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PAM FRAMPTON: AI performance cutting-edge or thin edge of the wedge?

Posthumous AI Val Kilmer performance could be a game-changer for Hollywood, raising ethical questions and worries from Screen Actors Guild

When you think about your favourite movies, your choices might be influenced by many factors: sweeping cinematography; a raw, powerful screenplay; incredible acting; or fantastical costumes.

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For me, it almost always comes down to the skill and plausibility of the actors’ performances.

I think of the vulnerability and fragility of Meryl Streep in “Sophie’s Choice,” her pale skin almost translucent, and how she blossoms before our eyes as she begins to respond to the care and tenderness of Kevin Kline’s Nathan Landau in the early days of their relationship.

I think of Helena Bonham Carter in “Room With a View,” her passions inspired by a trip to Italy, as she begins to consider the possibility of freedom, truth and a sense of abandon, beyond the class-based strictures of Edwardian society.

And I think of Emma Thompson in “Love Actually,” who — with one firm tuck of a bed’s coverlet — is able to convey her determination to keep a stiff upper lip in front of her........

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