A Conversation With Dune: Part Two Cinematographer Greig Fraser
/Film Weekly
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🗓️ 14 May 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
On the May 7, 2024 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is going to present an interview he did with Dune: Part Two cinematographer Greig Fraser.
In Our Feature Presentation:
- Greig Fraser interview
- Some Of Dune: Part Two's Shortest Scenes Took Three Entire Days To Film
- Creating Arrakis For Dune 2 Left Director Denis Villeneuve 'Sand-Traumatized'
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily. Today is Tuesday May 14th |
| 0:03.7 | 2024 on today's episode of the show I'm going to present an interview that I did |
| 0:07.7 | with Dune Part 2 cinematographer Greg Frazier. My name is Ben Pearson I'm an |
| 0:11.9 | editor at slash film |
| 0:12.9 | com and I wanted to talk to you guys today about one of my favorite movies of the year |
| 0:16.5 | which is Denis Villeneuve's Dune Part 2. This film features some of the best |
| 0:21.2 | action scenes in recent memory. I just re-watched the scene where |
| 0:24.8 | Timothy Chalamase, Paul O'Treadies, rides the sandworm for the first time and it is so good that it gave |
| 0:29.2 | me chills. And this film also has a lot on its mind. |
| 0:32.7 | It is a bleak look at how religion can be harnessed |
| 0:35.9 | as a means of control and how even those people |
| 0:38.5 | with seemingly righteous ideals can become corrupted by power. |
| 0:42.4 | It is also one of the most beautifully shot |
| 0:44.1 | blockbusters that you are likely to ever see and a huge part of the reason for |
| 0:48.2 | that is because of Greg Frazier who is unquestionably one of the best |
| 0:51.2 | directors of photography working in |
| 0:52.9 | Hollywood right now. He won an Oscar for his work on Dune Part 1 and some of his |
| 0:57.2 | credits include Matt Reeves the Batman, Catherine Bigelow's Zero Dark 30, |
| 1:01.1 | Andrew Dominic's killing them softly and he's worked a couple times with |
| 1:04.4 | Gareth Edwards, both on the Creator and Rogue One A Star Wars story. In addition, he is one of the |
| 1:09.6 | key creative architects of stagecraft technology, also known as the volume. |
| 1:15.0 | We've thrown this term around a lot on the podcast, but for new listeners who may not be aware, |
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