The interpretation of movie “Dune” (1984, David Lynch) and why Duncan “Idaho”?
The movie Dune in the version of David Lynch of 1983-1984 is either to be hated or loved. The viewers which hated the movie hated it mostly by the 19th Century Outfits, Thematics which not fitting to a science fiction movie. etc while others loved it. I am surely not how many people made some deeper minds about the background thematics of the books by Frank Herbert and the film, just enjoyed the movie as it is. But I am sure about the background of the book and the movie: Dune is perhaps some 1960s/1970s preview of the wars about the oil reserves in the world and especially in middle east!
Perhaps in fact/ was already some Knowledge Frank Herbert and David Lynch surely got by reading newsletters of middle east (or perhaps he got some CIA readers of his conceptual books) of S(h)addam Hussein. In that Dune books S(h)addam got already the supremacy in middle east about all the oil reserves in middle east (imperator and in fact Iraq still got about 20%-30% percent of all world wide oil reserves).
As far S(h)addam followed the rules of monstrous and black leather latex dressed Navigator Guilds (=Intelligence services, meaning the CIA together with british MI6 -> british petrol BP, Shin Beth, Mossad, French intelligence services , BND etc.), he could have the opportunity to become/stay the imperator in middle east (till Saddam Hussein went his own way, and attacked Kuwait...)
3.The navigator guild (and the monster)
Are the more developed and technical supremaced western federal government intelligence agencies (CIA, MI6, Mossad, Shin beth, French intelligence services) of USA, GB, Israel and the western countries, which are need the Spice (Oil) for their fleets and warship and they are equipped/ degenerated with super kinetic / mind and brain reading and voice transforming possibilities, to which S(h)addam Hussein had to obey... if not he got killed (what really happened to Saddam Hussein...)
4. The Navigator Monster
Perhaps Frank Herbert did express the body sickening harming cosmic radiation by each airplane flight and the airplane fuel/exhausting as well as the products of Oil (Benzols, Gasoline etc.) resulting in such monster...
5. The Sardaukar soldiers vs the Soldiers of Atreides
The Sardaukar warriors were looking like modern soldiers in a NBC-Protective suit (Photo next: Movie scene, Sardaukar Soldiers advancing)
Photo next: Real existing NBC Protective Army Suit
with super powers and better weapons than the Atreides Soldiers, although some of the Atreides soldiers (Duncan Idaho) had some switchable energy shield (looked like in later Predator Movies), but it seems that the Sardaukar had the something same and they pierced with a slow moving mini drone the shield of Atreides Soldiers (Film character “Duncan Idaho vs Sardaukar”). BTW: Why Idaho??? Is there an US Army NBC Research institute?
6. The quisatz haderakh
is in fact are real existing jewish words while Mua’dib is high arabian language. In fact here is the obscured cooperation meant between Saudi Arabia and Israel (against Iran)
In the case of Baron Harkonnen I am not sure, whether he is one of the US-presidents or British government leaders which wanted control the whole middle east oil reserves for british petrol (BP) (I think the latter, because Regisseur Lynch let him look like the monstrous, fat, and by diabetes and syphilis deformed
and very aggressive medieval english king Henry VIII)
8. The Duke Leto Atreides
was looking of a mix between the last russian czar and some german Bismarck, and showed by his assasination/dead (the czar and his family was really killed) that the then/today Russia had almost lost in that pre 1st WW period the supremacy of the oil in middle east. And why Bismarck? Because he was at that time the top diplomate, keeping that fragile european-russian pre 1st Worldwar system going...
9. The outfits of the artists
Lynch wanted surely to show a pre-1st World War contrast to that far in future laying story, maybe also to show the thinking viewer, that we since that pre 1st WW time in war against each high technologzised country/continents (Russia, Europe, USA etc.) for oil and that S(h)addam Hussein was a puppet of these continents and countries.
10. The worms
are in fact the huge tunnel boring machines which creates tunnels for using hidden pipelines and tunnels for weapons and transport tunnels in that Iraqi / Iranian region
There are also plenty more movies about that thematic “Future wars described obscured in normal belletristic books” and surely you know Robert Redfords movie “The three days of condor”.