The later books are really something - eviltoast
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    8 months ago

    Anyone else feel like the Fremen are blatantly meant to represent the Jewish people? Not saying that Hollywood has been run by the MIC since the 1920’s and that this is yet another Hollywood propaganda piece disguised as super hero action entertainment or anything…

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          8 months ago

          It’s almost as if literary works are open to interpretation! And filmization*!

          * Yes, it’s actually “filmization” and not “filmatization” as it, of course, should be. Personally, I blame Hollywood.

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          Again, this was written by Frank Herbert with a TON of straight up Arabic in their names, speech, vocabulary. Why TF would he write a bunch of Jews to be speaking Arabic, the language of their arch nemeses?

          I do agree it is a little weird for a bunch of desert people on a desert planet to be white, would’ve expected a bit more melanin in their skin, but that’s just white chauvanism in general not specifically Jewish.

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            8 months ago

            How about “appropriation”? Tell me how that’s a new thing for Israel. The fact that they are clearly represented as Israelis in the film is hardly something Herbert had any say in. You’d be well advised to read up on the history of Hollywood and how propaganda works, it would make more sense then perhaps.

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        In the first film, there is some of the most blatant “oh yeah?!” 25 year old Israeli conscript moments that is unmistakable. Have you met a lot of Israelis, personally?

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          I think you are just overlaying a lot of your personal experiences on some pictures which sure may have been influenced by Israel.

          However the source material which has been out for decades could not have been more clear that the entire race of people is explicitly descendants of current day Arabs. Again, the exact opposite of the Jews.

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            8 months ago

            The recent “Dune” is a pro-Israeli propaganda piece. It is also other things, like a mediocre movie, but it’s also very blatant propaganda.