“Howdy. I’m Denis Villeneuve. I’m the director of ‘Dune, Half Two’.” [TENSE MUSIC] “So this scene occurs precisely after the introduction of Feyd-Rautha, the place we noticed him as a psychopath. And right here, we deliver this character into his political setting, the place it will be a wierd celebration of its birthday, the place in Harkonnen tradition, the prince must struggle slaves to be able to show himself in entrance of the viewers. And the entire scene has been designed as a dance between Feyd-Rautha, performed by the good Austin Butler, and the gang. Austin created a cross combine between, I’ll say, an Olympic sword fighter, a serial killer and Mick Jagger. He introduced super intercourse attraction to the half. And Feyd-Rautha being one of the iconic characters of ‘Dune’, Austin had huge sneakers to fill. And I’m very happy with what he dropped at the display. One facet that I really like about Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’ is all of the books can be a research of the influence of the setting on people. How nature shapes human psyche, behaviors, tradition, know-how, politics, et cetera. You need to know concerning the Fremen? You take a look at the desert. However for the Harkonnen, it’s a bit extra tough as a result of they utterly destroyed their pure world. And I used to be in search of environmental hints, concepts, clues that may give me some hints about who they’re precisely. And I thought of, what if their daylight was subtracting shade as a substitute of showing them? What in the event that they had been coming from a black-and-white world? That might give us some concept from the place that binary, fascist, merciless behaviors are coming from. As my cinematographer, Greig Fraser, and I had been brainstorming collectively how you can deliver an alien daylight that might be black and white to the display, Greig had the thought to check infrared. And infrared is the sunshine wavelength that’s normally blocked into cameras as a result of it’s thought-about as noise. And we modified the cameras to let solely that wavelength come by and block the opposite colours. And it created that eerie, unusual, alien, nightmarish environment I used to be dreaming of for Giedi Prime.” “Blissful birthday, expensive nephew.” [CHEERING] “We see nearly by pores and skin. The eyes change into piercing like bugs. And the issue with that approach is that there’s no approach to return. We shot it this manner. It’s not an impact that was carried out in put up. And so these scenes by no means seem in colours.” “Why do they not cease the struggle?” “Plans inside plans.” [DRAMATIC MUSIC] [NON-ENGLISH SINGING]: “Present me who you might be.” “Now, all once more, this scene is a sport between the Baron, who put his nephew, Feyd, below super strain, so he might be pushed in entrance of the gang to show his valor. And I saved the scene very intimate round Feyd, retaining the gang within the background simply as panorama that may, a bit just like the desert for Paul. A strain that may push on him, and to really feel the influence of that strain in an intimate means. I got here up with the design of those picadors, characters that within the ebook are very horrifying. And I got here with that form of devilish form that appeared to return from considered one of our nightmares. Once more, give us an concept of what’s pleasure for Harkonnen, what’s sport for them, how merciless or desperately merciless they’re. And right here’s a second that I completely love, the place we really feel that Feyd is just not afraid of ache. He loves ache. He likes to bleed, to be on the sting between life and loss of life. It’s somebody that has solely — you respect just one factor, is braveness, and good fighters. And the slave who has show confirmed his expertise gained Feyd’s respect, and that’s the reason he didn’t kill him at first straight away. He performed with him like a cat and a mouse. It’s a scene that, in some methods, could be very near what was described within the ebook. And it’s a scene that each time I see it, particularly with the insane Hans Zimmer rating and the good work of the sound design to deliver that crowd to life, I’m very happy with.” “He’s spectacular certainly.” [CROWD CHANTING]
