Since I didn’t see the first Avatar movie, I decided to go to the cinema to see the second one. I was lazy, but I felt like I had to watch it in order to know what they were talking about every time someone mentioned it. Maybe I suffered fomo, you know, the syndrome that qualifies the fear of missing any event (fear of missing out).
With the Verdi ticket in my pocket, I went for a drink before the screening and then my daughter called me to chat for a while. When I told him that I had just bought a ticket to see Avatar 2, besides being amazed that at my age I would be doing such things, he warned me that the movie was three hours long. There was no time to back down and I stoically endured the entire feature. I knew that I would never have found the time to watch it on TV at home, let alone three hours.
After I was supremely bored (“The first one is better”, my children told me), I watched a documentary about how they had done it. It seemed very surprising to me how human beings can come to do these things. And I also felt sorry for the performers, forced to perform with all those sensors on top and without any real scenery around. But now I have a doubt.
It turns out that not long ago I read that a movie had been made “in real action”. The English translation of live action didn’t help me much to know what they were talking about, I thought that all the movies played by flesh and blood people were made in real action. I was wrong, of course, because it is not the first time that technology has enveloped me and run me over.
Doing a little research, I quickly discovered that this new label refers to productions that are shot with actors who give their faces and are a kind of remakes of stories that have had a first version in cartoons or whatever of the new animation techniques. This is the case with Mulan or other films from the Disney factory, for example.
And then I have a second doubt: are the cases of Avatar or others such as Gollum from The Lord of the Rings or all the bestiary that appears in the Harry Potter films “unreal action”? Well no This is what they call computer-generated imagery (CGI). Well, this is where I get to, I who had stayed with the holograms. Let’s see if with a little luck I am able to understand everything that will come from now on with artificial intelligence.
