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Re:An AI wrote all of David Hasselhoff’s lines in a bizarre ... by Declanomous on Friday April 28, 2017 @02:02PM (#14221652)
Are they actually conveying emotion, or is the kuleshov effect [1] at work? I know one of the things they teach film actors is to 'act less' when they don't know what to do. We as humans tend to interpret the actor as displaying an appropriate emotion if their face is otherwise somewhat neutral.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuleshov_effect

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Re:An AI wrote all of David Hasselhoff’s lines in a bizarre ... by alejohausner on Friday April 28, 2017 @02:25PM (#14221823)
Cool! I had thought that Eisenstein came up with that, but it looks like Kuleshov taught Eisenstein.

I guess that's why there's an Oscar for editing! The temporal context of a shot matters as much as the shot itself.

But even if my reaction to the film is conditioned by editing, and not just Hoff's acting, I still find it weird that I'm feeling things that don't depend much on the content of the words he's speaking.

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