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Elsa Keslassy
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Getty Images Quizzed about the Academy’s new rules on AI, festival boss Thierry Fremaux called them “obvious” as he spoke nostalgically about the celluloid film era. He argued that Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now” was an emblem of that authentic age and “the last organic film” he saw.
“The helicopters in the Valkyrie scene were the helicopters Francis Ford Coppola actually had,” Fremaux said. “Today, with digital technology, a filmmaker can say: ‘I have six helicopters — give me 15.’ And then you no longer know what you’re seeing. Even in arthouse films, there are digital effects everywhere now.” The issue, he says, is that there is a “high risk of lies.”
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