AI movies aren’t all slop—for some aspiring filmmakers they can be empowering
Yang Wang, co-director of Between Before and After, a moody breakup story, told me that AI reduced costs and improved efficiency, but had not changed the essence. Filmmakers still have to build relationships between characters and organize shots. Long takes, such as Martin Scorsese’s famous nightclub entry in Goodfellas, remain nearly impossible to pull off with AI, he lamented.
