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Post #1467245

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Imperial Slug
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DUNE (2021) Minimalist (Audio) Fan edit idea(s)
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Date created
16-Jan-2022, 12:19 PM

This post is more a sharing of my ideas for a fan edit of Denis Villenueve’s Dune, thoughts that I have had while watching the movie (many times). As I have no time on my own to implement any of these ideas, I thought I would share them in this forum. I generally really love most of the movie, and would leave it mostly the way DV presented it (as no deleted scenes have been released, an extended version would not be possible), but the only things I would try to improve upon have to do entirely with the audio aspect of the film. Here are a few of my ideas;

  1. Remove the Sardukar dialogue from the beginning of the movie when the ‘Dreams are messages from the deep’ subtitle comes on the screen. Personally, I feel the dialogue does nothing for this scene, and doesn’t really make sense within context of the movie, as the Sardukar are clueless to Paul’s dreams.

  2. While I love Hans Zimmer’s score, I personally feel it is mixed a bit too loud in certain places within the movie, mostly when there’s anytime one is straining to hear dialogue over the score. I don’t have specific scenes to point out right now, but I may update this post in the future with thoughts on that.

  3. While I don’t think this is possible, if there are ways to somehow improve Rebecca Ferguson’s dialogue (enunciation) on scenes where she’s whispering, that would be something to address as well (I realize short of having the dialogue re-recorded, there may not be anything that can be done with this).

Thanks for taking the time to read this post, let me know what your thoughts may be with these suggestions. And if anybody actually takes the time to implement these ideas, I would be anxious to check out the results!