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Hope & Stephen, your TAs for this course, take you on a comprehensive journey through the life and work of one of cinema's most important auteurs.

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The Welles estate responds to the AI AMBERSONS news. Weak response, in our opinion, but given they've sold off Welles's voice for AI usage, it would seem hypocritical to go as hard as the man himself likely would.

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A snippet from the linked Variety article on the proposed AI reconstruction of THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS. The text in the snippet reads as follows: “We saw the various articles on ‘Ambersons’ today. In general, the estate has embraced AI technology to create a voice model intended to be used for VO work with brands. That said, this attempt to generate publicity on the back of Welles’ creative genius is disappointing, especially as we weren’t even given the courtesy of a heads up,” a spokesperson for the Welles estate wrote. “While AI is inevitable, it still cannot replace the creative instincts resident in the human mind, which means this effort to make Ambersons whole will be a purely mechanical exercise without any of the uniquely innovative thinking or a creative force like Welles.”
September 10, 2025 at 1:47 AM