That's an age-old technique known as 'worldizing,' or the act of recording audio that's being played back through speakers in a physical space. The sound designers also recorded Dune's actors saying their lines several different ways, which they played back through a subwoofer and recorded the final output. There's the voice actor Jean Gilpin, who he says is “brilliant” at crafting witchy and ancestral voices. To make that otherworldly voice a reality, Green credits three elements. If you were somehow dozing off while the film's hero, Paul Atreides (Timothee Chalamet), tests his budding Bene Gesserit powers, you'd be easily jolted awake. But instead of a hypnotic wave of the hand, the sound of Dune's voice is like a simultaneous kick to the gut and punch to the face. Think of it like the Jedi mind trick ( Star Wars owes an absolute ton to Dune, don't forget). That philosophy was essential to crafting the Bene Gesserit voice, a seemingly supernatural ability that allows members of Dune's religious order to control others. Update your settings here, then reload the page to see it. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. is an outgrowth of that overarching philosophy to design a soundtrack for two hours and forty minutes that felt organic, as if we were a documentary film.' Working together with Dune's director, Denis Villeneuve, the pair aimed to make 'a real-sounding science-fiction film with things we've clearly never seen and heard before,' Mangini said in an interview with Engadget.' almost as if you put out a microphone and captured sounds as if those things actually existed. The key to that magic, according to sound designers Theo Green and Mark Mangini, was a focus on capturing and using organic sounds, rather than fantastical digital creations. It practically breathes life to the film - so much so that it makes Dune's wing-flapping ornithopter ships seem surprisingly real.

But there's also an undersung element that ties everything together: sound design. It's a joy to watch, especially on the big screen. Dune is a film filled with gorgeous vistas from alien planets skyscraper-sized spaceships and some of the most beautiful actors working today.

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