Don't Believe What You See at the Movies

MattSparkes writes "Many images you see in a magazine are Photoshopped, and it's getting less and less likely that what you see at the cinema is any more genuine. In the film 'Blood Diamond', tears were added to Jennifer Connolly's face after a scene was shot. According to The Times, digital effects artists can even change actors' expressions. 'Opening or closing eyes; making a limp more convincing; removing breathing signs; eradicating blinking eyelids from a lingering gaze; or splicing together different takes of an unsuccessful love scene to produce one in which both parties look like they are enjoying themselves.' The article mentions the moral qualms digital effects people have over performing these manipulations, and the steps actors are taking to protect their digital assets."

Even Baby Jesus cried...

[TheRealMindChild]

Do you know how devistated I was when I found out that Lieutenant Dan really did have both of his legs???

Good acting

[ArcherB]

Maybe now when Lucas re-remakes the Star Wars movies, we'll see some good acting!

splicing together different takes ??

[93,000]

They do this in movies? Actually take different 'clips' and put them together to convey some sort of story? Bastards! I have played the fool for the last time.

From now on I will only view movies shot in one take.

Wait... what?

[Rimbo]

You mean... the movies aren't real???

Entertainment Anyone?

[Gates82]

It was no big deal the dinosaurs were added to several scenes in Jurassic Park, or that that a liquid metal man can walk through steel bars in terminator, but now the CGI has gotten so good at blending with live action it is no a moral problem. I don't know about you but I go to the movies (rarely) for entertainment. I expect to see the best possible image and scene. I really have no concern about how the images were created as long as the blend and I can't tell were the CG is. Now if I am watching the news or a documentary I might want to know about these changes. This seems more like the actors complaining that their performance was good enough as is. They have a makeup artist for their face why not a graphics person in post production. This is lame and BS.

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So who is hotter? Ali or Ali's Sister?

Animatronics are the way to go

[Peter Trepan]

Remember how cheesy the CGI Jabba the Hutt looked compared to the original puppet? Remember how convincingly real the original Star Wars spaceship models looked compared to more modern computer animations? Remember how the makers of Forrest Gump tried and failed to Photoshop words into the mouths of George Wallace and JFK, finally opting instead to exhume their bodies and stuff them with animatronics?

Re:Go rent LOOKER

[Quiet_Desperation]

Looker is an old movie about digitizing actors and then killing them. It is finally becoming technically possible.

Nonsense. It's been possible to kill actors for years.

What a coincidence!

[L. VeGas]

I, too, photoshopped liquid onto Jennifer Connely's face.

Re:Evidence

[93,000]

This always makes me wonder about the courtroom. How do they prove that pictures and video are genuine?

They probably use a handsome, wet behind the ears lawyer who is very talented yet still plagued with some self doubt (usually due to some type of father issue), and who makes up for his lack of experience with heart and swagger. He typically validates or disproves said pictures/video in a moving 8 minute monologue to the jury.

At least that's what movies have taught me.

Re:please?

[AutopsyReport]

and they're adding extra inches in porn movies, right?

No, but I thought I recommended that you keep quiet about your problem? We will discuss this at our next appointment.

Dr. Longjohn
Penile Shortage Specialist
Short Short Men Plaza, Lake Flaccid

And the winner is...

[GrayCalx]

The award for Best Actress goes too... Jennifer_Connelly_Face_4 + Jennifer_Connelly_Body_3 + Emotions_Tears_Female_2.

Nice Tag...

[DaedalusLogic]

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Yeah Right

[JPMaximilian]

This is all just FUD, next you'll try to tell me that Jar Jar Binks had digitally added ears? Please.

Re:not sure I get the controversy

[nametaken]

Meh. Not surprised.

"The Internet is a communication tool used the world over where people can come together to bitch about movies and share pornography with one another."

Re:Go rent LOOKER

[AKAImBatman]

Go rent LOOKER

Great. Now I've got that song stuck in my head. Thanks a lump, buddy.

"Her emerald eyes, so cool and so inviting..."

(j/k!) :-P

I'm schocked I tell you, SHOCKED!

[mihalis]

With this news it appears that Hayden Christiansen might NOT have had three limbs cut off and his body burned to a crisp on a lava planet during that one-in-a-billion take for the end of Star Wars III Revenge of the Sith. I feel betrayed.

Do you mean....

[Philip K Dickhead]

Do you mean to tell me that Paris Hilton did not blow me in a motel room?!!!?!

Why was I left out?

Re:Just Meat Sacks Now I Guess

[binarybum]

does this all mean that soon actors may be mere meat sacks on which to draw/animate?

          if that's true, then Keenau Reeves will get yet more undeserved credit for pioneering this movement. What an unfair world.

Re:not sure I get the controversy

[Achromatic1978]

Using fake tears to make J-Lo (or whoever it was) cry

Holy fuck. I can't believe you just confused J-Ho - one half of the Bennifer travesty, not to mention Gigli - with Jennifer Connelly, who plenty of us have had a thing for ever since Labyrinth (and don't even start me on Requiem For A Dream's "ASS TO ASS!" scene).

Gah, it burns!

Re:not sure I get the controversy

[AKAImBatman]

Your response confirms what I've suspected for a long while now: There's not much hope remaining for the human race. :-/

Re:not sure I get the controversy

[JDHannan]

My wife is an actress, and a very good one

She's there with you, isnt she?

Re:Genuine?

[Brickwall]

Was that real fake blood

Unbelievable. No, you moron, it was fake real blood. Oh, wait, maybe...

Nevermind.

Re:not sure I get the controversy

[twistedsymphony]

I would bet Angelina Jolie looks 1000% better than 99.99999% /. readers significant others before makeup.

/. readers significant others.... eh? Something tells me most /.ers don't dress up their hands.

Re:not sure I get the controversy

[jimhill]

"My wife is an actress, and a very good one..."

Mine's not. Those orgasms are real, yo!

Re:Do you mean....

[CHacker]

She hasn't got to D yet.

Re:Do you mean....

[MindKata]

"Do you mean to tell me that Paris Hilton did not blow me in a motel room?!!!?!"

Have you seen the film "Around the world in 80 days?". She thinks she is in that film. After all, her whole life must seem Photoshopped to her. Sorry, but you are on the end of the queue and it may take her a bit longer than 80 days to get to you.

Personally I don't envy you when she does finally get to you.

Re:not sure I get the controversy

[mobby_6kl]

I would bet Angelina Jolie looks 1000% better than 99.99999% /. readers significant others before makeup.

I'm not gonna argue against your main point, but I don't think it's fair to make a percentile estimations based on a population of five.

Five

[Dr. Cody]

Don't think that means that only five slashdotters are having sex. Oh no. It's five girls in rotation.

They've seen things... terrible things...

Re:Branding isn't a "people" skill.

[jez9999]

Maybe not Tom Cruise levels of brand value, but hey, at least Buzz Lightyear isn't ever going to freak out and join the Scientologists on you.

That could be a great plotline for Toy Story 4.

Re:OT:not sure I get the controversy

[Sj0]

Sir, I drive a 1985 Bronco II, and let me inform you that you are sadly mistaken.

Trying to stay on the highway at 100 with A 1985 Ford Bronco II is the ultimate driving adventure. Thus, a 1985 Ford Bronco II is the ultimate driving machine.

Re:Do you mean....

[maztuhblastah]

She hasn't got to D yet.

Fuck.

-Zach Zenmann