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Behind-the-Scenes Featurettes - This nicely-produced collection of short featurettes covers several aspects three key scenes featured in the film through a combination of on-set rehearsal footage and storyboards, as well as key cast and crew interviews
Herbert might be expected to grow up to join groups like Move On and watch MSNBC. In my case at least, that couldn't be further from the ultra- There was probably no way a novel as gargantuan as Dune could have been condensed effectively into a roughly two hour and thirty Visually, Dune is quite outstanding, building detail upon detail; the production is more akin to historical epic than science fiction. With the full budget being there on the screen. Lynch creates immersive, believable worlds with striking imagery that lingers in the mind, bathing his universe in light and fantastic creations. Add to this a deep and meaningful score produced by Toto with overtones of Vangelis and Holst and you have an emotional involvement far beyond the normal science fiction fodder. This is not a “Star Wars”; this is adult Dune carefully balances these two central narrative elements in a slow-burning but well-paced manner that allows new viewers to be fully However, the difficulties with this film are apparent. Kyle MacLachlan is weak as the lead. The film feels as if it is trying to explain too much and rush through things at the same time. The voice over narration that must have must have been added to try and make things easier for the audience just makes it seem stranger.world of Herbert's Dune came mostly via discussions with ardent fans of the series, who gave me at least a general sense of the outline of
review is going live, and it will of course almost automatically be compared to David Lynch's prior film version. That version of Dune but secretly sets up a showdown with the Atreides' arch-enemies, the Harkonnens. That, in a nutshell, is what Dune is all about, but that's Rebecca Ferguson) and the House's current Duke, Leto (Oscar Isaac). With his mother's help, Paul learns to gain control of his innate mental and To expand on the effects is the short featurette Dune Models and Miniatures, which looks at the worms (the film’s biggest challenge), the ships, and worlds in the film, featuring interviews with De Laurentiis, Offenheim, Charles Finance, Emilio Ruiz del Rio, Brian Smithies, and Eric Swenson. Finally we get Dune Costumes, a 5-minute piece around the film’s costumes featuring Bob Ringwood, Debbie Phipps, Michael Jones, and Mark Sieger. This one is especially amusing because it appears that while every other department had a lot of time to get their stuff done, costumes were being designed and assembled literallyup to the night before shooting the sequence they were required for. For example, Sting’s infamous cod piece was added last minute since he was (apparently) supposed to do the scene nude.
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Nolan, Tarantino and Villeneuve - there are only a handful of filmmakers who still make original movies on a grand scale, and when the man behind Arrival and Blade Runner 2049 took aim at Frank Herbert's expansive Dune saga, it was destined to be an epic ride.
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