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 Scott’s science-fiction films are vastly different from one another through their subgenres and visual design, their uniting factor—and thus, Scott’s stylistic unifier—is their emphasis on humanity.