Speaker 1: We to the podcast join host Hoh as he discusses
Speaker 1: the riveting Netflix original series Black Mirror. Now Here he
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Speaker 1: to Black Mirror Podcast and as always, I'm your host
Speaker 1: ho Ho. So, how y'alls doing. I hope you're doing good?
Speaker 1: I really do, because today we are going to continue
Speaker 1: in season seven with episode three, titled Hotel Reverie. Now,
Speaker 1: I gotta admit, so far in season seven, this is
Speaker 1: my favorite episode. It really is an excellent episode. I
Speaker 1: loved how they did it. I love the concept the
Speaker 1: whole nine yards. It was an excellent movie.
Speaker 2: And there's a lot of things to kind of discuss.
Speaker 1: In this one. There really is. But before we get
Speaker 1: into that spoiler alert, we are going to be talking
Speaker 1: about the episode. So if you have yet to check
Speaker 1: out Hotel Reverie, head on over to Netflix and watch
Speaker 1: the episode and then come on back for the discussion.
Speaker 1: Let's get into it now. This episode starts actually kind
Speaker 1: of different from most other Black Mirror episodes. It starts
Speaker 1: off with a vintage black and white movie titled coincidentally enough,
Speaker 1: Hotel Reverie, and it very much has kind of a
Speaker 1: Casa Blanca, Casa blank, Casa Blanca type of a field
Speaker 1: to it. Wow, that one hurt. But it has a
Speaker 1: Casablanca type of a field to it. And I got admit,
Speaker 1: I've never actually seen Casablanca, and I'm probably you know it,
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm not pronouncing that right, forgive me,
Speaker 1: but yeah, it kind of has a Cosablanca type of
Speaker 1: a feel. I've never actually seen the movie. I've watched
Speaker 1: some stuff from it, different clips. You know, it definitely
Speaker 1: has that type of a feel, and I really do.
Speaker 1: I mean, I have watched vintage movies and I do
Speaker 1: like vintage movies. I really do, because they're they're simpler.
Speaker 1: You don't have the you know, the huge plots that
Speaker 1: are in there. You don't have a lot of the fanfare,
Speaker 1: the special effects everything else. I mean, it's it's very
Speaker 1: simplistic in its approach. In its approach, it's it's about
Speaker 1: telling a story one that in that time everybody can
Speaker 1: you know, relate to, you know, just just a different
Speaker 1: way of doing movies. I like them, I really do.
Speaker 1: They're they're good, wholesome, fun. Vintage movie are awesome. And this,
Speaker 1: you know, it really talks about a different way of
Speaker 1: bringing a vintage classic to the modern era. And that's
Speaker 1: where we well known that we don't get there yet
Speaker 1: because after this we are introduced to Brandy. She is
Speaker 1: an actress and she's kind of upset about how her
Speaker 1: career is going because she's kind of been pigeonholed, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, she only plays like a couple different types
Speaker 1: of roles and that's about it. You know, There's been
Speaker 1: several different actors and actresses over the years that I've
Speaker 1: noticed that very much get pigeonholed. Now, I don't know
Speaker 1: necessarily why they get pigeonholed, but to me, I don't
Speaker 1: know about you, but for me, the marks of a
Speaker 1: good actor or actress is in the sheer variety of
Speaker 1: roles that they're able to play. I mean, one of
Speaker 1: my I don't want to say one of my favorite actors,
Speaker 1: but I have a I very much have a deep
Speaker 1: respect for his acting ability, even though it kind of
Speaker 1: ticks me off because I mean it's just he seems
Speaker 1: like he's at least with the characters that he plays.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's just.
Speaker 2: Just I don't like him.
Speaker 1: He's a douche. I don't like him. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: like him at all, but I respect his career because
Speaker 1: of the sheer array of different characters that he's played
Speaker 1: and how immersive he is in you know, preparing himself
Speaker 1: to play the role. I have a deep respect for
Speaker 1: his acting career. And that's Leonardo DiCaprio. Just the different
Speaker 1: characters he's played, it's almost a you name it, he's
Speaker 1: done it kind of a thing, and he does it well,
Speaker 1: he really does. I have a deep respect for his
Speaker 1: ability as an actor, his screen presence, everything. And there's
Speaker 1: other actors out there that it seems no matter what
Speaker 1: role they play, they seem like they're playing a different
Speaker 1: version of the same character in a matter of speaking,
Speaker 1: you know, and to me, regardless of the person's screen presence,
Speaker 1: because okay, for example, Vin Diesel, you know, awesome screen presence,
Speaker 1: but he kind of plays the same type of character
Speaker 1: all the time, right, And to me, that's just not
Speaker 1: a good actor, if you will. And I don't know
Speaker 1: the reason why Brandy has been, you know, pigeonholed into
Speaker 1: playing these two different types of characters, but she has been,
Speaker 1: and she wants her Casablanca, Casablanca, however you pronounce it.
Speaker 1: She wants her Hotel reverie type of a movie. That's
Speaker 1: what she wants. That's the type of movie she wants.
Speaker 1: And just coincidentally enough, her agent finds out that, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, they're looking to remake the movie. They're looking
Speaker 1: to do that, and so Brandy's like, dude, yeah, I'm interested.
Speaker 1: I'm absolutely interesting. Under one condition. I want to play
Speaker 1: the lead role, not the love interest. I want to
Speaker 1: play the lead role. They can recast it as a
Speaker 1: black woman, sure, let's go ahead and do it. And
Speaker 1: this isn't like this is a new concept, right, I
Speaker 1: mean this happened before, you know, with The Wild Wild
Speaker 1: West that Oh What's that? That Will Smith played in,
Speaker 1: which was absolutely hilarious because I remember whenever that movie
Speaker 1: came out, I listened to a I listened to an
Speaker 1: interview with Will Smith and apparently he was talking with
Speaker 1: his agent about it and he's like, but look, I
Speaker 1: can't play Jim West. I'm black. Jim West was white.
Speaker 1: Aren't they going to notice? And I guess his agent
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, but it was a black and white television,
Speaker 1: They're never going to know the difference. And I'm just like,
Speaker 1: oh wow, that's hilarious. That's awesome, and Will Smith nailed
Speaker 1: her role. He did a good job with it, he
Speaker 1: really did. So she gets this opportunity. She gets a
Speaker 1: package in the mail you know, has got you know,
Speaker 1: the script in it and everything else, and she does
Speaker 1: her job. She memorizes a script, but she accidentally drops
Speaker 1: the USB USB drive on the ground, which was explaining
Speaker 1: the concept and what they were actually going to be doing.
Speaker 1: So she knows nothing about how they're actually going to
Speaker 1: do this and why they're going to be able to
Speaker 1: do it so quickly. Because this is one of the
Speaker 1: selling points of doing this is you can you know,
Speaker 1: redo a vintage movie for a fraction of the cost
Speaker 1: because you're only you know, you're only booking your actor
Speaker 1: or actors for like an hour and a half, a
Speaker 1: fraction of the time. I mean, normally filming a movie
Speaker 1: takes time. You've got you know, to change your sets,
Speaker 1: You've got to you know, go to different locations. You've
Speaker 1: got so many different people that are involved in it.
Speaker 3: It is expensive, right, multiple actors, actresses, film crew, locations,
Speaker 3: set up, tear down all kinds of crap.
Speaker 1: But this method, they're able to do it at a
Speaker 1: fraction of the price. Because and this is where I
Speaker 1: thought it was just amazing concept was because it takes
Speaker 1: whatever actor and it puts them into that world using
Speaker 1: AI whoe. My mind was blown on this, It really was.
Speaker 1: I mean, could you imagine this, I mean not just
Speaker 1: as a not just as a different way to remake
Speaker 1: a movie, to modernize an old vintage movie with a
Speaker 1: with a modern cast, but just I mean, could you
Speaker 1: imagine if they actually use this technology on a consumer
Speaker 1: basis to put you in the movie to where you
Speaker 1: can basically star in your own mom? I mean, how
Speaker 1: many of you have watched a movie so many different
Speaker 1: times that you can virtually quote the entire movie. You
Speaker 1: could watch it and you could you know every line,
Speaker 1: you know every scene, you know how it's going to
Speaker 1: play out. Maybe if it's a horror movie, you're yelling
Speaker 1: at the screen, going don't go down the hallway, don't
Speaker 1: check out the noise. Stop it. You're going to die.
Speaker 1: You know what's going to happen. I mean, how many, oh,
Speaker 1: how many of you have a movie like that? How
Speaker 1: many of you would think it would be amazing to
Speaker 1: basically star in your favorite movie? I mean that would
Speaker 1: be awesome. Like imagine if this was if this actually
Speaker 1: became a thing and they use this on a consumer level, Oh,
Speaker 1: that's just that to me is just is dude, that's cool,
Speaker 1: that really is. I mean that was one of the
Speaker 1: first things I thought of whenever I seen how they
Speaker 1: ended up doing this. Hands down, I'm like, dude, that's exciting.
Speaker 1: That's exciting to me. And I mean how far away
Speaker 1: do you think this type of technology is? You know,
Speaker 1: I mean they have made advancements in technology by leaps
Speaker 1: and bounds. I mean they actually announced not that long ago, actually,
Speaker 1: I mean this was within the past year, within the
Speaker 1: past twelve months, they've announced being able to map consciousness.
Speaker 1: I mean, dude, that's cool. Computing actually being able to
Speaker 1: be advanced at that. Wow. I was blown away. I
Speaker 1: was blown away just the interface. I was blown away.
Speaker 1: So I mean, how far do you think? How far
Speaker 1: away do you think they actually are from being able
Speaker 1: to do this? I mean, do you think we're like
Speaker 1: five years away, ten years away? Do you think they
Speaker 1: can actually do this now? At least in you know,
Speaker 1: on some level, I don't know. So Brandy gets hooked
Speaker 1: up into this, into this machine, and she's like shocked,
Speaker 1: you know, she had no idea what she was getting into.
Speaker 1: She had no idea what was going on. Now. Before
Speaker 1: this happened, she kind of researched the actress whom she
Speaker 1: was going to be. You know, who was the female
Speaker 1: star in this this Dorothy Chambers whom it plays Oh,
Speaker 1: what was her name, Clara, Clara something or another? What
Speaker 1: was her name something? I think it was French, Maybe
Speaker 1: I'll know Clara something played by this actress named Dorothy.
Speaker 1: And you know, she looks up what had happened to
Speaker 1: her that she you know, tragically well not that she
Speaker 1: tragically died, but she you know, self deleted herself with
Speaker 1: with sleeping pills, and you know, she she just kind
Speaker 1: of fell in love in a matter of speaking with
Speaker 1: the with the actress, her her tragic life and whatnot,
Speaker 1: and she just she yeah, begin to feel for and
Speaker 1: so entering into the movie, that's whenever she found out
Speaker 1: what she was in for. Because is what happens is
Speaker 1: this AI recreates the entire world that the movie takes
Speaker 1: place in. So if it happened in the movie, then
Speaker 1: the whole entire set was completely laid out in this
Speaker 1: I guess you can call it virtual reality world. All
Speaker 1: taking place within a computer, and all of the characters
Speaker 1: are AI generated and they respond to what's going on.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, it's supposed to happen basically
Speaker 1: in the way that it happened in the movie. I mean,
Speaker 1: you have character arc, story arc, all that kind of
Speaker 1: stuff they're supposed to take place, right. I mean it
Speaker 1: kind of reminds me, in a matter of speaking, with
Speaker 1: Assassin's Creed. You know, you have to sink what's going on,
Speaker 1: you fall out of sink and then you just throw
Speaker 1: the whole thing out because it happened in a particular
Speaker 1: way and in order to make it through the story,
Speaker 1: you have to be as accurate to the story as possible.
Speaker 1: And so she's saying her lines, she's doing what she
Speaker 1: is supposed to do. And in the opening scene, you
Speaker 1: know they're measuring, you know, the the love aspect of it.
Speaker 1: They're measuring how accurate to the story they are. I
Speaker 1: mean that they're tracking all kinds of stuff with the
Speaker 1: computer on how well she's doing Blown Away. And then
Speaker 1: you get to the point where Brandy, acting as the doctor,
Speaker 1: has to play the piano. And this isn't like a
Speaker 1: typical movie where if the actor can't actually do what
Speaker 1: it is that they're supposed to be doing. Then they
Speaker 1: got a stunt double in there or somebody that knows
Speaker 1: how to do it that can just kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: do it for them, and there you go. But Brandy
Speaker 1: doesn't know how to play the piano. And it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, it makes you wonder how many different actors
Speaker 1: or actors. I mean, that really makes you wonder. I
Speaker 1: mean it, to be honest with you, it surprises me
Speaker 1: whenever an actor or an actress can do some of
Speaker 1: these things, you know, because before, I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: that's not how it was. That's not how it worked.
Speaker 1: You know, actors and actresses couldn't do half the stuff
Speaker 1: that they do on screen. You know, they use filmography,
Speaker 1: camera angles and different things like that to make it
Speaker 1: look like they are, but it's not actually them doing it.
Speaker 1: It's not them doing the moves. It's not them jumping
Speaker 1: out of the helicopter, it's not them hanging onto an airplane.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it is, most of the time it's not. And
Speaker 1: why the director would be surprised that, you know, the
Speaker 1: actress can't actually pay play the piano.
Speaker 2: I'm like, really, I mean, do you not know how
Speaker 2: acting works.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just that was one of the parts
Speaker 1: where it just kind of fell through for me. I
Speaker 1: gotta be honest with you, that was one of the parts.
Speaker 1: It's like, and you're surprised about this that she can't
Speaker 1: actually play the piano at any rate. That's when the
Speaker 1: whole thing falls apart. That's where we find out something
Speaker 1: kind of interesting because the doctor being able to play
Speaker 1: the piano was actually an integral part of the movie.
Speaker 1: It made something happen that was going to advance the
Speaker 1: movie along and make it to where it could get
Speaker 1: to its nice, little happy ending. But because Brandy was
Speaker 1: not able to play the piano and threw the whole
Speaker 1: thing off and they had to reset because instead of
Speaker 1: a particular person dying, it ended up being the dog
Speaker 1: that died, and the plot just a big, huge plot
Speaker 1: hole happened, and the movie was not going to play
Speaker 1: out as it was supposed to. It was going to
Speaker 1: be bad, right, So they were going to reset the
Speaker 1: entire movie and out try it all over again. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: the system had a bug in it and it wouldn't
Speaker 1: reset the movie, so they were forced to improvise. They
Speaker 1: were forced to do things different in order to make
Speaker 1: it work, in order to make it happen, and then
Speaker 1: what we see ended up playing out is well. There
Speaker 1: was kind of a heated scene between Brandy and Clara,
Speaker 1: the actress whom in the movie was being played by
Speaker 1: Dorothy everybody is you know, all of the people that
Speaker 1: were in the in the real world that weren't in
Speaker 1: the movie itself. You know, the ones that were keeping
Speaker 1: track of this, keeping track of that, you know, put
Speaker 1: making sure that everything was, you know, going together nicely.
Speaker 1: You know, they're paying attention. They are just in what's happening.
Speaker 1: Accident happens. Coffee spills on the computer? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, just you don't put liquids, you
Speaker 1: don't put your drink water, any electronics, just don't mix.
Speaker 1: I mean, how could you make such a rookie mistake
Speaker 1: and spill your drink on your computer, screwing the whole
Speaker 1: thing up. It's like, dude, everything goes out. They no
Speaker 1: longer can see what's going on in the movie. They
Speaker 1: can no longer communicate with Brandy, to talk to her,
Speaker 1: to walk her through anything, to find out what's going on,
Speaker 1: to give her any type of you know, help nothing.
Speaker 1: Everything is frozen. Not only that, everything in the AI
Speaker 1: generated world the movie, everybody stops. Everybody is frozen in time,
Speaker 1: like somebody hit the pause button on their remote control
Speaker 1: except Brandy and Clara, the only two people that can
Speaker 1: move around interact with each other in the whole nine
Speaker 1: yards Now, obviously, Clara starts freaking out. It's like, what
Speaker 1: the heck is going on? Right? Because Clara thinks that
Speaker 1: she is in a movie. I mean, she's not acting this.
Speaker 1: This isn't like this is Dorothy playing the role of Clara.
Speaker 1: This is Clara the you know, the these uh the
Speaker 1: characters that are you know, AI controlled, AI powered. I
Speaker 1: guess you can say they all think they're real. This
Speaker 1: isn't a movie to them. I mean just the concept,
Speaker 1: Like I said, the concept is awesome. And so she's confused,
Speaker 1: and then something happens because Brandy actually addresses Clara as Dorothy,
Speaker 1: the actress who played Clara in the movie, and this
Speaker 1: kind of echoed with Clara, like she understood without really understanding,
Speaker 1: you know, like an echo going on, and this was
Speaker 1: you know, how they ended up tying this together was
Speaker 1: interesting to me because basically how they played it off
Speaker 1: was Dorothy. Whenever she played that character, she used, you know,
Speaker 1: her own life as inspiration to play the character. So
Speaker 1: there was a lot of Dorothy in the character Clara
Speaker 1: in that movie. And this, I mean, this really got
Speaker 1: me thinking because it's like, I mean, we hear about
Speaker 1: different actors and actresses that whenever they are playing a role,
Speaker 1: they just they they just dive headfirst into a character.
Speaker 1: I mean they they just they completely emerge themselves into
Speaker 1: the role, becoming the character that they're playing. And that
Speaker 1: to me, I mean it just it seems just psychologically draining.
Speaker 1: But I think in some in some ways some forms
Speaker 1: that in order to really play a character and make
Speaker 1: it believable. I mean that's everybody knows that whenever they're
Speaker 1: watching a movie, they're watching something that is staged, something
Speaker 1: that's fake, something that is not real. And the magic
Speaker 1: happens whenever you can watch a movie and be immersed
Speaker 1: in it to the point to where you're you're not
Speaker 1: watching a movie. I mean, good actors make great movies.
Speaker 1: I mean the skill that it takes to change yourself
Speaker 1: into somebody else to where you can make your performance believable,
Speaker 1: natural and make the audience believe that they're not even
Speaker 1: watching a movie. They may as well just be you know,
Speaker 1: a third person, a fly on the wall in this scenario,
Speaker 1: in this movie, they're not watching a movie. They're watching
Speaker 1: something that is real. That's one of the things that
Speaker 1: makes a great movie. I mean, I have a lot
Speaker 1: of respect for a character that can immerse themselves or
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, a lot of respect for an actor and
Speaker 1: an actress that can immerse themselves into a character and
Speaker 1: make it believable to where the audience, I mean not
Speaker 1: like they're none the wiser, but they believe. That's just
Speaker 1: awesome to me, you know. And so that's what Dorothy
Speaker 1: did whenever she was playing this character of Clara. And
Speaker 1: so Clara was like it echoed, her name echoed with it.
Speaker 1: And you know, this is where things got a little
Speaker 1: weird because Clara, in her desperation to find some type
Speaker 1: of grounding that made what was going on makes sense,
Speaker 1: I mean, she was told by Brandy that you know,
Speaker 1: nothing is real. You're just a character where redoing this movie,
Speaker 1: you're somebody that's actually AI generated, you know. But the
Speaker 1: weird thing was and that this is where they kind
Speaker 1: of it went to the next level because Clara kind
Speaker 1: of became self aware, right, I was like, dude, that whoa,
Speaker 1: because what Clara does you know? In her trying to
Speaker 1: find rooting and something stable in this craziness that was
Speaker 1: taken that was happening, she walks over to a wall,
Speaker 1: a door, maybe walks over to a door, and instead
Speaker 1: of trying to open the door, she just kind of
Speaker 1: reaches out to try to touch the door and her
Speaker 1: hand goes right through it. I'm like, are you serious?
Speaker 1: I mean, you couldn't have had her like break a
Speaker 1: window and try to go through the window and the
Speaker 1: same thing happened. I mean, this I thought was kind
Speaker 1: of weird. I mean, this was supposed to be a door.
Speaker 1: The AI generated world would have made it a door
Speaker 1: everywhere else in the story, in the you know, in
Speaker 1: the setting, every door is a door. Why would you
Speaker 1: make this not a door? Why would you make this
Speaker 1: a something you can pass through like you're in a
Speaker 1: bad video game. But that's what they did. She walks
Speaker 1: through it and it is complete blackness. Now, how they
Speaker 1: end up explaining it is whenever Clara went through that barrier,
Speaker 1: she entered into the rest of the computer, giving her
Speaker 1: access to everything that the computer knew about Dorothy, the
Speaker 1: actress that was playing Clara, and you get the flashbacks
Speaker 1: of you know, Dorothy's experience on set. You find out
Speaker 1: that Dorothy had a love interest on set, and you
Speaker 1: find out more or less why she ended up self terminating, heartbreaking,
Speaker 1: and she comes out, you know, really trying to accept,
Speaker 1: come to terms with what it is she just learned
Speaker 1: about herself. And no surprise, you know, Clara and Brandy
Speaker 1: end up, you know, having a relationship. You know, they
Speaker 1: end up getting close to each other. And I mean
Speaker 1: they spend months in limbo. I mean that's just the
Speaker 1: I mean, could you imagine, I mean, being stuck in
Speaker 1: limbo like this, And I mean they were trying everything,
Speaker 1: you know, in the real world. They were trying everything
Speaker 1: they could to figure this thing out. They were trying
Speaker 1: everything to fix the problem because they couldn't just unplug Brandy,
Speaker 1: because doing that would have separated Brandy's body from her consciousness.
Speaker 1: In essence, killing her wasn't an eye option. So I mean,
Speaker 1: they had to fix this, and they're trying everything to
Speaker 1: fix this. They were, and time in the movie was
Speaker 1: going by at an accelerated rate. That's why even though,
Speaker 1: you know, not even an hour and a half of
Speaker 1: real time went by in the simulation. In the movie,
Speaker 1: months were going by. They gave a like a time frame.
Speaker 1: I don't remember what it was. It was like, I
Speaker 1: think seven days per minute, maybe I think something along that.
Speaker 1: Let At any rate, it was a long amount of months.
Speaker 1: Like I said, months of time went by. And so obviously,
Speaker 1: you know Brandy and Clara, they get close. Love ends
Speaker 1: up happening between the two, and then Brandy has this
Speaker 1: uh you know. They're laying in bed and she's like,
Speaker 1: you know, because Clara is like, you know, I love you,
Speaker 1: and Brandy's just like mm hmmm. And I'm like, really, wow,
Speaker 1: that's what you're going to say to her, you know,
Speaker 1: And and her response was like, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you love me, if you're saying you love
Speaker 1: me because you actually love me, or if that's because
Speaker 1: that's how your character is supposed to act. I mean
Speaker 1: that's how it is in the movie, right. But Clara
Speaker 1: assures her, no, I actually love you. This isn't programming
Speaker 1: from the movie. I know you. I know you're not
Speaker 1: this person, You're somebody different, and this is the person
Speaker 1: that I love interesting. They fixed a problem in the
Speaker 1: real world, and they they are able to talk to
Speaker 1: Brandy and tell her, hey, we're going to reset everything.
Speaker 1: We're going to get this thing back going on, and
Speaker 1: you know, Brandy is starting to protest a little bit,
Speaker 1: and then they tell her that when they reset, when
Speaker 1: they go back to a previous save point, everything is
Speaker 1: going to go back to where it was. Nobody's going
Speaker 1: to remember anything. Clara is not going to remember anything.
Speaker 1: It's going to be in the in the eyes and
Speaker 1: minds of everybody else, all the AI individuals there that
Speaker 1: those months never happened. And so just like Brandy was told,
Speaker 1: that's how it happened. Like dude, they fixed the plot holes,
Speaker 1: they get things back on track. Things end up taking
Speaker 1: a completely different turn.
Speaker 2: And they don't actually, I mean dude.
Speaker 1: A completely different ending than what the original ending was.
Speaker 1: But it was a good ending. Credits roll, Brandy wakes up,
Speaker 1: the movie goes out, gets released. It's a hit, it
Speaker 1: was successful, and this is where I thought it was.
Speaker 1: I mean, dude. How they ended this episode was just
Speaker 1: I mean, dude, because obviously, during this timeframe, Brandy gets
Speaker 1: feelings for Clara, and well, I mean not really so
Speaker 1: much Clara. I mean it was Dorothy because you know,
Speaker 1: Brandy researches her, she finds out who she was in
Speaker 1: her tragic end and everything else. She spends you know,
Speaker 1: months in this AI world trying to recreate this movie,
Speaker 1: and all that time she gets feelings for in the
Speaker 1: studio that produced the movie, the remake of it. Just
Speaker 1: what they did was just wow. They sent her a
Speaker 1: package I believe it was a DVD. Maybe I think
Speaker 1: it was a DVD, and what was on it was
Speaker 1: the screen test that Dorothy had whenever she tried out
Speaker 1: for the role of Clara. And there's this little telephone
Speaker 1: handle that hooks up into a USB thing and it
Speaker 1: allows Brandy and Dorothy to talk to each other, to
Speaker 1: actually communicate. I was like, dude, that was actually really
Speaker 1: really freaking cool. It really was. I mean, dude, favorite
Speaker 1: episode so far this season very much, so I'm excited
Speaker 1: to continue going. But here's the thing. How how far
Speaker 1: along do you think we are technology wise into something
Speaker 1: like this actually being a reality? Would you like to
Speaker 1: see this technology being used in this way to where
Speaker 1: an actor can just step into somebody else's role to
Speaker 1: you know, bring a vintage movie into the modern era
Speaker 1: in that way. What movie would you like to see
Speaker 1: go in this direction? What character would you like to
Speaker 1: see reprise a you know, whatever role would you like
Speaker 1: to see because I know I would. Would you like
Speaker 1: to see this being implemented, this type of technology implemented
Speaker 1: on a consumer level, much like what was done in
Speaker 1: Striking Vipers. Dude, the possibilities on this, Holy crap. I mean, dude,
Speaker 1: there are so many movies that I would like to see,
Speaker 1: you know, that I think would be awesome if this
Speaker 1: person could play that role, If that person could play
Speaker 1: this role, I mean just so many different things that
Speaker 1: would be Like, Dude, I would love to see what
Speaker 1: this person would do with that role, so many different movies,
Speaker 1: And I would love to see this being implemented in
Speaker 1: a consumer type of role. I think that would be
Speaker 1: absolutely phenomenal. I mean, how many people out there that
Speaker 1: would just that would love to do that? What would
Speaker 1: be what would be your movie that you would want
Speaker 1: to experience? What character would you want to play? And why?
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Speaker 1: Ho at Black Mirror podcast dot com. Anyway, that's all
Speaker 1: I got for y'alls today. That is it. The next
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