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A lot of the cost is top-billed actors' salaries. They could reduce that greatly by simply not using A-list actors (unless they agree to a huge paycut), but th
by midoridensha 3y ago
A lot of the cost is top-billed actors' salaries. They could reduce that greatly by simply not using A-list actors (unless they agree to a huge paycut), but they don't want to do that because A-list actors bring more viewers. Meanwhile modern movies usually have lousy scripts. This problem is one that the movie studios have created all by themselves.
- WalterBright 3y agoI'm looking forward to the day when anyone can hand a book to an AI and tell it to generate a movie from it. At least there'll be no more complaints about "not following the book!"
- midoridensha 3y agoPerhaps, but you'll probably wind up with a shitty movie. Books and movies are fundamentally different media, and a story that works well in a book usually, IMO, just won't translate well to a 2-4 hour movie without making major changes to the story and plot. However, perhaps instead of trying to make movies from books, they should make miniseries (3-10 hour-long episodes).
- jredwards 3y agoBecause if there's anything AI currently sucks at, it's giving a reasonable summary of a larger context. I think Book --> Movie Script is probably going to arrive before generated actors.
- midoridensha 3y agoYou're right: the current quality of film/TV scripts is terrible, so this is definitely one place where LLMs could do far, far better than most humans in the profession.
- WalterBright 3y agoLord of the Rings was considered unfilmable for decades. Computers made it possible.
- midoridensha 3y agoI'm not referring to the technical aspects of filming, I'm referring to the huge differences between them as a storytelling medium. A movie only has 1.5-3 hours of screen time available to tell the complete story (unless you do something like the recent "Dune" movies, or make a trilogy like LotR), but in addition to that, a lot of things that work for books don't work the same way for movies: pacing, etc.
- richardw 3y agoNah, just generate the A listers, or make better actors that are better looking and have better voices. Generate the directors, generate the whole movie. Put me in the movie, make me better looking. Toss the studios.