I’m confused by why someone would think Villeneuve’s Dune is visually boring or a slog.
Also, anyone who thinks the pustulent, floating fat man of Lynch’s movie is superior to Stellan Skarsgård’s Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, or more true to the books, gets the gom jabbar.
I just remain angry about movies these days, and their desaturated color grades.
Have you been to the deep desert? Except when there is the rare precipitatiin, everything is washed out and actually looks desaturated.
It’s an interesting take to say a movie would be improved with less authenticity.
One thing that needs be appreciated about Lynch’s Dune is that in 1984 steampunk wasn’t yet a thing. (Unless you declare steampunk to have originated with, say, Verne. But I would use the term “precursor” or “inspiration” in that case.) I was blown away by the spaceships full of wood and polished brass. Still, his amazing movie is much better appreciated with the sound off.
BTW there is an excellent video comparison of the special effects in the two movies, in which an expert watching the 1984 version for the first time is instantly moved to ask “Wow, where did they get miniature sand?”
*shrugs
Different strokes for different folks; the only time I get hyphy about any of my fictional escapism is when someone acts as if I must agree with them, because their opinion is “obviously” the only “correct” one.
Not to mention that the Fremen in Lynch’s version are utterly unconvincing to me, and seem like Star Trek extras. I believe that Javier Bardem is Stilgar. I’m not buying Everett McGill.
That would make a cool patch or sticker!
Much- most of the film takes place in built environments. The desert has nothing to do with it.
Then why the fuck is it called Dune!?
Did we watch the same movie?
But even assuming we did, are you saying the scenes on Caladan were washed out!?! They looked vibrant and moist to me.
The indoor scenes on Arakis would be dark, again, as authentic. On a desert planet with frequent sandstorms, little natural light is available inside. House Atreides arrives and occupies a Harkonnen-built fortress. Harkonnens prefer a dark environment like their homeworld, Geidi Prime. So any supplemental light deployed by the Atreides is going to be haphazard and not optimized until they have a chance to make more permanent modifications to the structure.
Oooooh, we added green to the palette for a portion of the movie. I’m so excited by one color in the whole movie. The costumes and all the built environments were drab and boring.
It’s nothing about the light- the lighting was great. My complaints are entirely about the color, which is absent. You could watch the movie in black and white and lose nothing.
Oh, I think I’m starting to understand. Are you colorblind, by any chance?
No, but I’m starting to think everyone else is.
You know you’re allowed to not like a movie for literally any reason and not be a dick about it, right?
Which is all straight from the fucking books, dude!
Harkonnen: black and black and more black.
Atreides: drab greens and browns, as befitting their martial style, having been at war for generations.
Fremen: more black and dark brown for their still suits.
If you came to this movie for color (other than blood), you didn’t know the source material.
Are you saying Herbert and Lynch butted heads on the film treatment? I ask because of this from Herbert:
Director David Lynch and I hit it off because I understood film to be a language different from English. He spoke it and I was a rank beginner. (source: Introduction in Eye by Frank Herbert) In that same book, Herbert added that during the screenwriting process with Lynch, he was able to “influence some decisions” but not the ending or the inevitable cuts. Nonetheless, he lauded Lynch’s “visual genius” in his ability to translate Dune’s written words.
Colorblind does not have to mean all or nothing. Often enough, it’s about perception of color saturation.
Here are just two examples of how that can manifest:
It probably was. Adams has a screenwriting credit on the movie, though he passed before it began production.
(Besides, the POVg is just the distaff counterpart to the Total Perspective Vortex, ne?)
