#wga strike

[fireangel]

See, the thing you have to remember is that Salma Hayek's husband may have bought into CAA right in the middle of strike negotiations because of the money they lost investing in AI, but the agency continued to have it's agenda of having the actors relinquish the rights to their own likeness and she never said a thing publicly either, but then being married to an old billionaire must have some perks 🚨🚨I'd honestly be surprised if this movie ever sees the light of day given two of its biggest names stayed out of the strike entirely

All the while, Chris never showed up to any strike marches, never posted, never did a god damned thing, instead he hid away in Boston having a Halloween party doing sweet fuck all else while people who have far less than he does were struggling just to protect their rights to fair pay, much like he's been doing the entire time for literally everything else because he's "scared of the backlash" Maybe he should learn to grow a thicker skin

"No he just has anxiety?? Given the shit I've been through in the last couple of years, being hacked, being abused, my daughters attempted suicide, switching jobs, framed for shit I didn't do, figuring out I have a sensory issue (eynesthesia) that I had to figure out myself, having my idea stolen off a forum and profited from; all of which I had to deal with on my own with little to no help from anyone,

Pfft fuck your "anxiety" excuse, never stopped me from speaking up for other people and I'm not even a part of that industry, I have zero sympathy for the results of his lack of care for the people in the same industry, it's like he's never actually had to experience an actual struggle in his entire life that he just doesn't understand what it's like to have to actually fight for something himself

Fuck your entitled rich ass Chris Evans

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

wondering how the strikes affected recording ADR for ofmd s2

[diet-poison]

I have a hot take and it's that a lot of season 2s and 3s of television are suffering because writers rooms have not recovered post strike. The shows we loved from 2021 and 2022 are not getting the support they need

[eleven-promises]

[talleyuh]

i finally watched late night with the devil and i open letterboxd and all i see is people complaining about how they used generative ai and i don’t understand the vitriol ive seen.

let me be clear, the way we currently implement generative ai is genuinely harmful. the amount of water being used for ai is absolutely obscene, how people are using the likeness of real people to chat with ai bots or creating adult content without their consent, and using it in place of actual creative minds.

people are mainly complaining about how the logo for night owls is ai and the cut away scenes were generated by artificial intelligence, which i didn’t notice on my watch. looking back, it is more obvious, but it’s definitely not the tacky, glossy affect we see on ai images commonly. it would’ve been great if real artists were hired to make these images but this is an independent film. i understand why they made this choice but ultimately it is cutting corners, which isn’t right.

late night with the devil was released in 2023, post the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike and in that strike one of the biggest issues was ai being used to replace writers and even used to replicate the likeness of actors so they aren’t compensated for residuals. because late night with the devil didn’t do either of these things, i hesitate to treat the team behind it like they were the worst thing to happen to art. ai is still the wild west but there’s no point in trying to stop it from happening if it’s already happening. most people on letterboxd sound like the pretentious from yesteryear who treated television in the home as if it was going to destroy the art of visual entertainment. it didn’t. we just adapted.

tldr: i understand why the filmmakers made this choice and i personally disagree with it. it’s disingenuous to act like they are just as bad as the major studios who cross lines rather than toeing them.

edit: plus seeing all the review bombing bc of this is almost ironic because people refuse to see the actual merit in the writing, directing, costumes, sets, and acting. plus the images were a starting point for PAID artists to edit them and stylize them more so shut up if you think this movie specifically is stealing jobs from artists