In Denis Villeneuve's films, certain sequences and images are extraordinarily beautiful and powerful. Take, for example, the brief sequence at the beginning of Dune Part Two, where Harkonnen soldiers levitate to the top of a rocky peak in the surreal light of an orange dawn.
(Villeneuve's predilection for the color orange is also evident in the magnificent Las Vegas episode in Blade Runner 2049).
The Harkonnens' weightless ascent is a dreamlike scene that defies the imagination.
I have no idea how it was done. The actors were probably suspended from cables against a green screen before being superimposed onto this desert landscape.
This image, like the entire scene, is related to my musical universe, to the music I like to listen to (I'm thinking of Brian Eno's Apollo) and that I try to create.
A dream of slowness and lightness, of flying in an almost aquatic atmosphere, of effortless floating ascension.
Watching this sequence, this image, makes me dream of the music that could accompany it.
Not just Hans Zimmer's synthetic, grainy layers.
But others, more fluid and airy, more minimal and subliminal...
But perhaps silence is the best soundtrack.
Silence, the music of dreams of flight and levitation...
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