I have just re-watched Blade Runner 2049 after watching Blade Runner for the first time and i can't wait to see what Denis Villeneuve did with Dune.

Making a sequel to a classic film, that is better than the original.

Can you imagine something like that happening?

Well, there's Blade Runner 2049. Hands down a better film than it’s predecessor. In a world of sequelitis, Denis Villeneuve made such a poetic, ponderous, beautiful film that stands on it’s own, apart from the sci-fi giant that came before it.

I have to mention the beauty of this film first. Most of the moments of this film, you can pause and it would look like something that can be used as a wallpaper. Such consistent visual quality and magnificence! I've never seen anything like it before.

And it matches that with a story, a sequel story to a classic film, that resonates with you so deeply. Ridley Scott made a film about thirst for life, for true life and Villeneuve extended that to a story of thirst for meaning, beyond the machination of circumstances beyond your choosing, a meaning that is wrapped up in the warmth of human connection. A story that is equal parts beautiful and hauntingly sad.

Now this visionary director has taken on another sci-fi classic. A classic that notoriously known for being unadaptable. Who best to translate something like that to screen than someone who made a better sequel to a classic after 25 years?

I can't wait to see what he has done.

Submitted July 13, 2021 at 03:31AM by neonroli47 https://ift.tt/2UKwsfJ