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Why This Scene From Dune 2 Felt So Intense
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In this video I breakdown of the sandworm riding scene in *Dune: Part 2* and how sound design, cinematography, performance, VFX and directing, all work together to make it so effective.
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Breaking All The Rules for How To Make a Movie
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Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: go.nebula.tv/thomasflight Watch "How Should Movies Depict Real Suffering" here: nebula.tv/videos/thomasflight-how-should-movies-depict-real-suffering A look at how The Zone of Interest uses off-screen space and sound design in one of the most hauntingly powerful ways I've ever seen in a film. Featuring an interview with Johnnie Burn, ...
Why Killers of The Flower Moon Has That Cameo
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Compare news coverage. Spot media bias. Avoid algorithms. Try Ground News today and get 40% off your subscription by going to ground.news/thomasflight A look at what makes Killers of The Flower Moon one of the most provocative film's from Martin Scorsese. A sprawling, haunting, epic that explores Manifest Destiny, the corrupting power of money, and how we must examine our own capacity for evil....
Who Should Win at The Oscars 2024?
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Watch Fallen Leaves Free with your Extended Free Trial of MUBI: mubi.com/thomasflight My picks and predictions to win the 96th Academy Awards. // WATCH MORE THOMAS FLIGHT -Ad-Free Videos and Exclusive Content on Nebula: nebula.tv/thomasflight -My Podcast Cinema of Meaning: Ad-Free and early on Nebula: Nebula: nebula.tv/cinemaofmeaning Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4n6zZZQjiKsLNfyldNAi8b iTunes...
Why Are The Oscars Like That?
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See My 2024 Picks and Predictions: Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/thomasflight-who-should-win-at-the-oscars-2024 Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/who-should-win-98423359 A look into the machinery of the The Academy Awards and some of the forces behind the scenes that influence nominations, snubs and wins. Sources: [1] "Party Animals: A Hollywood Tale of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll Starring the Fabulo...
Why The Curse is So Brilliantly Uncomfortable
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Watch Fallen Leaves Free with your Extended Free Trial of MUBI: mubi.com/thomasflight [This video is free of any major plot spoilers until the 20 minute mark.] How The Curse holds a distorted mirror up to the world of modern media. References: "The Gag of Realism" by Benny Safdie cinema-scope.com/features/gag-realism-nathan/ Lincoln Film Center Q&A w/ Benny Safdie: ua-cam.com/video/dMx_K5dBEqI/...
The Top 10 Movies of 2023
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Donate at givewell.org - Choose UA-cam - and enter Thomas Flight under "How Did You Hear About Us" to get your Donation Matched up to $100 for the rest of this year. (This Video Is Spoiler-Free) Part I: Thomas Flight's Favorite Films of 2023. Part II: Thomas Flight’s Totally Objective and Scientifically Rigorous List of The Top 10 Best Movies of 2023™ Read about how I made the "Objectively" bes...
Why This Choice Can Define Your Entire Film
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Get 40% off the annual plan when you sign up for Nebula using my Link: go.nebula.tv/thomasflight Watch my video about Visual Perspective in The Batman: nebula.tv/videos/thomasflight-visual-perspective-in-the-batman-companion-video?ref=thomasflight Watch The New Season of Jet Lag: nebula.tv/videos/jetlag-we-raced-from-americas-northernmost-to-southernmost-town?ref=thomasflight Watch Elias Gold's...
How The Art of Filmmaking Is Still Evolving
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Get 65% off 4 Months for Free of NordVPN: nordvpn.com/tflight There's still plenty of room for innovation in filmmaking, in this video I examine how Director Joanna Hogg, and sound designer Jonathan Webb collaborated on "Sonic Storyboards" for the 2019 film The Souvenir. Why not harness sound's full potential to inspire and guide the storytelling process from the start? Special thanks to Jonath...
The Most Incredible Acting I've Ever Seen
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Use code THOMASFLIGHT to get 100 replacement blades for FREE when you buy a razor from Henson Shaving: bit.ly/3ngT5Ui What is it that makes a performance resonate so deeply it lingers with you for months or years? Thomas Flight explores the challenges of judging great acting, and shares the 11 examples of the best acting he's ever seen in this video. Written/Produced/Performed by: Thomas Flight...
Why The Bear Gets In Your Head
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Watch Decision to Leave and get a whole month of great cinema FREE with MUBI: mubi.com/thomasflight Editing, when used to it's full potential, is a big part of the language of filmmaking. I chat with the editors of The Bear to discuss how they ground their bold and stylish editing in character and story. Special thanks to Joanna and Adam for taking the time to chat with me! Editing for this vid...
The Fictional Truth of Asteroid City
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Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: go.nebula.tv/thomasflight Watch the full Asteroid City podcast discussion with @LikeStoriesofOld on Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/watchcinemaofmeaning-the-exploring-distant-emotion-in-asteroid-city-cinema-of-meaning-bonus-episode?ref=thomasflight Editing by Ben from Canada: benchinapen // WATCH MORE THOMAS FLIGHT -Ad-Free Vid...
The Strange Reality of The Grand Budapest Hotel
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Get a whole month of great cinema FREE with MUBI: mubi.com/thomasflight References: The Wes Anderson Collection by Matt Zoller Seitz: amzn.to/3NM6jq1 The Society of the Crossed Keys: amzn.to/3Xt2ut6 Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig: amzn.to/447QIag The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig: amzn.to/3PxWY6o An Impossible Exile by George Prochnik: amzn.to/3psJtdN NY Times article by Christopher Gray: ...
Why Do Movies Feel So Different Now?
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Get a whole month of great cinema FREE with MUBI: mubi.com/thomasflight Special thank you to Greg Dember, co-author of whatismetamodern.com for chatting with me for this video. Watch more on their UA-cam Channel: @WhatIsMetamodern In this video I dive into what Metamodernism is and what it looks like in film, and chart how the movies have evolved since their modernist origins. Additional Montag...
The Best Movie About AI
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Get exclusive access to NordPass’ best offer here: www.nordpass.com/thomasflight or, use code "thomasflight" at the checkout to get an additional 1 month for FREE. When I've asked it, ChatGPT has consistently said "Her" is the closest thing to itself in a movie. In this video I reflect on how new AI tech changes how we see movies about AI, and what Her say about our relationship to AI a decade ...
My Favorite Performances Of 2022
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5 Questions About The Banshees of Inisherin
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How The Sounds of Dune Were Made
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How The Sounds of Dune Were Made
The Top 10 Movies of 2022
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In Praise of Subtle Cinematography
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Why Andor Feels So Real
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How Nope Tricks Your Ears
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How Nope Tricks Your Ears
The Real Villain of Nope
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How Real is The Rehearsal?
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Why The Bear Hits So Hard
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My Trip to Cannes Film Festival 2022
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  • @PiCheZvara
    @PiCheZvara 2 години тому

    I like the movie. Don't know if I'd call it masterpiece as I felt the ending/final shootout was kinda a bit too much action movie compared to the rest of the film, I think if Mud just kinda left in the middle of the night with maybe some kinda chase scene, that would've been enough than pretty much 4-5 or how many murders happened. It didn't hurt the movie I'd say, but that's when the up to that point very solid, earnest, plain and upfront storytelling about coming of age, one doomed love, one odd rascal living in the backwoods (Mud) went Hollywood and it didn't need to. Otherwise great movie, felt true, authentic and McConaughey's best performance for sure as he is both him, but Mud is also kind of a crooked, dirty vagrant, which is not his usual style and he played it well.

  • @mortymcfry7944
    @mortymcfry7944 5 годин тому

    Omni

  • @mortymcfry7944
    @mortymcfry7944 5 годин тому

    Gpto

  • @WinstonSmithGPT
    @WinstonSmithGPT 7 годин тому

    Get your mind out of your overwrought university epistemological bubble. Go work a manual labor job in Alaska and Florida and Rwanda.

  • @jamez6398
    @jamez6398 8 годин тому

    I really love the sincerity of Tom Cruise movies, they actually take themselves seriously and don't undermine themselves by cracking inappropriate jokes during serious scenes. We desperately need more of that. I love both straightforward sincerity like in Top Gun Maverick and I also love when a movie or TV show does what seems like a setup for a joke but then the payoff is either tragic like pretty much everything in Better Call Saul or sincerely wholesome like in Top Gun Maverick when Tom Cruise drops down off the balcony but lands in front of his new girlfriend's daughter and you think that hilarity will ensue but instead she genuinely and sincerely pleads with him not to break her mother's heart this time and the scene ends on that poignant note, or in Moral Orel when they do a setup for the reverend to make an inappropriate joke like he normally does throughout the rest of the show but instead he responds to his daughter's retort that it's because she is a lesbian by sincerely stating, no, she can do better because her object of desire didn't truly love her and was just using her, like some kind of reverse-bathos. I am glad we're getting more sincere movies again like The Whale, Top Gun Maverick, Avengers Infinity War, Oppenheimer, Killers of the Flower Moon, Spaceman, Blade Runner 2049, and Dune 1 and 2. It had gotten to the point whereby whenever I watched a movie that had no jokes in it, it caught me off-guard, like when I watched The Godfather part 2. There were definitely really great movies from the past that were incredibly silly, satirical, and fun like Terminator 1 and 2, Starship Troopers, Total Recall, and Robocop and obviously the comedies like Trading Places and the Beverly Hills Cop movies, but nowadays most movies do not take themselves seriously, even dark indie movies tend to have cynical affable cool characters who don't care or trashy self-centred jerks which is fine but leaves me wanting more movies that actually take themselves seriously for a change. You have no idea how much I breathed a sigh of relief when I watched the new Denis Villieneuve Dune movies and at no point did one character turn and say to another character, "wow, these helicopters are kinda like mosquitoes aren't they, huh? How crazy. Hey what does this button do?" Whilst practically turning and winking at the audience, despite Dune being such a unique sci-fi setting it didn't feel the need to debase itself by acting silly, all of the characters took the situation completely 100% seriously 100% of the time which was incredibly refreshing to see because if the characters don't care, why should we?

  • @kennethmullen-qe9hg
    @kennethmullen-qe9hg 9 годин тому

    It is excruciatingly and infuriatingly terrific (in both senses of the word) what we humans can acclimate to, or be acclimated to, with any three, in part, combination or in whole, of these factors at work -- a sufficient amount of time, a certain level or a resoundin' abundance of necessity, or a horrifyingly extreme amount of apathy. The hefty majority of us humans -- after some varying degrees of time -- either, are, or, eventually could be, capable of if not 'ok' livin' or existin' in direct or near proximity of nearly any place or thing which can/could only be described as unpleasant or offensive or unpleasantly offensive or offensively unpleasant, such AS: under or beside a subway/train line or depot; right next door to hustling bustling airport runways, or busiest of stretches of multilaned highway; anywhere near enormous, on-going and debilitatingly deafenin' sites of either, construction, destruction, or, both; within a close noseshot of an up-and-runnin' paper mill, a sewage treatment facility, a factory farm, or processing plant for livestock and/or for making dog food, etc.; places like crematoriums, landfills/county dumps, fisheries, or wharves/ports, etc. Most of us can after some amount of conditioning, still 'live' alongside and in time, possibly even thrive by the most egregious or eerily subtle houses or factories of death, being of human, or animal. It depends on what type of person you are mostly as to determining which of the two you'd find the more/most offensive to either/or your senses or morals/beliefs! One commentary, in regard to everything previously mentioned could be "how crazy"/"that's crazy"! And, well...YEAH! LmMFaO! ;) :P :o)

  • @WinstonSmithGPT
    @WinstonSmithGPT 11 годин тому

    This style of filmmaking cannot be replicated by younger generations.

  • @purpinkn
    @purpinkn 11 годин тому

    you're terrible at captions

  • @DavidRhombus
    @DavidRhombus 14 годин тому

    i legitimately think about this video like every day like this changed something in my brain. i love sound AHHH i need to get better at sound design

  • @sidd_not_vicious2609
    @sidd_not_vicious2609 15 годин тому

    Avon was barely punished . his main thing was just his relocation. he would have been able to have women in , it happens . him being so high up and all he had would have zero problems unless the warden or some outside people did a tour he would play normal. yeah his punishment was forced relocation mostly

  • @sidd_not_vicious2609
    @sidd_not_vicious2609 15 годин тому

    the most interesting and fun character the show had with out doubt. still hurting after hearing the actor passed and especially in the way.

  • @sidd_not_vicious2609
    @sidd_not_vicious2609 15 годин тому

    Just re-watched the show and again came to the conclusion that it is great. still . one of the best and most important to watch

  • @Fungiisalive
    @Fungiisalive 16 годин тому

    oops, i came here from an arg T-T guess the lead was wrong XD, still, great video!

  • @cipriannemet519
    @cipriannemet519 17 годин тому

    When it comes to making anti-war movies or movies with the theme of learning from the past and not repeating mistakes, Germany is the absolute master, by far no 1. Hollywood doesn't even make the top 10.

  • @ragingpotato817
    @ragingpotato817 19 годин тому

    This movie is a masterpiece. I appreciate that it expects you to know enough of the story to fill in the blanks and when you do…its absolutely horrifying

  • @apxllo6206
    @apxllo6206 21 годину тому

    I think it crazy that I’ve not seen someone mention Paul Mescal in ‘Aftersun’. Yes there’s some superb bold character performance at times, but the subtlety of his character and facial expressions is truly one of the best depictions of mental illness I’ve ever seen.

  • @aloc23
    @aloc23 21 годину тому

    sound design is on another level in this movie.. putting emphasis on the sounds by starting the movie with music on a black screen was a brilliant choice.. you could hear the people in the cinema go quiet and start to listen when the blackscreen just remained for a while

  • @barbarossa1780
    @barbarossa1780 21 годину тому

    In a much better timeline the Soviet Union would simply be a bad memory and a functioning power plant dedicated to the Führer would be running with German efficiency

  • @userSchlonsch
    @userSchlonsch 22 години тому

    When I first saw the worm riding scene in the preview shown after the Part 1 theatrical rerun, it was great but not phenomenal. But seeing it again in the context of the film and with the full buildup it was just mind blowing. Shows how well Denis makes story progression and blockbuster set pieces fit together.

  • @ExecutorElassus
    @ExecutorElassus День тому

    Villeneuve's comment about hating dialogue in cinema---preferring, as he says, "pure image and sound"---bears a striking similarity to something David Lynch once said about his approach to cinema: "unless you're a poet, words will fail you." I think it's fascinating to see Villeneuve place such an intense focus on the truly cinematic aspects of a story like Dune (or, for that matter, the way he approached image and sound in his earlier films). It's such a unique approach, and it's a breath of fresh air to see it in movies. ETA: I'm still gonna be an insufferable nerd about continuity errors and complain about Paul suddenly wearing goggles, though.

  • @alchemilk
    @alchemilk День тому

    I love how we’re just not supposed to acknowledge how hot Thomas is for no reason

  • @74artgrrl
    @74artgrrl День тому

    His mother was likely terrified by him because he had already killed his grandparents. So there’s that. I’m not suggesting she was the best mom to him but he also was “sexually assaulting his sister “ in many articles I’d read about Ed Kemper. He’s not a sympathetic victim as he liked to portray himself as.

  • @HappyOrwell
    @HappyOrwell День тому

    both parts were just spectacularly written and executed pieces of cinema. I've been so obsessed, and my friends and co workers don't get it lmao.

  • @zacharywong483
    @zacharywong483 День тому

    Fantastic analysis here!

  • @DianaTBlack
    @DianaTBlack День тому

    Thank you for a great expose' ...."Little Big Man" - Dustin Hoffman

  • @hexedits369
    @hexedits369 День тому

    7:16 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Great video! Amazing movie

  • @thetruefirelord2248
    @thetruefirelord2248 День тому

    I believe that the characters are real, towards the end (when he becomes the messiah) he feels like an actor 🤯. Paul was putting on a performance

  • @TheKeyser94
    @TheKeyser94 День тому

    This movie was garbage, even the miniseries from twenty years ago have more world building that the two movies of Villanue combine, have no world building, no context, barely any substance, and barely any factions, and the factions that they have behaved like idiots, like they lost the plot. Where are all the factions? They rushed to the ending, it was Alia who killed the Baron, not Leto, this movie works in idiots logic, because every character behave like idiots, even in adaptations from twenty years ago, the Fremen didnt need a freaking metal tube to breathe under the sand and surprise the Harkonnen, that why they had their stilt suits.

  • @the-dreamer1
    @the-dreamer1 День тому

    thank you man ❤❤❤❤

  • @Schmidtelpunkt
    @Schmidtelpunkt День тому

    While I am madly in love with the two movies, I am wondering about the ending. It feels really weird and not too much thought through. Eg. the weird choice of having Paul appear in an almost comical manner in the throne room without showing much fighting beyond the worm attack, rather than finisihing Rabban's plot first, instead of creating a weird ending-after-ending interruption for it. Or the almost soapish choice of having the other houses communicating entirely off screen, with Gurney Halleck telling everything instead of showing anything, which for me took more away from the dimension than mentioning the houses added.

  • @ccalkin
    @ccalkin День тому

    I know it's just a movie but... How they never mention how someone would dismount, especially when they show multiple people riding one, is stupid. Hopefully the book does a much better job, because the whole idea of riding the worms is idiotic

  • @muslimresponse103
    @muslimresponse103 День тому

    13:31 I totally disagree with Denis saying dialogue is not memorable in movies. my all time favourite movies all have the best and most memorable dialogue and if the dialogue is no good than the movie will not resonate with me and i will not rewatch it over and over again as I do with the best movies out there that combine great dialogue with a great story! unfortunately Dune part two did not have good dialogue and i prefer Dune part one which had better dialogue even though the story was lacking a real climax like Dune 2. Dune 2 is a descent movie but definitely does not make it into my top 30 or even 50 all time best movies even though the story resonates so much with me as a Muslim who literally believes in the coming Mahdi. i prefer his Blade Runner 2049 movie which had better dialogue. the zionist executive producers ruined Dune because of all the western biases against islam and Muslims and basically got Denis to limit the scope of the dialogue and ultimately that ruined his creativeness in producing good dialogue for Dune which was realistic and based on the Dune novel and its influences. it could have been great but unfortunately it fell short will simply just be another descent movie with great cinematography and a good score.

  • @Finnjamin19
    @Finnjamin19 День тому

    Great video, the editing here is extremely intriguing and unique

  • @Archer-1453
    @Archer-1453 День тому

    There’s such fantastic detail on every thing The Bear touches. Mental health, familial and financial trauma, extremely stressful work environments (specifically the unique kind of jackhammer-to-the-head stress that comes with working in a restaurant), interpersonal relationships. There are points where watching interactions feel identical to my own personal experiences and I’d have to wager not only are there others in the audience who feel the same thing, but almost certainly everyone who contributed to the show from writers to actors to stage crew. Maybe it’s not as high and complex as some other really fantastic pieces of writing/television, but hot damn it’s like going from high-class dining with something like Shogun to the most nostalgia-tripping comfort food made by your mother. Peak art

  • @mikejaygreen
    @mikejaygreen День тому

    I've eqyched this series twice in the past week including related podcasts. Such a great series.

  • @mikeleddyphoto
    @mikeleddyphoto День тому

    You just perfectly described the relation between cinema and electronic music!! A controlled linear atmosphere that builds and releases tension in ways that complements and emphasizes each of it’s elements

  • @aaronsoto1346
    @aaronsoto1346 День тому

    20,000 years in the future*

  • @nicolejulianne9433
    @nicolejulianne9433 День тому

    All his movies are about s**x He literally director of p**n cinematography ! He is sick in had .