Conlangs are cool and all and I haven't seen the new movie yet, but the thing that sort of annoyed me about the first one is that the book is _heavily_ inspired by a non-fiction book called Sabres of Paradise, about an islamic uprising against the Russian Empire:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imam_Shamil
And the book is _full_ of arabic, persian and russian terminology, and Islamic cultural and religious references, and the director and screenwriter have said that it's basically orientalism and ornament and they've gotten rid of it because it's distracting, but I don't think it's ornament, and I think the Islamic influences on the Fremen are a core part of the story, and it's missing a lot without it.
The book is meant to be about _our future_ and the fact that Muslims still exist and are important in the future isn't just like "flavor", it was an innovative idea at the time in science fiction and still is.
It just seems kind of wrong to expend so much thought inventing new languages for the movie when it had so much context and culture already there to use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imam_Shamil
And the book is _full_ of arabic, persian and russian terminology, and Islamic cultural and religious references, and the director and screenwriter have said that it's basically orientalism and ornament and they've gotten rid of it because it's distracting, but I don't think it's ornament, and I think the Islamic influences on the Fremen are a core part of the story, and it's missing a lot without it.
The book is meant to be about _our future_ and the fact that Muslims still exist and are important in the future isn't just like "flavor", it was an innovative idea at the time in science fiction and still is.
It just seems kind of wrong to expend so much thought inventing new languages for the movie when it had so much context and culture already there to use.