DUNE part Two Q&A w/ Denis Villeneuve and Steven Spielberg (Zendaya shout out!) 

If you want the clean audio, there’s a link to the direct into mic recording in the description.

Steven Freakin' Spielberg saying your movie is one of the greatest things he's ever seen must make you feel ten feet tall.

This feels like Denis Villeneuve is officially being anointed the sci-fi filmmaking king of his generation.

Steven Spielberg interviewing Denni Villeneuve ? What time to be alive.

Filmmakers have spent 40 years in the desert trying to get this story right, and they finally reached the promised land.

You know youre an objectively good director when Spielberg wants to interview you

omg..Denis Villeneuve and Steven Spielberg on the same stage. This is so cool for film lovers like me

A genius interviewing another genius.. Dune is close to perfection..

This and Denis’ discussion with Christopher Nolan are now my 2 favorite interviews of Denis. I had the privilege of hearing him do a Q&A in SF after a screening of the first Dune in Dolby Atmos. A master, genius, so passionate! Thanks very much for sharing this!

This is literally one of the cutest interviews ever... to see a genius like Steven get so excited about Denis's work and for them to have this conversation while complementing each other and hearing them talk about their juice is SO precious . :') Thank you for your art, you masters. Long live cinema, more than ever...

I am so obsessed with Dune now.

" You have made one of the most brilliant science fiction films i have ever seen".....saw it again yesterday, it really is that good. Masterwork of cinema.

Denis is a huge Inspiration, to follow your dreams, doesnt matter how big they are. Steven Spielberg: „all good ideas start out as a bad ideas, thats why it Takes so long“ Keep going Artists

Incredible that this fellow Québécois is on the same stage as Steven Spielberg... I like when he asked him about the Quiet Revolution because I believe Villeneuve to be skeptical of any religions, which was clearly a message Herbert wanted to convey. Anyways, fantastic interview.

"And that scene surfing the sandworms is one of the greatest things I have ever seen. Ever!" Now if that ain't some of the highest goddamn praise you could get as a filmmaker, when the man who made JAWS and JURASSIC fucking PARK tells you you blew his mind on the genre he damn near mastered before you could walk. Denis has to be floating on Cloud 9 even days afterward. And hearing Spielberg speak _Dune_ facts just makes me giddy AF.

Villeneuve is a national and provincial treasure

I fucking love that the very first response from Denis is praising the European comics artists and Metal Hurlant! This was one of the exact thoughts I had watching Dune 2, that this was as close as any film has ever come to the awe of those great sci-fi graphic novels and stories.

Paul gets all the girls😂 28:01 The fact that he has been dune fan since he was a teenager and he makes movies with passion is so inspiring. Hollywood needs more directors like him

I wonder how they could possibly convey Paul's prescience, and while they are actual visions, the most effective moment for me in this regard was purely Chalamet's acting in the scene where he says, ". . . a narrow path." As much as Villeneuve dislikes dialogue, everything about that shot sold what Paul had become as Kiwsatz Haderach so much more effectively than any direct depiction of his subjective experience.

13:39 I love how Denis leans over as soon as Steven mentions Close Encounters haha

I think what makes Denis a great director is his ability to passionately communicate his vision. Just imagine what it would be like to be a department head or actor after a meeting with Denis, you would know exactly what he sees, and be totally stoked to make it happen.

3:38 the sandworm scene was a religious experience. To be praised by a legend you admire, what a honor. DV was speechless. DV brought millions to Arrakis!

Blade Runner 2049 and Dune 2 are perhaps the most impressive movies I've seen.

Thank you so much for this! This hits a patriot cord as a Québécois myself! We're so proud of Denis, we come from the same town and it reflects on all of us! Never in my life would I imagine hearing Master Spielberg saying "Québécois" (at 8:09). Haha! All Americans find our accents funny.

I'm So Glad that I came across this and watched/listened to it. What a thrill to hear Steven Spielberg asking Denis Villeneuve such interesting,deep questions and to hear how impressed he was with the shots that Denis and D.P. Greg Frasier came up with. Two Master Filmmakers relaxed and enjoying a very informative Q&A with the audience. Much❤ .

Je suis tellement fier de voir mon réalisateur préféré, Steven Spielberg, poser des questions aussi profondes à mon désormais réalisateur préféré, Denis Villeneuve.Vive le Québec Créatif ! * Spielsberg's observation of the deep attention Villeneuve accorded to every character,that is noticeable in visual treatment of their eyes is to just.

WOW !! This is a time for ALL French Canadians to be PROUD 😀

That's a very high praise, coming from Steven Spielberg himself! Such an epic movie.

The goat is interviewing Dennis, wonderfull

Two masters of their film craft!

wow love spielberg fangirling over him so much.

This is the most wholesome thing I've ever seen on the internet.

Getting all these praises and questions by Spielberg, if I was Denis I would pinch myself the whole time to make sure it’s not a dream! :-)

This conversation is such a gift. Thank you!

Two of my all time favorites in one interview!!! Can’t get any better than this!!

Ha ha " how many of you have already watched Dune Part II" ? ha ha. It's true, I watched it twice. The first one, three times. A lot people watched Dune multiple times because the feeling we have while being in this universe is addictive

"To deny me is to embrace the most unique peril." Saint Alia of the Knife - The Arrakis Godbook

Thank you for sharing this lovely exchange.

Dune 2 is insanely good. I have watched it twice and will watch it for a third time . This movie should be studied by all potential film makers on how to make an amazing movie , its definitely a ground breaker for holywood.

Even if it takes Denis 20 years, i want 5 parts.

Spielberg was my entry into loving cinema as a child and Denis made me feel like a kid again seeing Dune 2 in IMAX...

How cool it must be to get to watch Dune Pt 2 with Steven freaking Spielberg!!!! What a once in a lifetime opportunity. To say I’m jealous would be an understatement.

If I am not mistaken, Spielberg has mentioned in the past that watching "Lawrence of Arabia" with David Lean (and Lean, as Spielberg mentions here, talking through out the movie) was the best lesson he ever had on the artform of cinema.

What a wonderful conversation! Thank you so much for recording and uploading this!

Two Universe. Denis is one of the reason that I have hopes on Hollywood.

Foot prints in the sand... i used to drive a truck with a tire track erasure trailer onset in Namibia between takes to erase the tire tracks in the sand for those post apocalyptic cars and trucks while working on MM Fury Road back in 2012.. I know the slog!!

Villeneuve Dune is spectacular. I also have total respect for the scifi series and David lynch, who had first the courage to introduced us to his vision of this world. Visualizing the book is not easy.

Little did Denis know that this film would put him in the stratosphere.

Métal hurlant " magazine is an institution in France. Every kids in the 80' were reading the magasine. It means that Denis really wanting to put on screen his teen imagination from a very young age.

the woman is the LIGHT....... and always has been!

Crazy skill and a love of the source material can produce as opposed to having people with contempt for the source material adapt it like The Witcher.

If anyone hasn't seen Dune 2 yet, then go and see it. It's once in a lifetime achievement. The last great film in the same league (in my opinion) would be Lord of the Rings. I really didn't like Dune 1, I thought the acting was wooden with a bunch of cliched character types, the editing clunky, sometimes rushed, sometimes boring. Dune 2 is a completely different animal - perfect editing, outstanding acting by all the cast (Zendaya wow) and breathtaking photography and action sequences. Very close to being the best science fiction film I've ever seen.

Thank you Spielberg, I was also wondering about how they erased the footprints!

This had me wiping a tear from my eye.

Two geniuses talking about their shared craft. Beautiful. DV has never made a bad movie and Steven Spielberg built my childhood.

No more questions Mr. Spielberg.😂

Dune was so good I had to watch it twice unfortunately I didn’t watch it the second time in imax but It was truly magnificent , the ground work Denis and everyone else on the crew of dune 1 put in dune 2 was absolutely brilliant if I were to watch pt 1 and pt 2 back to back it’d feel like two different movies in the same cinematic universe. The effort put in this film makes even doubters of this film have to appreciate it. Don’t know which I liked more but there were more POWERFUL moments in dune 2

Thank you for sharing this. An amazing discution between 2 amazing directors

Wow, two masters. I love them both. I think Denis is already one of the best directors of all time. He's in my top five, and he's only just begun making great films. I love the cinematography of Greig Fraser, but I can't help but wonder what this all would have looked like if Deakins shot it. I really think Deakins is the absolute most wonderful DP of all time, and his work is stunning. Blade Runner 2049 was top three most beautiful films of all time. Dune is gorgeous, but WWDD? I don't mean to be negative. I can't help but fantasize.

Shame the line audio wasn't available. Very good interview.

This is so precious 🥰

Awesome video! Thanks! They filmed in digital so they were able to film 45 minutes after sunset! 15:50 Which cast member is most likely to become a director? (Zendaya!) 24:01 how to get rid of footprints in the sand after take one so you can shoot take two

I don't know how anyone could be mad at this list seems legit to me, there's certainly nothing crazy in it

Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro as well as Luc Besson forgotten from Spielberg's list of world-builders film directors. By the way Besson was influenced by the same Metal Hurlant mag's sci-fi comic books pioneers contributors Denis Villeneuve referenced as his original inspirations...

Excellent exchange! Thank you for sharing it.

Thank you for this!

Amazing interview 🎉 Thank you both, and all ❤

Thank you so much for sharing!

The Sandworms were truly amazing!...✌️❤️!

I was there! Had to pinch myself.

This was awesome!!

Thank you for posting this

Watching this made me emotional so much so i felt almost silly and like i was overreacting. I love watching genuine passion and wonder exude from two people. Maybe even THE MAIN TWO that have brought so much of those feelings, as well as a myriad of others to my life. Which I promise you would not be same if they didn’t exist and decide to make the movies that would and are still making me. Genuinely appreciate this video for being in my feed at the right time and right when I needed something like this the most. 🙏🙏🙏🖤🖤🖤💯💯💯

Thanks for posting this.

I luv how Spielberg says "Qweybec" lol

The student has become the master

Frank Herbert designed the spice trade around the oil industry but also the Bedouin spice trade, which is how they came to prominence in Arbia. To me the spice has a dual aspect: it represents a confluence not only of material power but also political and psychic/psychological (as distinct from and far mor profound what we normally call "religious power," which is really just political power as wieled by the Bene Gesserit.) Spice greases the military-industrial gears of the universe and it's bureaucracies which, aas a plot devise, allowed it to become a far greater barycentre of influence than any material commoditiy could ever be in our world, but it has a secret and that's prescience. It conveys that the very stuff of the human mind that messiahs are born out of is even more precious than physical energy -- it's a very subversive statement about that actual nature of religion and the mind and is likely the reason Tolkien disliked the series. On the one hand Herbert denies that God is metaphysical, which is an obvious affront to the sensibilities of organized religions, while at the same time he doesn't dismiss it as fairy stories. What this all points to is that the spice's physical form is like the breadcrumbs leading to the proverbial Philospher's Stone: the crux of the human soul. And if a man could get to that fulcrum -- even if it took a hundred generations to breed and cultivate a person capable of it -- you could give him a lever and a place to stand and he could move the universe. _That_ is the real danger. The danger is not that messiahs aren't what they're cracked up to be; that they're fake. It's that they're _more_ than they every bit what myths say about them and more. They are real and radically different than what we understand and we meddle with these forces at our peril. Anyone who thinks they want Jesus to save his soul ought to read the Book of Revelation. Herbert evidently did.

Zendaya just bagged herself funding for her directorial debut; and rightly so. The company you keep 👌

Amazing discussion between two masters.

Thank you for this.

What an experience that would’ve been to be there!

I remember that dialogue in Lawrence of Arabia I always liked Lawrence saying "because it's clean" and I remember Alec Guiness playing the arab prince saying something (not in the same dialogue) like "you are one of those europeans in love with the desert we don't we love oasis and water" or something like that. Anyway the little I saw of the film some scenes reminded me a lot of Lawrence of Arabia and Villeneuve himself cited it as an inspiration.

What was your top 3 scenes or moments in Dune part 2, for me they were, when Paul had his first speech’s s the kwizzatzaterach/Lisan Al Qaib to the foremen in the south, as well as Jessica becoming the new reverend mother I have a new found respect for her performance in this film, the Geidi Prime scene where feyd is “followed” and ofcourse the “kiss the ring scene” where EVERYONE BOWS man so so good , honourable mention is the ornithopter attack when Paul attacks rabben’s troops

As Québécois, admiring the power of pregnant women, he is probably familiar with La Mulâtresse Solitude story.

Paul still is a Messiah though albeit a bred/created one, he remains a kwisatch haderach 😉 and through those ancestors memories he surpasses just being a single person and it allows him to follow the golden path of least harm, as it will prevent the end of humanity, and needs to become mature enough that this path comes with the cost of billions of deaths to save all 🤷‍♂️

2:50 - Asimov!

You filmed a piece of Film History. Thank u 🎉

😭🙌🏼 My two favorites

2:52 a Director should say “because there aren’t trees to move between takes.”

Denis is Lisan al-Gaib

I see Denis is making Clouse Encounter 2 , or Space Odyssey

I liked the video from the first frame ❤

"he is just seen as a messiah because of the context, and other people, and all the power put on him, he doesn't have any special power ... apart from being uber sensitive to that substance, the spice ..." good one deni, and thank you for a very special movie !

So cool!!!!! ✨✨😃🤯

2:10 Bilal j’adore !

I’d love to see what Denis would do with an Alien film. Maybe it’s too small for him now.

Release the deleted scenes!!!

Great opportunity not to mention Spielberg’s cute little outfit.

😮❤😮!!! No words respect!!!

A francophone Canadian translate a American Liberal,s novel into a screen masterpiece, while being a french nerd😊