The AI Filmmaker
Not too long ago, a clip went viral on social media – Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in a fight on top of a building in a city of ruin. Cruise and Pitt have never been in a movie together, though. And sure as shit they weren’t in a real fight. The scene was courtesy of a new AI, Seedance. The output is pretty scary in terms of realism. It’s still not quite perfect, but I’d argue that in the age of CGI generation, we get a lot of action scenes where characters – even normal everyday people – are defying physics in ways that are unrealistic. (As an aside,…
The Not-so-Superman
Superman isn’t that hard to write. But lots of people will tell you he is. After all, how do you write a story that’ll challenge a superhero who’s essentially a god? Who’s overpowered? Who has no match physically? Who, kryptonite aside, is invulnerable? Years ago, DC Comics created the monstrously monstrous Doomsday to answer that call. He and Superman punched it out, Superman died, rejuvenated, and came back – a narrative choice that makes him even stronger. Now you’re saying he can’t die. But Superman’s strength and powers aren’t the problem. People think they are because they’re asking the wrong question. That much is evident in the recent cinematic stabs at…