The screenplay was the worst part of the new Dune movie
I was considering to watch it this weekend. So you advise against it?
Don't listen to a random person. Predominantly people enjoy it but make your own judgement.
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#22The screenplay was the worst part of the new Dune movie
I was considering to watch it this weekend. So you advise against it?
It's a visually beautiful movie and it works better in telling the story than the original movie because it's being broken up into two decently long films.
The dialogue isn't fantastic, but it doesn't detract from the experience, IMO. I'd recommend watching it.
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#23The screenplay was the worst part of the new Dune movie
I was considering to watch it this weekend. So you advise against it?
I watched it last weekend and my expectations were pretty low. Plus it was 2-1/2 hours which (for me) isn't a good sign.
I loved the movie and can't wait for the next part. I watched it on HBO but kind of wished I had seen it in a theater for the big sound and huge screen. I thought the movie was beautifully shot.
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#24George R.R. Martin also wrote his books on a DOS machine running WordStar 4.0
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#25The screenplay was the worst part of the new Dune movie
I was considering to watch it this weekend. So you advise against it?
I think if you've read the book, it's a good watch. But the movie does very little character building, or maybe it tries to do too much of it too fast. Without the preset idea of what the characters are about, I could see how the movie might be a bit flat.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was considering to watch it this weekend. So you advise against it?
Do you enjoy explosions, spaceships, and verbal exposition?
There was far less verbal exposition than could have been. For example the mentats and their importance due to the Butlerian Jihad is never explicitly mentioned but only hinted at in subtle ways (which is nice).
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#27Would have been nice to hear about the actual process. How is the screenplay disseminated afterwards? Printed out and retyped by an intern on a modern machine or what? What is Movie Master, who made it, what are the features? Right now the article is nothing more that 'lol man used old software'.
On the video embedded in the page, he mentioned that he will print the pages for delivery, then the studio scans them in to digitize them back, and he works from there. The article was dry but the video was pretty neat to hear his point of view on story creation - admittedly, the tactical creation was a minimal part.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was considering to watch it this weekend. So you advise against it?
Do you enjoy explosions, spaceships, and verbal exposition?
Because if you do, I invite you to experience it in 4DX where you can get rained on, punched and perfumed. It will take your mind off alarmingly frequent cuts to Paul's love interest cum Chanel commercial. It may even--a far bigger feat--inure you to the dialogue written (one thinks) by a crack team of out-of-work teamsters moonlighting as screenwriters from your local meetup.
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#29Would have been nice to hear about the actual process. How is the screenplay disseminated afterwards? Printed out and retyped by an intern on a modern machine or what? What is Movie Master, who made it, what are the features? Right now the article is nothing more that 'lol man used old software'.
> I have to give them a hard copy. They have to scan it and then put it in their computers and then I have to work through their computer because you can’t even email mine or anything.
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#30On the one hand, as a technologist, this pisses me off because we've advanced so far in the field of word processing. Autocorrect, holding more than 40 pages in memory, cut/paste, etc. Why does this Luddite persist in the old ways?!?!?! But as a writer who knows the pains of distraction... maybe he's on to something?
One could use the "we've advanced so far" as an argument against oil paints in visual medium. And photography actually did (sadly) create a huge gap in academic art education.
There is place for industrial efficiency, and place for medium for art.
I think the relationship of a writing utensil in work of art is similar to the functioning of artistic medium. It does not matter what it is, as long as it facilitates the inspiration and getting the piece done. "Efficiency" has no value in artistic process , unless it's part of the artwork.
In visual art, you likely want a medium that is lightfast, does not physically detoriate and offers a standard set of pigments. But the paint does not need to be efficient or fast (who needs painting! We have cameras and printers!)
Analogously, a writer likely wants a medium that has high enough contrast to be legible, and is robust. You want to use a typeface that most people can read - and write in a language others understand.
Since creative writing is a toil for most people anyway, it is unlikely faster typing or better wordprocessing will increase the speed of the final result that much.
I mean George R.R. Martin could have used quill and ox blood and the books would be done if he was writing constantly.