I disagree with such an evaluation and would rather claim that there is more meaning to the film, drawn to it from the original novel, than the audience can take in while watching the film only once, especially if those who watch it are unfamiliar with Herbert’s novel. In fact, every form of literature or visual media is in a way impacted by the time of its creation and the message the author or creator wants to transport with the story. Consequently, it is hard to read or watch Dune without constructing a connection to motifs or historical contexts Herbert had in mind when he drafted the plot for his story about a future universe as well as such ones the audience has in mind with regard to their own cultural and historical experiences. The present study will therefore show the extent to which Herbert used orientalist semiotics for the creation of the universe his plot is related to and its heroic figure, i. e. Paul Atreides, the central protago-nist of the first of his Dune novels that was published more than five decades ago. It is thereby an attempt to decode the sign system the first novel of the Dune series was based upon and the extent to which these semiotics, especially the orientalist ones, have been conserved and represented to later generations on the big silver screen as well.