{"id":322888,"date":"2021-08-12T15:28:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T12:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/im-just-blown-away-film\/"},"modified":"2021-08-12T15:28:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T12:28:56","slug":"im-just-blown-away-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/im-just-blown-away-film\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#8221;I&#8217;m Just Blown Away&#8221; \u2013 \/Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a279d4868f80\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a279d4868f80\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/im-just-blown-away-film\/#Love_for_the_Audience\" >Love for the Audience<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/im-just-blown-away-film\/#The_Importance_of_the_Single_Effect_in_the_Screen_Tale\" >The Importance of the Single Effect in the Screen Tale<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#&#8221;I&#8217;m Just Blown Away&#8221; \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-694108 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Dune-Rebecca-Ferguson-700x392.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Dune-Rebecca-Ferguson.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Dune-Rebecca-Ferguson-360x202.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chlo\u00e9 Zhao<\/strong>, who won the Best Director Oscar this year for\u00a0<em>Nomadland<\/em> and who is currently in post-production on Marvel\u2019s <em>The Eternals<\/em>, has seen <strong>Denis Villeneuve<\/strong>\u2018s <em><strong>Dune<\/strong><\/em> and she has some high praise for it \u2014 along with some thoughts about what it might herald for cinema\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2021\/08\/chloe-zhao-raves-dune-blown-away-villeneuve-1234657526\/\">IndieWire<\/a> reports that the September 2021 issue of Sight &amp; Sound magazine has an interview with\u00a0Zhao, wherein it asks her for her thoughts about the future of the cinematic medium. In the process of answering, she revealed that she had just seen <em>Dune<\/em> and that it had her\u00a0\u201cfeeling pretty bullish on the current state of cinema \u2014 artistically, at least.\u201d<br \/>\n<!-- SlashFilm_300x250_In_Post -->That\u2019s how the magazine characterized her thoughts. Here\u2019s a direct quote from Zhao:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt gives me hope that a filmmaker like Denis is able to really harness his vision and put together something that\u2019s so incredible, so cinematic. I\u2019m just blown away by the experience I had in that room. But I\u2019m terrified about how many people are or aren\u2019t going to have that experience like I did, in a theatre, and what that means for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lucky her: she got to see <em>Dune<\/em> early and on the big screen. Maybe it\u2019s worth unpacking that a little more \u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-694109 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Dune-Oscar-Isaac-Josh-Brolin-700x392.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Dune-Oscar-Isaac-Josh-Brolin.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Dune-Oscar-Isaac-Josh-Brolin-360x202.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Love_for_the_Audience\"><\/span>Love for the Audience<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>IndieWire also quotes from an essay that Villeneuve wrote for <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2020\/film\/news\/dune-denis-villeneuve-blasts-warner-bros-1234851270\/\">Variety<\/a> last December. This essay came hot on the heels of the bombshell announcement from <strong>Warner Bros.<\/strong> that it would be giving its entire 2021 movie slate\u00a0a simultaneous theatrical\/HBO Max release. Villeneuve was one of the high-profile filmmakers who was blindsided by the announcement.<br \/>\n<!-- SlashFilm_300x250_In_Post_2 --><em>Dune<\/em> is a Warner Bros. picture. It only covers the first half of <strong>Frank Herbert<\/strong>\u2018s novel and was <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/collider.com\/dune-two-movies-sequel-explained-reason-why-denis-villeneuve\/\">supposed to be<\/a> the first of two <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a>, so Villeneuve and his planned sequel have a lot riding on its commercial success. In the essay, he had this to say about the studio\u2019s simultaneous-release strategy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere is absolutely no love for cinema, nor for the audience here. It is all about the survival of a telecom mammoth, one that is currently bearing an astronomical debt of more than $150 billion. Therefore, even though \u2018Dune\u2019 is about cinema and audiences, AT&amp;T is about its own survival on Wall Street. With HBO Max\u2019s launch a failure thus far, AT&amp;T decided to sacrifice Warner Bros.\u2019 entire 2021 slate in a desperate attempt to grab the audience\u2019s attention.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Note that he uses the word \u201caudience\u201d three times there.\u00a0I\u2019m a fan of Villeneuve\u2019s work; I think he was one of the best new directors to break out in the 2010s. Yet it always strikes me as slightly disingenuous when you have filmmakers out there in the middle of an ongoing pandemic, talking up the sacredness of the theatrical experience,\u00a0speaking as though they have the audience\u2019s best interests in mind (and not their own art).<\/p>\n<p>Zhao expressed terror at the idea of people not seeing <em>Dune<\/em> in theaters and having the same big-screen experience that she did. What\u00a0about movie-lovers who are terrified of the coronavirus and\u00a0just want to be safe and not put their own health at risk so they can watch some impeccably crafted sandworms? Are they somehow less enthusiastic about cinema than, say, a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science<\/a>s, watching a digital screener at home?<\/p>\n<p>Filmmakers like Villeneuve and Zhao sometimes sound as if they\u2019re operating based on\u00a0their own idealized notions of what the theatrical experience is or should be, as opposed to firsthand knowledge of what it usually is for the rest of the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> moviegoing public (us commoners). Keep in mind,\u00a0Zhao is a VIP who was coming from an advance screening of <em>Dune, <\/em>which is not available for John Q. Public to see yet. We don\u2019t know the full conditions of that screening but it seems doubtful that it would be anything like what you or I would experience in a noisy, crowded auditorium at our local AMC 20 or some such\u00a0multiplex.<br \/>\n<!-- SlashFilm_300x250_In_Post_3 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-694110 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Dune-Sandworm-700x392.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Dune-Sandworm.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Dune-Sandworm-360x202.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Importance_of_the_Single_Effect_in_the_Screen_Tale\"><\/span>The Importance of the Single Effect in the Screen Tale<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Everyone\u2019s location and situation will be different, but in my neck of the woods, we\u2019re <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/tokyo-reports-record-high-of-over-5000-new-covid-19-cases-as-olympics-near-end\/\">still posting<\/a> record Covid case numbers. The last film I saw in a theater \u2014 one of the only true moviegoing experiences I\u2019ve had in 2020 and 2021 \u2014 was Christopher Nolan\u2019s <em>Tenet<\/em>. Like Villeneuve, Nolan is a fierce proponent of theaters. He would probably be shocked and dismayed to see someone\u00a0fast-forwarding through \u201cthe boring parts\u201d of a new movie on their iPad.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve seen people do that and it just hammered home to me that the single greatest benefit of movie theaters is not so much the communal aspect they bring, but rather the simple fact that they (theoretically) get people to sit still and focus on a narrative in front of a huge screen. Like short stories, movies have historically been able to tap into\u00a0what Edgar Allan Poe called\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/msnovickenglish.weebly.com\/uploads\/1\/3\/5\/5\/13557192\/single_effect_poe.pdf\">\u201cthe importance of the single effect in a prose tale.\u201d<\/a> On the big screen, they command our attention and allow us to get absorbed in a story and thereby feel something, an emotion, that great \u201csingle effect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smartphones have made it harder to cut out all distractions, which just means that filmmakers have to work that much harder to seize people\u2019s attention \u2014 and keep it for the duration of two hours. In the past, you might say a movie like <em>Dune<\/em> was \u201cunmissable.\u201d For tablet users, however, it and other future films might need to up their <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> and make sure their stories are good enough that they\u2019re \u201cunputdownable,\u201d like a good page-turner.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome, Hollywood, to the wide world of potential storytelling disruptions that\u00a0novelists like Frank Herbert have been dealing with for decades upon centuries.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dune<\/em>\u00a0opens the Venice Film Festival on <strong>September 3, 2021.<\/strong> For non-attendees, it will be available to screen in theaters and on HBO Max on <strong>October 22, 2021.<\/strong><br \/>\n<!-- SlashFilm_300x250_In_Post_4 --><\/p>\n<p>                            <strong>Cool Posts From Around the Web:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>                            <!-- \/post -->\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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