@RollingStone Reiner the atheist sent his son to fail in God-centered rehabs. Reiner had TDS and was still trying to win! He had 'an overdeveloped sense of vengeance' and he spread hate. Obamas were plotting with the Reiners the day they were killed! Plots to lie, hate, and start race wars.
"He changed my life — and I’ll be forever grateful.”
Harry Connick Jr. remembers working with the late Rob Reiner on the music for 1989's classic ‘When Harry Met Sally’ in a heartfelt tribute.
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Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson started a six week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Say Say Say', December 10, 1983.
Step right up, step right up, come on gentleman, gather around
Let me tell you all about the Michael Jackson wonder potion
It's guaranteed to give you unbelievable power
Say, say, say what you want but don't play games with my affection
Take, take, take what you need but don't leave me with no direction
All alone I sit home by the phone waiting for you baby (baby)
Through the years how can you stand to hear my pleading for you dear?
You know I'm crying, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Yeah
Now go, go, go where you want but don't leave me here forever
You, you, you stay away so long, girl, I see you never
What can I do, girl, to get through to you
'Cause I love you baby (baby)
Standing here baptized in all my tears, baby through the years
You know I'm crying, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, hee, hee, hee
What you say, say, say, what you say, say, say
You never ever worry and you never shed a tear
You're saying that my love ain't real
Just look at my face, these tears ain't drying
You, you, you can never say that I'm not the one who really loves you
I pray, pray, pray every day that you'll see things, girl, like I do
What can I do, girl, to get through to you
'Cause I love you (love you) baby (baby)
Standing here baptized in all my tears, baby through the years
You know I'm crying, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Say, say, say
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, say, say, say
Ooh, ooh, ooh, say, say, say
Ooh, ooh, ooh, say, say, say (fire, fire)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, say, say, say
You never ever worry and you never shed a tear
You're saying that my love ain't real
Just look at my face, these tears ain't drying
You, you, you can never say that I'm not the one who really loves you
I pray, pray, pray every day that you'll see things, girl, like I do
The actor’s internal state is irrelevant to the audience’s experience.
Brody commits a fundamental error by conflating the production of emotion with the perception of it. Acting is not a spiritual transfer of soul; it is the manipulation of biological signals—micro-expressions, vocal tonality, and body language—designed to trigger mirror neurons in the viewer.
Here is why AI will inevitably supersede the human actor:
1. Emotion is a Biological Algorithm
Human emotion is a predictable sequence of physiological responses. It is data. If AI can diagnose depression from a voice recording better than a psychiatrist—which it can—it can certainly reverse-engineer the frequency and cadence required to simulate heartbreak. The machine does not need to "feel" sadness to produce the perfect acoustic and visual representation of it.
2. The "Bambi" Proof
We already know Brody is wrong because audiences have wept over ink, paint, and pixels for a century. No one believes Bambi or Wall-E has a soul. We cried because the animators manipulated line and color to hack our empathy centers. If a crude 2D drawing can induce grief, a photorealistic AI, trained on the entire history of human cinema, will be able to synthesize a performance more devastatingly "human" than any biological actor could achieve.
3. The Super-Stimulus Argument
Biology is limited; data is not. A human actor is constrained by their own limited life experience and facial muscles. AI can generate a "super-stimulus"—an aggregation of the most affecting traits of the greatest actors in history. It can combine the vulnerability of a young Brando with the intensity of Day-Lewis, calibrated to the millisecond to ensure maximum emotional impact.
4. The "Process" is a Vanity Metric
Brody argues we should "cherish the creative process." That is a moral argument, not a functional one. The audience does not pay to validate the actor’s struggle; they pay to feel something. If an AI generates a tear that moves the audience to their core, the fact that no biological entity actually suffered to produce it is a philosophical footnote, not a barrier to success.
The market favors the product, not the process. When AI delivers a more potent emotional drug than the human actor, the audience will ingest it without hesitation.
Adrien Brody says AI will never be able to replace emotion when it comes to actors:
“There are new tools that are now available that will definitely enhance all our abilities to do great work, but there is nothing to replace emotion. Even if you can fabricate it or whatever, we really should always cherish and support the creative process and the beauty of filmmaking, but that’s not to say that an evolution of that which is inevitable is bad. We have choices in what we choose as individuals to agree to ingest.”
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