TV's Frink said:
haljordan28 said:
I like the idea of dead actors being used in films. I would love to see a new bogart or john wayne film.
No.
haljordan28 said:
CGI could be used for not just actors but musicians as well. I would love to see new concerts of Elvis or Waylon Jennings or Gram Parsons. The possibilities are endless.
No.
What Frink said.
You'd have a movie with someone who looked like Bogart or Wayne, sure, but not their voice. And if they managed to synthesize that, then not their mannerisms or their acting style. It worked with Jeff Bridges in TRON: Legacy because it was actually him acting the part, not just a digital approximation of him programmed to act like Jeff Bridges might act the part.
This gets into a whole robot vs. human thing here, lol... in short, you can make something look like someone, but you can't reproduce their personality or what makes "them".
Granted, you could make a digital actor hit their mark every time and never have a bad take, but then what you're left with is like the argument Hammond made against Wu in Jurassic Park (the book): Sure you can use technology to make the dinosaurs act the way you want them to act, but then they're not really "real" dinosaurs, are they? You start making something perfectly how you want them and you lose the personality. One of the most popular lines in The Empire Strikes Back is Ford's improvised "I know" line; you'd lose that kind of serendipity and be stuck with robotic, canned films with no life or personality.
Why do all my posts here turn into novels?