• 1984@lemmy.today
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      There are Ai clips now on YouTube where they replace actors in famous movies, like putting Tom Cruise in the matrix or whatever.

      I dont watch them because I dont want my nice memories of these movies to be overwritten, but it shows how easy it is today to do.

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      Agreed, but I also firmly believe there is another universe in which we could believably type “Keanu Reeves would have been disastrous in The Matrix”

    • potoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.world
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      I get what you mean/agree, but to play devil’s advocate, his character in Enemy of the State could’ve sorta worked as Neo.

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        It is crazy how I always think of that movie as “early career Will Smith before he became famous quippy superstar” but it released between Men In Black and Wild Wild West.

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          Yup. I think if will smith had done it, it would be a completely different movie and may not have been as much a runaway success as it was

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      I was thinking, thank god he turned it down.

      Inception, on the other hand - I can’t recall any of the characters, so I don’t know which role he was considering. It’s a perfect Will Smith movie.

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      well , excuse me for the AI haters out there. But we gotta do this.

      Seedance, c’mon boy, DO IT!!!

      Will Smith as NEO in the Matrix.

      EDIT: I found one, a year old but it checks out

      It’s a reddit post

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        You get that we wanted dialogue right? We can all imagine Will Smith in a leather jacket with slow motion bullets moving around him.

        Every time someone who is pro AI tries to advocate for it it always comes off as their brain having turned to porridge. You get we can see that image in our minds, we don’t need it visualised for us at the expense of half an olympic swimming pool worth of water and at least six trees.

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        It’s just an infinite number of Will Smiths eating an infinite amount of spaghetti.