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- After getting rid of the squad of Harkonnen soldiers on the way to Sietch Tabr, Stilgar mentions that their bodies' water (by necessity, the Fremen always pump water from dead bodies) is too polluted with chemicals to drink, but it can be used for the Fremen cooling systems just fine.
- Upon seeing this, Jessica is visibly about to puke (it was probably partly Morning Sickness). Stilgar says repeatedly "Don't let it out, don't let it out!" before she finally can't and throws up just out of sight. Stilgar sighs at the waste of water. Cut to Chani, just shaking her head in bemusement at the events behind her.
- While the Fremen are pumping water from the Harkonnen corpses, Chani realizes the one she's just stabbed a needle into isn't quite dead when he weakly grabs her wrist. To which she absentmindedly slaps his hand away like he's an annoying child or a drunk guy and not someone she's literally draining the life from.
- While visiting a sietch for the first time and eating among the Fremen, Paul begins having more visions and is visibly sweating, coughing. Shishakli jokes that the food is "too spicy" for him. Looking down, Paul notes there are literally flecks of melange as seasoning in his food.
- Chani's friend Shishakli snarks that Jessica is going to die from drinking "worm piss". Chani smacks her, but Shishakli just mutters that if she's drinking poison, it's her own damn fault.
- While the Fremen are arguing over whether or not Paul is the Lisan al Gaib, Paul denies it, saying that someone from their culture should lead them and that he's just there to learn their ways. In a moment that feels like it's coming straight out of Monty Python's Life of Brian, Stilgar and some other devout Fremen confer in a huddle stating:Stilgar: The Mahdi is too humble to say He is the Mahdi! Even more reason to know He is, as written!
- When Paul is going off into the desert on his own for the first time, Stilgar gives him some advice.Stilgar: Centipedes are very nasty. Not the big ones; they're harmless. But the little ones, [holds his hands two feet apart] you have to worry about.
- Stilgar also seems to enjoy dramatically warning Paul about the jinn, who are supposedly demons who haunt the desert and possess humans. He even includes a jump scare, which Paul is completely nonplussed by. And after Stilgar laughs at his own joke, he switches back to deadpan serious and basically says "No, really, watch out for those, they're scary." It's impossible to tell if Stilgar is passing on sincere (if outlandish) warnings, or just fucking around with Paul for his amusement.
- Chani shows Paul how to sandwalk; apparently he's been doing it wrong this entire time.Paul: Now that's interesting, because in the filmbooks, the anthropologists say in order to properly sandwalk, you actually have—
Chani: [gives him a completely flat look that verges on a Death Glare]
Paul: Never mind. Please keep going. - During the attack on the Harkonnen spice harvester, Paul draws the fire of an ornithopter so Chani can shoot it down. But just as he's about to reach the harvester's mechanical leg he was going to use for cover, it up and lifts itself, planting some twenty yards ahead of his current, gunfire-strewn position. There's something amusing about watching the normally composed and dignified Paul yell "Oh, shit!" while continuing to have to dodge the gunfire.
- Take a guess at who's breather was being investigated by the desert mouse. Shiskakli reminded the audience of this at the gathering in the tent after the fight.
- Stilgar tells Paul very firmly that when he attempts to ride a sand worm for the first time, he should just focus on doing it right, rather than try to show off and impress everyone: "Nothing fancy." Paul agrees. His friends do not.Shishakli: Don't embarrass us! Call a big one!
Chani: [Death Glare]- Stilgar and the Fremen are gently confident he can do it... until they see that he's (unintentionally) summoned one four times larger than what they're used to riding.Stilgar: Whoa, not that big!
- Stilgar and the Fremen are gently confident he can do it... until they see that he's (unintentionally) summoned one four times larger than what they're used to riding.
- The film lampshading Javier Bardem's heavy accent by explaining that Stilgar is from the Southern hemisphere, hence why he talks like that. Chani (who is from the North) humorously chides Paul for not noticing earlier.
- Jessica's (seemingly) one-sided conversations with Alia are generally ominous and creepy, and understandably makes her look crazy from the point of view of everybody that's not her or Paul. That said, there is a moment when Jessica is preparing the Water of Life for Paul in the south and she hurriedly hisses "quiet" to Alia as though the fetus had said something rude or sarcastic that we don't hear.
- After only a passing reference to Gurney Halleck's singing in Part One, this time the warrior poet is re-introduced idly plucking away at a Baliset
, creating lyrics as he goes like doggerel poetry, including "My stillsuit's full of piss, my ass caked in sand". Apparently Josh Brolin actually wrote the songs himself (with help from Hans Zimmer). - Stilgar is not impressed with the hiding location of the Atreides atomics.Stilgar: It's... right under everybody's noses. Not clever.
Gurney: That's the idea. Nobody would ever look in there because it's obvious.
Stilgar: Not clever.
Gurney: Did you find it?
Stilgar: I didn't look for it!
Gurney: [nods]
Stilgar: [scowls] - Gurney Halleck says that the Atreides had enough atomics tucked away to blow up Arrakis itself. In response, Stilgar gives him a meaningful look; then Chani pops up and also gives him the same look. Really, it has to be seen — it looks like Donald Duck's nephews peeking through a doorway. Gurney clarifies it was just a figure of speech but he's clearly ever-so-pleased with himself at having gotten a rise out of the normally stoic Fremen.
- Chani gives Paul the mother of all slaps upon him waking up from his near-death experience caused by drinking the Water of Life. What makes it even funnier is that it comes right out of nowhere after what was a very serious and emotional moment.
- Not only that but the soundtrack punctuates her slap with the dramatic One-Woman Wail Leitmotif which up to that point had only been used to highlight particularly dramatic or epic moments.
- There's something oddly hilarious about Chani's speech in the South being interrupted. Keep in mind that the trailers had set it up as if she was delivering a badass speech to the Fremen in that scene, but in the movie itself, she can barely get through the second sentence before being pulled down by Gurney.
- That poor Harkonnen advisor just has the worst luck. First, he tries to recommend to Rabban a safer strategy to deal with the Fremen (and to get some rest), only to have his head smashed into the console for his trouble. We see him again much later, this time recommending Feyd to stay away from the fighting and rest, only to get his throat slashed by Feyd and dragged to be fed to Feyd's pets for his trouble. Just goes to show that even being a Harkonnen advisor is hazardous to your health.
- Feyd-Rautha's reaction to Paul's ruthless killing of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is downright delighted, with a spreading smile. Whether because he just got promoted from na-Baron to Baron proper without having to get his hands dirty or he's having too much fun seeing Muad'dib strike his evil uncle down, it's twistedly hilarious.
- Again, with Feyd-Rautha's attitude towards his lethal cousin when Paul uses the Voice to subdue Reverend Mother Mohiam, bellowing at her to be silent. Feyd's response? A quirk of the eyebrows, like he's amused or wistfully wondering where Paul's been all his life.
- Yet again with Feyd-Rautha when, about to enter a Duel to the Death, responds to Paul's invocation of the traditional Fremen curse with a smug No, You.
- He does it bemusedly, as though sarcastically thinking Wow, so aggro, Atreides.
- During the duel, after exchanging several frantic swipes, Paul does a butterfly twist to reposition himself... and Feyd responds by kicking him square in the chest, dropping Paul squarely on his ass. By itself not that funny but considering how tense the previous half a minute or so was, good luck not laughing.
- After the rather intense knife fight between Paul and Feyd ends with Paul victorious, Stilgar spontaneously turns to Gurney with crazed eyes and fanatically yells "Lisan al Gaib!" in complete awe. The complete (albeit temporary) Mood Whiplash invites some laughs, especially since it looks like Stilgar is trying to point this out to Gurney, who openly doesn't believe in the Mahdi thing, in order to convince him of Paul being the messiah.
- Alternatively, his reaction also makes it appear that, because he was in such awe from watching Paul defeat Feyd, he almost forgets to cheer for him and suddenly remembers to do so, quickly reminding the other Fremen that they need to cheer as well.
