While historically most sci-fi media has focused on electronic synthesizer sounds (think: blasters in Star Wars, robotic sounds in Terminator, etc.), the goal of Dune, and of fake documentary realism, is to immerse the viewer in realistic visual and auditory experience and therefore launch them into the story and world.

While The Harder They Fall and Red Notice were both distributed in the same manner - straight to Netflix - their viewership status had very different outcomes. This essay will examine if differences in narrative, aesthetic, and comedy are the reason for the films’ dissimilar success in Netflix viewership or if instead the viewership success was a result of Netflix’s distribution strategy and platform building itself.