WEBVTT 1 00:00:11.720 --> 00:00:15.800 We to the podcast join host Hoh as he discusses 2 00:00:15.839 --> 00:00:20.239 the riveting Netflix original series Black Mirror. Now Here he 3 00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:30.879 is her broadcasting from Weabini Saft Production Studio. Be Welcome 4 00:00:30.920 --> 00:00:33.200 to Black Mirror Podcast and as always, I'm your host 5 00:00:33.479 --> 00:00:36.280 ho Ho. So, how y'alls doing. I hope you're doing good? 6 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:40.280 I really do, because today we are going to continue 7 00:00:40.320 --> 00:00:46.320 in season seven with episode three, titled Hotel Reverie. Now, 8 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:49.880 I gotta admit, so far in season seven, this is 9 00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:54.880 my favorite episode. It really is an excellent episode. I 10 00:00:54.920 --> 00:00:57.640 loved how they did it. I love the concept the 11 00:00:57.679 --> 00:00:59.560 whole nine yards. It was an excellent movie. 12 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:03.159 And there's a lot of things to kind of discuss. 13 00:01:02.759 --> 00:01:06.760 In this one. There really is. But before we get 14 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:09.920 into that spoiler alert, we are going to be talking 15 00:01:09.959 --> 00:01:12.879 about the episode. So if you have yet to check 16 00:01:12.920 --> 00:01:17.400 out Hotel Reverie, head on over to Netflix and watch 17 00:01:17.480 --> 00:01:21.079 the episode and then come on back for the discussion. 18 00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:26.799 Let's get into it now. This episode starts actually kind 19 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:31.959 of different from most other Black Mirror episodes. It starts 20 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:39.319 off with a vintage black and white movie titled coincidentally enough, 21 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:43.760 Hotel Reverie, and it very much has kind of a 22 00:01:44.719 --> 00:01:48.560 Casa Blanca, Casa blank, Casa Blanca type of a field 23 00:01:48.599 --> 00:01:52.079 to it. Wow, that one hurt. But it has a 24 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:54.359 Casablanca type of a field to it. And I got admit, 25 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:59.599 I've never actually seen Casablanca, and I'm probably you know it, 26 00:02:00.959 --> 00:02:03.519 I feel like I'm not pronouncing that right, forgive me, 27 00:02:04.519 --> 00:02:07.120 but yeah, it kind of has a Cosablanca type of 28 00:02:07.159 --> 00:02:09.360 a feel. I've never actually seen the movie. I've watched 29 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:12.759 some stuff from it, different clips. You know, it definitely 30 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:15.599 has that type of a feel, and I really do. 31 00:02:16.919 --> 00:02:19.439 I mean, I have watched vintage movies and I do 32 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:23.599 like vintage movies. I really do, because they're they're simpler. 33 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:27.240 You don't have the you know, the huge plots that 34 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:30.560 are in there. You don't have a lot of the fanfare, 35 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:33.800 the special effects everything else. I mean, it's it's very 36 00:02:34.639 --> 00:02:41.680 simplistic in its approach. In its approach, it's it's about 37 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:47.599 telling a story one that in that time everybody can 38 00:02:47.919 --> 00:02:52.120 you know, relate to, you know, just just a different 39 00:02:52.159 --> 00:02:56.000 way of doing movies. I like them, I really do. 40 00:02:56.120 --> 00:03:04.879 They're they're good, wholesome, fun. Vintage movie are awesome. And this, 41 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:10.000 you know, it really talks about a different way of 42 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:16.319 bringing a vintage classic to the modern era. And that's 43 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:18.800 where we well known that we don't get there yet 44 00:03:19.879 --> 00:03:24.159 because after this we are introduced to Brandy. She is 45 00:03:24.199 --> 00:03:28.360 an actress and she's kind of upset about how her 46 00:03:28.439 --> 00:03:33.000 career is going because she's kind of been pigeonholed, right, 47 00:03:33.039 --> 00:03:35.960 I mean, she only plays like a couple different types 48 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:40.520 of roles and that's about it. You know, There's been 49 00:03:40.680 --> 00:03:43.680 several different actors and actresses over the years that I've 50 00:03:43.719 --> 00:03:46.680 noticed that very much get pigeonholed. Now, I don't know 51 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:52.360 necessarily why they get pigeonholed, but to me, I don't 52 00:03:52.360 --> 00:03:55.400 know about you, but for me, the marks of a 53 00:03:55.439 --> 00:03:59.840 good actor or actress is in the sheer variety of 54 00:04:00.120 --> 00:04:03.599 roles that they're able to play. I mean, one of 55 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:07.000 my I don't want to say one of my favorite actors, 56 00:04:07.560 --> 00:04:12.800 but I have a I very much have a deep 57 00:04:12.879 --> 00:04:17.759 respect for his acting ability, even though it kind of 58 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:20.319 ticks me off because I mean it's just he seems 59 00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:23.560 like he's at least with the characters that he plays. 60 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:25.680 I mean, he's just. 61 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:27.000 Just I don't like him. 62 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:31.360 He's a douche. I don't like him. Yeah, I don't 63 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:36.240 like him at all, but I respect his career because 64 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:40.800 of the sheer array of different characters that he's played 65 00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:47.279 and how immersive he is in you know, preparing himself 66 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:50.959 to play the role. I have a deep respect for 67 00:04:51.079 --> 00:04:58.160 his acting career. And that's Leonardo DiCaprio. Just the different 68 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:02.920 characters he's played, it's almost a you name it, he's 69 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:05.160 done it kind of a thing, and he does it well, 70 00:05:06.040 --> 00:05:09.399 he really does. I have a deep respect for his 71 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:13.600 ability as an actor, his screen presence, everything. And there's 72 00:05:13.639 --> 00:05:18.160 other actors out there that it seems no matter what 73 00:05:18.439 --> 00:05:22.000 role they play, they seem like they're playing a different 74 00:05:22.120 --> 00:05:26.879 version of the same character in a matter of speaking, 75 00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:30.199 you know, and to me, regardless of the person's screen presence, 76 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:36.759 because okay, for example, Vin Diesel, you know, awesome screen presence, 77 00:05:36.759 --> 00:05:38.480 but he kind of plays the same type of character 78 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:40.439 all the time, right, And to me, that's just not 79 00:05:40.600 --> 00:05:46.920 a good actor, if you will. And I don't know 80 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:52.720 the reason why Brandy has been, you know, pigeonholed into 81 00:05:52.839 --> 00:05:56.519 playing these two different types of characters, but she has been, 82 00:05:57.560 --> 00:06:03.720 and she wants her Casablanca, Casablanca, however you pronounce it. 83 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:07.759 She wants her Hotel reverie type of a movie. That's 84 00:06:07.800 --> 00:06:11.560 what she wants. That's the type of movie she wants. 85 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:18.040 And just coincidentally enough, her agent finds out that, hey, 86 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:22.519 you know, they're looking to remake the movie. They're looking 87 00:06:22.600 --> 00:06:26.639 to do that, and so Brandy's like, dude, yeah, I'm interested. 88 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:31.959 I'm absolutely interesting. Under one condition. I want to play 89 00:06:32.839 --> 00:06:38.000 the lead role, not the love interest. I want to 90 00:06:38.040 --> 00:06:41.519 play the lead role. They can recast it as a 91 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:46.199 black woman, sure, let's go ahead and do it. And 92 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:48.279 this isn't like this is a new concept, right, I 93 00:06:48.279 --> 00:06:52.959 mean this happened before, you know, with The Wild Wild 94 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:57.560 West that Oh What's that? That Will Smith played in, 95 00:06:57.959 --> 00:07:01.680 which was absolutely hilarious because I remember whenever that movie 96 00:07:01.720 --> 00:07:04.959 came out, I listened to a I listened to an 97 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:09.199 interview with Will Smith and apparently he was talking with 98 00:07:09.519 --> 00:07:11.680 his agent about it and he's like, but look, I 99 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:19.439 can't play Jim West. I'm black. Jim West was white. 100 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:22.959 Aren't they going to notice? And I guess his agent 101 00:07:23.079 --> 00:07:25.879 was like, yeah, but it was a black and white television, 102 00:07:25.879 --> 00:07:28.240 They're never going to know the difference. And I'm just like, 103 00:07:28.519 --> 00:07:33.000 oh wow, that's hilarious. That's awesome, and Will Smith nailed 104 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:34.720 her role. He did a good job with it, he 105 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:39.519 really did. So she gets this opportunity. She gets a 106 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:42.560 package in the mail you know, has got you know, 107 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:45.240 the script in it and everything else, and she does 108 00:07:45.279 --> 00:07:50.600 her job. She memorizes a script, but she accidentally drops 109 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:58.399 the USB USB drive on the ground, which was explaining 110 00:07:58.439 --> 00:08:01.279 the concept and what they were actually going to be doing. 111 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:05.560 So she knows nothing about how they're actually going to 112 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:09.439 do this and why they're going to be able to 113 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:12.399 do it so quickly. Because this is one of the 114 00:08:12.439 --> 00:08:15.399 selling points of doing this is you can you know, 115 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:20.519 redo a vintage movie for a fraction of the cost 116 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:24.920 because you're only you know, you're only booking your actor 117 00:08:25.120 --> 00:08:29.319 or actors for like an hour and a half, a 118 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:31.920 fraction of the time. I mean, normally filming a movie 119 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:35.840 takes time. You've got you know, to change your sets, 120 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:39.159 You've got to you know, go to different locations. You've 121 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:42.840 got so many different people that are involved in it. 122 00:08:42.840 --> 00:08:52.720 It is expensive, right, multiple actors, actresses, film crew, locations, 123 00:08:52.759 --> 00:08:54.720 set up, tear down all kinds of crap. 124 00:08:55.759 --> 00:08:57.639 But this method, they're able to do it at a 125 00:08:57.639 --> 00:09:00.919 fraction of the price. Because and this is where I 126 00:09:00.919 --> 00:09:07.360 thought it was just amazing concept was because it takes 127 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:15.440 whatever actor and it puts them into that world using 128 00:09:15.480 --> 00:09:23.480 AI whoe. My mind was blown on this, It really was. 129 00:09:25.120 --> 00:09:27.200 I mean, could you imagine this, I mean not just 130 00:09:27.320 --> 00:09:32.639 as a not just as a different way to remake 131 00:09:32.799 --> 00:09:38.639 a movie, to modernize an old vintage movie with a 132 00:09:38.679 --> 00:09:44.240 with a modern cast, but just I mean, could you 133 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:50.039 imagine if they actually use this technology on a consumer 134 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:57.120 basis to put you in the movie to where you 135 00:09:57.159 --> 00:09:59.600 can basically star in your own mom? I mean, how 136 00:09:59.679 --> 00:10:05.039 many of you have watched a movie so many different 137 00:10:05.080 --> 00:10:09.879 times that you can virtually quote the entire movie. You 138 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:13.080 could watch it and you could you know every line, 139 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:15.639 you know every scene, you know how it's going to 140 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:18.399 play out. Maybe if it's a horror movie, you're yelling 141 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:21.720 at the screen, going don't go down the hallway, don't 142 00:10:21.799 --> 00:10:24.200 check out the noise. Stop it. You're going to die. 143 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:29.360 You know what's going to happen. I mean, how many, oh, 144 00:10:29.960 --> 00:10:33.080 how many of you have a movie like that? How 145 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:37.279 many of you would think it would be amazing to 146 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:44.519 basically star in your favorite movie? I mean that would 147 00:10:44.559 --> 00:10:47.960 be awesome. Like imagine if this was if this actually 148 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:58.919 became a thing and they use this on a consumer level, Oh, 149 00:10:59.519 --> 00:11:05.200 that's just that to me is just is dude, that's cool, 150 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:07.320 that really is. I mean that was one of the 151 00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:10.279 first things I thought of whenever I seen how they 152 00:11:10.360 --> 00:11:15.879 ended up doing this. Hands down, I'm like, dude, that's exciting. 153 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:19.679 That's exciting to me. And I mean how far away 154 00:11:19.720 --> 00:11:24.200 do you think this type of technology is? You know, 155 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:30.159 I mean they have made advancements in technology by leaps 156 00:11:30.240 --> 00:11:34.159 and bounds. I mean they actually announced not that long ago, actually, 157 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:40.519 I mean this was within the past year, within the 158 00:11:40.559 --> 00:11:48.919 past twelve months, they've announced being able to map consciousness. 159 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:59.200 I mean, dude, that's cool. Computing actually being able to 160 00:11:59.240 --> 00:12:03.200 be advanced at that. Wow. I was blown away. I 161 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:07.440 was blown away just the interface. I was blown away. 162 00:12:08.440 --> 00:12:10.440 So I mean, how far do you think? How far 163 00:12:10.480 --> 00:12:13.399 away do you think they actually are from being able 164 00:12:13.399 --> 00:12:16.799 to do this? I mean, do you think we're like 165 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:22.120 five years away, ten years away? Do you think they 166 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:27.720 can actually do this now? At least in you know, 167 00:12:27.799 --> 00:12:35.279 on some level, I don't know. So Brandy gets hooked 168 00:12:35.360 --> 00:12:41.600 up into this, into this machine, and she's like shocked, 169 00:12:42.320 --> 00:12:45.480 you know, she had no idea what she was getting into. 170 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:49.720 She had no idea what was going on. Now. Before 171 00:12:49.759 --> 00:12:54.799 this happened, she kind of researched the actress whom she 172 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:57.320 was going to be. You know, who was the female 173 00:12:57.440 --> 00:13:03.600 star in this this Dorothy Chambers whom it plays Oh, 174 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:07.799 what was her name, Clara, Clara something or another? What 175 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:10.799 was her name something? I think it was French, Maybe 176 00:13:10.840 --> 00:13:15.600 I'll know Clara something played by this actress named Dorothy. 177 00:13:17.080 --> 00:13:19.799 And you know, she looks up what had happened to 178 00:13:19.879 --> 00:13:23.639 her that she you know, tragically well not that she 179 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:28.039 tragically died, but she you know, self deleted herself with 180 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:31.039 with sleeping pills, and you know, she she just kind 181 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:34.919 of fell in love in a matter of speaking with 182 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:39.519 the with the actress, her her tragic life and whatnot, 183 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:48.039 and she just she yeah, begin to feel for and 184 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:52.600 so entering into the movie, that's whenever she found out 185 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:55.840 what she was in for. Because is what happens is 186 00:13:55.879 --> 00:14:02.320 this AI recreates the entire world that the movie takes 187 00:14:02.360 --> 00:14:06.320 place in. So if it happened in the movie, then 188 00:14:06.360 --> 00:14:13.399 the whole entire set was completely laid out in this 189 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:17.080 I guess you can call it virtual reality world. All 190 00:14:17.120 --> 00:14:22.080 taking place within a computer, and all of the characters 191 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:28.759 are AI generated and they respond to what's going on. 192 00:14:29.080 --> 00:14:35.440 But at the same time, it's supposed to happen basically 193 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:38.559 in the way that it happened in the movie. I mean, 194 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:41.639 you have character arc, story arc, all that kind of 195 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:44.639 stuff they're supposed to take place, right. I mean it 196 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:46.679 kind of reminds me, in a matter of speaking, with 197 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:52.080 Assassin's Creed. You know, you have to sink what's going on, 198 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:54.440 you fall out of sink and then you just throw 199 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:59.240 the whole thing out because it happened in a particular 200 00:14:59.320 --> 00:15:03.279 way and in order to make it through the story, 201 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:07.639 you have to be as accurate to the story as possible. 202 00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:15.000 And so she's saying her lines, she's doing what she 203 00:15:15.159 --> 00:15:18.480 is supposed to do. And in the opening scene, you 204 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:24.519 know they're measuring, you know, the the love aspect of it. 205 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:28.559 They're measuring how accurate to the story they are. I 206 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:32.519 mean that they're tracking all kinds of stuff with the 207 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:37.639 computer on how well she's doing Blown Away. And then 208 00:15:37.720 --> 00:15:43.799 you get to the point where Brandy, acting as the doctor, 209 00:15:45.480 --> 00:15:50.120 has to play the piano. And this isn't like a 210 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:54.200 typical movie where if the actor can't actually do what 211 00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:56.279 it is that they're supposed to be doing. Then they 212 00:15:56.320 --> 00:15:59.600 got a stunt double in there or somebody that knows 213 00:15:59.600 --> 00:16:01.840 how to do it that can just kind of, you know, 214 00:16:02.159 --> 00:16:06.240 do it for them, and there you go. But Brandy 215 00:16:06.360 --> 00:16:09.360 doesn't know how to play the piano. And it's like, 216 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:15.320 you know, it makes you wonder how many different actors 217 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:17.399 or actors. I mean, that really makes you wonder. I 218 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:19.960 mean it, to be honest with you, it surprises me 219 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:24.759 whenever an actor or an actress can do some of 220 00:16:24.799 --> 00:16:27.919 these things, you know, because before, I mean, it's just 221 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:31.320 that's not how it was. That's not how it worked. 222 00:16:32.080 --> 00:16:35.559 You know, actors and actresses couldn't do half the stuff 223 00:16:36.200 --> 00:16:40.240 that they do on screen. You know, they use filmography, 224 00:16:40.440 --> 00:16:42.919 camera angles and different things like that to make it 225 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:46.080 look like they are, but it's not actually them doing it. 226 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:48.600 It's not them doing the moves. It's not them jumping 227 00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:53.440 out of the helicopter, it's not them hanging onto an airplane. 228 00:16:53.720 --> 00:16:59.600 Sometimes it is, most of the time it's not. And 229 00:16:59.639 --> 00:17:04.079 why the director would be surprised that, you know, the 230 00:17:04.519 --> 00:17:07.119 actress can't actually pay play the piano. 231 00:17:07.279 --> 00:17:14.200 I'm like, really, I mean, do you not know how 232 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:15.279 acting works. 233 00:17:15.319 --> 00:17:17.680 I mean, that's just that was one of the parts 234 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:19.799 where it just kind of fell through for me. I 235 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:21.680 gotta be honest with you, that was one of the parts. 236 00:17:21.720 --> 00:17:25.319 It's like, and you're surprised about this that she can't 237 00:17:25.359 --> 00:17:31.599 actually play the piano at any rate. That's when the 238 00:17:31.640 --> 00:17:36.839 whole thing falls apart. That's where we find out something 239 00:17:36.960 --> 00:17:47.079 kind of interesting because the doctor being able to play 240 00:17:47.119 --> 00:17:52.160 the piano was actually an integral part of the movie. 241 00:17:52.519 --> 00:17:58.000 It made something happen that was going to advance the 242 00:17:58.079 --> 00:18:01.160 movie along and make it to where it could get 243 00:18:01.960 --> 00:18:09.480 to its nice, little happy ending. But because Brandy was 244 00:18:09.519 --> 00:18:12.319 not able to play the piano and threw the whole 245 00:18:12.319 --> 00:18:23.839 thing off and they had to reset because instead of 246 00:18:23.880 --> 00:18:27.559 a particular person dying, it ended up being the dog 247 00:18:27.640 --> 00:18:31.640 that died, and the plot just a big, huge plot 248 00:18:31.640 --> 00:18:35.160 hole happened, and the movie was not going to play 249 00:18:35.160 --> 00:18:37.480 out as it was supposed to. It was going to 250 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:43.319 be bad, right, So they were going to reset the 251 00:18:43.480 --> 00:18:48.880 entire movie and out try it all over again. Unfortunately, 252 00:18:50.920 --> 00:18:55.200 the system had a bug in it and it wouldn't 253 00:18:55.319 --> 00:19:00.960 reset the movie, so they were forced to improvise. They 254 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:07.519 were forced to do things different in order to make 255 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:15.880 it work, in order to make it happen, and then 256 00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:20.680 what we see ended up playing out is well. There 257 00:19:20.799 --> 00:19:29.119 was kind of a heated scene between Brandy and Clara, 258 00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:33.200 the actress whom in the movie was being played by 259 00:19:33.640 --> 00:19:47.799 Dorothy everybody is you know, all of the people that 260 00:19:47.880 --> 00:19:50.160 were in the in the real world that weren't in 261 00:19:50.240 --> 00:19:53.079 the movie itself. You know, the ones that were keeping 262 00:19:53.119 --> 00:19:55.680 track of this, keeping track of that, you know, put 263 00:19:55.759 --> 00:19:59.599 making sure that everything was, you know, going together nicely. 264 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:06.480 You know, they're paying attention. They are just in what's happening. 265 00:20:08.119 --> 00:20:12.079 Accident happens. Coffee spills on the computer? Are you kidding me? 266 00:20:13.799 --> 00:20:18.680 I mean, you know, just you don't put liquids, you 267 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:24.119 don't put your drink water, any electronics, just don't mix. 268 00:20:24.200 --> 00:20:27.319 I mean, how could you make such a rookie mistake 269 00:20:27.480 --> 00:20:31.319 and spill your drink on your computer, screwing the whole 270 00:20:31.359 --> 00:20:36.599 thing up. It's like, dude, everything goes out. They no 271 00:20:36.680 --> 00:20:40.119 longer can see what's going on in the movie. They 272 00:20:40.160 --> 00:20:43.839 can no longer communicate with Brandy, to talk to her, 273 00:20:43.960 --> 00:20:46.599 to walk her through anything, to find out what's going on, 274 00:20:46.839 --> 00:20:50.680 to give her any type of you know, help nothing. 275 00:20:51.480 --> 00:20:58.200 Everything is frozen. Not only that, everything in the AI 276 00:20:58.440 --> 00:21:08.640 generated world the movie, everybody stops. Everybody is frozen in time, 277 00:21:08.759 --> 00:21:13.880 like somebody hit the pause button on their remote control 278 00:21:15.400 --> 00:21:25.160 except Brandy and Clara, the only two people that can 279 00:21:25.880 --> 00:21:32.039 move around interact with each other in the whole nine 280 00:21:32.119 --> 00:21:36.279 yards Now, obviously, Clara starts freaking out. It's like, what 281 00:21:36.319 --> 00:21:39.839 the heck is going on? Right? Because Clara thinks that 282 00:21:40.039 --> 00:21:42.880 she is in a movie. I mean, she's not acting this. 283 00:21:42.880 --> 00:21:46.839 This isn't like this is Dorothy playing the role of Clara. 284 00:21:46.960 --> 00:21:53.759 This is Clara the you know, the these uh the 285 00:21:53.960 --> 00:21:59.920 characters that are you know, AI controlled, AI powered. I 286 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:05.279 guess you can say they all think they're real. This 287 00:22:05.319 --> 00:22:08.160 isn't a movie to them. I mean just the concept, 288 00:22:08.240 --> 00:22:14.200 Like I said, the concept is awesome. And so she's confused, 289 00:22:17.000 --> 00:22:23.519 and then something happens because Brandy actually addresses Clara as Dorothy, 290 00:22:23.720 --> 00:22:28.200 the actress who played Clara in the movie, and this 291 00:22:28.359 --> 00:22:37.240 kind of echoed with Clara, like she understood without really understanding, 292 00:22:37.279 --> 00:22:40.799 you know, like an echo going on, and this was 293 00:22:41.440 --> 00:22:43.640 you know, how they ended up tying this together was 294 00:22:45.559 --> 00:22:48.839 interesting to me because basically how they played it off 295 00:22:49.000 --> 00:22:54.000 was Dorothy. Whenever she played that character, she used, you know, 296 00:22:54.119 --> 00:23:02.799 her own life as inspiration to play the character. So 297 00:23:02.920 --> 00:23:07.240 there was a lot of Dorothy in the character Clara 298 00:23:07.960 --> 00:23:15.119 in that movie. And this, I mean, this really got 299 00:23:15.160 --> 00:23:20.359 me thinking because it's like, I mean, we hear about 300 00:23:20.400 --> 00:23:23.799 different actors and actresses that whenever they are playing a role, 301 00:23:23.880 --> 00:23:29.240 they just they they just dive headfirst into a character. 302 00:23:29.279 --> 00:23:34.720 I mean they they just they completely emerge themselves into 303 00:23:34.759 --> 00:23:39.359 the role, becoming the character that they're playing. And that 304 00:23:39.519 --> 00:23:45.720 to me, I mean it just it seems just psychologically draining. 305 00:23:49.519 --> 00:23:54.240 But I think in some in some ways some forms 306 00:23:56.319 --> 00:23:59.559 that in order to really play a character and make 307 00:23:59.640 --> 00:24:03.279 it believable. I mean that's everybody knows that whenever they're 308 00:24:03.279 --> 00:24:07.359 watching a movie, they're watching something that is staged, something 309 00:24:07.400 --> 00:24:11.960 that's fake, something that is not real. And the magic 310 00:24:12.079 --> 00:24:19.680 happens whenever you can watch a movie and be immersed 311 00:24:19.720 --> 00:24:22.799 in it to the point to where you're you're not 312 00:24:23.319 --> 00:24:27.319 watching a movie. I mean, good actors make great movies. 313 00:24:30.400 --> 00:24:34.279 I mean the skill that it takes to change yourself 314 00:24:34.680 --> 00:24:39.880 into somebody else to where you can make your performance believable, 315 00:24:40.720 --> 00:24:44.440 natural and make the audience believe that they're not even 316 00:24:44.559 --> 00:24:47.640 watching a movie. They may as well just be you know, 317 00:24:47.759 --> 00:24:51.960 a third person, a fly on the wall in this scenario, 318 00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:55.440 in this movie, they're not watching a movie. They're watching 319 00:24:55.519 --> 00:24:59.440 something that is real. That's one of the things that 320 00:24:59.480 --> 00:25:03.880 makes a great movie. I mean, I have a lot 321 00:25:03.920 --> 00:25:07.079 of respect for a character that can immerse themselves or 322 00:25:07.200 --> 00:25:09.599 I'm sorry, a lot of respect for an actor and 323 00:25:09.640 --> 00:25:12.839 an actress that can immerse themselves into a character and 324 00:25:12.920 --> 00:25:17.960 make it believable to where the audience, I mean not 325 00:25:18.039 --> 00:25:25.160 like they're none the wiser, but they believe. That's just 326 00:25:25.240 --> 00:25:29.480 awesome to me, you know. And so that's what Dorothy 327 00:25:29.519 --> 00:25:34.200 did whenever she was playing this character of Clara. And 328 00:25:34.240 --> 00:25:39.440 so Clara was like it echoed, her name echoed with it. 329 00:25:42.000 --> 00:25:45.720 And you know, this is where things got a little 330 00:25:46.559 --> 00:25:57.519 weird because Clara, in her desperation to find some type 331 00:25:57.519 --> 00:26:03.599 of grounding that made what was going on makes sense, 332 00:26:05.119 --> 00:26:07.920 I mean, she was told by Brandy that you know, 333 00:26:08.039 --> 00:26:11.799 nothing is real. You're just a character where redoing this movie, 334 00:26:11.839 --> 00:26:16.079 you're somebody that's actually AI generated, you know. But the 335 00:26:16.119 --> 00:26:19.400 weird thing was and that this is where they kind 336 00:26:19.400 --> 00:26:25.960 of it went to the next level because Clara kind 337 00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:32.920 of became self aware, right, I was like, dude, that whoa, 338 00:26:34.920 --> 00:26:37.440 because what Clara does you know? In her trying to 339 00:26:37.640 --> 00:26:42.119 find rooting and something stable in this craziness that was 340 00:26:42.160 --> 00:26:48.000 taken that was happening, she walks over to a wall, 341 00:26:48.200 --> 00:26:53.319 a door, maybe walks over to a door, and instead 342 00:26:53.319 --> 00:26:55.839 of trying to open the door, she just kind of 343 00:26:56.039 --> 00:27:00.079 reaches out to try to touch the door and her 344 00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:02.839 hand goes right through it. I'm like, are you serious? 345 00:27:03.359 --> 00:27:05.880 I mean, you couldn't have had her like break a 346 00:27:06.000 --> 00:27:08.359 window and try to go through the window and the 347 00:27:08.400 --> 00:27:10.920 same thing happened. I mean, this I thought was kind 348 00:27:10.920 --> 00:27:13.640 of weird. I mean, this was supposed to be a door. 349 00:27:14.400 --> 00:27:17.640 The AI generated world would have made it a door 350 00:27:17.680 --> 00:27:22.160 everywhere else in the story, in the you know, in 351 00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:25.839 the setting, every door is a door. Why would you 352 00:27:25.920 --> 00:27:28.279 make this not a door? Why would you make this 353 00:27:28.400 --> 00:27:30.720 a something you can pass through like you're in a 354 00:27:30.759 --> 00:27:35.759 bad video game. But that's what they did. She walks 355 00:27:35.839 --> 00:27:44.640 through it and it is complete blackness. Now, how they 356 00:27:44.720 --> 00:27:50.359 end up explaining it is whenever Clara went through that barrier, 357 00:27:51.200 --> 00:27:54.880 she entered into the rest of the computer, giving her 358 00:27:55.079 --> 00:28:03.440 access to everything that the computer knew about Dorothy, the 359 00:28:03.480 --> 00:28:08.480 actress that was playing Clara, and you get the flashbacks 360 00:28:08.559 --> 00:28:17.400 of you know, Dorothy's experience on set. You find out 361 00:28:17.440 --> 00:28:27.119 that Dorothy had a love interest on set, and you 362 00:28:27.200 --> 00:28:44.519 find out more or less why she ended up self terminating, heartbreaking, 363 00:28:48.759 --> 00:28:54.160 and she comes out, you know, really trying to accept, 364 00:28:55.920 --> 00:28:58.839 come to terms with what it is she just learned 365 00:28:58.880 --> 00:29:11.799 about herself. And no surprise, you know, Clara and Brandy 366 00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:18.680 end up, you know, having a relationship. You know, they 367 00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:22.599 end up getting close to each other. And I mean 368 00:29:22.680 --> 00:29:28.440 they spend months in limbo. I mean that's just the 369 00:29:29.359 --> 00:29:32.039 I mean, could you imagine, I mean, being stuck in 370 00:29:32.119 --> 00:29:38.599 limbo like this, And I mean they were trying everything, 371 00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:41.839 you know, in the real world. They were trying everything 372 00:29:41.920 --> 00:29:44.640 they could to figure this thing out. They were trying 373 00:29:44.799 --> 00:29:49.720 everything to fix the problem because they couldn't just unplug Brandy, 374 00:29:49.759 --> 00:29:55.119 because doing that would have separated Brandy's body from her consciousness. 375 00:29:55.160 --> 00:30:01.480 In essence, killing her wasn't an eye option. So I mean, 376 00:30:01.519 --> 00:30:05.920 they had to fix this, and they're trying everything to 377 00:30:06.039 --> 00:30:14.720 fix this. They were, and time in the movie was 378 00:30:14.839 --> 00:30:18.279 going by at an accelerated rate. That's why even though, 379 00:30:18.680 --> 00:30:21.680 you know, not even an hour and a half of 380 00:30:21.960 --> 00:30:26.880 real time went by in the simulation. In the movie, 381 00:30:27.480 --> 00:30:32.640 months were going by. They gave a like a time frame. 382 00:30:32.680 --> 00:30:34.519 I don't remember what it was. It was like, I 383 00:30:34.519 --> 00:30:41.240 think seven days per minute, maybe I think something along that. 384 00:30:41.319 --> 00:30:44.359 Let At any rate, it was a long amount of months. 385 00:30:44.440 --> 00:30:49.599 Like I said, months of time went by. And so obviously, 386 00:30:50.400 --> 00:31:01.160 you know Brandy and Clara, they get close. Love ends 387 00:31:01.240 --> 00:31:08.559 up happening between the two, and then Brandy has this 388 00:31:08.799 --> 00:31:14.640 uh you know. They're laying in bed and she's like, 389 00:31:14.759 --> 00:31:17.480 you know, because Clara is like, you know, I love you, 390 00:31:18.039 --> 00:31:21.799 and Brandy's just like mm hmmm. And I'm like, really, wow, 391 00:31:21.920 --> 00:31:24.119 that's what you're going to say to her, you know, 392 00:31:24.279 --> 00:31:27.440 And and her response was like, you know, I don't 393 00:31:27.480 --> 00:31:30.359 know if you love me, if you're saying you love 394 00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:33.799 me because you actually love me, or if that's because 395 00:31:33.839 --> 00:31:40.519 that's how your character is supposed to act. I mean 396 00:31:40.559 --> 00:31:44.599 that's how it is in the movie, right. But Clara 397 00:31:44.640 --> 00:31:50.519 assures her, no, I actually love you. This isn't programming 398 00:31:50.559 --> 00:31:53.359 from the movie. I know you. I know you're not 399 00:31:53.599 --> 00:31:57.960 this person, You're somebody different, and this is the person 400 00:31:58.000 --> 00:32:03.200 that I love interesting. They fixed a problem in the 401 00:32:03.240 --> 00:32:09.720