> A "bumbling amateur film exercise" it may be, but Fear and Desire is
also a blueprint for everything he went on to do, and that may be the
real reason he wanted to keep it a secret.
What makes film directors, composers and maybe some writers and
philosophers interesting is something that you don't see until end. A
60 or 70 year career as one long project of psychoanalysis, with the
seeds in earlier works getting ever better formed and expressed later.
So it's a privilege to live outside a great person's lifespan and see
the "full works" as it were.
Here's where I cannot see AI comparing. Even if an AI could make one
brilliant box-office killer film every day, using generative scripts,
the hottest CGI and so on, those movies could not collectively compare
with a human who is working out a deep question through the medium of
an art and audience.
What makes film directors, composers and maybe some writers and philosophers interesting is something that you don't see until end. A 60 or 70 year career as one long project of psychoanalysis, with the seeds in earlier works getting ever better formed and expressed later. So it's a privilege to live outside a great person's lifespan and see the "full works" as it were.
Here's where I cannot see AI comparing. Even if an AI could make one brilliant box-office killer film every day, using generative scripts, the hottest CGI and so on, those movies could not collectively compare with a human who is working out a deep question through the medium of an art and audience.