zombie84 said:
Now all he needs to do is invent a way to do V.O. using computers, then he can cut human beings out of the process completely. Synthetic voice stuff has actually gone a long way since those monotone Stephen Hawking things, its probably not long off if someone invested a few million dollars of research into it. And you could program the inflection to whatever you wanted since it wouldn't be translating live, it would be just like animating images--crap, no one tell Lucas, he'll actually start to do it. Haven't you seen him directing? His rare conversations with actors are obvious and simplistic observations about motivation, only explained with horrendous and stuttered communication, or else acting out how to say the line for the actor. So this has basically been his goal all along.
Now all he needs to do is invent a way to do V.O. using computers, then he can cut human beings out of the process completely. Synthetic voice stuff has actually gone a long way since those monotone Stephen Hawking things, its probably not long off if someone invested a few million dollars of research into it. And you could program the inflection to whatever you wanted since it wouldn't be translating live, it would be just like animating images--crap, no one tell Lucas, he'll actually start to do it. Haven't you seen him directing? His rare conversations with actors are obvious and simplistic observations about motivation, only explained with horrendous and stuttered communication, or else acting out how to say the line for the actor. So this has basically been his goal all along.
Say what you will, but I'd pay to see any movie made like that, Star Wars or not.