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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.

This is so good. Worth reading. George Lucas compared Anakin to Faust, making a deal with the devil that ultimately fails. “Anakin wants to have a family. He wants to be married to Padmé and have children. When he sees in his dreams that Padmé is going to die, he doesn't know how, but it's preordained. He's in love with her. He doesn't want her to die. He wants to possess her, to control that. He keeps getting himself deeper and deeper into this pickle. He wants a family but at the same time he knows he can't have one. Now the greed has taken over and the fear of losing his wife and baby. The whole point is you can't possess somebody because they are their own person. You can't dominate and make them do everything you want them to do... …Right. He's walking into a death trap. And there’s no way out... …And also saying that ‘My mentor told me that there was a way that could stop death.'’ Which was a lie. They can't. Anakin got sold a bill of goods because he wanted it so bad that if anybody would sell him anything, he'd believe it... It's a scam. Anakin’s made a pact with the Devil: ‘I want the power to save somebody from death. I want to be able to stop them from going to the river Styx, and I need to go to a god for that, but the gods won't do it, so I'm going to go down to Hades and get the dark lord to allow me to have this power that will allow me to save the person I want to hang on to.’ Ultimately, it's about power. He traded his soul for power. It's Faust. The more power he wants, the more power he gets, the more he loses. The Devil says, ‘You can become more powerful but you must pass this first test. The first test is you must kill your mother. The second test: you have to kill your wife. And the third test: you have to kill your best friend.’ In the end you have all this power but you have nobody to share with, except some wizened old man who’s even more evil than you are. If you’re going to sell your soul to save somebody you love, that’s, as we say in the film, unnatural. You have to accept the natural course of life. Death is obviously the biggest of them all. Not only death for yourself but death for the things you care about.” — George Lucas in conversation with Paul Duncan. The Star Wars Archives: 1999–2005 (Published by Taschen)

BREAKING: Kansas has elected its first Democratic senator since 1932

A baddie and her nerd

resident evil games take long as fuck for me to finish because im directionally challenged so ill be opening the map every 3 seconds

No todo es lujuria imagínate jugar los residents evil con el amor de tu vida

annoying, but hopefully practical, answer: stop paying attention to story and instead watch what the camera is doing

So many people, including the richest man in the world, have never read Matthew Stover's novelization of "Revenge of the Sith" and it shows...

thinking about this shot from the halloween scene in E.T.

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if you ever feel like you're lagging behind your peers and falling short in life, it is imperative that you lash out on the people closest to you