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> They should have just gotten a voice actor who could do a convincing impression of De Niro in the 70s and dubbbed him in. The director's focus was on the mos
by yourenotsmart 5y ago
> They should have just gotten a voice actor who could do a convincing impression of De Niro in the 70s and dubbbed him in.
The director's focus was on the most genuine De Niro expression, not on the most impressive young De Niro impression.
Scorsese doesn't make tech demos, he makes stories with characters, and he respects his actors a great deal.
What could've been done here is use another AI technology, deepfake for voice, basically, train it on young De Niro's voice, and then reproduce De Niro's own lines with his younger voice, using the original lines as input (not just text). No voice actor could match a performance THAT closely as AI can these days.