“Hiya. 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 carry 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 battle 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 nice Austin Butler, and the group. Austin created a cross combine between, I’ll say, an Olympic sword fighter, a serial killer and Mick Jagger. He introduced super intercourse enchantment to the half. And Feyd-Rautha being some of the iconic characters of ‘Dune’, Austin had large footwear to fill. And I’m very pleased with what he delivered to the display screen. One facet that I really like about Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’ is all of the books can be a examine of the affect of the setting on people. How nature shapes human psyche, behaviors, tradition, expertise, politics, et cetera. You need to know concerning the Fremen? You have a look at the desert. However for the Harkonnen, it’s a bit extra difficult as a result of they fully destroyed their pure world. And I used to be searching for 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 colour as an alternative of unveiling them? What in the event that they have been coming from a black-and-white world? That may give us some concept from the place that binary, fascist, merciless behaviors are coming from. As my cinematographer, Greig Fraser, and I have been brainstorming collectively easy methods to carry an alien daylight that can be black and white to the display screen, Greig had the concept to check infrared. And infrared is the sunshine wavelength that’s often blocked into cameras as a result of it’s thought of as noise. And we modified the cameras to let solely that wavelength come via and block the opposite colours. And it created that eerie, unusual, alien, nightmarish environment I used to be dreaming of for Giedi Prime.” “Glad birthday, expensive nephew.” [CHEERING] “We see virtually via pores and skin. The eyes turn out to be piercing like bugs. And the issue with that method is that there’s no solution to return. We shot it this manner. It’s not an impact that was accomplished in publish. And so these scenes by no means seem in colours.” “Why do they not cease the battle?” “Plans inside plans.” [DRAMATIC MUSIC] [NON-ENGLISH SINGING]: “Present me who you might be.” “Now, all once more, this scene is a recreation between the Baron, who put his nephew, Feyd, underneath super strain, so he can be pushed in entrance of the group to show his valor. And I stored the scene very intimate round Feyd, maintaining the group 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 affect of that strain in an intimate method. I got here up with the design of those picadors, characters that within the e book are very scary. And I got here with that form of devilish form that appeared to return from one in all 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 shouldn’t be 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 immediately. He performed with him like a cat and a mouse. It’s a scene that, in some methods, may be very near what was described within the e book. And it’s a scene that each time I see it, particularly with the insane Hans Zimmer rating and the nice work of the sound design to carry that crowd to life, I’m very pleased with.” “He’s spectacular certainly.” [CROWD CHANTING]
