar's whole arc to the "northern" Fremen concept. They go from skeptics who laugh in Paul's face to being indistinguishable from the southern fanatics by the end. Paul even has a line similar to the one posted above, but applied to the Fremen broadly ("They used to be friends, now they're followers").
I do wish we got to see Stilgar go through more of a transformation himself, but I like Bardem's performance enough to overlook it.
That's so lame, many of Paul's fever-dreams are agonizing over this exact thing, the transformative impact of the jihad and seeing it ripple through culture and history. The other changes AOCapitulator mentioned are pretty bad/annoying, but I am really not a fan of this one.
As a fanatic communist I personally believe fanaticism based me pretty well