‘The Fall Guy’s’ Emily Blunt and Ryan Gosling talked about the ‘Hollywood algorithm’ in a recent interview with Vanity Fair Italy.
As per Variety, Gosling said algorithms make him feel pushed to be even more creative. So, he chooses movies that feel more personal like ‘The Fall Guy’ to break the algorithm:
“You can’t beat an algorithm at its job. And this, paradoxically, forces me to be more human, to choose ‘handmade’ projects like ‘The Fall Guy,’ which is based on personal experiences, our footprints and our stories, which we poured into the characters.”
Blunt Agrees With Gosling
Blunt doesn’t like how algorithms are making big decisions in Hollywood. She thinks it’s weird to let a computer decide what movies will be hits and which won’t. She gave ‘Oppenheimer’ as an example and said:
“Some new things frustrate me: algorithms, for example. I hate that fucking word, excuse the expletive! How can it be associated with art and content? How can we let it determine what will be successful and what will not? Let me explain with an example, I was in a three-hour film about a physicist, which had the impact it had – the algorithms probably wouldn’t have grasped it. My hope is that ‘Oppenheimer’ and similar projects are not considered anomalies, that we stop translating creative experience into diagrams.”
‘Oppenheimer’ is very long, had a mature rating, and didn’t have any action scenes — the algorithm usually wouldn’t bet on a movie like that. It still earned more than $960 million worldwide and became the top money-making biographical drama ever.
Director Brian Helgeland’s sequel to ‘A Knight’s Tale’ is likely stopped by an algorithm, although the first movie gets more popular each year.
‘The Fall Guy’ opens in U.S. theaters on May 3. Watch the trailer below.
