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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. love scenes by basic0 · · Score: 0, Redundant
    "...splicing together different takes of an unsuccessful love scene to produce one in which both parties look like they are enjoying themselves"

    Hmm, I know all about unsuccessful love scenes. I wonder how much it'd cost to have Jennifer Connoly photoshopped into my bed during post-production. Actually, forget that noise, by the time I'm in "post-production" I just want a cigarette and a nap.

  2. Re:not sure I get the controversy by Elwar123 · · Score: 0, Redundant
    "Most actors are what (famous, popular) they are because they were at the right place at the right time."

    This kind of statement is akin to the many people that come up to me and want me to teach them "programming" because they see that I can do a lot of cool stuff and get paid well. They don't consider the years of no social life in high school and college and the many many many nights of no sleep while studying for exams or finishing up a computer project. Along with the years after college making a name for myself in my field.

    10 years after getting my degree working and some punk kid comes up and says..."hey, can you teach me Java?"

    I don't claim to know that much about the acting industry, but most of the big names have been in the business for years and who knows what they did before that to get to where they were. Tom Hanks didn't start out as Forest Gump, even though every snot nosed kid would say "I could do that...life is like a box of choc-o-lates".