10 Writing and Directing Tips from Denis Villeneuve on how he created Dune, Arrival & others
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Denis Villeneuve is a French Canadian film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his feature films DUNE (2021), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Arrival (2016), Sicario (2015), Prisoners (2013), Enemy (2013), and Incendies (2010). For his work on Arrival, he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director.
1. Surround yourself with people who love cinema, not people who love themselves.
2. Science fiction is a tool that allows you to take the relevant human journey and put it into context where you’re more free to express yourself about more abrasive subjects.
3. When adapting material from somewhere, find an equilibrium between giving out exposition for people who know the material and ones who are coming into it with no previous knowledge.
4. Create real sets to get realistic performances from your actors.
5. Make your movie for your past and future self.
6. Great work will attract great artists to want to work on your projects.
7. Cinema is a lot about planning. The more you plan, the more you can improvise.
8. Create tension with realism.
9. In your early career, aim for your films to be noticed by other filmmakers, producers or agencies, not necessarily wider audiences.
10. Keep your integrity by protecting your identity.
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This channel is so underrated... I can't understand why it doesn't have millions of subscribers. The information delivered is amazing.
Thank you Sebastian! 💟💯✅🙌
Actually it's great because due to this being underrated, only limited people will get benefits and screenwriting tips though it's not good for the development of the page😅😅
He takes such a gentle approach to directorship... What a guy to learn from, rare & credible teacher of the lost art that lies undiscovered in film / Cinema.
Thanks for sharing this, sicario and arrival are two of my favorite films
Hey, i love your channel, please keep posting. a would like to see one with the tips of Xavier Dolan. Greetings from Brazil!
I love this man so much. finally a genius thats also a decent human being.
Very good video, thank you for sharing!🙏
So helpfull as usual. I would like to see more about writing for tv.
Me too 🙏
4 th point which is the reason he's the toughest competitor for Nolan
These aren't tips. Tips are methods. These are, in most cases, beyond your control. Itd be nice to surround yourself with people who love the art but sadly you can't control that, especially if you're new to writing and directing.
There's still some tips in there.
The best of our generation.
Goated
“Stay intact”
DUNE is an excellent adaptation, because it’s only the bare minimum needed to tell the story.
thats why part 2 will be even better
@@Charles12 most probably.
Yours sincerely
I wouldn't want writing tips from him for Dune. For the most part that was a shoddy writing job. It's only half the book yet he absolutely massacres that one half. What the fuck did he do to the baron? The guy barely speaks? What did he do to Piter De Vries? Why is there no banquet scene when you've got 2 movies to tell this story! For me this movie was just pretty visuals. If you haven't read the book I doubt any of it would be comprehensible
@ksan3 I don't give a fuck who disagrees with me. The baron was a far better character in the book. How was he menacing in this - LMAO what? Because he had about 5 lines of dialogue? That makes him menacing? He was just a big fat, boring character who didn't talk. "Twisted Mentat" Piter De Vries is neither depicted as twisted or even named onscreen. The atredies arrival on arrakis is rushed to fuck and the movie cuts out all the moves they made when they arrived to counter the emperor and the baron. They just arrive and the attack happens like 10 minutes later. Yui is such a pointless character in this that his betrayal will mean nothing to the average viewer they may not even remember who the guy is because he appears for about 10 seconds then his next scene he kills Leto. I could go on. I love Villenueve as a director and as a visual director he's incredible but the writer on this, Frank Speights I think it was, is not someone to take writing lessons from. This was not a well adapted first half of the book
What a bullshit comment. Just stating your claim and very poor to no elaboration.
It also show how you didn't actually WATCH the movie. You just looked at it.