Wes Anderson He is one of the current Hollywood directors with a more marked style of his own. Perhaps for this reason, the rise of artificial intelligence has led many to want to imitate it in order to try to demonstrate the great potential of this technology. In his case even there was a challenge on TikTok known as ‘The Wes Anderson Challenge’ and some people did not hesitate to try to get the filmmaker to see their works. Anderson himself has just made it clear that he has not the slightest interest in it.
“Don’t send me things from people imitating me”
The director of ‘The French Chronicle’ has just released ‘Asteroid City’, perhaps his worst work to date, which is why he is giving several interviews to promote his new feature film. In one granted to The Times, he has opened up about how little he likes that challenge using artificial intelligence:
I’m very good at shielding myself from seeing all that stuff. If someone sends me something like that, I delete it immediately and say: ‘Please, I’m sorry, don’t send me things of people impersonating me.’ Because I don’t want to see him thinking, ‘Is that what I do? Is that what I mean?’ I don’t want to see too much of another person thinking about what I’m trying to be because, God knows, then he might start doing it.
It is logical that Anderson has that little insecurity about whether what people in his cinema can be reduced to such crude copies that, unfortunately, for not a few people seem to be enough. Of course, wanting to send it to him so that the filmmaker himself can tell you if he liked it or not, it seems to me supreme disrespectbecause in the end behind all this is the idea that anyone could replace him.
In the end, even the best copies are still pieces that barely capture the most superficial of Anderson’s work, reducing everything to what is easiest to perceive in his cinema and without any trace of what makes titles like titles really special. ‘Rushmore Academy’, still his best film today, ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ or ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’. You may have the symmetry, the color and some other detail, but really anyone could do that before there was artificial intelligence. Simply now you don’t have to dedicate effort to it, and it seems that for many that is enough.
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