> there was no sense of protest or victimisation by or forthe enviroment. My biggest gripe with the Villeneuve films is their attempt to make the Fremen into s

> there was no sense of protest or victimisation by or forthe enviroment. My biggest gripe with the Villeneuve films is their attempt to make the Fremen into stereotyped "anti-colonial" protestors in ways that mix together Algeria and the Amazon Rainforest and wind up precisely resembling neither real-world example nor the book's original Fremen. The book has none of this garbage about the rape and robbery of the delicate Arrakis ecosystem, and even makes the Fremen themselves into the human agency that threatens the sandworms' viability in the sequels. Beyond just the ecological matter, in the book the Fremen are "free men" (see?) not because they're "oppressed" by Imperial spice mining, but because they escaped from Imperial rule by refashioning themselves to the deep deserts of Arrakis. Hell, in the book's canon, the Harkonnen and Imperial rulers don't even know how many Fremen there are, by an order of magnitude, because the Fremen are not the bottom of their social hierarchy but outside it.