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Denis Villeneuve (born October 3, 1967) is a Canadian filmmaker. He has received seven Canadian Screen Awards as well as nominations for three Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. Villeneuve's films have grossed more than $1.8 billion worldwide. Villeneuve began his career in his home country, directing four French-language dramas: August 32nd on Earth (1998); Maelström (2000); Polytechnique (2009), a dramatisation of the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre; and Incendies (2010). The last of these gained him international prominence and earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. He expanded to English-language films by directing the thrillers Prisoners (2013), Enemy (2013), and Sicario (2015). Villeneuve gained wider recognition for directing science fiction films. His work on Arrival (2016) earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director. This was followed by Blade Runner 2049 (2017), which was critically lauded but financially unsuccessful. His next projects were Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024), a two-part adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel of the same name. Both films were critically and commercially successful, with the former earning him Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture.
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Blood Meridian is an epic Western novel (sometimes classified as a revisionist Western) set in the mid‑19th century American Southwest and northern Mexico. The story is loosely based on historical events and follows a brutal, unflinching portrayal of violence on the frontier. The narrative centres on a teenage protagonist known only as the Kid (later referred to as the Man). In his late teens, the Kid leaves Tennessee and eventually makes his way to Texas and Mexico. His journey leads him to join Glanton’s gang — a group of scalp hunters active in the years 1849–1850. The gang is hired by Mexican authorities to hunt Native Americans — primarily Apaches and Comanches — for bounty. What begins as a campaign against hostile tribes quickly devolves into indiscriminate slaughter: the gang targets peaceful communities, Mexicans, and anyone else who stands in their way, driven by greed, bloodlust, and nihilism.
