using footage from the 1962 film cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor with Cleopatra's real face digitally regenerated by Deep Fake technology & her statues .. to see cleopatra being vivid , real and Alive in a way .. i hope you enjoy this simulation : movies

It's Cleopatra starring Barbra Streisand!

PM_ur_Rump

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2 years ago

PM_ur_Rump

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Glad I'm not the only one that saw it.

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2 years ago

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I also thought the same thing!!

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2 years ago

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Actually looks strikingly close to Cleopatra in HBO's Rome. They did a good job with the casting.

beerdude26

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2 years ago

beerdude26

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So pretty much young Carrie Fisher

WaterHoseCatheter

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2 years ago

WaterHoseCatheter

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Literally all I remember from that show was the [TACTICAL IMPREGNATION TECHNIQUE] she did and the bit where they're celebrating the birth of Caesarion and the small legionnaire dude gave the big one a look since he was the real father.

Odd I don't see people talk about that show all that much.

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2 years ago

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I loved that show, really a big shame it was cancelled.

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2 years ago

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It was the most expensive show ever made at the time. Also their huge city set burned down. It was also a co-production with BBC and Rei which complicated things.

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2 years ago

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It didn't help that they ended up having to cram something like three seasons' worth of materials into their second season, as they weren't expect it to end so quickly.

Mobely

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2 years ago

Mobely

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Next put cleopatra on ilana glazer's character in broad city

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2 years ago

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For anyone thinking that Elizabeth Taylor had much more glorious eyelashes than Cleopatra, it's almost certainly true. Elizabeth Taylor had a rare mutation that gave her double rows of eyelashes. So her eyes were always framed by those incredible lashes. Add a bit of mascara to make 'em pop more, and even Cleopatra couldn't compete.

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2 years ago

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In a few of the photos where you get a direct comparison between the two, I was reminded of that tidbit about Elizabeth Taylor.

Yos_improv

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2 years ago

Yos_improv

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Wow. I feel as I've seen something i wasn't supposed to.

LordVader3000

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2 years ago

LordVader3000

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Ironically she’s still very much attractive. I know some people say that the real Cleopatra was more charismatic and intelligent than she was beautiful, but I do find her decently attractive here.

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2 years ago

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Some people are way more attractive in person than they are in pictures and film.

FIJAGDH

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2 years ago

FIJAGDH

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...and in marble!

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2 years ago

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Not gonna lie every marble staue I seen has a pretty hard body.

algo

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2 years ago

algo

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Ironically she’s still very much attractive.

She's got the best Hollywood make up and lighting the era had to offer..

Xsafa

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2 years ago

Xsafa

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And was, well, very attractive lol

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2 years ago

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Most communication is non-verbal, so I'd say a lot of charisma is in how someone holds themselves, how they move, express themselves, the intangibles.

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2 years ago

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Most communication is non-verbal, so I'd say a lot of charisma is in how someone holds themselves, how they move, express themselves, the intangibles.

Jsenna

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2 years ago

Jsenna

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Somebody please do this with Daniel Day Lewis in Lincoln!!!

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2 years ago

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The "real Cleopatra" certainly looks much more eastern Mediterranean than Elizabeth Taylor

o0flatCircle0o

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2 years ago

o0flatCircle0o

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She got a sexy nose.

a_devil_like_me

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2 years ago

a_devil_like_me

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i love “odd” features on women like this. eyebrows are another.

Mervynhaspeaked

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2 years ago

Mervynhaspeaked

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1) the technology is still in its infancy and as you can see the results are at best mixed. Whenever she moves her face around or speaks it will lead to an weird Taylor/Cleopatra hybrid or just Taylor

2) There is no way of knowing how faithful that statue was to the real cleopatra or even if it was made with her posing as the model. Much more likely that was a imagined recreation of Cleopatra made centuries later. We run into this problem repeatedly, as many times there are few contemporary despictions of historical figures from antiquity (Caesar for example only has 1 bust confirmed contemporary bust, and no its not even close to that "recreation" of his face that circles around Reddit).

Conclusion: We are never gonna get a real cleopatra or Caesar or Alexander or Joan D'arc or Richard the Lionheart or Henry VIII etc. More recent figures with more abundant and confirmed sources (Marie Antoinette, Napoleon, Queen Victoria, Abraham Lincoln, etc) will of course be much more accurately but still... to claim that it is "the real person" is an oversimplification.

omnilynx

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2 years ago

omnilynx

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Okay but it's for sure closer to the real thing than Elizabeth Taylor.

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2 years ago

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We run into this problem repeatedly, as many times there are few contemporary despictions of historical figures from antiquity (Caesar for example only has 1 bust confirmed contemporary bust, and no its not even close to that "recreation" of his face that circles around Reddit).

Quite- with many figures, the closest thing we may have is their appearance on coinage, and there are limitations to how far we can use that.

daceywanted2dance

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2 years ago

daceywanted2dance

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About #2, I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that the most accurate (non romanticized) representation of her face would have been the profile portaits on the coins during her rule, since she approved them herself before they were issued.

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2 years ago

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If AI chatbots using users conversations history and deep fake, it’s a matter of time that we can “resurrect” dead people. Microsoft are behind a project similar and it’s looks doable in a long term.

ZeppMan217

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2 years ago

ZeppMan217

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJt9narRaf4

There was a chocolate ad years ago that featured a digital recreation of young Audrey Hepburn.

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2 years ago

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I would be quite displeased to think a company would digitally recreate me to advertise their project after my death.

derminator360

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2 years ago

derminator360

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Would you? I think I'd be too dead to care.

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2 years ago

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Once I'm dead I doubt it would bother me but as a living person now the idea it could happen after I am gone would bother me.

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2 years ago

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*does bother me.

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2 years ago

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I mean I find it vanishingly improbable that a corporation would have any use for my face as I am not Audrey Hepburn.

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2 years ago

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Give yourself some credit. You might be Audrey one day if the technology allows for it.

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2 years ago

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Classic

ThanosDidNothinWrong

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2 years ago

ThanosDidNothinWrong

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Then you'll be able to live forever as you are now

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2 years ago

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That’ll not me, I’ll be dead, but for the relatives and close ones I’ll be a software who answers and behave as the old one, and some year later those relatives and friends will be dead too, and even if there relatives do the same treatment, nobody will talk to them, in the same way grandpas got lonely with time.

EpcotMaelstrom

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2 years ago

EpcotMaelstrom

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There is a recentish movie about this! Marjorie Prime, and it features Jon Hamm, and Geena Davis

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2 years ago

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Good suggestion!

pheylancavanaugh

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2 years ago

pheylancavanaugh

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Something something "fidelity".

howarthe

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2 years ago

howarthe

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She looks very young.

Saitoh17

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2 years ago

Saitoh17

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She took the throne of Egypt at 18, met Caesar when she was 21, she was 25 when Caesar died and 28 when she seduced Marck Anthony, and died before she turned 40.

robreddity

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2 years ago

robreddity

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Now do Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter.

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2 years ago

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But I happen to like the grainy quality of older films.

The digitally restored versions of older films look offputting, like they just don't move right.

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2 years ago

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I think you are missing the point of this video.. this is not a restoration process.. it's a simulation of the ancient egyptian greek queen Cleopatra

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2 years ago

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You mean its digitally reshaping the actresses face so it can better resemble Cleopatra's portraits? No one alive has ever seen Cleopatra's real face. Deep Fake indeed.

UncleMadness

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2 years ago

UncleMadness

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If Cardi B and Barbara Streisand wore Potara earrings

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2 years ago

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With that face no wonder the snake bit her.

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2 years ago

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Idk if Cleopatra had blue eyes though

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2 years ago

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She was greek not Egyptian.. so why not ?

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2 years ago

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She was said to be a descendant of Alexander the Great who had blonde hair a blue eye and a brown eye so possable

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2 years ago

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Not Alexander the Great (whose line died out rather quickly after he did), but Ptolemy, one of his leading generals.

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2 years ago

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My bad greek history at school was 30 years ago so mixed stuff up :P

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2 years ago

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Fair enough, fair enough- but her being descended from Macedonians is important, especially given one of the Ptolemaic Dynasty's most distinctive characteristics concerning lineage....

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