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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
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Villeneuve and cinematographer Fraser devise an otherworldly, black-and-white 'Dune' aesthetic to capture the twisted, seductive world of House Harkonnen.
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- 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.
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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