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Pretty soon, there will be no difference between creating CGI and live action, and AI's will be creating all of our entertainment for us, being able to just "generate" "whatever", and everyone employed by the entertainment industry will be out of a job. And this isn't a joke, and I'm not joking, but I am being 100% completely and totally serious about this, and it's not very far away now either, etc.
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I’m trying to understand his argument.
Maybe he thinks its not a good look when 95% of public screen viewing minutes of little people in a given year are of goofy clowns.... its not a good look. Wheres the regular person roles?
I understand your point if you are talking about a movie like
In the Tolkien world elves and dwarves are not really little. Hobbits otoh are quite small.
That's what part of the recent SAG/SWG strike in Hollywood was about: The use of CGI to replace extras in movie background scenes as well as assistant screenwriters. Studios are unconcerned about the unintended consequences. I recently saw a YouTube video that compiled all of Brad Pitt's roles as an extra in the backgrounds of movies...there were a lot of them. Brad Pitt didn't just leap onto the screen as an accomplished actor. He spent a lot of time in what were essentially apprenticeship roles, learning how to be there. That gets lost when all those roles are done by CGI. And again, if you list all the assistant screenwriter positions that were the training grounds for the best screenwriters today, it becomes clear that we will lose as well when AI takes all the assistant screenwriting positions. For both actors and screenwriters, we'll just have "nepo babies" stepping cold into the roles and giving us lots of schlock instead of good product.
And all the other little people have criticized Dinklage for his comments. What he meant to say is that little people should not be confined to roles explicitly written for little people...but that doesn't mean that roles should not be written for little people when the story logically calls for it.
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