Chani

Now, if you look, if you pay attention, you can see that a lot of this is happening in seemingly two timelines.

There seems to be a timeline that's happening shortly after the first movie, right? And which Chani is still very angry at Paul.

And a lot of people don't like this decision to make Chani more angry at Paul, whereas in the book, she's very accepting of everything that's happening.

And I get Villeneuve's decision to change the Chani character for this part of it, because she's externalizing what you would... pick up from the subtext of reading the book, but would be maybe harder to show in a movie, right? And that is kind of the disillusionment of the Fremen that happens by the time we get to Dune Messiah, which is like 12 years later.

Not every Fremen, but a lot of them.

There's this immense sense of being used by Paul, being betrayed.

By the time Paul is the center of imperial power, Paul has weaponized the Fremen and spread them across the galaxy.

Countless Fremen die and billions of other humans die.

I actually am one of the few that like the second movie more than the first.

I don't like Chani.

Yeah, I don't like Chani as much in the second movie as the first because she deviates a lot more.

But I love Timothee Chalamet's portrayal of it.

I love how they handled it.

I knew it! God, Alan.

Look, I understand part of the reason for the changes.

It could be more interesting, but it completely is a 180 from what the character of Chani is in the book.

Dune.

You know Paul, you know Chani, you know Jessica, you know Stilgar, you know Baron.

If you've never watched Dune, it doesn't matter, because these are important characters.

Some of these run kingdoms, some of these are destined ones, some of these are supporting characters, but all of them play their role.

... uh, you've gotta see.

Uh, Zen- Zendaya's Chani is in deep pain over Paul's betrayal in Dune Part 3.

Well, I, I see the betrayal i- is a betrayal of the audience because that is not who her character is in the books.

In fact, Chani is...

Chani represented the only pure thing in the universe.

Everyone was corrupt in government, in the guild, uh, in the Landsraad, there was corruption and, uh, uh, uh, just devious plans everywhere.

But Chani's character, being a Fremen, and Paul and Chani's love was this pure thing, and Chani was ride or die.

And Chani understood that Paul marrying Princess Irulan to ascend to the throne as emperor was all political, and she understood it, and she stood by her, her man.