for the mario movie???? the mario bros movie?? the actors can’t know the plot of the mario movie??? they’re scared of plot leaks for mario the movie?? the movie mario???? we’re getting not just chris pratt but chris pratt acting BLIND????????
we’ve all joked to death about how this type of micromanaging essentially kills the art of acting, but I want to make it extra clear that doing this to voice actors and making them riff on their performance in a void is just one tiny step away from AI generating the cherrypicked delivery that a studio desires, which is something they are already doing with james earl jones’s darth vader
Fuck this shit, fuck it all. I can’t believe the shit I’m seeing these days and as a film nerd it pisses me off. The disappearance of the mid-budget movie, replacing actual costumes and sets with green screen and non-union CG teams, keeping scripts secret from actors for some stupid reason, and I think the next step is absolutely AI bullshit. I hate it all. This isn’t movies, this is products and commercials and consumable goods. I want an epic fucking tale told to me by a campfire goddammit, not whatever the fuck this is turning into.
if you’re ever at a vet hospital and can hear dogs/cats howling and screeching and making terrible noises from the back, please be aware that 99% of the time it is NOT because:
they are dying
they are in terrible pain
they are being tortured
It almost always IS because:
someone is taking their temperature
someone is placing an IV catheter
they’re mad about being in a kennel
other likely reasons why animals are screaming in vet clinics!
they saw another animal
no one is looking at them right now
they are happy to see this particular staff member
they’re a pug getting a nail trim
they’re a shiba inu getting literally anything done
they’re a husky
The Shiba inu may not even be getting anything done
They heard another animal howling/screaming
This reminds me of the time I went to pick one of my cats up at the low-cost spay neuter clinic near us and they told me I’d have to wait a while because they had 19 feral cats brought in that day and some of them escaped their cages and they couldn’t get past them to where my cat was. The SOUNDS from the back, omg.