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Its so odd that they even suggested having a machine do it when they already had the actor on payroll. They would've had to post process it and tune it anyway.
Tells me that AI was already ingrained in the process. Reeks of "well, we're doing it here & here, why not with her voice, too?"
What's crazy about this, at least to me, is that you have in Emily Blunt one of the best at using and changing her voice in her acting. I always think of her and Tom Hardy as the best in this area. It's like they are voice acting on top of their normal acting. That's a poor way to describe it, but it's the best I can do.
I don't want to take anything away from any other aspect of Emily Blunt's toolkit as an actor. But using AI for any aspect of her voice acting is like trading a Bentley for a fucking Daewoo.
Maybe they should have used AI to write a better script. Or maybe it's so ass because they actually did. Probably the worst film I've seen in the last 5 years, and that's really saying something.
Well now I kind of want to see it! What about it was particularly noteworthy, or was it just the modern "meh" of spectacle without plot?
Imagine watching the main character, go up to another character and start berating them with listicles of moments in their lives (you as a viewer have no idea of) while simultaneously being annoyed that they feel compulsed to berate the other character with listicles of their lives. Which are supposed to be all these amazing and quiet moments which a strange person shouldn't know. So the other character its getting all teary-eyed while the main character's annoyance resolves into smugness who then cries and screams about all of it. Repeat.
This was way worse than the average "bad film" lol. It was completely nonsensical and so full of massive plot holes that it has to be some kind of record. And it wasn't even bad in a fun way, just irritating and dumb unfortunately. Even the CGI sucked...
I would've walked out halfway through the film if I hadn't been there with someone.
Absolutely this.
The tonal shifts were baffling. I didn’t know if it was supposed to be serious or funny. Like was it campy or bad? I do not know.
I do recall enjoying Blunt’s performance. Her acting is very good. Her dialogue and the script just brought it down though.
She also speaks russian and korean in the movie, I hope it sounded fluent to native speakers too. As someone who doesn't speak those languages it was very convincing.
As someone fluent in Alien, I can confirm she sounded like gibberish, but the accent was on spot.
It never does.
Though rarely it has to. Someone speaking multiple entirely different languages usually can't pronounce them all like a native speaker no matter how good they are, so small issues are perfectly acceptable.
It only really becomes a problem when movies try to convince us that it's supposed to be their native language, e.g Scarlet Johansson as the Black Widow - who is supposed to be a Russian spy.
Scarlet Johansson as the Black Widow - who is supposed to be a Russian spy.
Not a particularly good example to pick. She wouldn't be a very effective Red Room spy if she had a native Russian accent she couldn't disguise at all.
Should have picked something more like Tom Cruise... In anything.
I'm not saying she should have a Russian accent while speaking English - she is a spy, that would be stupid - but that Scarlet Johansson is pretty rubbish at speaking Russian, which her character should be perfectly fluent in as that's her native language.
