Comment on My small hot take on Dune pt 2 after having just seen it
maegul@lemmy.ml 3 months agoI’m not claiming it should have been closer to the book. Just that it fell short as an adaptation where modifications from the book are acceptable if they make a better adaptation.
I’ve got no problem with black and white. The IR stuff was different and I found it distracting.
Your comment about wanting a Netflix series is basically in line with what I’m saying. It needed more space to breath. And a Game of thrones approach could have done wonders by comparison.
MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Maybe I’m slow. What is IR?
maegul@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
InfraRed. There’s a sequence in the film shot in infrared rather than normal visual spectrum light. As there’s no colour in infrared it’s effectively black and white but looks different. It’s pretty obvious when it happens in the film.
MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I was starting to think that’s what you meant after I sent the message.
Visually, i think that drives home the absence of warmth and humanity in House Harkonnen.
maegul@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Oh I very much like the look of it, don’t get me wrong. And the idea too, as you put it. The issue I had was that the film jumped from IR for the outdoor scenes then back to visual for the indoor scenes. Which makes scientific sense if the sun light is only in IR, but I found it distracting to jump aesthetic so drastically like that for the same world and people/characters, especially, as I said, when it’s the art/design aesthetic of the harkonnens that I liked much more.