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The Fremen greatly restrict spice production through their attacks on the Harkonnen. Thufir Hawat advises the Baron to order Rabben to make due with what men and equipment he has. This way after he is replaced with Feyd, the Dune population will welcome him as their savior. |
Fremen attacks on spice production are severe. The Baron threatens Rabban for his failure to produce enough spice. Thufir Hawat is not in the film. |
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The Spacing Guild and their navigators are an important group in the books. No interplanetary space travel is possible without them. No one can land a spacecraft on a planet without the Guild’s permission. But the Guild is totally dependent upon the spice to work and live. This gives the Fremen and whoever controls Dune much leverage over them. |
The Spacing Guild is not in the film.
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Jessica gives birth to Alia shortly after the Reverend Mother ceremony. Alia is born with the knowledge of a Reverend Mother and acts like an adult soon after birth. Jessica has conversations with her unborn child. |
Alia is not born during the events of the film. |
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Princess Irulan, Helen Mohiam and the Emperor have no idea that any Atreides are alive and free on Dune. The idea of any savior for Dune is only a plot by Thufir Hawat and the Baron. |
Princess Irulan, the Emperor’s daughter, recommends that the Dune conflict turn into a war, then the Emperor should bring peace. She suspects Paul is still alive. She is told by the Reverend Mother Helen Mohiam to stop suggesting to her father that Paul is still alive.
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Feyd fights a single Atreides soldier in the arena to celebrate his 17th birthday. Feyd’s victims in the arena are normally drugged for easy and amusing kills that so Feyd can try out new poisons on his knives. Feyd and Hawat are plotting to betray the Baron’s slavemaster. The Atreides soldier knows he has a chance to kill Feyd and fights very well. But he has had a word drummed into his brain (scum) that will make him relax his muscles if Feyd needs an edge. The Atreides soldier nearly kills Feyd until he says the word and manages to scratch the soldier with his poisoned blade. The soldier staggers away and falls on his own blade. Feyd honors the dead soldier by ordering his men to bury him with his blade in his hands. |
To celebrate Feyd’s birthday, there is gladiator combat in an arena. Feyd is fighting the last three Atreides men alive on Dune. Two are drugged so he can kill them easy. The last soldier is not drugged. Feyd discards his personal shield. After a short fight, the soldier is easily defeated. |