I Love the Low Sort of Tibetan and I Look, I Can Sing It

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I love the idea of that innocent little temple bell ringing at the top and ends of these mugs at the bottom. I need to go and find some familiar ground to calm myself down because here's the thing, this is an enormously ambitious project making this movie and sort of a childhood dream. One of the things that Dini and I agreed on was that even though the book seems on the surface to be about all these very masculine heroes, it's really the women that are the power that drives the story forward. So the score should be relying heavily on the female voice.

The movie Dune was released on October 21. It's the most recent adaptation of Frank Herbert's epic science fiction novel from 1965. The film was directed by Denis Villeneuve, and the score was written by Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer. Hans Zimmer has scored over 200 films, been nominated for Oscars eleven times. He and Denis Villeneuve first worked together on the film Blade Runner 2049. Dune tells the story of the Atreides family as they relocate from their home world to the desert planet Arrakis. When Hans Zimmer first started working on the music, he made what he calls a "sketchbook" – creating motifs and themes that might occur in the film. And in this episode, he takes us through the first sketch he did for Dune. It’s called "Paul's Dream."

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