Steven Spielberg has heaped reward on the “brilliant” ‘Dune: Part Two’.
The legendary director – who has helmed classics together with ‘E.T. The Extra Terrestrial’ – has described Denis Villeneuve’s epic as among the best sci-fi motion pictures that he has ever seen.
During an look on DGA’s ‘Director’s Cut’ podcast alongside Villeneuve, Spielberg mentioned: “It’s an honour for me to sit here and talk to you.
“This is actually a visible epic, and it’s additionally full of deeply, deeply drawn characters.
“Yet the dialogue is very sparse when you look at it proportionately to the running time of the film. It’s such cinema. The shots are so painterly, yet there’s not an angle or single setup that’s pretentious … you have made one of the most brilliant science fiction films I have ever seen.”
Spielberg reserved approval for the particular results within the desert-set flick, which stars Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya and Rebecca Ferguson.
The 77-year-old filmmaker mentioned: “This is a desert-loving story, but for such a desert-loving film there is such a yearning for water in this movie.
“For all of the sand you might have on this movie, it’s actually about water. The sacred waters which are craving for inexperienced meadows and the blue water of life.
“You film the desert to resemble an ocean, a sea. The sandworms were like sea serpents. And that scene surfing the sandworms is one of the greatest things I have ever seen. Ever! But you made the desert look like a liquid.”
Spielberg additionally described Denis as among the best administrators within the historical past of Hollywood.
The ‘Jaws’ director defined: “Let me start by saying there are filmmakers who are the builders of worlds. It’s not a long list and we know who a lot of them are. Starting with [Georges] Melies and [Walt] Disney and [Stanley] Kubrick, George Lucas. Ray Harryhausen I include in that list.
“[Federico] Fellini constructed his personal worlds. Tim Burton. Obviously Wes Anderson, Peter Jackson, James Cameron, Christopher Nolan, Ridley Scott, Guillermo del Toro. The record goes on but it surely’s not that lengthy of an inventory, and I deeply, fervently consider that you’re considered one of its latest members.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
