How 'Dune' Composer Hans Zimmer Created the Oscar-Winning Score | Vanity Fair 

Dune in*

why is zendaya and her half second screentime set as the thumbnail for this?? timothee is the lead of the movie

When I heard the inception's track the thought that came to my mind hans Zimmer knows the sound of time

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Bet it slapped 😭

Not really

@@99Gara99 yep somewhat rly

@@99Gara99 listen to cornfield chase on a good pair of headphones and you'll understand why

@@99Gara99 Yes really.

Awful, just like your takes

Calm down, stop idolizing mere humans kiddo. Relax.

@@snakejuce he's experienced and seemingly soft spoken so If you were to rank musical approvals Yes it would be ranked high. But also yes, no need for that kind of approval.

@@snakejuce Hans Zimmer is more than a human, stop disrespecting him like that

@@snakejuce r/wooosh

@@snakejuce “kiddo” what a zinger. You got anything original tho?

exacty 💯!!!

searching for this explanation, thank you so much.

There is an episode on Maejor Frequency that goes into depth of frequency of the music and how it’s also similar to rap/hip hop music. Worth a listen if you are interested in how frequencies play a role in how it makes you feel when listening to music, sounds etc.

Indian KatKat Thank You

was searching for this

Perfectly explained

Hard agree

Only comparable to the soundtrack of the original "Ghost in the Shell" anime. It sounds futuristic and ancient both at once.

"yet familiar and so very ancient, despite being in a sci-fi setting" Exactly why IMO Villeneuve's adaptations are so great. They managed to capture that special kind of vibe the books offer : You're reading a science-fiction story and yet it feels unfathomably ancient. You're reading about space travel, genetics, drug-induced mutations, and yet the technology of that universe seems magical, almost sacred. It's the far future, it's about totally foreign people, and yet the story is profoundly familiar, as if it connects to humanity's essence itself. The score, the sound effects, even the beautiful shots... They managed to convey that perfectly. I rewatched Part Two yesterday and there are scenes that feels like paintings of religious scenes (such as the scene where the imperial ship enters Arrakis' atmosphere or the Harkonnen soldiers slowly floating toward the mountain).

Yes! Brilliantly elaborated... That was my attempt at describing what I felt first time I was reading Dune. Herbert had a unique abillity to transcend, bend and blend time, space....everything. It was a majestic experience. Zimmer/Villeneuve did the absolute justice to the book atmosphere (and story consistency for that matter), and I can't wait to see part 2!

Absolutely right. I used to do exactly the same until I officially became huge Hans Zimmer fan and since then I know what movies he is doing in advance.

My reaction literally when I was watching the movie

my words XD

I noticed that!!! When the music is just too sick in a movie, I look it up to check if it's Hans cause the dude elevates movies with his music. Gladiator one of my favorite movies.

true i was waching no time to die and in the end credits i saw his name and i was like ah ofcourse

I noticed the same exact thing. Truly humbling.

I also noticed that. As humble as he is talented.

And uses Ghost Composers and plasters only his name in the credits ? Some modesty 😅

He is definitely not modest, I don't know what interview did you watch. I do think he is not only a talented composer but also has great social skills.

I picked up on that as well. Really a telling sign of someone. Seems like a great dude!

Heyaaaaaaa

Exactly. An essential for sure.

You just took the words out of me

They're picking up on his style and then complaining about it.

They are unobservant. Or just ignorant of what he can truly accomplish.

Imagine hearing Gladiator, The Amazing Spider-Man, Inception, Interstellar and Dune's OST, and say they sound the same.

Music that's unfamiliar to you tends to sound the same because you lack the framework to understand its nuances. Rock? All electric noise. Hip hop? All amelodic noise. EDM? All synthesized noise. Contemporary classical? All atonal noise. If you ever hear that some genre all sounds the same and isn't "real music," you're sure to find that the genre is doing something interesting that stretches the average person's understanding of the definition of music.

Same. What Hans did with Dune went far beyond over any of his previous works. Listening to his compositions while watching it on that big IMAX theater screen, I knew I was there in Arakkis

Agreed!!

That’s what I thought, too. Of cause he is the best known person there, but he knows how important everyone is.

I have noticed that immidiately! :)

I think great people are able to bring forth the best of the people around them. He is obviously open to be inspired and can bring it together in a cohesive whole. It is really magnificent.

best part is the title card says "created by" but he's like "nah, that's us"

But they actually did cultural appropriation

@@Kathakathan11 ?

@@Kathakathan11 everyone appropriates culture every day. Whats your point?

He’s a humble man and he appreciates the artists around him. I love that.

@@Kathakathan11 well, it’d be kinda weird if he just did whatever you would see as "German music" for a film in the desert that mirrors Iraq (Arrakis) and their oil (the spice melange), if you "appropriate" culture without using things like hurtful stereotypes, I don’t see an issue with it

When I hear a John Williams soundrack I think "That's John Williams allright". When I hear a soundtrack unlike any I've ever heard before I think "This must be Hans Zimmer".

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4G6e4TaJxkI.html !!!!!!

@Lavender M I don't know man, feels like this Zimmerman guy knows what he doin

We talking about the same Hans Zimmer?

Exactly! He's always innovating

These are literally some of the best musicians in the world. would be crazy not to

Yes agree! It was totally amazing how much Hans Zimmer and his eclectic musicians put into this score. I never knew how much thought went into a movie score, such musically talented people all of them.

also how he always says we instead of i

I loved Hans Zimmer since many many years ago. But when the title shows "How Hans Zimmer created the score for Dune" and yet Hans said how WE created.... My respect to his humbleness and appreciation towards his fellow musician just skyrocketted

I do hope all those musicians also show the same amount of respect (or even more) to him - considering that some are only known because of him. :)

@Jesus has given you all. Repent or die. You're an npc

Hes overratted

the goat

Dang son

@@CHodgy explain how so i can laugh at you please

Didn't expect you here!

I thought the same thing :)

Time stamp?

7:06

Yassss. Was ther sum indian in dune... i cnt recall

I can only think of one other franchise that did this wich is why I have such high hopes for dune if you can reach the echelons of LotR you pretty much made history

Whyyyyy? "" Becaaaaause we love making movieeeees"'

@@hehehelen761 I understood that reference

@@lp.shakur Star Wars is bigger.

@@TrueNorth1217 you missed the point

Imagine the intro of Dune be like „HANS ZIMMER EARNED THAT BIMMER“

Z-z-z-z-Zimmer Beats 🎶

zimmer on dat beat boi 😩🙏

Tags are for producers that don't have their own sound and style...CHANGE MY MIND

"If Young Nolan don't trust ya, I'm gonna shoot you"

This score was loud and obnoxious with no melodies. It came off as some boring sound experiment.

@@kingrobert7246 not to me

​@@kingrobert7246 Totally agree with you! "Forgettable" would be my word of choice...

@@kingrobert7246 agreed. How about the score for The Batman?

@@kingrobert7246 Good thing you're not a composer, then.

Absolutely. You know these things bro.

Because he never stops learning and exploring new things

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PTc1YRqs160.html !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You mean the artists he undercredits, underpays and overworks?

@@DaanDaanDaanDaanDaan 'undercredits' in a comment under such a video is "funny"

He'd also read the book and loved it, so he had a very positive perspective, and knew what was required. Too many people, be they actors, or producers or screenplay writers have no connection or context with the source material, and it [usually] shows.

it impressed me that he asked him to play vowels made by the wind... and i didnt know what he meant with "vowels" on a flute... but then bro started playing and i knew: YES. THATS IT. they are genius. so is the dune soundtrack

Flute guy carries

@@coleharbak it's a hard carry. True 1v9

He truly deserve all the respect after that amazing performance of weight of life.

LMAAAOOOO!!!!!!!

Hey anyone nows how to pronounce the instrument at 11:55?

Yeah, i wouldn't bet Hanz doing the "HHAA HAAA HUKEEEVAAAA" or the "MMMM BUDUUUUUUUURRRRRRR YEEE AHUMMMMM" himself

@@BlackEagle352 swoooosh

@@BlackEagle352 😂

@@Jonathan-Pilkington Nothing went over his head

Cosnidering he barely writes any of the music attached to his name saying it any other way would be borderline fradulent

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PTc1YRqs160.html !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's his absolute fearlessness to be all out weird, along with also mastering the conventional. Most artists are either one or the other, and therefore boring and predictable.

The way his brain works blows my mind. Any time I watch an interview of now he scores a movie I’m like 🤯

True

I was also like "what?" When I heard him saying it😁

Dude can imitate not only guitar players, he can imitate a siren, harmonica, harp, even voice and cartoon sounds, of course he can do bagpipe.

@@tomvesely4008 Oscar Isaac's entire vocal performance is actually Govan playing the guitar

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PTc1YRqs160.html !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

Japanese Koto next on the list :D (it's not that hard, just have to play the B, A, G, D, D# notes all over the fretboard and that's it, jk, can play only 1 note at a time, or maybe 2 when convenient, but that kind of music can even be 3 notes at a time often)

*googles Guthrie Govan*. Oh WOW. Hans Zimmer plays NO GAMES!!!

"my guitarist Guthrie Govan" literally the greatest guitarist currently alive, Hans aint pulling random guitarists off the streets I tell yah

@@sinistrality7883 "literally the greatest" you say?

@@santosl.harper4471”currently alive” dumba$$

@@santosl.harper4471 oh easily

Tillana

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Yeah and I am very sure every Indian watching this felt this. It is common in India but not common in western music, there it's mostly European music as said by Sir

Lovely

Sweet❤️

doesn't get more bulshitty than that :P

@@agnidas5816 why you hatin kid?

Jesus ain't got nothing on Hans.

Same. It truly was jaw-dropping. I cannot wait for part 2. :D

Unfortunately after watching iMax and non iMax version. If you get a chance to watch again, find on of those Extreme cinemas next time, it looks and feels so much better than iMax... i was surprised how it was not optimised well for iMax..

Yeah the acting was quite bad. Script amd screenplay was also not very good.

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the soundtrack: "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" "eeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" "iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii" "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

Thank you! I didn't know that. The first time I heard Konnakol was on Soul Circus by Victor Wooten, and I thought it was so cool.

Yes. Michael Manring (the bassist) is also a big fan of Konnakol, and uses it to help him divide rhythms.

slumdog millionaire has some solid konnakol, works really well to build tension

Yea

Don't be so Karnatic

its so satisfying and scary at the same time but i love it

Most interesting piece in Dune OST 💞

@@shyamsivan5261 I second this statement.

brought tears to my eyes

Dude I got goosebumps

Casually mentions Guthrie as if he's not the best guitarist on the planet right now.

@@jokerman261 RIGHT?!

Agreed! I saw Guthrie playing with Hand at the O2 last night and he was the highlight of the show. He had an incredible solo on Superman.

That was a shocker honestly had no clue he played a part in this whole project

frr lol. I did a double take

facts

but if you see a goat and a piece of wood next to each other are you gonna make bagpipes or just let it slip?

@@KeepFeedingMeImStillHungry ray mears and Hans Zimmer special, 'you make the fire while I make the bagpipes'

Yes

Bruh….

hes the only person i can take seriously when saying 'tibetan war horn'

Exactly!! It's a fairly common progression in India

right? my mind went instantly to some image of a classical dance teacher doing that

Manas Sarpatwar yup Indian arts need to be correctly credited on these platforms

I was going to comment this and was looking if someone mentioned it already

@@skullzalliances Yup. At least to a level where it's not described "highly unusual" by a living legend !

@@ComposerMichaelDow film it or cap

@@ItsaDaPope-a I didn't. But I do now!

@@elvingearmasterirma7241 Awesome! It was a joke because there are at least 5 other comments saying exactly the same thing.

Yeah dude

And the skill of a player who can deliver!

What you hear is not what you see. -Zimmer, H

It's because he hasn't had formal training. His admission applicarion for music school was turned down.

And Tina never disappoints!!! She delivered a spine tingling performance!

Reminds me of the movie Walk Hard when Dewey is conducting an orchestra high as a kite and says “can you make that sound like a velvet pancake?”

I have lost faith many years ago n never gonna get it back lol

Well deserved Oscar. I still think Hans should have got one for Interstellar.

He is a master of music and his score will live on in goat soundtracks of all time

if he didn't win it, I'd probably slap Chris Rock

@@braedonavants Zing! Too soon? Nah!

Lmao he was just like F*CK YEAH 🤟

I was just about to type this. You would think maybe someone as great as Hans Zimmer would know about Indian traditional music but guess I gave the man too much credit lol

@@koganenokoro4361 i too thought the same about hans

The bagpipes are better

Yes she has learned hindustani classical music which she has mentioned in some of her interviews.

Yeah they really whitewashed that

If he doesn't win the Oscar then the Academy should just shut the whole thing down

@@madisonwhovian943 they may wait till the sequel but who knows

Literally every favorite film of mine, he is the conductor. Lion King will forever b the all-time masterpiece in my mind but he is behind some revolutionary films. Get it together Academy!!

@@MissSunflower242 Composer, not conductor

He won for Gladiator (2000), as well. Come on.

Initially, I thought it sounded more like traditional Scat/Jazz singing, but when she did the extended percussive runs, I heard the Indian influence. Isn't music wonderful.

Sheila Chandra was another great performer of Konnakol who unfortunately lost her voice about a decade ago.

@@robblissism Such a shame. Her track in the LOTR - Two Towers is one of my favorites.

True except its not Tribal culture folk music , its Classical Carnatic .

@@MajesticDemonLord Her bio says she studied Scat/Jazz at Berklee College of music.

Same here. Extraordinary.

We can thank daft punk for tron

You unlocked my memory of tron and I remember LOVING that movie just like I LOVE dune.

Dude. You are so right with that similiar feel with Tron. I totally agree with you. It is a feel I really cant put a finger on...

The music is written by interns and employees, saying "I" would be borderline fradulent

I mean, the team of writers and composers at his company definitely worked on this, as they do on anything Hans Zimmer is hired to compose for. So it is both humble and necessary for him to say "we".

He has a big team

@@1998Cebola was looking for this comment lol. Ghost writing should be illegal

@@1998Cebola Plenty of people would say I/me whether it is true or not. People like to take credit. Just stating it was very self aware for him to make it an emphasis. I definitely agree with you.

Thats the guy performing with Yanni for quite some time

Very interesting !

Very cool! Thank you for sharing!

Interesting! How was the Indian reaction to Dune? Did many people comment on the music feeling natural as well?

I watched him live yesterday and it is intertwined with classical Indian music....especially the part after she comes of the high note.....can't describe it but I know what you mean because I've been thinking the same for the last 24 hours and here I found your comment to which I can relate.

this... finally makes sense now. woa.

I likened it to a spiritual experience

dune is book lol

Exactly!

@xeon0100 lol i think composer is even a stretch, I will grant that he has a signature sound, one that I detest however. The second the score hits in Dune I knew it was a Zimmer score, and I had to try to ignore it to enjoy the movie.

@@MCHENNEY see, why? He's getting hired for films cause he's good.

@@MCHENNEY @xeon0100 both of you should shut up Hans is great

hes getting hired cause he makes pop music for commoners, for a pop movie with pop actors, if you dont really like and study music there you have a couple clues so you can take a look of what a pop musician is

@@daigoaisabli lol, do you think people who you’re calling commoners are gonna take you seriously?

Yes - so many amazing projects

overrated themepark directors lol

@@LanaaAmor nice bait bruh

the most basic whiteguy directors lol, watch more films or maybe grow up

@@LanaaAmor Racist? Got it.

He says we, because he hardly does the score. He gives ideas and then lets others go for it.

He never hid that he deleguates a lot of things, but to say he hardly does the score is quite an overstatement. It's like saying the director is hardly doing the movie, because there are so much people around him ...

He says “we” about musicians but not “we” about the other composers he uses. As someone who is in this industry, I look forward to the day that the composers behind these scores get the credit they deserve. Hans zimmer is a brand or corporation with a host of ghost writers. Gone are the days of John Williams where it’s quite literally him writing every note with an orchestrator.

So nice to see someone else make the connection to Yanni!

@@NathanEinhornMusic Director is a good comparison. For example, Peter Jackson didn't direct every scene of Lord of the Rings himself but no one has a problem with that

100% true. The suona, zurna, shenai, and taepyeongso all continue to break ears all over the Asian continent 🖤

That's really cool. TY

Shame on you

Watching at an IMAX theater was the best decision I made.

That's how I feel about Interstellar. Had to see this one in Hollywood premier night. Biggest theater I've been in. It was a amazing

@@janellelives5158 omg yes watching it in IMAX really hit different

I’m sure it will be re released on IMAX in the build up to Part 2

That is exactly one part of the difference between people who are just being praised for being in a certain position and doing a certain thing very well and those who are actually praise worthy on a deeper, social level as well.