Sorry for double post but it’s better to Separate.
This was one of my old edits…
Let’s take for instance the structure at the start.
Opening with Irulan Narration now apparently the opening shot of the film was meant to be a highliner seen through a drop of water.
David Lynch Surrealism is missing there.
Irulan fading in and out are there images missing?
Now the opening Credits we should go straight to Caladan this plays out until Leto and Paul talk about going to Arrakis.
Now from the stormy clouds we should transition to the Emperor and 3rd stage Navigator scene.
From after this scene we go back to Caladan.
This transition part was meant to have Irulan Narrate about the Bene Geseritt sisterhood and manipulating bloodlines.
Now Jessica monologue about “tonight I may lose my son” are probably meant to be placed of helen Mohiam in the chair from fake outtakes trip to Caladan. This then cuts to opening the door Jesdica saying “she is going to observe you”
This whole part scenes are in the incorrect order the Dune Purist edition get’s the scene order correct here.
So it remains to be sern how Helen Mohiam get’s to Caladan but with Irulan Narration it can be smoothed out.
If we take for instance the secret report within the guild. The graphics seem to me here to be how the spacing guild calculate 2 positions to fold space from and to. So removing the text saying planet caladan for instance and planet kaitain. This would be the guild map. The symbol of the guild then makes sense so that was the guild navigation screen I reckon for the heighliner.
Anyway without knowing exactly how they planned to get from Kaitain to Caladan will be interesting how they handle that and I guess “if” they handle that is also a question. Helen Mohiam ship however she got there needs to land after pauls 1st dream sequence.
One last bit about this part right at the end of the extended edition there is a flash of lightning that shot was meant for Caladan and the storm. Not Arrakis Rain storm. Perhaps the witch arrived in a flash of lightning I would not put that past Lynch either.
The Dune Illustrated story book has this structure. So it was at one time in this order of Caladan to Kaitain and back to Caladan. There is also an interesting text prologue that was posdibly prior to Irulan doing the narration.