Add Denis Villeneuve to the list of directors banned from using cell phones on set.
this dune The filmmaker recently collaborated with Los Angeles Times A broader conversation about filmmaking, in which he discusses technology and his relationship with it on and off set.
“I feel like humanity is now ruled by algorithms,” he said. “We behave like artificial intelligence circuits. The way we see the world is narrowly dualistic. We are disconnected from each other and society is collapsing in some ways. It’s scary.
Like most people, Villeneuve admits that he finds the concept of mobile phones “addictive” because people can access any information at any time. “It’s compulsive,” he added. “It’s like a drug. I’d love to cut myself off. This would be fresh air.
this Blade Runner 2049 The director noted that, like Christopher Nolan, he banned the use of cell phones on set because it would distract from the project at hand.
“Cinema is an act of being. When a painter paints, he must concentrate entirely on the colors on the canvas,” he said. “It’s the same thing when dancers make gestures. For a filmmaker, you have to do it with a crew, and everyone has to be focused, completely in the moment, listening to each other, connecting with each other. So from Chapter 1 Cell phones are also banned from my TV as of the day. When you say “cut” you don’t want someone looking through his phone to check his Facebook account.
While it was previously claimed (quickly clarified) that Nolan did not allow chairs on his set, Villeneuve said that he and his dune In fact, on the set of the film series starring Timothée Chalamet, the cameraman literally refused to sit down. But this is for a different reason.
“When I do this blade runnerI have back problems because I sit too much,” he told the publication. “So for dune Movie… [we] We decided to stand up and keep our footprint as small as possible so we could move nimbly and quickly to keep the blood flowing and aroused.