Forty -three years after they were too avant -garde, saga Throne Return in force in complete debate in artificial intelligence (AI). In this third chapter, located under the leadership of the Norwegian Joachim Ronnin, there is Jared Leto, Jody-Terner Smith, Evan Peters, as well as Jeff Bridges.
At the time when Disney Studios is trying to help out their chests and move away from all the contradictions from the American political climate, Throne: Ares He invites himself to a discussion that is currently raging: the one around the AI is a mirror of our technological anxiety. It is impossible not to note that the film industry itself is full of interrogation regarding the use of generative technologies, the case of Tilly Norwood, an actress, fully created AI, currently causing protest and tangible discomfort.
Digital Prophet
The inheritance of the first Throne (released in 1982) is a feature film that is considered too much to get ahead of his time by an audience that did not have tools to decipher the warning of director Stephen Lisberger. But the work quickly acquired the status of a cult film due to its broadcasting in the video, providing the faithful audience of GICS to Disney. Terminator Being running in 1984 for the same target audience.
The echo of this first Throne resonates right in AresThe field actress Greta Lee, who embodies the programmer Eve Kim, testifies to the anxious nature of the experience, trusting the “chills” on the set, “realizing that the ideas created by Lisberger became not only relevant, but also under our eyes, inevitable.” Throne No longer talks about the possible future, but about what encourages anxiety.
Scenario Throne: AresSigned by Jesse Vigutou, changes the fundamental premise of the saga. The user is no longer drawn by the digital world to try to survive it, this is the ARS (Jared Leto) program, which is “sent from the digital world to the real world for a dangerous mission”, according to the official Mouse Studios synopsis. Thus, this change in the direction allows the director Joachim Ronnin to fix a feature film with the production budget estimated from 150 to 200 million dollars in current debates about possible – and drifts – AI.
Jody Turner Smith in the “throne: Ares”.
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In the Latin online media views, Gillian Anderson, who is played by Elizabeth Dillinger, the Voice of the Reason outside the Network, indicates that the “Universe Throne Coapapsuled our human hobby for everything related to the new world of computer technology. Science fiction is what we used as a parable for decades, this is a way to relate to our greatest fears, our greatest curiosity and our imagination. “
In addition, on the pages of the magazine EmpireStephen Lisberger without hesitation emphasizes an increasingly cruel technology invasion of our daily lives. ” Light cycles And the speed of the grid is now a metaphor for technology, which crosses every part of our reality. Technology is now so part of our lives that if you have Light cycle On the street, he cut the cars in half in his way. “
As for Jeff Bridges, he resumes his role in Kevin Flynn, the symbolic nature of this universe and which is now “a kind of consciousness that remains there.”
Power games
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Throne: Ares The summer is piloted by Jared, who, in addition to the fact that he is the main actor, is also a producer. “In my opinion, ThroneHow is that Star warsHow is that Blade RunnerThis is one of those films that live forever in me, ”said Latino Review Media the One, which watched the 1982 film when it was released and was marked, up to participation in the development of the third release“ over the past nine years ”.
His character with the memorable name of the Greek god of war “is a program that is looking for means to make the real world with his own world forever,” he said two years ago, during D23, Biennale of Disney studio. Today he will no longer say, simply emphasizing the magazine People: “What is interesting to me with ThroneThis is because he talks about the culture and technologies of the era in which we live. And this is really the subject of the new film. “
Ares is not lonely. His second program helps him, Athena, embodied by Jody Turner-Smitting. “She is hardcore,” said the actress on the pages of the magazine EmpireIt is cruel, strong and true. It’s really fun to play someone, who is completely uncompromising and deceiving the achievement of their goals. “
The British actress was transformed for this role, went so far that her eyebrows are completely removable. “Joachim [le réalisateur] I wanted me to become a blonde, what I did, and I also disclosed my eyebrows. Then I told myself: “It will be more beautiful if the eyebrows disappear. If someone is upset, I will just say that discoloration made them fall. ”
Visual avalanche
Jeff Bridges in the “throne: Ares”.
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Director Joachim Ronning (to whom we owe, in particular Pirates of the Caribbean: the dead do not tell stories) does not hide that the ambitions of this Throne: Ares This is to surpass your predecessor of 2010, Throne: InheritanceIn the Faralovsk budget of $ 300 million, which made him the most expensive feature film in the history of cinema at that time.
In order to push the technological limits (and, therefore, visual), the director called by ILM (Industrial Light & Magic, a subsidiary of Disney, bought from George Lucas in 2012), which, according to his own expression, was processed Ares As “Holy Grail of Computer Graphics.”
On the pagesEmpireHe promised “I never saw images, thanks to its use of cameras activated in the grid to get a visual perspective, which gives the impression that the program takes off the program” – all this is for the issue of a digital look. This did not prevent the director from intending to integrate practical effects, especially for Light cycles To make an action “a big person, establish a balance between cinema technologies and the physical reality of actors.”
After work, Daft Punk for the second part Disney recognized the music Throne: Ares In the nails of Nine Inch Duo, formed by a fertile trench, a renegos and Atticus Ross, the latter emphasizes that the soundtrack [des précédentes partitions de Tron]And this, in places, this can be a more bold rate about what music can make in the cinema. “
Franchise of technological contradictions
Each feature film caused debate and disputes.
A Throne Since 1982, the industry has revolutionized visual effects when it was completely made by the computer for 20 minutes of computers. The Academy of Oscar, however, rejected the film about appointments in this category, judging that the use of the computer was a “form of fraud”, because “no one created the images under consideration”!
A Throne: Inheritance In 2010, the capture of performance for rejuvenation of Jeff Bridges and the creation of his evil double, Clu was used. The actor dedicated to the Oscar was subjected to recording hours, his face is equipped with 52 sensors. Some members of the industry, of which Meryl Streep was the most vocal, questioned the authenticity of this technique, doubting that this is the “real game of the actor.”
Throne: Ares Enches in force on the screens on October 10.
