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Don't Believe What You See at the Movies

Posted by Zonk on from the made-the-star-wars-movies-possible dept.

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."

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  1. Entertainment Anyone? by Gates82 · · Score: 5, Funny
    It was no big deal the dinosaurs were added to several scenes in Jurassic Park, or that that a liquid metal man can walk through steel bars in terminator, but now the CGI has gotten so good at blending with live action it is no a moral problem. I don't know about you but I go to the movies (rarely) for entertainment. I expect to see the best possible image and scene. I really have no concern about how the images were created as long as the blend and I can't tell were the CG is. Now if I am watching the news or a documentary I might want to know about these changes. This seems more like the actors complaining that their performance was good enough as is. They have a makeup artist for their face why not a graphics person in post production. This is lame and BS.

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  2. Re:Go rent LOOKER by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. What a coincidence! by L.+VeGas · · Score: 5, Funny

    I, too, photoshopped liquid onto Jennifer Connely's face.

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  5. Re:not sure I get the controversy by Achromatic1978 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Using fake tears to make J-Lo (or whoever it was) cry

    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!

  6. Re:not sure I get the controversy by AKAImBatman · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  7. Re:Do you mean.... by CHacker · · Score: 5, Funny

    She hasn't got to D yet.

  8. Re:not sure I get the controversy by mobby_6kl · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would bet Angelina Jolie looks 1000% better than 99.99999% /. readers significant others before makeup.

    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.