Harrison Ford on CGI and AI in Movies: ‘When It’s Helpful, I’m Happy to Have It’
thewrap.comMax Friday. “When it’s helpful, I’m happy to have it, and when it’s not, I’m disappointed that we’ve chosen to use it,” Ford said. “I think it’s not a question of the technology, it’s how you use it,” he continued. “I mean, we have the capacity to generate more enemies than anyone would ever face before.
More airplanes in the sky than anyone would ever see. But what happens is you lose human scale. And if you lose that, you lose the audience’s ability to experience, consistent with the characters, the story that you’re telling.
It’s too easy.”Still, Ford marveled at the AI technology LucasFilm used to de-age him back to his 40-year-old self onscreen in his upcoming film, “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.” “It is 40-year-old Harrison Ford, and that’s why it looks so good,” he said. “I’ve been working for LucasFilm most of my adult life.
Every frame of the film[s] … that we’ve made together … could be mined with, here we go again, artificial intelligence. And they could find the right angle, the right light, so that it’s my mouth, my eyes, my face, married.
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