To tell the truth, after the release of "Dune", the praise and criticism were mixed, and the reputation was mixed.
But it did not affect the continuation of the series, and the "bullfrog" fans who came out of the theater were excitedly talking about the plot while walking "dune steps".
No highlights, long paving, and giant obsession are the summaries of most fans' works of new Hollywood hot directors.
This legendary director, who claims to have never made a bad film, Dennis Villeneuve,
After becoming popular with "Scorched Earth City",
Successively filmed "Border Killer", "Advent", "Blade Runner: 2049" and many other audiovisual, language and philosophical, in-depth flying masterpieces.
The grand release of "Dune" laid the cornerstone of Dennis Villeneuve's most popular director in Hollywood.
His obsession with giants throughout, anti-highlighting has become his distinctive personal style,
Then, how did this famous director seal the gods step by step?
Talking about the three works of "Scorched Earth City", "Border Killer" and "Dune", you can detect some traces.
And good directors are feminine, especially in Dennis Villeneuve.
In his works, men and women are almost half of the protagonists,
The "Uighur" spirit conveyed is also common: how to reconcile with fate.
"Scorched Earth City" is a work that presents the style of Dennis Villeneuve in a more complete way,
It is also a powerful work that he has re-directed across eight years,
It was this film that made him step into the ranks of excellent directors, and from then on, he was out of control.
Scorched Earth is a story about a mother looking for her son.
But the perspective begins with Jenny, the daughter of the mother Navar,
After her mother's death, Jenny was given a mission to travel to the Middle East with her twin brother to find her brother and father.
The twin brothers found this task absurd,
As a math assistant, her sister became interested in her mother's last words, so she forgot about the war-torn place.
With the footsteps of my sister, my mother's life also began to unfold,
Many years ago, the Christian Nawal and an Islamist fell in love, and the two were not blessed.
When Navar gave birth to a child and was sent to the city to study, and then there was a lot of fighting, Navar left the desk to find his illegitimate child, but experienced a massacre on the way.
So he changed his ambition and decided to assassinate the black hand behind the scenes,
After the assassination, Nawal went through a prison sentence and was later rescued and settled in Canada.
The whole film has very few lines, and the atmosphere is depressing,
The protagonist Jenny is often taken from one box to another by the director, and the film does not usher in the usual highlights until the end, halfway through the film.
This foreshadowing, which was buried at the beginning, brought great shock to jenny and the audience in front of the screen.
This is the style of Wei Dao's work, his vigorous restraint, the highlight after the reflection of the highlight is often more moving, more shocking.
In "Border Killer", this personal style is used more easily,
Especially the perfect collaboration with cinematographer Roger Dickins, screenwriter Tyler Sheridan,
"Border Killer" has been released to the greatest extent, whether it is the fun of the story, the appreciation of the picture, or the control ability of the director.
The beautiful sunset scenery in "Border Killer", the unexpected ending reversal,
And the powerlessness of man in the vortex of power struggles, both interpret the Dennis Villeneuve-esque tragedy beautifully.
And the reflective narrative is also extremely presented in this work,
Kate, a federal investigator busy with the U.S.-Mexico border, believes that it is necessary to fight crime deep into the hinterland after a terrible struggle.
So he hit it off with the special forces that came to recruit, and then went to Mexico to arrest the leader of the D-sellers.
An hour before the film, Kate and the audience are kept in the dark.
In the assault operation in the clouds and fog, look for the black hand behind the scenes,
It wasn't until Kate and her team conducted a final raid that she learned the true purpose of the operation.
And the truth behind the scenes not only shocked Kate, but also stunned the audience.
This narrative tension has always been characteristic of Dennis Villeneuve.
He abandons the traditional Hollywood-style structural highlights, and instead buries the story highlights deep in the folds of the plot.
Let Gao Guang be born in accordance with the narrative, always be reasonable, unexpected.
And this restraint on the audience, and the audience resonance is often the protagonist throughout the story, by this protagonist and the audience to explore the truth together.
In addition to anti-highlighters, fatalistic figures are also the hallmark of Dennis Villeneuve,
Nadal in Scorched Earth, Kate in Border Killer, Paul in Dune,
At the beginning, they all have their own values, their own behavioral logic, and even the truth that they think needs to be explored.
It wasn't until the end of the story that they realized:
The truth they are looking for is not the one they expect, but far beyond their understanding, and they are only the one who can do nothing.
Fate is the ultimate of the character, the true fate of accepting that violation of free will.
Fatalism is usually tragic,
But under the full firepower of Dennis Villeneuve, this tragic story often retains a little upward vitality.
In Blade Runner: 2049, replicants are annihilated in the snow;
In Border Killer, the frustrated Kate looks at Alejandro's distant back, his eyes twinkling with confusion;
The shock of the twins in Scorched Earth when they figure out the truth and return the letter to their brother,
These are the tenacity unique to human beings after accepting fate, accepting suffering, and accepting the crushing of the wheel of history.
On the other hand, fatalistic characters, if these need to be carried on by the story,
The giant obsession, then, is dennis Villeneuve's unique identity.
The huge sculptures in the wasteland in Blade Runner: 2049, the huge building complex in "Old Enemies" that are forced to breathe, the solemn round giant alien organisms in "Advent",
These are all iconic symbols of Dennis Villeneuve.
To reinforce these symbolic symbols, Dennis Villeneuve would even do subtraction.
For example, there are many depictions of sandworms moving in the desert in the original "Dune",
Condensed into the movie version of "Dune", there is only one scene of the abyss exposed to the abyss and the protagonist Paul,
And it is this extreme presentation that makes the insecticide that has been laid in people's mouths in front of it, and the appearance at this time has a shocking power.