If you thought algorithms were these boring formulas that have no point, then it is time for you to rethink. Algorithms these days are replacing the need for human intellect altogether (do you smell a hint of irony in there?). As much as this may sound totally unbelievable but it is in fact the truth. The first ever short film has been made that is completely written by an algorithm, and is finally out and it is pretty great. Although the convoluted dialogues of the screenplay needs a few mental gymnastics to be performed by the audience’s brains, but then again isn’t that the best thing about sci-fi movies after all?
The story behind this amazing film starts with an aspiring film-maker Oscar Sharp, named appropriately for the movie-making world (Again irony… Get it? Oscar… movies?!). This young screenplay writer wanted to submit a plot for Sci-Fi London’s 48 Hour Film Challenge. So, to create the next big hit in the world of Sci-Fi short films he read all the screenplays he could find, of the best sci-fi movies on the internet. Then the right inspiration struck him and he came up with the idea to feed all these movie plots into an algorithm, starting from movies like Ghostbusters to The X-Flies and movies like Interstellar, The Fifth Element and many more and let the algorithm work up on a script on its own. Ingenious you say or was it a complete idiocy? Only to be discovered later that it was a great idea only with the right algorithm. Continue reading “The First Sci-Fi Movie Written By An Algorithm!”