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I haven't seen the new movie, but I feel like the book deliberately invoked this in the sense of "this is pretty fucked up, right?" Does the movie do it in that sense or like a "wow, what a hero!" way?
The film is very clear that Paul knows that real bad shit is coming after he "wins". They repeatedly show prescient "flashbacks" to people dying, and the film ends with the Fremen marching onto space ships to carry out their Jihad.
the first movie taken on its own could be seen that way but its setting up a second movie which leans more towards the former sense
That's totally fair and I think tracks pretty well with the book.
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It's foreshadowed, but it's not until he get's his Mentat powers in the desert that it becomes clear how Paul's basically manipulating the Fremen knowing that it'll destroy him and them.