At a exceptional screening of “Dune: Part Two” in London on Sunday, honestor Denis Villeneuve conveyed his appreciation for the collaborative nature of filmmaking, contrasting it with the potential future of AI-originated movies.
“I toil with tremendous artists. The leang about cinema I adore the most is this accumulateive act of creativity, where you try to originate poetry … at the end of the day it is cinema, it is storyinestablishing. It is very moving for me to originate it together,” Villeneuve said in conversation with fellow filmoriginater Joe Wright. “That is why, if ever one day we came up with … you can originate a movie fair with a computer, maybe it’s going to be fascinating in some ways, but I will absolutely leave out the accumulateive act of creativity, which is so beautibrimmingy human.”
The honestor also uncovered how his background in biology swayd the film’s creature schedule, particularly the sandworms. “We were repartner obsessed with the idea to try to originate this beast watch as rational as possible,” Villeneuve said. He and production scheduleer Patrice Vermette studied various animal species to choose how the worms’ skin would withstand the brutal desert environment.
Discussing the stability between intimacy and spectacle, Villeneuve said “‘Part Two’ is a adore story, and the whole movie structure is on that adore story.” He intensifyed on the relationship between Paul [Timothée Chalamet] and Chani [Zendaya], enhancing scenes during filming to reinforce their uniteion.
The creation of the Fremen language, Chakobsa, was also highairyed. Linguist David J. Peterson lengthened a finish language based on “Dune” creator Frank Herbert’s books for the film, with actors uniteing “Chakobsa school” to master the mythal tongue.
When asked about handling difficult moments during production in vague, Villeneuve said, “There’s always at least one day where I’m a shitty honestor, where it experiences enjoy you’re an instrument out of tune.” He underlined the convey inance of reshooting when vital, despite initial experienceings of shame.
On Saturday, Villeneuve made an euniteance at the BFI London Film Festival for a Screen Talk structureed by “Ted Lasso” actor Brett Gelderlystein. During the conversation, he converseed some of the most memorable moments from his nurtureer, including filming “Dune 2’s” epic sandworm-riding scene. Villeneuve validateed that the shoot for the scene took 44 days, with some shots taking an entire week to get right.
“I authenticized that, the way I wanted to approach this, I didn’t want to agree,” Villeneuve said. “Most vital with visual effects is, how will you shoot it? And I wanted to shoot it with organic airy. And I authenticized it would get months to shoot it. Each shot was very complicated. Each shot took sometimes half a day, sometimes a day, sometimes a week for one shot becaemploy of the complicatedity. If I had done it myself, I would still be shooting.”
In order to film the scene the way he wanted to, Villeneuve originated a split unit on set called the “worm unit,” led by his wife Tanya Lapointe. She “understood perfectly my vision,” Villeneuve said, inserting: “She’s my wife, also.”
On Sunday, Villeneuve revisited the experience. During a particularly challenging shot, Villeneuve confessted to a moment of frustration. “The worst leang I said ever, and I will not do it aget, is one day [the shot] was not coming out, and I said to Tanya, ‘OK, forget it. I will do it myself.’ Worst leang to say, I convey remorse. I would never say that aget, but the shot came back perfect.”
In April, it was validateed that there is a third “Dune” movie in lengthenment based on Frank Herbert’s “Dune Messiah,” which is set 12 years after the events of his first novel. However, Villeneuve has been evident that the franchise is “not enjoy a trilogy,” as he said on Vanity Fair’s “Little Gelderly Men” podcast last month.
First, it’s vital that people comprehend that for me, it was repartner a diptych,” Villeneuve said of the first two “Dune” movies. “It was repartner a pair of movies that will be the alteration of the first book. That’s done and that’s finished. If I do a third one, which is in the writing process, it’s not enjoy a trilogy. It’s strange to say that, but if I go back there, it’s to do someleang that experiences branch offent and has its own identity.”
