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There are too many “feel good” Christmas movies, I need more evil Christmas movies. Something like Eyes Wide Shut

(Showing movie to a woman ) They actually used a technique for this part

I think the whole “ai is bad for the environment” and “ai is stupid and enabling our children” arguments have kinda made people forget the biggest reason to be anti-ai. It’s plagiarism. It’s theft. That’s how it works. It works by stealing.

Tarkovsky on science fiction and Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey: "For some reason, in all the science fiction films I've seen, the filmmakers force the viewer to examine the details of the material structure of the future. More than that, sometimes, like Kubrick, they call their own films premonitions. It's unbelievable! Let alone that 2001: A Space Odyssey is phony on many points even for specialists. For a true work of art, the fake must be eliminated. I would like to shoot Solaris in a way that the viewer would be unaware of any exoticism. Of course, I'm referring to the exoticism of technology. For example, if one shoots a scene of passengers boarding a trolley, which, let's say, we'd never seen before or known anything about, then we'd get something like Kubrick's moon-landing scene. On the other hand, if one were to shoot a moon landing like a common trolley stop in a modern film, then everything would be as it should. That means to create psychologically, not an exotic but a real, everyday environment that would be conveyed to the viewer through the perception of the film's characters. That's why a detailed 'examination' of the technological processes of the future transforms the emotional foundation of a film, as a work of art, into a lifeless schema with only pretensions to truth. Design is design. Painting is painting. And a film is a film. One should 'separate the firmament from the waters' and not engage in making comic books." -Interview with Naum Abramov in 1970.

"But can't AI just be used to complete unimportant backgrounds or clean up animation?" No. Those are entry level positions that turn into long careers. Bg painters become art directors. Clean up artists become animation leads. Stop trying to cheat.