US EditionFilmmaker Wants to Replace Zwarte Pieten in Popular Movie Bennie Stout Using AI
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Sinterklaas film: Thanks to AI, Johan Nijenhuis's classic Sinterklaas film 'Bennie Stout' (2011) features sooty Piets instead of old-fashioned black...
Black Petes in the fourteen-year-old Sinterklaas film "Bennie Stout" are being replaced by sooty Petes using artificial intelligence. According to producer Klaas de Jong, streaming services won't show the film because of the Petes' black appearance. The 2011 film is set in the 1930s and is about a boy named Bennie Stout. He wants to go to Spain to visit his father, who lives there. The film was a box office hit, attracting more than 217,000 view…
The 2010 children's film "Bennie Stout" is getting a digital makeover. Director Johan Nijenhuis wants to use artificial intelligence to replace all the Black Pete characters in the film with sooty Petes. He confirmed this to the Nederlands Dagblad newspaper. An American tech company has already been contacted to make this possible.
Filmmaker wants to replace Zwarte Pieten in popular movie Bennie Stout using AI
The creators of the successful Dutch youth film Bennie Stout from 2010 want to use artificial intelligence to replace the Black Pete characters, a controversial Dutch holiday figure linked to the Sinterklaas tradition that uses blackface, with soot-smeared Pete characters. The film’s director, Johan Nijenhuis, confirmed a report written by the Nederlands Dagblad on Wednesday.
PHOTO: Not the Pete from the story. You can say a lot about the 1930s, but at least there wasn't a fuss about... Black Pete. But we're now living in the 1920s, and that means everything is AI, everything looks like America, and everything is offensive. Mix that up for fifteen minutes, and you get the news item "Black Petes in Bennie Stout's Sinterklaas film replaced by sooty Petes," which is about a film from 2011, but set in the 1930s. And back…
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