Director, screenwriter, and film critic Paul Schrader tried ordering screenplay ideas from ChatGPT. It seems the artist is thrilled and does not understand the crisis of ideas among screenwriters.
Known primarily for the scripts of “The Last Temptation of Christ” and Scorsese’s “Raging Bull,” De Palma’s “Obsession,” and Pollack’s “The Yakuza,” as well as his own “American Gigolo” and the adaptation of Yukio Mishima’s life, Paul Joseph Schrader, who started as a film critic and has repeatedly been on the juries of festivals, is a great connoisseur of cinema. He tried ChatGPT as a source of ideas for screenplays—in his own style and in the style of famous directors. It seems he could not contain his emotions and wrote about his experiments on Facebook:
“I’M STUNNED. I just asked chatgpt for “an idea for Paul Schrader film.” Then Paul Thomas Anderson. Then Quentin Tarantino. Then Harmony Korine. Then Ingmar Bergman. Then Rossellini. Lang. Scorsese. Murnau. Capra. Ford. Speilberg. Lynch. Every idea chatgpt came up with (in a few seconds) was good. And original. And fleshed out. Why should writers sit around for months searching for a good idea when AI can provide one in seconds?”.
Predictably, commentators exploded under this post: “Paul, are you okay?”, “I think Paul is broken”, “Jesus, Paul… please stop advertising this crap”.
Earlier, the 78-year-old director “fed” ChatGPT a script he wrote a few years ago and asked it to improve it. “Within five seconds, it responded with as good or better notes than I ever received”. Even earlier, he “realized that AI is smarter than me”.
“Has better ideas, has more efficient ways to execute them,” he wrote. “This is an existential moment, akin to what Kasparov felt in 1997 when he realized Deep Blue was going to beat him at chess”.
Schrader’s latest film “Oh, Canada” (2024) starring Richard Gere and Jacob Elordi in the lead roles, tells the story of a dying film director giving his last interview, reflecting on his life and career. At the Cannes Film Festival, where the premiere of the film took place, Schrader said that his next film will be a noir about “sexual obsession” titled “Non Compos Mentis”.
Source: Variety
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