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Denis Villeneuve‘s Dune: Half Two is getting Steven Spielberg‘s seal of approval. The Oscar-winning director is praising not solely the movie, however the Canadian filmmakers imaginative and prescient and creativity.
Chatting with Villeneuve for DGA’s The Director’s Lower podcast, Spielberg began by placing him in an inventory of administrators he calls “builders of worlds.”
“Let me begin by saying there are filmmakers who’re the builders of worlds. It’s not an extended listing and we all know who loads of them are,” Spielberg stated. “Beginning with [Georges] Méliès and Disney and Kubrick, George Lucas. Ray Harryhausen I embody in that listing. Fellini constructed his personal worlds. Tim Burton. Clearly Wes Anderson, Peter Jackson, James Cameron, Christopher Nolan, Ridley Scott, Guillermo del Toro. The listing goes on but it surely’s not that lengthy of an inventory, and I deeply, fervently imagine that you’re one in every of its latest members.”
Spielberg went on to name out one in every of his favourite scenes from the Timothée Chalamet-starring movie the place Paul rides a sandworm.
“It is a desert-loving story, however for such a desert-loving movie there’s such a craving for water on this film,” Spielberg famous. “For all of the sand you could have on this movie, it’s actually about water. The sacred waters which can be craving for inexperienced meadows and the blue water of life.”
He continued, “You movie the desert to resemble an ocean, a sea. The sandworms have been like sea serpents. And that scene browsing the sandworms is among the biggest issues I’ve ever seen. Ever! However you made the desert seem like a liquid.”
Spielberg advised Villeneuve, “You’ve got made probably the most good science fiction movies I’ve ever seen,” and stated that Dune: Half Two “is actually a visible epic and it’s additionally full of deeply, deeply drawn characters.”
Dune: Half Two is predicated on the 1965 novel by Frank Herbert additionally stars Zendaya, Austin Butler, Zendaya and Florence Pugh, amongst many extra.