Kind of odd, though, that the Scottish version of Willy Wonka would have an Irish name.
I fee like “pasadise” and “enchering” and “catgacating” should have been red flags.
AI needs some fine tuning before it becomes accurately racist.
I wonder how one would spell “Willy” in proper Scots Gaelic. “Mhuilliagh” ?
“William” is “Uilleam”. So some variation on that.
A pasadise of sweet treats
Look again: “A pasadise of sweet teats.”
ETS: Oops. Just noticed you put a strikeout through the R.
There is a very minuscule nub of an “r” appended to the “t” so I didn’t think it fair to completely exclude it.
I actually feel sorry (well, a little) for the people behind the Wonkafiasco. It looks like the actually tried, and failed spectacularly, rather than just be cheap, lazy and/or evil. I don’t think you can plan to be that bad!
I think “cheap and lazy” was the goal from the beginning, otherwise they wouldn’t have offloaded all the creativity onto a free AI that did the work for them.
My guess is that they saw the popularity of Wonka, wanted to bank on it, and weren’t smart enough to realize how bad it was. “If a computer says this is how to do it who are we to argue?”
So did the customers get their money back? Man, I’d be pissed. Messing with kids like that.
It doesn’t look like they made any attempt to proofread or edit their AI-generated art or scripts to even see if the stuff it called for was possible on their budget (let along congruent with the laws of physics), and the actors weren’t even supplied with said script until two days before the event.
My guess is that they sold the tickets well in advance, and thought they’d be able to do something real in time, but it took a lot longer than they thought, and so they panicked and tried to cheat it with AI at the last minute.
…and the public didn’t receive their script at all.
That was my initial thought as well. The difference between what it was supposed to look like (all immersive) vs what it actually looked like (a bake sale), makes me think someone got in way over their head. Someone* thought this would take a day or three to build when, in reality, it would have taken months of planning and working with contractors, designers, artists, makers etc.
I’m also curious if the props I see are off the shelf or if someone made them. I ask because if they were having these things made, I could see that being where the problem came from. It’s not uncommon for makers and clients not to see eye to eye on these things. Just as an example, these mushrooms; I could see where someone hired a local maker to build them without realizing the time between the first contact and them being delivered is months, not days, or it’s $5000, not $300.
Or maybe it was a ripoff/scam from the very beginning.
*Whether that was a contractor or the person running it or someone else, I don’t know.
The actor who played “Willy McDuff” shares his thoughts (six clips in the thread);
Cracks me up… “First red flag that this was fishy is that they cast me.” At least the guy is honest.
“You could say it was a ‘world of imagination’ in that you had to imagine it wasn’t a dirty old warehouse.”
He doesn’t look much like Gene Wilder or Johnny Depp, does he.
“They were expecting Timothee Chalamet and got Timothy Charlatan.”