Sci-Fi Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Three

[Filmfreak]

Also, even if it's some scenes shot on IMAX film and not the entire movie like initially reported:

 

[emielaen]

Really don't see calling it Part 3 is apart of some major compromised mandate. Not worried about that in anyway.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[NotToday]

 

[Spider-Fan]

I am so frigging excited for this

 

[Filmfreak]

Really don't see calling it Part 3 is apart of some major compromised mandate. Not worried about that in anyway.

With everything Villeneuve has said about this movie it clearly sounds like another "A Knives Out Mystery" situation to me.

But that being said they can call it 2 Dune 2 Furious³ and it would still be my most anticipated project of the upcoming years.

 

[Weather Witch]

But that being said they can call it 2 Dune 2 Furious³ and it would still be my most anticipated project of the upcoming years.

Haha, that's fair. Though if we get a fourth movie, I would prefer it not to be called Part Four to distinguish from the Villeneuve movies.

That is how I see it as well. Children of Dune can be it's own Saga unto itself. Even follow same formula if you want to do Children of Dune as 3 parts and God Emperor as Children of Dune Part 3.

Something like this might work, yeah.

 

[GothamCity1012]

I liked part 2 more then 1..
1 was to me.. much too dry.. visually fine..

2 is visually better.. and overall had Cooler scenes..

3 has the potential to be the best one.. and then he needs to stop making them, cause you have to stop at 3 in my opnion, most of the time a fourth is just too much.

 

[Sithborg]

That is how I see it as well. Children of Dune can be it's own Saga unto itself. Even follow same formula if you want to do Children of Dune as 3 parts and God Emperor as Children of Dune Part 3.

I dislike splitting up Children, but trying to do God Emperor in one.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Filmfreak]

Unpopular opinion but I like Sandgren's work more than Fraser's (outside Dune!). I'm sure he'll do wonders with Villeneuve's guidance and I called it back when he was first rumoured that he must have been chosen to shoot on film.

 

[Elayis]

I wonder if this will mean Part 3 will be less gray and drab looking. It'd be nice to have some more pop to the image.

 

[GothamCity1012]

I wonder if this will mean Part 3 will be less gray and drab looking. It'd be nice to have some more pop to the image.

Ya. It needs a bit more color. Like that first scene in part 2.

Best scene of the film in my opinion.

 

[GothamCity1012]

View attachment 141095

Oh hes good also, maybe even better actually.

 

[DarkKnight88]

It’s a decade later on Arrakis and

Spoiler

it’s a much more lush green world

so it’s definitely going feel different visually.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I wonder if this will mean Part 3 will be less gray and drab looking. It'd be nice to have some more pop to the image.

 

[Elayis]

I probably should have said washed out, as that's a better descriptor of what I'm talking about. It's like Fraser deliberately drained all of the color out of the image.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I probably should have said washed out, as that's a better descriptor of what I'm talking about. It's like Fraser deliberately drained all of the color out of the image.

Are you being serious?

 

[Elayis]

Are you being serious?

What is unserious about my post? The desert scenes are basically monochrome with little contrast. Fraser did the same thing on Mandalorian, too. The image doesn't have to look like that. Fury Road took place in the desert, and that movie's gorgeous. Lynch's version had a lot more life to it.

But maybe this is equally Villeneuve's style, as there's a through line across all of his movies regardless of cinematographer. So perhaps it won't matter that Sandgren has replaced Fraser.

Arrival looked like they forgot to color grade it.

But I could say similar things about Sicario and even Blade Runner.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

What is unserious about my post? The desert scenes are basically monochrome with little contrast. Fraser did the same thing on Mandalorian, too. The image doesn't have to look like that. Fury Road took place in the desert, and that movie's gorgeous. Lynch's version had a lot more life to it.

But maybe this is equally Villeneuve's style, as there's a through line across all of his movies regardless of cinematographer. So perhaps it won't matter that Sandgren has replaced Fraser.

Arrival looked like they forgot to color grade it.

But I could say similar things about Sicario and even Blade Runner.

Dune is gorgeous. Dune Part 2 is gorgeous. Arrival is gorgeous. Sicario is gorgeous. 2049 is gorgeous. Let Me In is gorgeous. The Batman is gorgeous.

The dissing of one of the best directors and three of the best cinematographers without seemingly understanding what monochrome means is bizarre. Dune actually has a monochrome planet. Bradford Young's one source lighting style is unique and gives the films he's shot a distinct look. One that got him an Academy Award nod for that movie you seem to think is ugly. Fraser won one for Dune.

The desert in Dune is suppose to harsh, uninviting. It's death. When it's not suppose to be, it looks different. I have honestly never seen anyone argue that Dune Part 2 isn't one of the prettiest movies of the century. Same with Sicario (it's Deakins) and 2049 (my personal favorite). You didn't even bring high quality images to the table. I'm blown away.

 

[Snow Queen]

I'd call Blade Runner 2049 one of the best looking movies of the century so far and the rest of Villeneuve's would be damn good shouts as well.

 

[Elayis]

I never said Villeneuve's films looked ugly. Aside from some color grading choices (mostly involving Arrakis), I'm mostly a fan of his visual choices. But they can also exhibit that dull, low contrast look that most digitally photographed movies have today.

I can understand the story reasons for why the desert would look like that, but the desaturated appearance of Arrakis doesn't make for the most appealing visual experience. Different strokes, I guess.

And monochrome doesn't mean black and white. It just means variations of a single color (in this case, beige), which Dune more than qualifies as.

It's not like this is some novel criticism. There's been a lot of discourse about the muted palette of the Dune films, and Villeneuve's use of color in general. More eloquent people than me (like Film Crit Hulk) have been writing about it for years.

 

[J.Drangal]

I wonder if this will mean Part 3 will be less gray and drab looking. It'd be nice to have some more pop to the image.

I get where you're coming from with this.

Personally, I love the look of Villeneuve's Dune, but I'd be lying if I said I was initially a bit disappointed by the first glimpse. I'd seen the documentary on Jodo's hypothetical adaptation, with its colorful costumes and concepts by Moebius and Foss, and I was fantasizing about a big, pop SF movie, very Metal Hurlant in spirit.

But Villeneuve has chosen a different route, and once I saw the film, I completely understood and embraced it. In choosing Chani as narrator, the idea is more to reflect her feelings and those of the other characters (end-of-times climate for the Fremen, demotion, then mourning and exile for the Atreides, political instability and pre-war atmosphere) than to exploit the SF nature of the novel. Hence this highly polished but ultimately funereal look.

I'm not familiar with the saga in its literary form, so I don't know how the story develops.
But with that approach now established on two films, I can only imagine the palette expanding through a solid narrative reason. Otherwise it would just feels gratuitous.

Now, if in thirty years or so, a new director wants to re-adapt all this into a film like Lynch's but on testosterone, I'll beg the nurses with all my old bones and limp flesh to let me out of the hospice to attend the premiere.

 

[GothamCity1012]

I probably should have said washed out, as that's a better descriptor of what I'm talking about. It's like Fraser deliberately drained all of the color out of the image.

This. The visuals are great. But the color is dull.

 

[Luigi]