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The Sunday Read: ‘What if A.I. Is Actually Good for Hollywood?’

The Sunday Read: ‘What if A.I. Is Actually Good for Hollywood?’

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“You couldn’t have made this movie three years ago,” said Robert
Zemeckis, the director of “Here.”

The film stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, and is based on a 2014
graphic novel that takes place in a single spot in the world over
several centuries. The story mostly takes place in a suburban New
Jersey living room. It skips back and forth through time, but
focuses on a baby-boomer couple — played by Hanks and Wright — at
various stages of their lives, from age 18 into their 80s.

Before A.I. software, Zemeckis could have had multiple actors
play each character, but the audience might have gotten lost
trying to keep track. Conventional makeup could have taken a
decade off Hanks, who is now 68, but not half a century. The
issue with C.G.I. is time and money. Persuading us that we’re
watching Hanks and Wright in their 20s would have required
hundreds of visual effects artists, tens of millions of dollars
and months of postproduction work. A.I. software, though, changed
all that accounting.

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