\tDenis Villeneuve recently spoke to the Los Angeles Times and shared his discomfort over how \u201chuman beings are ruled by algorithms right now.\u201d He explained: \u201cWe behave like AI circuits. The ways we see the world are narrow-minded binaries. We\u2019re disconnecting from each other, and society is crumbling in some ways. It\u2019s frightening.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tThe Times columnist Glenn Whipp noted that Villeneuve shared these thoughts while checking his phone. The \u201cDune\u201d filmmaker said \u201cthere\u2019s something addictive about the fact that you can access any information, any song, any book\u201d from your phone. \u201cIt\u2019s compulsive. It\u2019s like a drug. I\u2019m very tempted to disconnect myself. It would be fresh air.\u201d \t<\/p>\n
\tBut the one place cell phone addiction can not exist is on a film set. Villeneuve said that mobile devices are banned on his productions. Christopher Nolan similarly bans cell phones. <\/p>\n
\t\t\t \t\t\tPopular on Variety\t\t \t \t\t \t \t\u201cCinema is an act of presence,\u201d Villeneuve said. \u201cWhen a painter paints, he has to be absolutely focused on the color he\u2019s putting on the canvas. It\u2019s the same with the dancer when he does a gesture. With a filmmaker, you have to do that with a crew, and everybody has to focus and be entirely in the present, listening to each other, being in relationship with each other. So cellphones are banned on my set too, since Day 1. It\u2019s forbidden. When you say cut, you don\u2019t want someone going to his phone to look at his Facebook account.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tRumors persisted around the release of \u201cTenet\u201d that Nolan also banned chairs from his film sets, which his team quickly debunked. Villeneuve said that for personal reasons he decided not to have a chair on the \u201cDune\u201d set for himself, but certainly producers and others were allowed to sit.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cWhen I did \u2018Blade Runner,\u2019 I had a back problem because I was sitting a lot,\u201d Villeneuve said. \u201cSo for the \u2018Dune\u2019 movies, my cinematographer, Greig Fraser, and I decided to stand, to have minimal footprints so we could be flexible and go fast, to keep the blood flowing, to be awakened. No chairs for us. Maybe for the producers at the video village.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tHead over to the Los Angeles Times\u2019 website to read Villeneuve\u2019s latest profile in its entirety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Denis Villeneuve recently spoke to the Los Angeles Times and shared his discomfort over how \u201chuman beings are ruled by algorithms right now.\u201d He explained: \u201cWe behave like AI circuits. The ways we see the world are narrow-minded binaries. We\u2019re disconnecting from each other, and society is crumbling in some ways. It\u2019s frightening.\u201d The Times […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}