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Paul and Jamis - a thought.
2 years ago
Potential Spoilers if you hadn't seen Dune part 1.
So many of us have seen Villaneuve's Dune part 1.
The more I watch and study the film, the more tiny things I pick up.
In some of Paul visions we see this one Fremen guy gently speaking to him regarding how to survive in the desert. He also philosophized about the understanding of things just by letting them happen.
Good, sound advice. Sounds like the kinda person I'd want as a pal.
Cool.
Paul finally meets the guy that was in his visions, except the guy didn't accept Paul and his mother Jessica into the Fremen fold.
In fact, he wanted to kill them as he felt they were intruders.
At first, I wondered... wait... was that same guy in Paul's visions? He sure sounded like as well as looked like him.
What's goin' on here?
To make sure I looked up some information about this and was kinda sad to confirm it. In the movie the director kept it subtle, but not that subtle. It just left me confused at first.
What the visions versus the reality meant was that Paul could see possible outcomes. They even mentioned this in the movie and in the book.
Sadly, the possible vision wasn't the outcome Paul likely would have preferred.
So when Paul does finally fight Jamis, the guy in his visions, one could imagine the weight that had on his shoulders.
Stilgar watching the duel was asking Jessica: 'Is he toying with him?'
No, not really. He didn't wanna kill him. He was trying to delay the inevitable. Jessica said that Paul had never killed anyone before. Now while that's true, she didn't know the full weight of situation; only Paul knew, thus the idea of having to kill Jamis was many times worse than having to just kill some random dude in self-defense.
I mean, Paul tried. He really tried. He asked Jamis, "Do you yield?" Stilgar yelled out the rules of the duel, to which only death is the conclusion.
Shit.
Paul, at this point, was mostly dodging and blocking, then once again putting the crysknife to Jamis's neck as if to ask: 'Yield..?' He
was trying to hold off killing Jamis, because he wanted the vision he saw of him to be reality's outcome.
Paul, in his mind, and in a sense, was killing someone he already knew and had considered a friend. Before dueling Jamis, Paul had a brief vision where Jamis wins the duel and Paul ends up dying. Maybe in Paul's mind he was thinking of letting Jamis win and sacrificing himself, thus that vision was manifest.
Only Paul knew the full brunt of his actions. Would he keep that to himself or let Chani know? We'll see in part 2.
So many of us have seen Villaneuve's Dune part 1.
The more I watch and study the film, the more tiny things I pick up.
In some of Paul visions we see this one Fremen guy gently speaking to him regarding how to survive in the desert. He also philosophized about the understanding of things just by letting them happen.
Good, sound advice. Sounds like the kinda person I'd want as a pal.
Cool.
Paul finally meets the guy that was in his visions, except the guy didn't accept Paul and his mother Jessica into the Fremen fold.
In fact, he wanted to kill them as he felt they were intruders.
At first, I wondered... wait... was that same guy in Paul's visions? He sure sounded like as well as looked like him.
What's goin' on here?
To make sure I looked up some information about this and was kinda sad to confirm it. In the movie the director kept it subtle, but not that subtle. It just left me confused at first.
What the visions versus the reality meant was that Paul could see possible outcomes. They even mentioned this in the movie and in the book.
Sadly, the possible vision wasn't the outcome Paul likely would have preferred.
So when Paul does finally fight Jamis, the guy in his visions, one could imagine the weight that had on his shoulders.
Stilgar watching the duel was asking Jessica: 'Is he toying with him?'
No, not really. He didn't wanna kill him. He was trying to delay the inevitable. Jessica said that Paul had never killed anyone before. Now while that's true, she didn't know the full weight of situation; only Paul knew, thus the idea of having to kill Jamis was many times worse than having to just kill some random dude in self-defense.
I mean, Paul tried. He really tried. He asked Jamis, "Do you yield?" Stilgar yelled out the rules of the duel, to which only death is the conclusion.
Shit.
Paul, at this point, was mostly dodging and blocking, then once again putting the crysknife to Jamis's neck as if to ask: 'Yield..?' He
was trying to hold off killing Jamis, because he wanted the vision he saw of him to be reality's outcome.
Paul, in his mind, and in a sense, was killing someone he already knew and had considered a friend. Before dueling Jamis, Paul had a brief vision where Jamis wins the duel and Paul ends up dying. Maybe in Paul's mind he was thinking of letting Jamis win and sacrificing himself, thus that vision was manifest.
Only Paul knew the full brunt of his actions. Would he keep that to himself or let Chani know? We'll see in part 2.
It gives an upcoming quote another level of depth: "I was a friend of Jamis." (minor spoiler / part 2 / book)
I only read Dune once, but skimmed over the pages every so often.