The Great Gatsby was remade in just two days using AI: You’ll be amazed by the result

I froze when I watched the video. Okay, it’s not perfect. But it’s quite amazing. It was made in just a few days, and every part of it was created with some artificial intelligence-based tool.

Many of you have probably read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s wonderful romantic novel The Great Gatsby, or have seen the movie based on it, starring the brilliant Leonardo DiCaprio.

Well, Christian Fleischer, a.k.a The Visiblemaker, reimagined the story. And he did it in a very special way! He used several AI-based tools and “shot” his own adaptation, CatSpy, in just two days.

ChatGPT wrote the script, RunwayML generated the frames needed for the film, and the sound effects were created using ElevenLabs.

Fleischer wrote about the process: “We generated 500 frames in RunwayML, then selected the 65 best and used MotionArray to make the experience mesmerizing.”

The elements were finally put together with the help of Adobe Premiere. The video was uploaded to YouTube just a few hours ago.

Here’s the masterpiece:

//The whole thing is so primitive, yet there’s something captivating about it. The thought that it was “made” by artificial intelligence. To me, it doesn’t seem dangerous or that it takes away people’s jobs, but rather the opposite: it opens up new doors. It lets us into a different kind of dimension.

Do you know the very first sci-fi film in movie history? In 1902, French director Georges Méliès had a great idea and “transported” humanity to the Moon.

Méliès was one of the pioneers of the early film industry, laying the foundation for the world of film tricks and visual effects. In his 14-minute-long, black-and-white silent film, we follow the adventures of a team of astronauts as they travel to the Moon on their rocket.

The famous scene where the rocket crashes into one of the Moon’s eyes is still an iconic image in popular culture. Méliès drew inspiration from Jules Verne and H. G. Wells’ Men on the Moon. He combined the dreamlike, astonishing visuals of the era with science-fiction elements. The film defined the sci-fi genre more than a hundred years ago and remains deservedly memorable to this day.

Check out the film:

And there are the first moving pictures from the end of the 19th century, made by the Lumière brothers. One of the most well-known is The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station, made in 1895 (original title: L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat).

Auguste and Louis Lumière played pioneering roles in film production and projection. This short black-and-white film was shot with the brothers’ Cinématographe camera and reflects the simplicity of early moving pictures: the 50-second-long recording shows a train arriving at the station, greeted by passengers and railway workers. The film's historical significance is indisputable, as it was one of the first moving pictures shown to the public.

Watch the “terrifying” scene:)

According to an anecdote, when it was first screened, the audience was so shocked and frightened by the sight of the train’s arrival that many ran out of the screening room, thinking the train was really about to crash into them.

Film projection was a great novelty at the time, as moving-picture technology was still in its infancy, and viewers were not accustomed to this experience. Now, 120 years later, we have 3D movies and can even watch Netflix on our phones.

Perhaps this is how I would compare the development of artificial intelligence: still taking baby steps, but moving forward at breakneck speed, and how far it will go is unpredictable.

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