They must've missed Terminator: Salvation ...
SnakeDoc
Posted on 12/07/2010 1:40:31 PM PST by FTJM
Hollywood has famously had better luck using makeup to make young actors look old — like Russell Crowe in "A Beautiful Mind" — than making old actors look young. But the ability to manipulate images digitally could prove to be a fountain of youth for some.
In "Tron: Legacy," which opens Dec. 17, 61-year-old actor Jeff Bridges will play Kevin Flynn, at his natural age, and a computerized avatar called "Clu," who hasn't aged since around the time he was first created in the original "Tron" in 1982.
Clu bears Bridges' face, altered to make him about 35 years old, but it's grafted onto a younger actor's body.
While it may be eerie for audiences to see a new performance from a younger-looking Bridges, it was no less strange for the actor himself.
"It's bizarre. It's great news for me, because now it means I can play myself at any age," Bridges said.
There have been digitally created faces before, even on fully animated bodies. Think Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings" or Dobby from "Harry Potter."
But no movie yet has done what The Walt Disney Co.'s "Tron: Legacy" attempts — putting an actor's rejuvenated face on a younger body, and in 3-D no less. Inevitably, the 61-year-old-turned-35-year-old face will be compared to Bridges when he was actually 35.
"With Jeff, we can go rent 'Against All Odds' or 'The Fabulous Baker Boys' or 'Starman,'" visual effects supervisor Eric Barba said. "All this makes it incredibly difficult."
The filmmakers did not want Bridges' Clu looking precisely as he did in 1982. The idea was that some time had elapsed, and Clu was meant to look like Bridges in "Against All Odds," which came out two years after the original "Tron."
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This is interesting technology. It opens the door to the possibility that actors could “live forever” in film—or at least their simulated counterparts can. Imagine seeing a young Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible XXX a century from now?
On second thought....nevermind.
At this point, I’m more concerned about his remake of “True Grit”.
Seriously, WTF?
Think Nixon’s head in “Futurama”. Or better yet, the Lucy Liu and Marilyn Monroe-bots.
I was nonplussed at that too... but then I found out it’s the Coen brothers doing it. They might just pull it off. I’m interested to see what they do with it.
Of course for those fans of B movies, it would give Bruce Campbell a second wind.....
“Necrymomicon IX...a love story”
RE the tag line, I like do your job...
prefer, keep your oath.....
what are the odds of that
Cheers
I don’t recall anybody clammoring for it?
In fact, it was one of John Wayne’s signature roles and I’ve never heard anybody say, “Gee, The Duke sorta phoned that one in.”
I think the Coens want to ride the coattails of a certified masterpiece and they found a willing shill in Bridges.
The original ‘True Grit’ is not a masterpiece of any sort. Wayne was doing self parody.
I guess since it's him playing him, they won't have the problems that the studios had replacing Crispin Glover in Back To The Future 2, making up an actor to look like Glover.
-PJ
I much prefer The Shootist. True Grit is a bit too much “dressed up” as itself.
Did they not reverse age Magneto and Prof X just a smidge in the third xmen? They had to show back twenty years ago.
IMHO, it was a good job, but they didn’t look really natural. A touch like a video game.
They must've missed Terminator: Salvation ...
SnakeDoc
I’ll probably see both films (Tron and True Grit)—on cable though.
The Dude abides...of a younger Dude.......dude.
I’ve often wondered if this technology would get so good they could take all the audio available of, say, Clark Gable or Steve McQueen, and then create a digitally rendered movie that used the actual voice, but speaking new dialogue.
Or maybe a new James Bond movie with Sean Connery.
Before it was a movie, True Grit was a novel (first published as a serial in the Sat Evening Post). The Coen Bros aren’t basing their movie on the original movie but on the book.
If you read the book (an excellent read by Charles Portis), you’ll quickly discover that the characters are much darker than the original flick portrayed. It deserves a remake.
The Coens said that they wanted to a more faithful adaptation of the book.
They need to do this with Clint Eastwood.
Saw a trailer for it and have to say it looked pretty good. Not John Wayne, but it definitely looked like a solid interpretation of US Deputy Marshall Rooster Cogburn. I was glad to see they’re trying to follow the book rather than a poor imitation of the one and only Duke.
>>The Dude abides...of a younger Dude.......dude.<<
Ha! You beat me to it.
I will add, however, that I take comfort in that.
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