{"id":143369,"date":"2025-10-24T19:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T19:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/143369\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T19:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T19:49:12","slug":"paul-schrader-has-the-perfect-script-for-first-ai-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/143369\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Schrader Has the “Perfect Script” for First AI Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPaul Schrader<\/a> is defending the use of AI<\/a> in creating movies and predicts we\u2019re only a couple years away from the first film made entirely with the technology. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe 79-year-old writer-director tells Vanity Fair<\/a> that he\u2019s been working on a script that would be ideal for the first all-AI project.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think we\u2019re only two years away from the first AI feature,\u201d the Taxi Driver screenwriter declared. \u201cI was just on the phone with someone today about a script I had, and I said, \u201cYou know, this would be a perfect script to do all AI \u2026 It\u2019s just a tool. When you\u2019re an author, you have to describe someone\u2019s reaction. You use a code \u2014 you use a code of words, a certain number of letters and so forth, and you [describe] their facial reaction. An actor has their own code. Well, [with AI] you\u2019re a pixelator, and you can create the face, and you can create the emotion on the face, and you can sculpt it\u00a0the same way an author sculpts the reaction in a novel or a story.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSchrader has recently made waves by candidly reviewing some films on Facebook. Regarding One Battle After Another, he wrote<\/a>, \u201cFilmmaking at level A+, but try as a might I couldn\u2019t muster up an ounce of empathy for [stars] Leo D\u2019Caprio or Sean Penn. I kept waitng for them to die. (Penn\u2019s performance , however, is a masterclass in peacock acting.) What held me in my seat for the better part of two hours was [director] PT Anderson\u2019s Joy of Filmmaking.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tYet Schrader noted that AI might make for superior film criticism given the technology lacks a human bias. Asked if he would read a review written by AI, he replied, \u201cAI is taking over film coverage, as you must know. AI does better coverage than the average coverage. And AI doesn\u2019t have to favor anybody. Often, when you\u2019re doing coverage, you get a hint that the person who\u2019s paying you wants you to like this. You can\u2019t give that information to AI.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s a bit unclear if Schrader was referring to everyday film critics or to studios and agencies using AI for script coverage. But the comments follow up on a Facebook post by Schrader a couple months ago, when he wrote: \u201cIt should be fairly simple to program chatgpt to review a new film in the manner of, say, [Pauline] Kael, [Andrew] Sarris or [Manny] Farber. Chatgpt would need simply watch the film, read every review written by the designated critic, see every film the designated critic reviewed, see every previous film made by every talent (directors to actors to prod designers) in the new film, watch every film in the new film\u2019s genre, read every review written about those films and read all other reviews of the new film. That should take chatgpt about 30 seconds.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOne wonders, naturally, what the likes of the late New Yorker critic Kael \u2014 or, say, Roger Ebert, for that matter \u2014 would think of the idea of a robotic technology attempting to replicate their voice while reviewing movies. It\u2019s a rather ghoulish, Black Mirror-esque concept, to be sure. <\/p>\n

\n\tAlso, the idea of AI giving a movie a perfectly balanced review, generated to have no biases \u2026 it raises a question: Is that actually ideal? Rotten Tomatoes already generates an aggregate of reviews to give a generic meta-impression of a film that\u2019s arguably made more accurate by using a blend of hundreds of reviews and the result is rather dull: A number and a single-paragraph description. But isn\u2019t part of the appeal of reading film reviews that the critic is a single human voice, both smart and flawed, giving their specific take, bringing their own history of experience and feelings, that one can either wholeheartedly embrace, or vehemently reject? When it comes to critiquing art, biases are arguably a feature, not a bug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Schrader is defending the use of AI in creating movies and predicts we\u2019re only a couple years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,18,19,17,84623,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-143369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-paul-schrader","15":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115430881065779599","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}