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Why deage when we can just have AI replace them entirely?
by freitzkriesler2 4y ago
Why deage when we can just have AI replace them entirely?
- ASalazarMX 4y agoWhat makes you think that isn't the ultimate goal? Little by little CGI will cross more lines. Fully virtual actors are probably the wet dream of Hollywood.
- freitzkriesler2 4y agoThat's what I was implying. Might as well go full ham.
- jfengel 4y agoRight now, the answer is "stardom". I don't know what it is that makes Harrison Ford a star, but he attracts attention. People go see movies just because he's in it. He's a talented actor, but that's almost incidental. Plenty of stars are poor actors by almost any measure, but people nonetheless love to look at them on screen. Hollywood has a certain talent for manufacturing stardom, but it's still far from a science. They can't turn just anybody into a star, and most of the people they put up for stardom fizzle out. We have no idea how many potential stars are waiting tables and doing the occasional hemorrhoid commercial. When they do find it, they latch on. So they put up "de-aged" Harrison Ford rather than a younger actor, even though the audience consciously knows they're not looking at Harrison Ford. It'll have his voice, which helps, but there's more to it. Some day, somebody will figure out how to make a completely digital actor with "it", whatever "it" is. All hell is gonna break loose that day.