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Brian Jones didn’t learn to play the sitar for only one (classic) song so you could tell me AI is inevitable.

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Sam Peckinpah didn't spend 12 days shooting the final battle scene for The Wild Bunch using 325 edits and over 10,000 squibs for what amounted to about five minutes of screen time so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Grey DeLisle Didn't Become Emotional When Recording Her Lines For Azula Just So You Could Tell Me That AI Is "inevitable".

Disney’s “B team” didn’t put their damnedest into The Lion King when so many people wanted to do Pocahontas so you could tell me AI is “inevitable”.

Dan Akryod didn’t get a blowjob from a ghost so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”.

Mr. Belvedere didn't sit on his testicles and filming had to be cancelled for that day so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable l."

DAMN RIGHT

Disney didn't develop a sodium vapor camera to integrate drawn penguins in Mary Poppins so you could tell me AI is "inevitable".

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George Harrison didn’t mortgage his home to raise £2 million to finance the production of the Life of Brian so you could tell me AI is “inevitable”

Merry Clayton didn't sing so hard on "Gimme Shelter" that she ended up suffering a miscarriage so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable".

Christopher Nolan didn't film the atom bomb test practically in Oppenheimer so you can tell me that AI is inevitable.

One take. Donald O'Connor did this in one take. bsky.app/profile/girl...

Brian May wasn’t hand building the greatest guitar of all time out of knitting needles, shirt buttons, a fireplace and motorcycle parts so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”

Markiplier didn't take a bath in stinky artificial blood so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable".

Viggo Mortensen didn't naked fight a bunch of Russian criminals in a bath house so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable"

A true artist!

Adrienne Rich did not choose to love this time for once with all her intelligence so you could tell me artificial intelligence is inevitable.

There's a bunch of clickbait channels around still spreading the "first try" line, though.

Regardless of which take it was, her sinking the shot that way was and is badass as hell.

And to be fair. I. The spirit of the "we don't need AI to do this shit" Cera did like 50+ plus takes on Scott Pilgrim to get this shot with the package in the trash can and it's a clear homage to this scene. Let actors act and be passionate about it for gods sake

The stunt team on mad max fury road didn't get up on swaying poles on moving vehicles that they were told not to get up on because it would kill them so you could tell me AI is "inevitable"

Studio Ghibli did not hand-draw every frame of My Neighbour Totoro so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”.

It was as the monthly LA Convention around the release of ARMY OF DARKNESS. When I gave him the pic to sign, he didn't look up - but immediately asked, "16mm or Super 8?" "16." "Good but expensive to use." Like he KNEW I was a film grad/maker! Great guy.

I'm so glad!

Mike Oldfield didn't disable the "erase" head on his two-track B&O tape recorder with sticky tape so he could create countless overdubs for the Tubular Bells demos, just so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

So you can write shoot and edit all in one. Maybe the things you're lacking are talent and courage?

Shit you don't even need that $300k then.

What was the last movie you made? If you have no portfolio or wealthy backers, you use what you have. If Lady Gaga and Olivia Rodrigo can shoot music videos on phones then you can use one for your budget short.

Then you're a fascist and a fascism enabler and anything you make will be tainted and unable to be considered art

Sooth said.

I remember that! Thing is, people though all of the Blair Witch shit was true, at least at first.

Ive been lost in the woods.

Viral before anyone knew what viral was

Mike got fucked in the whole deal.

But, like, for publishing indecency. None of the actual awful things they did.

John Carpenter didn't paint little green lines on models to make it look like a technology that didn't exist yet so you could tell me AI is "inevitable"

He didn’t dump 3 Olympic pools worth of red dye on Bruce just so we could enter the SOMA POD and give up!

It's half myth half truth. For a few scenes only candles were used (but they placed a lot of candles), but most of the time, there were giant light panels placed outside the windows to simulate daylight.

Anna Akhmatova had to compose “Requiem” in her head too.

holy shit

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS

AI could never: Uriah Heep!!

Thats great and all but have you considered how challenging it is for techies dumbasses to pick up a pencil or type something up on their phone??

95% of the time AI's solution was a nuclear response. A clear example of why it should not be used for critical decisions.

holy shit

Barry Lyndon! The nightscenes shot using candlelight.

AND make him bite an actual dead bird!

Also not Sam Raimi making 156 takes to make the "lunch tray scene" so you could tell that AI is "inevitable "

the cast and crew of spiderman didn't endure 156 takes across 16 hours so that tobey could catch the falling cafeteria lunch on a tray just so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable": www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw1V...

The movie is god awful, but the behind the scenes from Ghost Rider 2 are way better than the movie itself. THE CAMERAMAN WAS ON SKATES WHILE SHOOTING BEHIND THE BIKE

It's a maybe 2 second shot at most. Perfect use of the technique. Any longer and you'd see it.

Its a great example of what proper preproduction planning should look like, they devoted a ridiculous amount of time planning out, choreographing, and rehearsing the fight scenes

Linda Hamilton and her twin Leslie didn't practice mirroring their actions perfectly to get this mirror shot without a camera in the reflection so you could tell me AI is "inevitable".

There's a similar scene in Children of Men that has an entire sequence inside a moving car with a driver and four passengers.

There's a somewhat gruesome shot in a short film Salvador Dali made where a razor is held to a woman's eye and it quickly cuts to an edit of the razor slicing open a fresh cow eye. Brian De Palmer did an entire movie (Body Double) but the concept.

Abel Gance... Napoleon etc etc. Werner Herzog... Fitzcarraldo... steamboat etc etc.

Coralie Fargeat didn’t set up a mini studio to film all those trippy shots for The Substance so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable.”

Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson didn’t drive around a tricked out hearse to bust ghosts so you can tell me that AI is “inevitable.”

Ah-ha-ha-ho!

And they expect everyone else to be just as apathetic to the process as they are--or at the very least, too dumb to notice--when they charge the AI up the A-S-S for it.

And it’s not just my experience as a consumer of art, it’s even more so the experience of the artist as a creator

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I heard the AI bros steal your dreams as you sleep

Michelle Yeoh didn’t jump a motorcycle ONTO A MOVING TRAIN so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”.

My dad, a (now retired) lighting and sound guy, didn’t build lights out of old instant coffee cans in order to light the inside of a tiny submarine bc the regular motion picture lights were too big, so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”

Just like 3D television was inevitable.

Spielberg didn't pluck a guitar string under a glass of water so you could tell us AI is "inevitable."

James McAvoy didn't get mentally affected from portraying 28 different personalities so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Fuck AI, more Man From Nowhere jumping out a window shots youtu.be/9z0Q9iLWTCM?...

Tony Stark didn't build this in a cave with a box of scraps so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable".

Tyrus Wong didn't practice calligraphy with nothing but water and newspaper so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Bringing it closer to home my children and grandchildren did not ravish my home with their artwork so you could tell me that AI is "inshaggingevitable"

The whole crew of Inglorious Basterds didn't almost die from incineration to get the famous Nazi theater burning scene so you could tell me AI is "inevitable."

Sergio Leone, David Lean, and James Cameron didn't blow up real bridges (Leone's sending a river stone hurdling towards Clint Eastwood with with the speed of a cannonball that missed his head by only a foot which you can see in the movie) so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Divine didn’t pick up a piece of dogshit and chew it while smiling at a camera so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”