It’s also a “space opera”, why does “Dune” become a god | Literature City

On April 19th, Zack Snyder’s “Moon Rebels 2” was released online, and “Dune 2” has already been released. Although this film is set too early as a “space opera”, Chinese audiences are not actually able to appreciate it. Come, after all, sit in a space fleet and blow with a knife. Although there is a setting, it is not to the taste of Chinese audiences after all.

The problem is, if you look at it from a space opera perspective, no one would think it was poorly shot.

Moreover, it can be said that among American space opera epic films, the two parts of “Dune” are of higher quality than the “Star Wars” sequel trilogy (789) combined, which was the representative of the original space opera epic. Only “Star Wars Rogue One” ” is comparable, but the epic quality is still slightly inferior.

Today I am not mainly writing about “Dune 2”. The famous Hollywood director Zack Snyder’s “Moon Rebels 2” is online. Its first “Daughter of Fire” will be released on December 22, 2023.

“Moon Rebels 2: Branded” will be released on Netflix on April 19. The quality of the first part of this movie was bad enough, but this second part is not a scolding, but a laugh-out-loud one. Because this movie “Starships are powered by coal” is like Guo Degang’s joke come true.

The key is not to talk about burning coal, the whole movie is terrible. In short, it is a joke in a space opera, so why is this?

The answer is that in addition to the fact that the original work of “Dune” is too strong (although Chinese audiences cannot appreciate it, the original work is indeed a top-notch space opera), and “Moon Rebels” is an abandoned script from “Star Wars” that Disney does not want. There is also a big gap in the level of the two directors themselves.

I really can’t appreciate the “Dune” series, but the quality is really satisfying?Why

The director of “Dune” is Denis Villeneuve. He is a great director who is not too well-known among the Chinese public (the movie fan circle is still good). He also unifies the movie fan circle and the public. If Cameron is not included, Si The older generation like Pierberg is probably Nolan.

But Denis Villeneuve is the most literary, authorial, and commercial sci-fi director of this generation in Hollywood.

Yes, you read that right, he is the best Hollywood science fiction director after 2010.

One of the main reasons for this is indeed that after 2010, the rise of Hollywood superhero movies and various sequel movies has squeezed the space for auteur-type commercial movies. But apart from this, he has made the most and best movies, no matter it is Artistically, authorially, etc.

What are the best Hollywood science fiction films after 2010?

The older generation of directors Spielberg’s “Ready Player One”, Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus” and “The Martian”, and then the “War for the Planet of the Apes” trilogy and Nolan’s “Interstellar” , Alfonso Cuaron’s “Gravity.” Then there are movies like “Edge of Tomorrow”, “Upgrade”, “Finch” and “Ex Machina”.

The science fiction films directed by Denis Villeneuve include “Arrival”, “Blade Runner 2049” and “Dune”. These four films are unique in terms of quality, artistry and science fiction films themselves. His work is the first person to make science fiction films in 2010.

(At the same time, “Sicario 1” directed by him is also a unique and excellent film among crime action films. If you don’t believe me, compare it to the second one. In comparison, the second one is simply a defense). So, why is Denis Villeneuve strong?

After 2010, is he not Nolan the number one science fiction film director in Hollywood?

If it is more complicated from a professional film perspective, in lay terms it means that the visual style is unique (with distinctive characteristics) and the core expression is very restrained and stable. From “Scorched Earth City”, “Arrival” and “Enemy”, In it, you can see that the style that Director Wei pursues is to use externalized scenes to convey the characters’ feelings. The characters’ behaviors are very restrained, which further contrasts the intense intensity of restrained emotions.

To some extent, Villeneuve and Wong Kar-wai are somewhat similar, especially their excellent photography styles. The success and strong stylization of Doyle and Deakins are all due to the director’s style, such as Deakins’s “1917” theory The impact of the visual effects is actually far less than that of “Blade Runner 2049”.

Wong Kar-Wai is also ahead of Chen Xunqi’s score. Hans Zimmer only has the scores of “Interstellar” and “Batman” that are impressive and rich in visuals. The scores of his other films are just the icing on the cake.

Villeneuve’s narrative style is more suitable for realistic themes. I usually jokingly call his stories deep dark fantasy. Although this sentence is very funny, in fact, the core is true. Since it is a deep dark fantasy, Fantasy is because these are hypothetical stories. Then deep, dark needs to rely on a solid realistic theme to truly shine.

Whether it’s “Sicario” or “Scorched Earth”, or the near-future sci-fi themed “Blade Runner 2049”, the three major themes are revenge, ethics and redemption. In fact, it was the orthodox successors of Shakespeare’s plays in later generations who grasped these three major themes. Drama is diversified, and Shakespeare’s is not the only treasure. However, the most exciting parts of all Shakespeare’s plays are nothing more than these three major points.

Why is Villeneuve technically superior to us and artistically speaking? In this era, many artists will do some deconstruction, which is to deconstruct traditional concepts and traditional values. It’s not impossible, but those also benefit from a theme.

But we will see that several of Villeneuve’s most famous films are actually traditional drama themes. Do you want to say that the themes of “Sicario” and “Scorched Earth” are novel? Even “Blade Runner” is only the second film, and the subject matter is not new. Villeneuve sticks to the core of the story and the characters, and uses modern updated narrative methods to publicize and reinterpret the classic core of Shakespeare’s drama.

A very important point of this updated method is that less is more, and then it is multi-linear and high-concept narrative. In Shakespeare’s day, one had to break down a character’s innermost thoughts into ten sentences. In the world of light and shadow in modern movies, what Villeneuve did was reduce ten sentences to one sentence. Of course, this is really thanks to Deakins being the one to complete his will.

For example, “Sicario” is a real reinterpretation of traditional violence, with a rhythm that is like inch-stop in many plots. But on the other hand, when Villeneuve went to shoot “Dune”, “Dune” was essentially a palace drama cloaked in science fiction. On the contrary, at least in my personal opinion, Villeneuve’s style seemed a bit inferior.

I think the content of the formal summary may actually be due to the content of Dune, because the shackles of the story structure are not so direct.

“Dune 2” is full of redemption, palace and religious metaphors, so the epic quality of the movie is even more divine.

From becoming a god to ridiculing, why did Zack Snyder’s “personality collapse”

Zack Snyder himself is an advertising director, and his problem can be summed up as form > content.

This in itself is not a big problem. Many Marvel superhero movies are also popcorn. The characteristic of popcorn is that form > content. But the problem with director Snyder is that his form has a particularly “dark literary style”, making it seem like the movie is a beautiful work of art, but his own content cannot support his form.

Now, his movies have become formalistic, which I think is the root of the problem with the reputation of director Snyder’s movies.

Another serious problem with Director Zha is his lack of film scheduling abilities. I have to make it clear that his director’s cut of Justice League was overly saturated with content (too much content), which to a large extent covered up his formalism issues (he was overly saturated because he knew His DCEU has already been sent, so he simply put together what he wanted to do, and the formalism problems were not completely covered up, such as too many slow motions)

This approach is not a big problem when it comes to directing and editing a special existence like “Justice League”, but it is a big problem when it comes to commercial films to be released. A more typical example is the earliest “Watchmen” movie. Although “Watchmen” itself is not suitable for making a movie, Zack Snyder undoubtedly did not know how to choose. An animation was inexplicably included in the movie, which wasted a lot. time (this approach aroused strong resentment from the original author Alan Moore)

And the adaptation of the ending of the movie caused a lot of controversy at the time (in the comics, they were united by a fake alien invasion, and it rained octopuses, but the movie was changed to being stunned by Manhattan), even if I knew that Snyder’s own abilities were problematic. There is a certain responsibility, but this does not mean that I will whitewash Warner Brothers. Warner’s greed and blind command also bear unshirkable responsibility for the failure of the DCEU.

In addition, Zack Snyder’s shots are also very problematic. In the past, it was often said that every frame is a poster, but when you look at the shots of Snyder’s movies together, there are also big problems. The movie is coherent, isn’t it? If you only care about frame by frame, there will be a huge problem.

Many of his movie shots are too formal, and his work is best known as “Watchmen” because it fits the comic style quite well. There was also the hit “300” at the time, which was a work that brought his style to the extreme.

Success is also extraordinary, failure is also extraordinary? Zack Snyder becomes a “rice circle director”

Zao Dao’s positioning and the uniqueness of the picture destined him to be an unpopular treasure, but the superhero genre is also a very popular genre. The combination of superheroes and Zao Dao is equivalent to Zao Dao taking advantage of the trend of superheroes to attract many superheroes. fans, which will lead to more and more enthusiastic fans who want to put it on the altar, and it will definitely arouse strong resentment from ordinary audiences.

Therefore, if he had always been an unpopular small-circle type, and fans could just like him instead of being bound to the altar and being a superhero, his reputation would be much better. It’s absolutely fine if you like to watch it, and it’s absolutely fine for DCEU fans.

The problem is that Zach himself ended up being a fan, and the “Zaslin” group was extremely annoying, shouting for Zach to come back every day. As it turned out, his problem was too obvious. It was dark, deep, and full of religious metaphors, but it had an obviously disgusting plot. You can understand it if you have bugs, but you can’t treat bugs as the main course, so you just make things up and surprise people. a feeling of.

This is why when he presented “Moon Rebels” which magnified all his shortcomings, netizens who couldn’t help but made inferences about him and ridiculed him, because these two films were indeed so bad that they were even included in space operas. It’s the worst kind.

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