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Animation and ActingRight now you have movies like "The Lord of the Rings," which has a huge amalgam of all types of technologies, opticals, as well as computer-generated special effects.
And you have movies like "The Incredibles," the other Pixar pieces that are completely created within the computer and utilize just recorded voices.
This sort of technology, which we used to make "The Polar Express," is going to allow a different kind of human scale to be brought to the movies. They're not going to be animated movies, and they're not going to be two-dimensional movies in an old-fashioned way.
In "The Polar Express" I play an eight-year-old boy. Right there you have something that is groundbreaking, I am not an eight-year-old boy. I could have been a black woman and still have played an eight-year-old boy with this technology.
We are also on top of a train going through a snowstorm at midnight across the Arctic Circle and yet no-one was actually there. We did not really have to go to the Arctic Circle and no-one's life was in danger when we did that.
It is a new technology that can be viewed as just as revolutionary as making King Kong climb the Empire State Building for the first time, but it is not going to supplant the true essence of what movie-making is, which is telling a good story with the best technology at your dispos
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