Absolutely wonderful video, Thomas. Fascinating. You're still the very best here on KZfaq, man, and I'm so happy for you that you're getting the chance to meet and talk to people in the movie business that are producing some of the most unique and original work out there. Great stuff 👍👍👍

I love how the new Dune looks, except for this flying vehicle. Logically it makes no sense. No sense! They have anti-gravity. Anti-gravity means flying vehicles without wings, rotors, or propellers. So. They have AG, but they use wings? As I said. No sense.

05:05 Overlay that part with the yawn sound!

ag vehicles in dune require spice and those navigators bruh@@oldi184

Don't forget ornecopters are biologically driven, no AI/computing mashins.

It’s so rude that Dude was the year of the Oscars where all the technical awards were given separately.

@@jinxshadow5218 It's rude to ever do it in my mind. This interview proves how hard these people work and how impressive their work is (and in cases like this I'd argue the VFX and sound are what makes the movie work). They'd get like 2 minutes in the spotlight they should have let them have it

I misread part of the comment at first as thomas the technichal. Now im imagining a big blue pick-up truck with a smiling face full of soldiers shooting and fighting over an oil feild.

@@Charles-hq7ce Thomas the technical and his suicide bombing friends.

I do 😊

The people that worked on this movie are all at the top of their game

Most never stop to think about sound effects and engineering - yet we don't realize how much they impact us.

You don’t realize how important they are until they’re not there or they’re of lower quality

It's amazing how many people treat their senses like optional DLC, they're just out there wandering about aloof to all around them.

I hear you Whatever the ‘mystical’ sound cue from The Fifth Element has stuck with me though. You know the one

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It reminds me about how George Lucas said he wanted 'Star Wars' to have a documentary aesthetic; before then, sci-fi movies had a sterile and stylised aesthetic, and 'Star Wars' made everything feel broken down and used. Working with Ben Burtt, who he had previously collaborated with on 'THX-1138', they created something that audiences of the time had never seen, or heard, before.

I thought _The Gods Must Be Crazy_ was a documentary.

And then some people say that this movie doesn't follow the book. I love how the director pays attention to such details, as did Frank Herbert in his books

D.V. actually started out his working career as a documentary filmmaker for Radio-Canada (French division of CBC)! So I'm sure that his naturalistic approach to filmmaking isn't a coincidence.

Rings of Power in a nutshell

Not tryna be rude, but there is nothing remotely superficial about Sound Design, Audio Editing, Mixing, & Mastering just because of the lazy tentpole movies you mentioned as well as the apathy, or even hatred, that many filmmakers have for the aural arts. If those things were superficial, then silent films would be more popular than sound films.

@@BaldPerspective I was referring to the fact that in general the public sees sound design as something superficial, of little importance, just a couple of sounds to record and put together... While in reality, as you point out, the work is there and it is much more complex. Furthermore, it is undeniable that every film certainly has a great deal of work behind it, it is also obvious, however, that in certain cases there is much more care or even "experimentation" than other more standard or approximate films. As I said in the other comment, when I find myself with a "standard" film that seems to have come out of an algorithm, that has an anonymous soundtrack or a confused editing, very often I realize that that composer or editor has made other valid films, so I realize that the problem sometimes doesn't even lie with the professionals themselves, but with the production that evidently wants a more "mediocre" or standard type of work. Sometimes, however, it is also a problem of the director who fails to enhance individual aspects and a fantastic work is obscured and not elevated. Mine was just a clarification: it's better to have a director with a clear, precise vision who surrounds himself with professionals and who exploits cinematographic languages ​​rather than a more standard film, lacking in languages ​​that doesn't know how to exploit them and wants to offer me a couple of hours of fun without actually having fun.

What we really need is for people to stop just pointing this out and instead go into the industry if they are this passionate.

@@deadeyeduncan5022 The problem is that there are already professionals and creatives in the industry, only that they are often not considered or receive meager budgets because so many producers are busy making superhero films or series on fantasy sagas. Consider Coppola's latest film for example, which he had to produce entirely on his own. The industry follows the market, but if the public also changes or at least understands that cinema needs continuous evolution and the use of language, then the industry changes too.

It grabbed me from the get-go. I rave to everyone now about they need to experience Dune, as much to listen to it as to see it!

You're absolutely correct. I just rewatched it, big screen, big sound system and no chattering audience. The first time I came at it like a long time Dune fan, critical of the story/visual interpretation. But I totally failed to see the whole. Now on second viewing its growing on me like Bladerunner did. I look forward to many more viewings, each of growing enjoyment.

the sound effect of a door opening and closing in silent hill is extremely recognizable, and ive heard that exact sound effect in so many other films and tv shows with huge budgets, it always pulls me out of the scene and brings me back to silent hill

For me it’s the wilhelm scream. I hate it every time I hear it 😆

@@yovelnaomi8416 yeah, but that's at least self aware to a degree. But I agree it's annoying.

If you insist on creating original sounds for your work, but also sell your sound library then aren't you driven by economic gain rather than artistic integrity? It's simply job security.

There are a few door sounds and page-turning sounds that I recognize constantly in movies.

couldn't have said it better myself! this video made the whole movie so much more rich. I believe I'll go watch it again hahaha

The best ways I've found to learn is by 1. Doing it yourself and 2. reading or listening to filmmakers (not just directors) talk about how they work through interviews/commentary tracks etc.

@@ThomasFlight Thank you! That’s so helpful. :)

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You're absolutely right Mark was such a great interviewee! Really appreciate him sharing his insight and experience!

I've been thinking about it!

I think the Wilhelm Scream is a meme in a more colloquial sense than Dawkinian; it's a silly stock that they keep passing around as joke, not a piece of information that changes as it is passed on.

Was scrolling through to see if I was going to be the first with that comment 😂