Legendary German director Werner Herzog, recognized for his epic shoots and daring bets, fears nothing on the movie set —- particularly not synthetic intelligence, which he tells AFP is “too silly” to make good films.
The director of “Aguirre, the Wrath of God” (1972), which was perilously filmed within the jungle, and “Fitzcarraldo” (1982), for which he had a 300-tonne boat hauled over a mountain, doesn’t consider synthetic intelligence will change the world of cinema.
“It will likely be a beautiful instrument for actual property,” the famously eccentric and opinionated 82-year-old German informed AFP.
“You could be in Paris, you may sit at dwelling in Paris, and any person provides you a home in Hawaii, and walks you thru it. It is an ideal instrument for this.
“However it’s not a instrument for storytelling,” he mentioned.
Requested whether or not an AI-powered system like ChatGPT might write screenplays, he mentioned he had been impressed by a few of its poetry however didn’t consider it posed a risk to human creation.
“They will do it. If it is stereotypical, sure, they will do it. And even making movies, but it surely won’t make movies nearly as good as mine,” he mentioned.
“Synthetic intelligence is just too silly for that.”
Herzog was in Paris throughout a retrospective of his most up-to-date movies on the Pompidou Centre and forward of the launch of the French version of his memoirs, “Each Man for Himself and God In opposition to All”.
– Trump enchantment –
Turning to politics, he mentioned US president-elect Donald Trump had been constantly underestimated for his enchantment within the disenfranchised heartlands of America liable for his re-election on November 5.
“We’ve got to take Trump critically as a result of he is a voice of the heartland of America. And he has a majority,” he informed AFP.
Though he pressured he was not defending the Republican, he praised him for being “the primary American president who speaks of the mindless American wars after the Second World Battle: Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, you identify it, Libya.
“He is the one one who has the braveness to communicate of the mindless wars which have to cease,” he mentioned.
Nonetheless producing movies in his twilight years, together with the 2022 documentary “The Hearth Inside” about vulcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft, Herzog mentioned he has additionally begun to take into consideration securing his legacy.
Regardless of claiming “no self-importance” about his mark on the historical past of cinema, he mentioned he had been persuaded by his household to arrange a basis that can personal all of the rights to his movies.
“This basis has a process to protect the movies and to current the movies. And that might be approach past my very own bodily life and I’ve accepted it. I’ve accepted it as a part of my obligation as a filmmaker,” he mentioned.
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