From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment, the Home Edition. I'm Elvis Mitchell. We don't have Denny Villeneuve

to the show as often as I would like. I don't think

he's been here since arrival, but he first came to the show for Onsundee. I've known his work

in a real way since Polytechnic, and I think what he brings to his movies is an interesting

idea of somebody who thinks they know the world until something calamitous happens, and then they have to re-examine that world.

That actually happens in his latest motion picture and epic this time,

his adaptation of Dune.

Denny, first of all, welcome back.

Thanks for doing the show again.

Thank you, my privilege.

My pleasure.

And this is interesting to me because you look at the movies you've done.

They've been about people who think they know the world, who think they understand the world.

In a rival, we can see a case your protagonist in that film, certainly in Blade Runner, 2049.

I mean, I think you've done this a lot with people who think they know what the world is,

and it happens with Paul Atreides here in Dune.

I wonder, what attracts you to that kind of character?

That's a very good question.

Frankie, I don't think I ever looked at my work in the way you described,

but I think that it's pretty truthful what you're

saying. It does make sense. The idea of someone losing is, how can I say, is virginity. Losing

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