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Crafting the Scene: How Denis Villeneuve Devised the Cruel, Sexy, Black-and-White World of House Harkonnen for ‘Dune: Part Two’
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scrn loglineVilleneuve and cinematographer Fraser devise an otherworldly, black-and-white 'Dune' aesthetic to capture the twisted, seductive world of House Harkonnen.beat sheet- To create an 'alien light' for the Harkonnen scenes, Fraser modified the camera to filter out visible light and only capture infrared, resulting in a striking, ghostly look that proved challenging but thrilling for the VFX and costume teams.
- Villeneuve envisioned the Harkonnen arena as a celebration of Feyd-Rautha's birthday, with 'inverted fireworks' of bursting ink-black explosions that would be beautiful to the cruel Harkonnen culture but nightmarish to the audience.
Read the sourcecall sheetDenis Villeneuve, Greig Fraser, Stellan Skarsgård, Austin Butler, Timothée Chalamet, Kathryn Bigelow, Roger Yuan, Jacqueline West, Patrice Vermette, Léa Seydoux, Legendary Pictures, Dune: Part Two, Dune: Part One, Zero Dark Thirty - ComicBook.comComicBook.com2d
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Crafting the Scene: How Denis Villeneuve Devised the Cruel, Sexy, Black-and-White World of House Harkonnen for ‘Dune: Part Two’
The Hollywood ReporterStory by Patrick Brzeski
scrn logline
Villeneuve and cinematographer Fraser devise an otherworldly, black-and-white 'Dune' aesthetic to capture the twisted, seductive world of House Harkonnen.
beat sheet
- To create an 'alien light' for the Harkonnen scenes, Fraser modified the camera to filter out visible light and only capture infrared, resulting in a striking, ghostly look that proved challenging but thrilling for the VFX and costume teams.
- Villeneuve envisioned the Harkonnen arena as a celebration of Feyd-Rautha's birthday, with 'inverted fireworks' of bursting ink-black explosions that would be beautiful to the cruel Harkonnen culture but nightmarish to the audience.
call sheet
Denis Villeneuve, Greig Fraser, Stellan Skarsgård, Austin Butler, Timothée Chalamet, Kathryn Bigelow, Roger Yuan, Jacqueline West, Patrice Vermette, Léa Seydoux, Legendary Pictures, Dune: Part Two, Dune: Part One, Zero Dark Thirty