Farran Smith Nehme
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Film critic; NSFC, NYFCC. Bylines at Criterion, Sight & Sound, Noir City, my own Substack, and wherever fine film geeks are found.
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![He recalls a recent conversation he had with a group of fellow film-makers, one of whom had just seen the 2015 British documentary Listen to Me Marlon. The documentary makers had used what was, in 2015, cutting edge software to create a 3D rendering of Marlon Brando reciting Macbeth.
“In the future, anybody who wants to pay the rights for it can have Marlon Brando in their movie,” this film-maker had enthused to Miller. But another director – “younger and wiser than most of us”, Miller recalls – disagreed.
“[They] replied yes, you’ll have a character who looks like Marlon Brando, but you’ll have nothing close to Marlon Brando. You won’t have the engagement, that performances arise out of the collaborative effort between other actors and directors and writers and so on. You will not have the essence of Brando.
“And that applies to everything – whether it’s a song, a novel, or whatever.
“You won’t have that human essence.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pen6g4gaisumaynbdlqkgkdt/bafkreidm6qlmxjz6t2q4iqgjwpuhrdiwyt7kewiievnlefh63weojkqafi@jpeg)