Who could have imagined!?
“Countries will fall. Industries are gonna collapse,” Garfield says in that trailer. “And we get to be the ones to shepherd people into this new world.”
When the landscape of the studios is morphing and the studios are dealing with interests from Silicon Valley - let's say tycoons - that is something that makes the idea of art, the idea of representation, very slippery. The famous example of Orson Welles: a movie like Citizen Kane could probably not be done under the climate of today."
Sources say Rich's script was more broadly comic than Guadagnino's darkly funny final film. (Though you've still got Ike Barinholtz's Elon Musk, often reduced here to little more than an obscenely wealthy punchline.) Artificial is introduced as Ilya's story before Sam takes charge of the narrative; accordingly, the tone turns almost sinister, with Ilya and eventual OpenAI CTO Mira Murati (Monica Barbaro) looking on in disempowered horror.
Guadagnino and his D.P. Malik Hassan Sayeed give Artificial a true analog feel, shooting on 35mm with a playful liveness in the camerawork that contrasts with the gleaming, exactingly re-created Big Tech office spaces that hold much of the drama. The director approached the material as a Medusa's Touch-esque tale, with Ilya as the way in. "You start as a person, then you get touched by something that corrupts you inside out - and these corruptions start to spread and create a landscape of destruction all over," he says.
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Garfield also viewed Artificial as the closing of a chapter in another way, going back to his turn in The Social Network as Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin - there, portraying more of the Ilya than the Sam. Initially, this was not to be the case. "I was auditioning for Mark [Zuckerberg], and I was kind of told that the part was as good as mine," Garfield says. Then Jesse Eisenberg auditioned and proved undeniable for director David Fincher. "So this kind of scratched that itch for me. There was a dangling remaining itch that I wanted to dive into, really walk into and explore and leave no stone unturned."
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