DUNE 2: Editing Breakdown

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Dune is a 2021 American epic science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve. Set in the distant future, the film follows Paul Atreides and his family as they are thrust into a war for the deadly desert planet Arrakis. The cast includes Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Dave Bautista,, Zendaya, Jason Momoa, and Javier Bardem. In this video, "This Guy Edits" takes viewers on an in-depth exploration of the film's editing.

THIS GUY EDITS (TGE) is a YouTube channel by film editor Sven Pape, an A.C.E. award nominee whose credits include work for directors James Cameron, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Sundance filmmaker Mark Webber.

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In this video, "This Guy Edits" takes viewers on an in-depth exploration of the film "Dune." The video begins with an analysis of the movie's complex narrative structure and its adherence to the original novel. The pro film editor highlights the director's techniques, discussing how visual storytelling and sound design enhance the immersive experience of the movie. Key scenes are broken down to illustrate how character development and thematic elements are conveyed through cinematic choices. The review also addresses the challenges of adapting such a dense source material and the ways in which the film succeeds or falls short in capturing the essence of the original story. Throughout the video, "This Guy Edits" provides professional editing insights, making connections between editing decisions and narrative impact. This detailed review is aimed at both fans of the movie and aspiring filmmakers who are interested in the art of film editing and storytelling.
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The dialogue doesn't contradict. The sandworms are attracted to rhythmic noses. The line about how the shields throw the worms into a killing frenzy speaks for itself. Your chances of being killed by a sandworm simply increase drastically. I haven't read the books. That's simply how I interrupted the lines in the movie.

ryanmcnealy
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Quite disappointing editing breakdown. I mean, apart from the Paul trippy close-up intercut with itself, and the Josh Brolin jump cut, you're not talking about the editing, you're just explaining the purpose of the script, which is already pretty explicit in that scene. You're spending so many minutes rephrasing what the characters are already telling, just to go to the conclusion that "this is set up", "this is more set up", "this is the surprise". You could have done that with the script, you did not need the movie and the shots. I also don't get why you're using the black and white trick, because Walker says it's for him to get a fresh view on a scene that he probably has seen hundreds of times, which is not our case. We don't need a "fresh" view, we need a deeper one, we need to understand why this shot goes after this one, we need to understand why Villeneuve decided to shot like this, how he has built the scene to give life to the worm. You're showing every cut but you make nothing out of them, you're just telling us what the writers had in mind when they wrote the dialogs and the scenes, but what about the editing ? I have no problem with you analyzing the scene through a narrative prism, if this is what you're selling us. But you're selling edit insights, and there's none. Understanding the purpose of the outline of the narrative is not something that will make you a better editor, it is something that is REQUIRED to be an editor, just so you can speak the same language with the director. But what an editor can add to the narrative, to the shots, to the story, to the director, how he can serve his vision, how his editing can serve the narrative already built by the dialogs and the outline of the scenes, THAT is interesting and needs to be broken down. Let's talk about the sound, the evolution of the music, its purpose, let's talk about Liet's voice over the shot of Paul flying over the worm, how it connects many layers of the story into a bigger one.... Let's talk about editing !

Nico-gu
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Paul's line to Gurney as Gurney arrives ("I recognize your footsteps old man") is a throwback to their training fight, and so it suggests Paul, while in the trance / dream state is still lucid. So... the jump cut suggests one strange aspect of Paul's experience of time, the line-reading suggests another, and the throwback, a third.

dundrumleith
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Amazing breakdown! It would be interesting to see a breakdown of The Bear series

jparrieta
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So spicy. Love the black & white flip technique.
Also I trust you used Resolve’s edit cut detection tool for making all those clip splits. 😆

BehindTheFilm
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I loved it. That said, what took me out of it was the lack of consistency in the technologies. They have personal levitation devices and they have giant starships that have no visible means of levitation yet the sand crawlers require ballons? They need flapping wings on ornithopters? Weird

timmo
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Joe Walker is one of my favorite editors, the behind the scenes for Arrival is really cool. The creative editing choices he makes are some of my favorite in big budget movies.

MrAMP
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11:00 I love that the noise of the malfunction is in slight delay with the visual, and that would be accurate for far away events as sound and light move at different speed.

Sasoridellasabbia
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Amazing breakdown loved it - Never noticed some of the cuts while watching

jdsaunders
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I took the sheild thing with the worms as it makes the worms angry and attracts more of them, so it just generally isn’t a good idea because without the shield the passive worm is easier to handle.

Avzen-qprs
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Great video. I find it fascinating that Sven clearly doesn't understand the plot details in the shots as he keeps guessing what bits of dialog mean. I'm sure he watched the film but he didn't parse the entire film for content or story. He analyzes the clip from an editing perspective.

NonalignedVideos
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The long lens and soft focus make those supposedly giant machines look TINY. Bad choice.

robertdouble
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I saw an interview with Joe Walker, and he said the establishing shot of the transport working properly wasn't even created until after they'd edited the shot of the transport not working properly. Then he and Denis were scrambling to get it made. Even the best directors.... LOL

resolving_boris
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Thanks for this breakdown! To be fair, flipping the image is the oldest trick in the graphic design playbook. Personally, I think Villeneuve's adaptation is about as good as we can expect, his sense of scale is wonderful. But some of the acting is clumsy (Keynes, for example), he lacks the imperial language from the book (language that Lynch appreciated), and the last shot in the film should have been the body of the man Paul killed (maybe a Lawrence of Arabia rip-off, but still a foretaste of what is to come). Thanks again!

guy_incognito
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What an awesome review...really inlighting!

joserangelve
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Here again, your way or explaining how the story is presented is a great test to apply over any video a person is editing.
Like watching with the sound muted so to look for the senses on purpose to bring out overlooked details.
Most cool. tHanks for the videos.

Dancing_Alone_wRentals
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Hello, your channel is just gold. I am also a video editor, but for now I edit short films and dream of editing full films. Can I ask you to upload videos to YouTube in 4K? I would really like to see a clear picture of your analysis of films. YouTube is more careful about videos above 2K and does not spoil the quality as much. I use Vocoder VP9 codec to render in 4K for YouTube (4 mb/s), then the quality remains exactly the same. Thanks for what you do!

inclusam
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For such a crucial piece of machinery it is shockingly fragile. One of four grapples malfunctions and the whole thing fails? Where's the built in redundancies?

wbbartlett
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Woah, that is a crazy way to do that. I need to try.

sightseerproductions
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"The Editor's Effect" 🙃

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