My imagination takes me to Frank Herbert's Dune from 1965. Get us a big budget Sci-fi epic movie, perhaps after Forbidden Planet the studios pursue Sci-fi more than just B-movie material, and well done it might hit just as the environmental movement and culture shift of the later 1960s or early 1970s resonates with America. The Arabic and Islamic tones are obvious, perhaps rugged simpler ascetic explorers versus modern conspicuous consumption themes play better, and if this is before the middle east devolves into anarchy, violence and excess wealth itself, the imprint will be there. Maybe I Dream of Jeanne is less light-hearted and fairy-tale in its treatment of our Genie, or other depictions give a more compelling treatment of the culture. I recall how sympathetic the Berber was portrayed in the Wind and the Lion, it seemed to equate their individualism and spirit with the American frontier ideal. So less cowboy westerns and more such movies?