THE FREMEN (Paul Atreides' Unstoppable Desert Warriors) DUNE EXPLAINED
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- Hey guys what’s happening? Niyat here with film comics explained, and as requested, today we’re exploring the Fremen, as featured in Frank Herberts amazing Dune universe.
Originally known as the Free Men of Arrakis, The Fremen were a sub-culture of humans descended from the Zensunni Wanderers. They were hard in survival, adapted in the harsh environment of the planet and formed an integral part of the Muad'Dib's Jihad launched by Paul Atreides.
I have covered the confusing history and trajectory of Paul Atreides in my video exploring Denis Villeneuve's Dune, links in the description, but here I hope to show how instrumental the Fremen were to his rise to power.
First appearing in the 1965 novel Dune, they inhabit the desert planet Arrakis (also known as Dune), which is the sole known source in the universe of the all-important spice melange. Long overlooked by the rest of the Imperium and considered backward savages, in reality they were an extremely hardy people that exist in large numbers.
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I used to live in the middle east as a child and there was an event where my family and others would go into the desert, a good two three hours deep and set up tents for night out, you don't know real peace until you smell the sand at night and hear the gentle wind, it's an almost clean smell and not a single car in range.
Guess I'll never know since I've never had a sense of smell 😮💨
@@normandy2501 hehe, the sense of smell can be in many ways a burden (just like all senses). the smell of milk can ruin my day and make me gag. even things without milk can smell of it. but all senses can be in some way burdensome. you should read "the ascent of mt carmel" :^)
That sounds amazingly peaceful
We Europeans used to do that just in the woods or at sea.
This tradition was unfortunately abandoned
@@PeachDragon_ I think Europeans still go to the woods.... Or the ocean.....
I had an older sister that passed away but before that I remember how utterly hooked she was on Lynchs film and Herbert's world building regarding the Dune Saga. She'd always tried to get me to watch it but I was too little to really fall into it and let myself get immersed in the lore like she did. I decided to give it another try for her when the new one came out just because I'm sappy like that and wanted to give it one more go to see if their was something I'd missed back then. Holy...Sh*t am I obsessed with this now 😆 the fact that Herbert created this in the 60s with an entire world and religions and dang..just everything blows me away. To tell a story that spans that amount of time and through so many people and dynasties yet still never lose the focus and convictions/motives behind each personality and end goal is just amazing. I can totally see what she always bugged me about now and it's never to late to watch the entire saga unfold now with everything else that's due out in the universe especially thinking about how she would feel about the comparisons between directors, etc.
Ur such a good bro man, mad respect
Massive amount of thanks for the comments guys and or girls truly and sincerely, thank you. I've never been one to throw around words like "masterpiece" especially when referring to anything that's had a decent amount of public opinion/consumption however in this case, it honestly is nothing short of one. Best wishes and looking forward to the next film.
Sorry to hear about your sister mate and I'm glad you have it another shot
sorry for your loss
Try and wrap your head around this one; Dune came out just 11 years after Fellowship of the Ring. The 60's were a wild time to be alive.
The thing about the Jihad is that Paul foresaw it via Spice-induced prescience and he wanted to prevent it, but could not. Even if he died, the Jihad would go on anyway.
Paul also foresaw the Golden Path, but flinched from it. Leto foresaw it and stepped onto it. Leto's death, Siona's invisibility from prescience, and the Scattering were all intended results.
It was always gonna be screwed. You dont get that popular and lead a giant rebellion as a result of you being "prophesized" without things getting horrendously out of hand. Religious fervor always goes the whole 9 yards, for better or for worse...
Paul also saw that the jihad could've been much worse. There was always going to be a jihad, but he did prevent it from being much worse
@@GatorTomboy No, he didn't 😭☠️
The only way it could’ve been avoided was if Paul, Jessica and every single one of Stilgar’s Fremen died in the water cave. Paul felt the opportunity quickly arrive, and just as fast, slip out of his hands like sand; but he didn’t know until it was too late, and by then the Jihad was again the only possible outcome. It’s incredible just how unavoidable the massacre is, *it* will _always_ happen.
The entire point of Dune being written was "don't follow a charismatic leader because they'll lead everyone to death and destruction.". If you think Paul made things better, then you missed the authors entire point
I CANT WAIT to see them unleashed during Paul's Jihad. Hopefully Messiah is made into a film, one can dream.
@@Brian-eb2ce lol I actually liked Dune Messiah. Sure a little boring but I'd watch.
I personally thought Paul's vision in the tent was one of the best part of the film.
It really showed Paul's terror and disgust in at the idea of the jihad.
Messiah would be the best film to adapt because theyd simply summarize it to 2.5 hours and make it less boring
Book faithful? Probably not
Enjoyable, im sure
Why is it called jihad and not crusade?
@@sparklemotion8377 because large inspiration for the setting of dune and the culture of the fremen in particular was drawn from middle eastern culture and Islam in general.
Edit: I should say middle eastern ARABIC culture.
Dune is such a complex and eye opening experience.
It really does not
Funny how Paul kills jamis even though Paul's vision shows jamis being his friend and showing him the way of the desert, jamis' hostility is the way he shows the ferocity of the desert and in killing him he shows Paul how it truly is in the desert.
Paul sees many possible futures.
The point of the vision is to show that there are many futures and in each a different future can be seen.
Welp, in another vision, he sees himself getting rekt. Endless possibilities.
@@MensHominis lmfao facts. And then in another vision. He's clapping the princess. Endless
In the books, Paul cries when the funerary rites for Jamis are being conducted because he thinks his death was unnecessary and he feels guilty. The Fremen are awed, as tears in their culture are seen as "giving water to the dead" and are an almost mythical thing, reserved only for a close friend or loved one. This is one scene that drills into Jessica's head the importance that the Fremen give to water, and confirms Paul and her as the ones spoken about in the Lisan al Gaib prophecy since he passed the Amtal test. I was honestly shocked they omitted it from the movie.
"I was a friend of Jamis," Paul whispered. "Jamis taught me... that... when you kill... you pay for it."
-- Paul Atreides
I'm really looking forward to the sequels, and I'm curious as to what the visuals will look like when Paul takes the waters of life. Shits gonna be epic.
"Do you know of the Water of Life? The bile from the newborn worms of Arrakis?"
"I have heard of it."
"It is very dangerous. The Bene Gesserit Sisterhood use it to see Within. There is a place..... *_terrifying_* to us, to women. It is said -- _A man will come, the Kwisatz Haderach. He will go where we cannot._ Many men have tried."
"They tried and failed?"
"They tried and died."
@@Robert_Douglass I see the truth of it
@@MB5rider81 _Could he be the One? Maybe....but will he be ours to control?_
Long live the fighters of Maud'Dib..... The Fedaykin :)
they didn’t spend enough time there
YES, MORE DUNE CONTENT!!
Only 14 months till DUNE PART 2.
only?
too long cannot wait
november 3rd!! only 11 months
6 months
Thoughts???
It's really interesting to think how similar the Fremen of Dune are to the Aiel in the Wheel of Time book series. Both cultures are based in the desert, water is prized beyond measure, clans and family relationships are very important, honor and obligation governs one's behavior, and physical prowess in combat is a must.
I am on book 7 now in the Wheel of Time series, and noticed it as well.
almost like the Aiel are Irish freemen.
It'll blow your mind that the Aes Sedai are Benne Gesserit!
Also, Dune came a long time before WoT, that's childsplay compared to what Herbert wrote.
it was heavily inspired, the use of a prophetic figure like rand is another parallel to dune
Every time I hear that, “Desert power.” It gives me such a chuckle.
After reading all 6 books, great rendition and only 3 scenes were really left out, fantastic movie
One of the reasons Herbert wrote Dune was due to the distrust he had of charismatic leaders and how the people are fickle, manipulable and surrender their freedom (with the respective critical sense and necessary distrust to the government) to follow the various scoundrels that infest the global history.
The sight of JFK and the charisma he exuded - just remember the romanticism of his government and person that emerged after his assassination.
The best passage of the 6 books is in the dialogue with Stilgar in "Dune Messiah": Genghis Khan killed 4 million, Hitler killed 6 million, and I sterilized planets." What a magnificent "hero" Paul Atreides was. And how the followers of a leader expand the mistakes of their leadership (religious, political, etc).
Lol.
Excellent insights
Liet-kynes dies in the book thinking "no greater tragedy could befall your people than falling into the hands of a hero."
@@mitchthe3518 Firefighters: "Okay, we're done with y'all. Go save yourselves."
Cult of Personality
Computers were discouraged wherever possible, and AI was banned I believe. Ships and other stuff still uses computers, but they're very purpose built.
Yes, the Butlerian Jihad. After that no machine could be build that could be like a human mind.
ships used Navigators, not computers to control the jumps.
@@kt-4383 it wasn't the machine that was banned, it was the software. It's explained in the appendix at the end of the first Dune book.
@@jessepollard7132 The navigators navigated. They used prescience to see the safe path to the destination. The ships systems handled the jump. Navigators are not pilots.
@@jimclark2824 As I remember, they were the ones that initiated the jump, and the power required for reaching the destination. And that makes them pilots.
Siona didn't really "develop" the ability to evade prescient sight. Leto II waited until one of his sisters descendants was born with it. He then, quite deliberately, let her cause his 'death', though it seems to have been more of a dispersal of his mental powers back into small fragments within the sand trout and reemergent sandworms.
Leto II deliberately bred Siona to produce humans who could hide from prescience. She was, as he said, an achievement. It seems as though this was something to do with Duncan Idaho, as he commented on how much effort it took to turn a recessive trait into a dominant one.
Eugenics is a very big theme throughout Dune
@@DoodieLoooo Yes, from the very first.
Its Ironic that Sarduakar despite having much more brutal culture they werent able to go on equal terms with fremen
Also its much more ironic that Paul is able to easily win over a fremen
He saw the whole fight before it happened.
@@radicalgreek99 he also saw the paralel scenarios where he and that warrior were allies
It has more to do that Paul too was keenly trained since his birth
Fremen were built different
Yo if you think the fremen were badass, wait till we see the fedaykin, Paul’s personal troops. They are the golden ones we see in the vision kicking ass alongside Paul. One fremen will easily defeat a Sardaukar, but a fedaykin will annihilate a group of them without breaking a sweat!
Sardaukar served because they had to. Fremen served because they wanted to.
Dune is my favorite sci-fi series of books. I hope they adapt all of the original Frank Herbert books into movies. Excellent video!
really loving the Dune vids, please keep em coming!
More to come!
Great video! Glad to se someone covering Dune that understands it.
I would be so happy to watch any video you make regarding Dune, and the factions and main characters within.
never get tired of that good old content
Great video as always; and it makes one look forward to the sequel!
film comics explained notification?? gonna be a good day lol
Lets go dude with a tude!
@@filmcomicsexplained haha hell yeah 👍
HOLY SHIT THANK YOOOOOOU. Love dune so much so its very cool to see you cover these guys! Im glad im subbed 💙
Exquisite explanation and very accurate more than others attempting to explain
Yooooo… been following your content for a while now.. and I know how awesome it is.. totally here for your coverage of Dune!!!
Great video. Very interesting and informative. I love Dune. Thank you Niyat.
Thank you, this was a lot of work and I appreciate that! Wish you the best!
Been looking forward to this one. Another banger
Thanks Dylan! Hope you enjoyed the video :)
The movies mean more after finding this channel. Love what you Dune here.
I'm excited for Part two, having recently read the books.
Your videos are sooooo good man! Keep it up!
This was great, thanks for the upload
I really really enjoy your channel man, nothing comes even close to being as good as you, thank you Niyat
Can’t wait for part 2!!!
Can’t WAIT to see this film!
Another important effect of Melange is its geriatric properties that extend life expectancy. I believe it was the geriatric properties of spice that most of the nobles and commoners (who could afford it) desired. The side effect of the benefit of extended life was the requirement to keep taking melange in quantity. Stopping would result in a fast painful death. This addiction to melange was what drove the spice market economy for everyone outside of the Spacing Guild and Bene Gesserit.
Prescience, was more of an elevated and technical effect, but it required large quantities of spice that anyone outside of the Imperial House, Spacing Guild and Bene Gesserit couldn't afford. Even House Harkonnen didn't use their vast store of spice for prescience, but rather as a commodity to be traded and saved as value. They, like the major Houses, used their spice for geriatric purposes.
Like in the real world we live in, spices have medicinal, therapeutic and preservation properties. This refers to the spice trade set by Portugal and Spain. The value of spices cost a fortune on that time. Dune book i believe, is a mix or crossover between silkroad and spice trade
@@brianmayabella5992 Herbert claimed spice was an analog to oil.
Great editing, and basic knowledge of the Freman make a great vid
this was such a good movie. i love almost everything about it
Fremen being played by arab, African and Andalusian actors is an amazing choice. I think it makes perfect sense.
This is what always knocked me out, or took me OUT of the film’s experience for the first Dune Movie. They were all really - really - really - white, understandably so given the time period but that always stuck in my mind. These people reminded me of middle eastern / african lands / cultures.
I think they are supposed to be originated from the Egyptians, something about the valey of the Nile river. Thought it is fair to accept that through the ages and their travels any number and kind of ethnicity may have been picked up in the way.
Fremen people should have tan skin and not black skin. Dune supposed to take place 30,000 years in the future
@@louyht7 I’m not sure whose comment yours was directed to but yes - colored skin.
@@BadioTheAfricano Specially when you take into consideration Frank Herbert based the Fremen culture on his understanding of Islam. I have no idea how accurate he was or how well he understood Islam but I know he very much respected the peoples of Islam.
edit to add:
in response to your post: This is what always knocked me out, or took me OUT of the film’s experience for the first Dune Movie. They were all really - really - really - white, understandably so given the time period but that always stuck in my mind. These people reminded me of middle eastern / african lands / cultures.
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Awesome thanks for posting 😁👏👏👏
Thanks for covering this :)
Very well done.... loved this ✌
Trivia. Read Wilfred Thesiger's Arabian Sands about a late 1940's crossing of the Empty Quarter and you'll find the inspiration for Frank Herbert's Fremen in Omani and Yemeni Bedouin tribes. In fact, Herbert uses several direct lifts from Thesiger's work.
wilfred thesigers book on the Muslim Yemenis and Muslim Omanis? u sure frank Herbert was inspired by him? from what I recall he was mostly inspired by his number one most influential book which impacted his trilogy lore, known as " the sabers of paradise," it was about the muslim fighters against the Russian invaders of the Caucasus.
You knocked this one out the park!
Nicest review I have seen in a while, Leto II never had descendants though, the Attredies line was carried on through his sister.
The only thing i want from the films is for them to be longer, like at least 3 hours
Sci-fi did a miniserie of dune and children of dune (combined dune messiah and children of dune)
words can't give the thanks to the love the people gave to the project of this beloved movie based off and beloved book
Thank you for this 🙏
Hey you did a really good job.
I love how badass they are
Most important thing about them is that they were enslaved and escaped on the first fold-space ship using a holtzman engine and the first navigator siona. the arrived on Dune by accident but although it was a harsh desert, they were free at last.
Niyat, I thoroughly enjoy all your videos (thoroughly = I've watched many of them more than once! Or twice.) But I'm pleasantly surprised to notice that I favor your work on video game titles. Maybe you could expand in that genre a bit more?
IMHO it seems that as studios appear less willing to gamble on financing films that aren't based on a tried and tested intellectual property, perhaps video games may be the last bastion of original ideas. Maybe I'm overgeneralizing, and I do still have hope for the industry, and your videos and others like them give me a nice reprieve from all the politicking in and about film right now, so...Thanks! Keep up the great work!
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!! ....For adding the part about the winner of the duels being responsible for the wife and children of the loser. This was cut from both the Sci-Fi mini series and the David Lynch version and left as "cut content". And alot of people get confused as to the two boys standing next to Paul for the rest of the (David Lynch)movie, not realizing those are Jamis' sons and the lady the Saudaukar kill in the miniseries before killing Paul's first son is Jamis' wife, who was basically like a housekeeper to Paul and Chani!
I wonder if George Lucas did the same research when he came up with the Tuscan Raiders in Star Wars
A lot of Star Wars is ripped from dune
@@jesuscampie4099 it's nice to know that there's no such thing as true originality and that everybody ripped off everybody
This is some very deep lore.
Yes they are one of my favorite sci fi races
I'm so ready for the next part of this hurry up and become reality already 🙏🏼
I can't wait for Dune part 2
I like that Paul gave him the Atreides salute at the start of the fight.
I believe I'm going to reread the Dune books again. it's been years and it's time to delve back in.
Rereading Dune, I noticed a big mistake in the new Dune movie. The scene where the Sardukar kill Kynes. Kynes is directly working for and reporting to the emperor, so the Sardukar would believe whatever Kynes told them. Which is why the baron has Kynes killed away from the Sardukar. Although, the scene in the movie was pretty cool.
Amazon really screwed up. They should have used that billion dollars to have DV make a 50-60 hour Dune Saga and just keep everything in from the books. Instead of whatever they did with LotR.
Good god no Amazon would have made a dune tv serious woke and boring. Let dv do his thing with his movies
I consider us lucky that we got the movie we got. Amazon could spend a trillion dollars on a dune show and it could still turn out to be crap.
Dune is more or less unsutable as a movie or trillogy. Like you hinted at, the best format would be a series. There was 2 series made about 20 years ago, that are pretty much true to the first 2 books. They are cringe to watch though, bad acting and weird costumes etc. But if you like a more pure Dune adaptation, thats the closest you get. In the movie some creative license have been used, like changing the sex of Kynes, and they way "she" meets her death. But thats not the only changes done compared to the books. And there are too many to list here. For me though all the changes works, all the necessities are still there, its still Dune.
Don't give them ideas, amazon would have bastardized Dune. God forbid what they're going to do with Blade Runner.
Amazon? God no...
Seanchan from WoT could be a fun one to cover. The Aiel would certainly be in the same spirit as Fremen.
Thing is in later novels Arrakis becomes a lush planet, the fremen a novelty in museums
i live in namibia. and yes go deep into the namib. you can almost see every star. i did it a couple of times. very cool
Whatever you did in this, you might have got me to finally watch the original Dune.
Good night everyone! I love movie very much I hope that second part is good as the first one
Great video
As i unravel my own half Arab heritage dunes ties to these Arabic inspired origins just blows my mind.
That fight was one of the best on film imo
My father used to work on the oil fields in kuwait during WW2 and he used to tell me about sleeping under the stars . so stunning and how they would draw a lot be around them where they slept by burrowing with there hand and pour parafin in there to stop the scorpion s entering
Great vid
Very Nice
Thanks
Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe.😁
Please more Dune videos and could you cover the knightmare timeline from bvs and snydercut
Indeed
Can you do the Barron next
0:04 ok. For those who don't know that dude in the very front with the fancy two sword set: thats Duncan Idaho. He 's the only one to carry a pair of Atredes blade and you can clearly see his features when the Camera zooms in.
What If Predators were in Gears Of War Video Game Series
That would be interesting
@@filmcomicsexplained have you ever done what If special
Nice
Good look
To the Fremen, water is thicker than blood... 😁
I like the old Dune movie. But I like the latest even more
Please do Gamera Next
Long live the fighters!
I hope you decide to cover the Children of Dune series as well one day.
"The Path that Muad'dib could NOT take!"
Always enjoyed the part where Leto meets his father Paul.
Such a heart wrenching conversation
Have you done True detective first season? You should if you haven't
Need more stories from the Fremen Jihad....
Their armor reminds me of the VR Troopers.
Gotta be honest niyat.
I'm looking forward to the second part of dune when it comes out. Are you too? 😊
Absolutely Alan! I can’t wait :)
@@filmcomicsexplained
How long now niyat?
I wonder when they are going to release the other dune movie
PLEASE DO MORE DUNE.listen to the audiobooks if necessary!
OP - can you do a deep dive of my favorite film, of all time, Apocalypse Now? And maybe even the doc about it "Hearts of Darkness", both are brilliant after all -
FINALLYYY
I hope they make the second part/movie good.
Very nais
These guys would make excellent space marines!!!
Oooh hot off the press! Im never this early!
Came here to say after seeing dune part 2 it was 🔥
Can you do a review on a Thousand Years of Longing? That was a really great movie. :)
You missed how they were also escaping SLAVERY. One of the prequal books expanded on this rather well.