If you read the article his wife did.
Translated: she wants more money.
You stole my identity… You lose! You get NOTHING! GOOD DAY, SIR!
This is not a surprise, his widow has been profiting off of him from the moment he died. Within a year of his death, I started seeing lottery scratch tickets with his face scattered across the ground outside gas stations.
I thought we were boiling the ocean to cure cancer.
1% curing cancer 98% anime titties, 1% everything else.
Last year I saw a stage play about Gene Wilder. The actor playing Wilder, Jonathan Randell Silver, bore a passing visual resemblance to him, helped along by a good hair and makeup job, but also sounded and behaved very like him. Silver had obviously studied Wilder’s mannerisms and choices, both in Wilder’s iconic roles and in Wilder’s own persona from interviews and such, and Silver’s performance in the play really evoked Wilder on a very effective level whether it was recreating some of Wilder’s famous comedy bits and characters or portraying the real Wilder behind the scenes. This was an actor who understood the role, and used real human choices and talent to create his performance.
There are countless talented actors and impressionists who could have recreated Wilder’s Wonka on a human level and given a genuine performance with a real soul behind it. The use of low-effort AI slop instead was a deliberate choice here, and it falls to the viewing public to accept this or not.
Also, this is a fucking game show. They are digitally defiling a beloved corpse for a fucking game show.
Any idea where I could watch a recording? I didn’t know anything about this show and would love to see it. I could find small clips and excerpts but could find the whole show anywhere
As a theatre artist myself - part of the fun of doing live performance is the ephemeral, never-to-be-repeated part. Recorded theatre never works.
Yeah it does. It can work just fine. Just because you have that opinion doesn’t mean it’s true. I also have a background in performing arts if we just want to appeal to authority…
But I’ve personally seen several recordings of live shows that were pretty good representations of the show itself. For a recent example, the recording of Hadestown with the orginal cast is pretty solid and I quite enjoyed it even after seeing the live show previously.
I’ve also seen the Hadestown Netflix- and Hamilton, and I grew up watching the Cats original recording on VHS.
Although they’re entirely passable, they aren’t as good as movie-musicals (examples - Singing in the Rain, The Muppets 2011, Mary Poppins, West Side Story, Hairspray, Wicked) or as good as the live shows.
It was a small production at an Off-Broadway theatre, so I don’t believe any full filmed production of it has been published, but maybe someone will remount a production sometime. It was a very good show.
Off topic question but is your username a reference to the Marx Brother’s movie Duck Soup’s Rufus T Firefly character? I know it’s not quite the same name but close enough to name me raise an eyebrow.
I assume the eyebrow you’re raising is painted on. 🥸
And yes, you’re correct. Short version of the story: I’m a lifelong Marx Brothers fan and I used “Rufus T. Firefly” as a screenname for a bit back in the 1990s before deciding I wanted to use something a little more “me,” changing the first name to my given one, and dropping the period after the T.
Thanks for your curiosity!
That’s awesome! I don’t think I’ve seen a Marx Brothers reference outside of very surface level Groucho, Harpo, or Chico. I used Zeppo as a internet handle for a long time. Really cool, and kind of excited, to see someone else that’s a fan!
Come with me and you’ll be
In a world of AI fabrication
Take a look and you’ll see
The slop enshittificationWe’ll begin with marketing spin
Traveling in the world of exploitation
What we’ll see will defy explanationIf you want to view paradise, Simply vibe around and feel it, Anything you want, Just steal it. Want to change the world? Just dirty deal it.
Sheet 🤣 I got more joy out of you than any of this chatgipity slop. I might have to steal this. 🫵
This is like living through IRL horror movie. How awful. Gene Wilder is unironically my favorite actor of all time. The fact that his wife of all people is ok with this shows how out of touch people are with reality. We’re literally doing anything to escape at this point. This madness needs to stop.
She’s doing nothing wrong.
I swear to God boomers hold nothing sacred but their own self satisfaction. The two brain cells in a tug of war that are operating their brains fucking LOVE AI slop.
Like, his wife probably sees this as “a remembrance” of him or whatever. She probably has no fucking clue and got convinced by a suit to allow it.
But, holy shit, if this isn’t a perfect example of that generations continuing brain rot.
Like, isn’t it a human instinct as you age to look to handing the torch off to the next generation for leadership, making sure they are guided and educated well; but at the same time sacrificing your own importance and recognizing your story is reaching an end? Planting trees for which you know you will never enjoy the shade of. That kind of thing?
Boomers. Boomers are currently in denial of their own mortality. Their own denial of it in combination with the massive wealth gap is a plague on this world. The median age of the US Senate is fucking 65. These fuckers will not let go.
And AI slop is allowing them to find “new” creations of whatever reminds them of a time when they were important. Talk about pulling the ladder up behind you. They can’t even let an icon from their generation rest in peace.
I heard this shit on the dumbass that is Dave Ramsey recently.
Listen to this shit. Listen to this. This is the brain rot of the boomers. This is the brain rot of capitalism. A lady with so much fucking brain rot from capitalism that she has lost the maternal instinct to ensure the success and safety of her own children. Like, you can’t make this shit up. She deserves to die alone.
I’m sorry. I’m not usually a “generation” basher. But I needed to rant. There are good boomers out there. But, the average representative of that generation is an absolute narcissist that cannot let go. Too much fucking lead poisoning.
Nobody other than boomers have brainrot and nobody other than boomers would ever go along with anything AI related to make money. Definitely just boomers doing that!
My generation is special and is completely pure of any greed and always well-informed!
Ageism, the only bigotry that’s still OK. 😑
He never once directed hate to boomers due to their age but due to their power and actions.
Rascism has systemic backing. The systems of white supremacy are upheld by the institutions of our government, police and society.
The same goes for sexism and the systems of patriarchy that are upheld socially and systemically.
Ableism, class, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, etc.
For any I can point to systemic and material examples that are not just founded in individual hatred; but foundational to the structures of American society.
Hell, Ageism, I could point to examples of the poverty draft, entrapment of student loan debt, gig economy work replacing jobs that once offered benefits and retirement plans. Free healthcare for the old but not for the young. Adults defining their entire political identity around their need to bully trans kids out of a sense of normalcy and comradery through playing sports. Though that last one is a part of intersectionality. Though the victims of it are primarily cis kids on “genital inspection day” with their pedo gym teacher.
I really would love an example of Ageism from a systemic level of oppression that impacts the boomer generation. Not related to intersectionality. Not “well older black woman experience…”
I can think of maybe a couple. End of life care being one. A medical system that milks people not for a quality of life but for the profits of a parasitic healthcare system. I’ll give you that.
But, Ageism is not “being mean to old people”. Any “ism” or “phobia” is not that. It is a system of oppression that holds and maintains power by creating hierarchical structures.
The current hierarchical structures of class are extremely weighed in the favor of a generation of the elderly that have spent an entire lifetime closing the door behind them with every opportunity and benefit that they themselves enjoyed.
I will never judge an individual person based on their age alone. But, when that old person is talking about their hatred for the younger generation that is fighting against a world of capitalist exploitation, that is literally setting our entire planet on fire, I’m going point to the material conditions, propaganda, and literal lead poisoning that has made that generation (at least in general) so parasitic.
you know you’re in too deep when it takes a wall of text to rationalize a double standard
Edit: Actually a different user. But, really, the same mindset as the original. My original comment below with the assumption it was the same user.
When you just make a conclusion without any argument you can get away with only writing a single sentence. I don’t enjoy responding with thought terminating cliches. I instead write a comment that takes all of 30 seconds to read. But, I guess that’s a “wall of text” for you.
You’ve now spent two comments just responding with conclusions. If you want to convince anyone, beyond yourself, of that conclusion; you might want to try writing a bit more. Its not 2020 anymore. No one is impressed by your ability to label something as an “ism” in order to shutdown discussion. If you have a problem with a specific point I made. I’m willing to listen. But you’ve done nothing but put a label on things Ive said without any justification for that label.
If what I said was “Ageism” point to the part you think is, and why you think it is.
If I have a “double standard” actually say what that double standard is.
I’m also still waiting for an example of the systemic Ageism that boomers are facing that I’m advocating for. But I guess you can’t be bothered to even engage in defending your own baseless accusations.
I’m sure I’ll just get another single sentence response with a thought terminating cliche.
If this hurt your feelings that bad you’re privileged. Be thankful.
I am privileged and I am thankful. But the comment I replied to didn’t hurt my feelings. What it did was stereotype an entire generation, many times, and I am opposed to doing that. I don’t do that when thinking about Gen X or Y or Z (or anyone else) and I’d hope we could move on from that kind of prejudice. That’s all.
“But sir, the cow is dead.” “Shaddup! There’s still milk inside there somewhere. Keep looking!!!”.
How do I proxy a downvote into reality?
Yet another movie I won’t be either paying a cent to watch, or even pirating.
I’ve always wanted to get real famous and then die right before the peak of my career so 10 years later I can be seen dancing with vacuum cleaners for a commercial on netflix.
Gilda would have never been on board with this, may they both rest in peace.
Also does this mean they might AI that POS Uncle Joe? Not the actor (Jack Albertson) the character.
I also bet we see strong opposition from Tim Burton and Johnny Depp
I called this shit 30 years ago. Not sure who here remember the Budwiser commercial with John Wayne. On that day I told anyone who would listen give it enough time and they will bring dead actors back from the dead to make movies and tv shows.
Here we are, how much longer before they bring back the greats? John Candy, Chris Farley, hell John Belushi. Maybe Rodney Dangerfield.
Remember when couple assholes tried to bring back George Carlin? Just matter of time and family that cares more for money then the person they lost. Or better yet just wait long enough for the technology to get good enough and those left that will be so far removed that why wouldn’t they take a million to allow great uncle or grandpa likeness be used?
And don’t forget all the musicians that could be brought back cranking out AI music. Bet they sell million albums of new songs sung by "Elvis "
Going be brave new world soon. Good news for us is that for small artists, and independent films will become more popular. Because we will always choose people over robots. At least I hope so.
Because we will always choose people over robots
I worry that we simply won’t be given any human choices eventually
