This segment covers how instead of using countless extras an army of men, from both sides of the American Independence War, was created through CGI
in Roland Emmerich's "The Patriot". It goes in the same routine as the other special made about the headless soldier, three screen showing the development
of the scene before and after the visual effects, all presented in just one minute.
A pity that isn't longer and for that time being as I was watching this I kept wondering about the future of movies as we now face the whole debate about artificial intelligence and its creations. I wonder how come extra's guild (or they fall under the actors equity?) wasn't so vocal about the replacement of their work for computer generated images as we're now seeing happening with actors being loud voices against their image use or even the use of deceased actors and their voices and archives. I know that for Hollywood the logistic in hearing thousands of extras is something of an issue, it's not like a movie like "Gandhi" with its 300.000 of extras for one particular short sequence can be done these days and CGI can provide that with less effort. But we wonder about such future where no one will tell the difference between reality and computer creation. But the armies created in "The Patriot" sequences were surely well created. 6/10.
A pity that isn't longer and for that time being as I was watching this I kept wondering about the future of movies as we now face the whole debate about artificial intelligence and its creations. I wonder how come extra's guild (or they fall under the actors equity?) wasn't so vocal about the replacement of their work for computer generated images as we're now seeing happening with actors being loud voices against their image use or even the use of deceased actors and their voices and archives. I know that for Hollywood the logistic in hearing thousands of extras is something of an issue, it's not like a movie like "Gandhi" with its 300.000 of extras for one particular short sequence can be done these days and CGI can provide that with less effort. But we wonder about such future where no one will tell the difference between reality and computer creation. But the armies created in "The Patriot" sequences were surely well created. 6/10.