As we have already stated without the material being made available it is not possible really to fix it all until made available.
I don’t really want to go the route of putting up stills and texts explaining, no point could have just listed the scenes in a short video or in text like I have done here, no need to watch the film really for that.
The reason for the text opening I am going to do is a substitute for the missing dialogue from Paul’s training on Caladan and to give meaning to the introduction.
The only thing that can not be fixed is Characters missing scenes… If you edit the film properly and correctly it will come in shorter than the TV cut by quite a bit so these scenes listed some of them are very short some of them are full length.
Just noticing the assaination attempt on Paul the shot coming to the Room is Shadout Mapes POV before she opens the door… So the editing is uncombined making two scenes that are in fact only one scene.
The whole Sietch stuff with the Plants and fremen training were condensed between water drops so again it is a montage Alias birth is probably extended montage on the existing shots. In many cases It sounds more than it is when in Reality I see about just over 3 hours movie now with everything in that list when edited properly…
The Main Bulk is The Water of Life Reshoot and the 7 scenes that went deleted.
We can attribute small extensions to montages and some extended dialogue weaved in also but It will only go for about 3 hours… Once the clunkyness is removed it would make way for more meaningful material.
Let’s try and figure out what the 7 scenes were my guess
- Rabaan in the Bath tub* (Prior to water of Life)
- Torture of Nefud
- Gurney attacks Jessica thinking she was the traitor who brought down house Atreides (Prior to Water of Life and reason for taking the water of Life)
- Alia stuggling to be accepted in the sietch (Prior to water of Life)
- CHOAM & GUILD REPORTS* (Prior to water of Life)
- Feyed kills Sandarkar Captain
- Thuffer does his best to make the Baron nervous on Geidi prime
*Montage with ALia’s Abduction Remember That the emperor is landing during the water of Life sequence and The reverand Mother has her nosebleed on the ship. This Could very well be the exising montage in the film just with some missing material. This is Part of the Water of Life Sequence.
If 1 and 5 are the same scene that just leaves Paul and Chani’s Son’s death or Alternatively Harah’s Childrens Deaths as Paul was the guardian.
The Removal of the sub plot that Jessica was thought to be the traitor caused much of the problems.