Are you disappointed 21st century tech is not as advanced and/or as sophisticated as you expected?

I'd have serious doubts about that. I'd think they would have been analog screens back in particularly the 80's (and before), and likely for at least a good part of the 90's too.

From what I can find, older electronics used Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid-crystal_display

Modern screens on smartphones are OLED displays, though the Nintendo DS and Switch still use LCD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLED

Neither do I...and at 84, I doubt one ever will. But there are already machine assisted surgeries taking place...and I expect more will be part of our future.

As I said, some jobs will never go to machines. But the jobs that machines do more productively should.

I think I was thinking of old CRT displays at the time of that post, my mistake.

I know what the sequel is about.

Sometimes I think about this and I think that in the 70/80 we had such good technology and we were developing very fast and in a good way... Looking what we have now, I would expect something more...

I've recently rediscovered a type of digital technology called "deepfakes". This video showcases a good example of deepfakes:



This is an innovative breakthrough in digital technology, specifically synthetic media. I didn't know the correct term for it.

I say "rediscovered" because I recall seeing a video in which Jordan Peele made a deepfake of President Obama speaking in a PSA a few years ago:

The tech has been fairly used in major Hollywood films for several years now, mainly to replace stunt actors' faces with the star actors. For example, replacing the trained ice skater's face with actress Margot Robbie's in I, Tonya.


A major example is 2010's Tron Legacy, which has Jeff Bridges playing two characters: the 61 year old programmer and the main villain who is supposed to look like 35. A different actor physically played the villain then the CGI team replace his face with Bridges'.


A very usual example happened in 2016's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Disney had actor Guy Henry play supporting character Grand Moff Tarkin, but his face was replaced with original actor Peter Cushing, who died in 1994. Cushing's estate allowed Disney to use his likeness for the film.

They made a movie out of the Nancy Kerrigan-Tonya Harding scandal back in the '90s?

Margot Robbie was portraying Tonya Harding in the movie?

This is what I mean about things most people know being a revelation.

When the story broke it was like something out of a film. The question wasn’t will they make a film but when.

And it’s been out for years.

Yes. The film is actually pretty good; it was nominated for several Academy Awards, with Allison Janney winning Best Supporting Actress for playing Tonya's abusive mother.

Australian born Margot Robbie was unaware of the scandal and thought the script was fictional after reading it. She did meet with Tonya Harding before filming.

If Robbie was playing Harding then why did the filmmakers think it was necessary to superimpose her face onto the real Harding's face?

Was Harding actually performing stunts for the film or did the filmmakers use stock footage of Harding performing on ice?

In either scenario why didn't they leave the real Harding's face unedited?

That makes no sense to me.

Why do you think?

It doesn’t matter how good an actor you are when we’re talking about a World class athlete. Robbie will never be able to skate as well as Harding.

You're missing the point. Why didn't they leave the real Harding's face unedited when the real Harding was performing in the movie?

Because the person playing her in the film looks different.

Who played Nancy Kerrigan?

That to me is stupid. Harding, going by what Rebel said, was Robbie's stunt double. No one was going to care if Robbie didn't look exactly like the real Harding or not.

In Spike Lee's X, Denzel Washington portays Malcolm X, and towards the end of the movie they showed stock footage of the real Malcolm X giving a speech.

In The Jesse Owens Story they had an actor portraying Owens, and towards the end of the movie they showed stock footage of the real Jesse Owens running in a marathon.

Caitlin Carver portrayal Nancy Kerrigan.

You can locate all the movie details, including the cast at imdb.com

I didn't see the movie, don't plan to. I remember the chain of events back then.

You get the point I'm making?

To answer my own question the filmmakers had to have used stock footage of Harding performing on ice. Robbie was portraying the young Tonya Harding.