Romance Movies by AI
The Nightmare Has Arrived
The above trailer for a romance movie was written by an AI. They actually brag about it, if you couldn’t tell yourself by the horrible cartoon-like pictures and vague echo to the dialog. The scenes are somewhat blurry, like AI forgot their glasses that day. The AI tokens used to create this offense to romance must have associated “blurry” with “romantic picture” one too many times.
I try to avoid being a pedantic jerk wherever possible, but this video has pushed me over the edge. Aristotle, who must have been amazingly annoying in real life, had a few handy-dandy rules for creating a tragedy he wrote about in Poetics. This “movie” is not meant to be a tragedy, but the basic principles of a satisfying story still apply.
Salient points that the above AI didn’t seem to grasp, although it was supposed to have read Poetics:
The work should be a catharsis of fear and pity in the audience. The delicate tribulations of the early days of a romance are full of fear. Everyone experiences this. Creating a way to wring those feelings out of the viewer would be helpful. The clip above is a catharsis for cringe and boredom, but not fear and pity. And it reminds me I still need to get reading glasses.
The poet should incorporate complications within the story. There is one possible complication, a picture of a man who may or may not be different than the one on the train. I’ve watched the clip several times and still can’t tell. Maybe that’s the complication! The characters change their appearance so much you are confused!
Express thoughts through characters’ words and actions. We know this rule as “Show, Don’t Tell.” As in, we realize that she really did care for him by the way she runs to him when we sees him again. Oh wait! That didn’t happen. We sit through the movie, hoping that the pair wind up together but not really knowing if they become star-crossed lovers. Oh no! That would be a waste of time because the trailer already tells you, along with some grape-picking older woman without wrinkles.
And This Is Why I Am Optimistic!
With crap like this, how could I not be?
Right now, writers and actors are being replaced by these garbage-spewing AI bots. It is a source of immense satisfaction for me. The upshot of this seismic shift is loads of writers are floating free to report and write novels. We are about to enter a golden age of literature, reporting and film as these creative beasts are free to roam, untethered to their corporate masters.
It’ll be great. Trust me.
I understand that the main idea in Aristotle’s prosthesis is plot structure.
Thanks for educating me.
Wow, you r good ❤️