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Don't Believe What You See at the Movies
MattSparkes writes "Many images you see in a magazine are Photoshopped, and it's getting less and less likely that what you see at the cinema is any more genuine. In the film 'Blood Diamond', tears were added to Jennifer Connolly's face after a scene was shot. According to The Times, digital effects artists can even change actors' expressions. 'Opening or closing eyes; making a limp more convincing; removing breathing signs; eradicating blinking eyelids from a lingering gaze; or splicing together different takes of an unsuccessful love scene to produce one in which both parties look like they are enjoying themselves.' The article mentions the moral qualms digital effects people have over performing these manipulations, and the steps actors are taking to protect their digital assets."
Do you know how devistated I was when I found out that Lieutenant Dan really did have both of his legs???
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Maybe now when Lucas re-remakes the Star Wars movies, we'll see some good acting!
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They do this in movies? Actually take different 'clips' and put them together to convey some sort of story? Bastards! I have played the fool for the last time.
From now on I will only view movies shot in one take.
Sweet informative mod.
You mean... the movies aren't real???
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Remember how cheesy the CGI Jabba the Hutt looked compared to the original puppet? Remember how convincingly real the original Star Wars spaceship models looked compared to more modern computer animations? Remember how the makers of Forrest Gump tried and failed to Photoshop words into the mouths of George Wallace and JFK, finally opting instead to exhume their bodies and stuff them with animatronics?
Step into a huge movement. Don't Tread In Me.
Looker is an old movie about digitizing actors and then killing them. It is finally becoming technically possible.
Nonsense. It's been possible to kill actors for years.
I, too, photoshopped liquid onto Jennifer Connely's face.
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This always makes me wonder about the courtroom. How do they prove that pictures and video are genuine?
They probably use a handsome, wet behind the ears lawyer who is very talented yet still plagued with some self doubt (usually due to some type of father issue), and who makes up for his lack of experience with heart and swagger. He typically validates or disproves said pictures/video in a moving 8 minute monologue to the jury.
At least that's what movies have taught me.
Sweet informative mod.
and they're adding extra inches in porn movies, right?
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The award for Best Actress goes too... Jennifer_Connelly_Face_4 + Jennifer_Connelly_Body_3 + Emotions_Tears_Female_2.
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This is all just FUD, next you'll try to tell me that Jar Jar Binks had digitally added ears? Please.
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Meh. Not surprised.
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Great. Now I've got that song stuck in my head. Thanks a lump, buddy.
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With this news it appears that Hayden Christiansen might NOT have had three limbs cut off and his body burned to a crisp on a lava planet during that one-in-a-billion take for the end of Star Wars III Revenge of the Sith. I feel betrayed.
Do you mean to tell me that Paris Hilton did not blow me in a motel room?!!!?!
Why was I left out?
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does this all mean that soon actors may be mere meat sacks on which to draw/animate?
if that's true, then Keenau Reeves will get yet more undeserved credit for pioneering this movement. What an unfair world.
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Holy fuck. I can't believe you just confused J-Ho - one half of the Bennifer travesty, not to mention Gigli - with Jennifer Connelly, who plenty of us have had a thing for ever since Labyrinth (and don't even start me on Requiem For A Dream's "ASS TO ASS!" scene).
Gah, it burns!
Your response confirms what I've suspected for a long while now: There's not much hope remaining for the human race. :-/
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Unbelievable. No, you moron, it was fake real blood. Oh, wait, maybe...
Nevermind.
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I'm not gonna argue against your main point, but I don't think it's fair to make a percentile estimations based on a population of five.
Don't think that means that only five slashdotters are having sex. Oh no. It's five girls in rotation.
They've seen things... terrible things...
Maybe not Tom Cruise levels of brand value, but hey, at least Buzz Lightyear isn't ever going to freak out and join the Scientologists on you.
That could be a great plotline for Toy Story 4.
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