Why would he want to remove that? Do the Djinn in the movie eat? sleep? drink? I don't remember. I feel like if they've replaced their bodies with wood and other inorganic materials that they wouldn't need to eat/drink/breathe, but that's me.
It’s unclear. Some are more human than others. Only their leader seems to be fully wooden with magic eyes. I can’t recall if any of them eat or drink.
My player said he wanted the race to feel more alive than a construct does. He referenced the part in the movie where the leader’s beating heart is visible just before he explodes as the medusa is crushing him.
That said, he’s fine with the not needing to sleep part. He wants to describe the warforged resting trait as being when his PC does his self-repair, replacing his wounded flesh with “wood and dark magic”.
So it’s just that he feels his PC ought to still need to eat, drink, and breathe.
When the guy in the movie comments that they replace their internal organs, that could just be unreliable narration! We don’t actually know, and unlike with Star Wars, there’s no visual dictionary to explain everything we see in Clash of the Titans.
@Jediking: Just to be clear, we are talking about removing those traits from the warforged chassis, not adding them to some other race. Thanks anyway, though.