I think robots want to watch robots and people want to watch people
Think about your entire premise - pure CGI characters that put humans out of work cause they do what they are told. As if “not aging, not taking a salary, no complaints,” makes for a good actor.
What would these AI characters who’s prime motive is to replace problematic humans gonna get their chops? From hours and hours of watching Dog Day Afternoon? Like memorizing with their AI brain every twitch and look Pacino gave in Serpico? Well it would have to copy a human. And the final result would be an imitation of a human. So it will always by nature fall short of the requires humanity needed to act.
Who is gonna do the voice of the character? You see how it works today - Scarlett Johansson lends her voice to a cartoon fish. What you are talking about already happens in Pixar but the draw for an audience is Movie Star oriented. And that means Fans.
Fans have to be human. And they have to have Humans actors. Otherwise what would some kid strive to be? An algorithm?? A young kid wants to be like Mitchum or Paul Newman. Girls want to grow up and be like Scarlett Johansson.’ They don’t want to look up and admire digital Code.
Your premise is that humans will want to watch pure CGI characters. Or that studios would want to do this to cut costs and avoid complaints.
I say no way. Not now or in the future
While that may be true today and in the “future” it will be the same % of an audience that today watches animation. A CGI character will always fall under the category of “Animation.” So what your calling for in a sense is that humans will one day allow for the death of the live action film — and I say that’s impossible.
Your response to my point about failed Zemeckis and Final fantasy - that there will possibly be a point in the future where another generation conditioned on CGI will want pure CGI Characters. So basically what you are suggesting is in the future, these audiences (cause of this conditioning to CGI) will be into better produced Zemeckis failure, and a better rendered Final Fantasy.
Will Final Fantasy the Spirit Within be that generations Star Wars??? I mean they already did what you say.
Some weird version of that flick Simone. i mean why stop at Actors? Why not replace writers. I mean the same algorythm or AI super function that can dissect all the Pacino rolls to hypothetically act intelligently like Pacino — what’s to say the same AI creation could grind out a Robert Towne script the same way. Lets get rid of directors while we are at it. Just type in the Robert Altman button to the left and add a bit of David Lean and it’s a wrap. The slipper slope continues to AI editors until it’s just a robot’s digital interpretation of a movie.
Someone may try and people may tune in for the novelty - but again just like in porn it will remain a novelty. People want to fuck people. If you are fucking a robot it’s cause you have no people.
Anyway it’s never gonna happen unless the audience is robots. Cause robots will be down with watching robots. Humans want to watch humans
p.s. deadpool isn’t a spoof
