A couple years ago I wrote about how Andy Serkis has led an almost 2 decade crusade, insisting that the heart and soul of CGI characters must spring from a human performance https://theparadoxproject.org/2017/07/12/2017711how-andy-serkis-saved-digital-characters-from-themselves/ …
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20 years ago soul-less technologists were daydreaming about how they could remove humans from the process of acting, how they could simulate human emotion and performance without any of those pesky actors involved in the process.
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I used to think removing humans from a vitally human endeavor (such as acting) was just stupid, but now I think it's also ghoulish and antithetical to human dignity, respect, and decency.
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Serkis' dream was of using technology to expand human dignity, allowing us to tell stories that expand the boundaries of human emotion. Even so, there are corners of the FX industry that want to do away with it. I've increasingly viewing these as moral choices, not technical ones
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I think "resurrecting" James Dean is an ugly and grave moral error. It's disrespectful of him as a human and of his image. He cannot consent to this performance and guessing at what he "would have wanted" is just grotesque. It is an immoral use of visual effects.
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I feel the same way about CGI Peter Cushing from Rogue One. We didn't need Admiral Tarkin in that movie, and quite frankly it really is ok to let another actor play that character. Audiences are smart enough to accept a new actor in the role, you morons.
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I haven't seen The Irishman, but I'm on the fence about de-aging actors. DeNiro got his first Oscar playing young Marlon Brando. How wonderful would it have been for them to give a new young actor the role of young DeNiro instead of spending a hundred million on digital botox?
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I think about this Jet Li conversation a lot, in which he revealed that he turned down a role int he Matrix movies b/c they wanted to create a digital copy of him and his moves that they could own and do with as they pleased. That's disrespectful of human talent & skillpic.twitter.com/5ThIhpmA5M
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OF COURSE there's in nothing de facto immoral about motion capturing martial art moves. But the attitude that you're doing so in order to *own* the result of that person's skill and talent and cut them out of the character is ugly. It says "people are disposable"
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A lot of technologists come to any problem with an attitude of what is possible or easy when they need to really begin at what enhances human value and highlights the overall dignity of the actors and characters.
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