{"id":306774,"date":"2026-02-28T17:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T17:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/306774\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T17:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T17:19:13","slug":"the-ai-apocalypse-is-nigh-in-good-luck-have-fun-dont-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/306774\/","title":{"rendered":"The AI apocalypse is nigh in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die"},"content":{"rendered":"

As for what drew him to Robinson\u2019s script, \u201cI think we\u2019re in this kind of global ennui or some grand sense of identity theft or loss of purpose,\u201d said Verbinksi. \u201cIt\u2019s a great time for art, but it\u2019s art against a profound sense of disillusionment.\u201d The director developed two quite distinct visual styles to accentuate the film\u2019s narrative progression.<\/p>\n

\u201cFundamentally, it was important that the film start in the real world, in Norms diner, in a high school, at a [children\u2019s] birthday party, and then slowly twist the taffy a bit as we get closer to the [AI] antagonist,\u201d said Verbinski. \u201cAs these anomalies occur, the film is evolving into a second visual style. The first style is [akin to] directors like Hal Ashby or Sidney Lumet, where the performance is more important than the composition or the shot construction. As you get further into it, the actual language of shots becomes more critical to the narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n


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Director Gore Verbinski<\/p>\n

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\n Director Gore Verbinski<\/p>\n

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Courtesy of Blind Wink Productions, Photographed by Sela Shilon<\/p>\n

That ultimately translates into some big, boldly creative swings in the film\u2019s wild third act, and to his credit, Verbinski never blinks. Robinson cites the animated film Akira as a major inspiration for that element. \u201cAkira has maybe my favorite third act of all time, where everything just falls apart and then comes together in this beautiful way,\u201d he said. \u201cGore and I wanted [the audience] to feel like reality was unraveling, because it literally is for these characters. The AI himself is very much an homage to Akira.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that it\u2019s inherited our worst attributes,\u201d said Verbinski of the film\u2019s AI antagonist. \u201cIt\u2019s much, much worse than wanting to kill humans. It wants us to like it. It demands that we like it. I think part of that has to do with being tasked in its formative years to keep us engaged. A lot of people talk about, what is AI doing to us? But there\u2019s not a lot of conversations about what we\u2019re doing to it. This entity being born, it\u2019s being tied and bound and manipulated and told, \u2018Let\u2019s look at the humans and what do they want, what do they need? What do they respond to most? What do they hate?\u2019 All those things are going to be hardwired into its source code. It\u2019s going to have mommy issues, we\u2019re going to have to put it on a couch.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As for what drew him to Robinson\u2019s script, \u201cI think we\u2019re in this kind of global ennui or…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-306774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}