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Charlie Chaplin
சார்லி சாப்ளின்
2002 · Film
Directed by Sakthi Chidambaram
Charlie Chaplin is a 2002 Tamil film directed by Sakthi Chidambaram. The film stars Prabhu Ganesan, Prabhu Deva, Abhirami and Gayathri Raghuraman in lead roles.
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that honestly depends on the person who has taken the responsibility for that.
i remember finding old charlie chaplin movies torrent, "all movies", or classics.
then, most of the modern animated movies/shows that has been curated from imdb/commonsensemedia
i know i know the whole piracy thing, people are put off by "tools" because "it could be used to stream pirated media" but that is honestly the end users responsibility.
> any social media job like this, be it YouTuber or Instagram influencer or whatever, seems to be all life-consuming
Isn't this older than social media? Mass media stars, e.g. post-War movie stars, were similarly all-consumed.
Maybe one has to go back to e.g. Charlie Chaplin to find an era when this kind of celebrity wasn't the norm?
"which they're not "
Many of them are though.
If you ever get a chance to study some 'old film's in Uni or whatever, it's pretty interesting.
A lot oldies can seem a little bland to us, but they're like novels - they are much richer than we grasp at first glance.
Also there is context.
Best example would be Charlie Chaplin. I mean, it can seem ridiculous ... but really it's genius.
Pacing and language has changed so much especially - we have such short attention spans these days ...
> I believe my motivating demo will be achieved some day soon—you will watch Charlie Chaplin in 4K resolution and it will be indistinguishable from a modern movie.
How do these sorts of techniques perform with respect to temporal coherence?
> I believe my motivating demo will be achieved some day soon—you will watch Charlie Chaplin in 4K resolution and it will be indistinguishable from a modern movie.
Wow, where does it stop, then? Can we upsample modern 4k films? Or deeper dynamic ranges? Stereo projections from mono images?
I suppose that the limiting factor is the resolution/color depth/perspective channels of the training images?
I'd say great comedy actors like Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton or Laurel and Hardy have scaled very well, both in terms of timespan (the first Charlie Chaplin short films are now more than a century old) and distance, as they all became famous all over the world. I'd add Tex Avery's cartoon characters to this list.
So I'd say in the above mentioned cases laughter did become "infinitely scalable". But then again, the guys and girls at Google who came up with this stupid idea are no comedic geniuses.
Using up a bit of my HN Karma to post this! Especially as Charlie Chaplin is a really quite interesting hacker - and I know we love our classic films here!
I don't know about "can't" but the reason why the studios won't innovate alternate business models is simple and is another example of the classic Innovator's Dilemma. The studios are huge companies embedded in other, even bigger companies, so there's a large amount of inertia. The MPAA is just the symptom of this. Go through the list Blank mentions: none, I repeat , none of those advances came from the industry itself, it was always some outside influence that the movie business resisted and then had to eventually deal with.
But the inertia of the studios is only part of the story. Large actor's unions, e.g. SAG, also oppose drastic changes, because they understand the current model and don't want it to be disrupted too much. This is similar to how teacher's unions are generally against efforts like the Khan Academy. Remember that many actors (e.g. Charlie Chaplin) in the 20s were against the introduction to sound to movies due to precisely the same kind of intellectual and business inertia.
One of my favorite quotes: "Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution."
It's not only blogs. The traditional media suffers from it as well. If there is significant hype with traction, everyone wants to hitch their wagon to it.
I saw a documentary about Charlie Chaplin. This was happening to him back in his day. This has probably been going on since we've had culture.