By faridmon Go To PostWatched DuneI view it as an artistic license to keep us on our toes about what actually does come to fruition, plus Paul Atreides being transformed by having to kill a person is all up in that "die so that you may live" metaphor. Lets us know his "visions" are not always the literal goings on to come. He doesn't always get the full picture and neither do we.
Liked, but confused about those visions and dreams the main character has. Are they premonitions, or is he experiencing things happening to other characters.
Like for example, the black dude he fought at the end, wasn't he in the visions a helpful dude trying to show him ''the way?''
By faridmon Go To PostWatched DuneSome things happened exactly like in the visions, while others that were shown are merely symbolism of something happening, but with a different meaning compared to the literal scene.
Liked, but confused about those visions and dreams the main character has. Are they premonitions, or is he experiencing things happening to other characters.
Like for example, the black dude he fought at the end, wasn't he in the visions a helpful dude trying to show him ''the way?''
We'll get more with Paul snorting some precious spice.
i thought it was pretty obviously paul being able to see different possible futures. He saw one where he didn't have to fight Jamis and they were friends
By i can get you a toe Go To PostI view it as an artistic license to keep us on our toes about what actually does come to fruition, plus Paul Atreides being transformed by having to kill a person is all up in that "die so that you may live" metaphor. Lets us know his "visions" are not always the literal goings on to come. He doesn't always get the full picture and neither do we.Yeah that’s exactly what I theorised. The fact that some of these visions were just guidance means that use these visions just to make choices for certain occurrences
Can’t wait for part 2
By Perfect Blue Go To PostThe CGI monster doesn't look great at all.
This is killing me
Also, I really dislike that cut while Jolie is mid pirouette. It's really jarring and looks like a few frames were missed in the shot.
By LFMartins86 Go To PostVenom 2 currently has a better RT score than the Eternals.I did
No one expected that.
Having a vision and complete creative control to do it and keep it consistent > 5 writers and numerous producers insisting that you insert x, y and z. It is known.
Eternals
Written by Chloe Zhao, Chloe Zhao & Patrick Burleigh, and Ryan Firpo & Kaz Firpo, with story by Ryan Firpo & Kaz Firpo
Written by Chloe Zhao, Chloe Zhao & Patrick Burleigh, and Ryan Firpo & Kaz Firpo, with story by Ryan Firpo & Kaz Firpo
Design by committee keeps the average standard high enough that there's always something worth playing when it comes to games I think. Is the same true of film?
I think the barometer for games is far less nuanced because it is something you actively participate in. It’s either playable or it isn’t. Film can just be something you let pass you by as a 6/10 MCU movie, just for two hours’ entertainment; you don’t want to spend 60 quid and 10 hours on a game you’d deem 6/10.
Until more games have an actual artistic vision (outside of grimdark plot/colors) and get critiqued on that level it's a weird comparison to make. I'd say plot, pace and the emotional core of a movie absolutely gets wrecked the more people interfere with the process or insist that X fanservice needs an insert. Far as Villeneuve, this Dune was absolutely helped by the director being an actual fan himself over decades of the material.
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By Not Go To PostKal Penn got married to someone named JoshEngaged
11 years is impressive for it not to be revealed.
People knew it's just one of those things that people don't say directly as it would be seen as outing. And plus nobody around him really cares.
By Punished* Go To PostSo is Dune: Part One a financial success, all Covid things considered?yeah seems like even just on box office alone it will end up doing okay.
Im kinda okay with the changes, loved it overall
first half of dune was so much better than the second
first half of dune was so much better than the second
By Punished* Go To PostSo is Dune: Part One a financial success, all Covid things considered?It did okayish. Box office alone won't bring a profit but HBO Max numbers probably helped convince WB to do a sequel, they also probably don't want to lose Dennis Villeneuve after losing Nolan due to HBO Max.
as great as Denis is, he isn't exactly a box office draw lol. especially for the kind of budgets he uses.
By faridmon Go To PostWatched Dune
Liked, but confused about those visions and dreams the main character has. Are they premonitions, or is he experiencing things happening to other characters.
Like for example, the black dude he fought at the end, wasn't he in the visions a helpful dude trying to show him ''the way?''
I took it as the visions being a kind of deceitful and metaphorical look into the future. The essence of what happens is real, the guy in his visions did show him the way.
By Punished* Go To Post@figureskatingflan: what are your thoughts on Le Guin?I've loved Earthsea since childhood, and I reread the first book every couple years; I enjoyed, but didn't love, The Word for World is Forest; and I've neglected to read all of her other books, which sit in my impossibly long list-of-books-to-read-before-I-suddenly-die-far-short-of-the-end-of-the-list.
Also, you should lead a Dune reading group. It should have more success than the Marxism
I don't know about leading a Dune reading group, but I'd certainly participate.
By s y Go To Posti thought it was pretty obviously paul being able to see different possible futures. He saw one where he didn't have to fight Jamis and they were friendsThat is how it's presented in the books: Paul sees numerous possible futures. Before the Jamis fight, for example, Paul sees himself dying in many of those futures:
And what he saw was a time nexus within this cave, a boiling of possibilities focused here, wherein the most minute action—the wink of an eye, a careless word, a misplaced grain of sand—moved a gigantic lever across the known universe. He saw violence with the outcome subject to so many variables that his slightest movement created vast shiftings in the pattern.The film could've shown that more literally, but they decided to present it in such a way that it can be understood as metaphorical, as cRusheR did.
The vision made him want to freeze into immobility, but this, too, was action with its consequences.
The countless consequences—lines fanned out from this cave, and along most of these consequence-lines he saw his own dead body with blood flowing from a gaping knife wound.
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Detailing on this is nuts. Even has a Michael Jordan cut out piece.
Detailing on this is nuts. Even has a Michael Jordan cut out piece.
By s y Go To PostHow do you guys feel about heavy narration in movies? Style or crutch?Depends on the movie, innit.
By s y Go To PostHow do you guys feel about heavy narration in movies? Style or crutch?I just saw Amelie the other day. It was very clearly a stylistic choice to have narration. I suppose it's a case of the more plot or exposition heavy a film is, the more narration can feel like a crutch
By s y Go To PostHow do you guys feel about heavy narration in movies? Style or crutch?I really don't like narration in most films, it's such a lazy way for a script to beat you over the head. However, in something like Goodfellas, it's used brilliantly and really drives the film along.
So yeah, it's a crutch in most films that have it, but it takes a genius like Scorsese to reinvent the wheel so to speak.
By s y Go To PostHow do you guys feel about heavy narration in movies? Style or crutch?Depends on the execution like any stylistic choice. A bad example of narration is Blade Runner’s original cut but a good example is Goodfellas like mentioned above.
Plenty of great ones.
Shawshank, Goodfellas, Apocalypse Now.
Just depends how and why it's used. Helps when you got an actor who can do it well.
Marty has included them pretty well in Casino and Wolf of the Wallstreet as well. He knows how to set it up.
Shawshank, Goodfellas, Apocalypse Now.
Just depends how and why it's used. Helps when you got an actor who can do it well.
Marty has included them pretty well in Casino and Wolf of the Wallstreet as well. He knows how to set it up.
My favourite is Adaptation, in which he leans a lot on narration in the film but then loses confidence in his writing skills and goes to a writing skills class where Brian Cox goes on a tear about using narration in your film scripts.
By s y Go To PostHow do you guys feel about heavy narration in movies? Style or crutch?I liked it in Amelie.