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Originally Posted by dlphg9
Don't they talk about how important spice is and that it is required for safe interstellar travel? How it's the most expensive thing in the galaxy. It was when Paul was watching the documentary thing before he left for Arrakis.
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Maybe they briefly mentioned it.
But in the books, the geopolitical and socioeconomic elements of Spice production are ENORMOUS. In many ways, more important to Paul than any sort of religious fervor.
And I think they hand-waived that in favor of streamlining (and overly simplifying) the motivations of the characters. They wanted to make the movie more accessible for non-readers and in so doing, made it too black and white. They kinda eliminated some of the ambiguity that made the original trilogy as powerful as it was.