Monday 4 January 2016

Marlon Brando speaks from beyond the grave

Marlon Brando speaks from beyond the grave

In the 1990s Marlon Brando made a prediction: he believed that in the future actors would become obsolete, replaced with digital avatars. "Actors aren't going to be real, they're going to be inside a computer -- you watch, it's going to happen," he argued. "Maybe this is the swansong for all of us." Digitized and reconstituted, Brando imagined actors would have a voice and life beyond themselves. He even had his head scanned and mapped onto a computer...
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