Not a day goes by without someone saying online about AI that “it’s the future,” “if you’re against it, you’re like those who opposed the steam engine,” or “it’s the greatest leap in the history of humanity.” Empty words that are soothing a fanbase of diehards, yes, but also creating a deep resistance against the machine of a thousand uses (none of which it does well). The latest to join the group is Emily Blunt, who has completely refused to use it in The Day of Revelation. Luckily.
The Day of Revelation
Apparently, in a scene, the character has to speak in a non-human language, and the use of AI was proposed to create a sense of unease: “It’s a four-minute scene that we shot that leads to the moment where she starts to gradually disintegrate. There are several ways you can do it. You can take the AI route, which I’m a bit terrified of. I thought there could be some really strange sounds”. Can AI make strange sounds? No? Checkmate.
As we will hear starting on the 12th, Blunt was the one who marked the solution to the problem: “I said that maybe I could make a range of strange sounds. And that’s what we did. I made the clicking sounds, whispering sounds, consonant sounds, strange breathing sounds. The sound designer left and created what we hear in the movie”. Frankly, I would be very disappointed if Steven Spielberg had resorted to AI.
This will be the thirty-seventh film by the director and, it is said, it is one of the good ones. Fantastic, in fact. The kind that only he knows how to make like no one else. And no, it is impossible to be more excited. To the AI, they can take a hike.
