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The Free Movie: Frame-by-frame, handrawn reproduction of "The Bee
Movie" (2023)
Author : gaws
Score : 251 points
Date : 2025-01-13 00:27 UTC (22 hours ago)
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| kevingadd wrote:
| From a few moments of watching, it seems like over half the
| crowd-sourced frames are just trolling and not actually a
| representation of the original film. I guess that kind of adds to
| the aesthetic, but I'm a little surprised they kept those troll
| frames...
| lukevp wrote:
| Yeah I agree, there should be a voting system that can kick out
| bogus frames and have someone remake them, would be really
| interesting to see what it'd look like if everyone was trying
| to recreate it. Kind of like rotoscoping I suppose. As it is,
| there's just a ton of discontinuity because of the troll
| frames.
| chem83 wrote:
| I imagine that trolls would eventually band together to try
| to steamroll the voting system like it happens on r/Place.
| Maybe.
| nielsole wrote:
| If votes are attributable, such voting rings should be
| easily detectable
| pcblues wrote:
| This is a fascinating idea. Sort of like a wikipedia, but
| trying to establish the truth of a single movie rather than
| everything we know.
|
| It would probably end up needing moderators, harassing people
| for funding, and pay for political purposes as well as its
| core reason for existing :)
| doubled112 wrote:
| For at least a few seconds it was an odd game of phallus or
| frame.
| jsight wrote:
| Yeah, there really needed to be some voting or other feedback
| system to encourage consistency over time.
|
| This is a mildly interesting experiment that largely just looks
| like a failure at the moment.
| Deprogrammer9 wrote:
| Thanks for making me watch that? WTF
| bytematic wrote:
| would be cool without all the trolling
| smolder wrote:
| Better in concept than execution, for sure. I feel bad for the
| people that actually drew their frames competently.
| ternnoburn wrote:
| The execution is part of the art of it, like, there's a
| statement being made about the Internet, anonymity, and
| humanity here. It may not be what the artist originally set
| out to create with their art, which I find fascinating.
| binary_slinger wrote:
| Who is going to put each frame into image to image AI model and
| get out a photorealistic output and recompile?
| cafeinux wrote:
| Lots of photorealistic phalluses are going to be generated.
| davidmurdoch wrote:
| Only if you're using a model trained on them
| RankingMember wrote:
| I think it would be against the spirit of the project not
| to do so
| Terretta wrote:
| I've read white papers seemingly claiming with the right prompt
| these sketches would turn into the indicated art.
|
| That would be quite the compression scheme.
| renewiltord wrote:
| I watched 5 seconds and it was garbage. Felt like /dev/random
| tuanx5 wrote:
| Reminiscent of Shrek Retold
| tristanj wrote:
| Shrek Retold https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM70TROZQsI is a
| similar fan-made reproduction, but it's way more polished. The
| movie is split into roughly 1min sections, with each one done by
| a different creator. The quality is all over the place, in a
| hilarious way. One minute it's produced by a professional
| animator nailing the scenes, then the next minute it's people
| goofing around in their backyard.
| asabla wrote:
| Some of the most goofiest scenes reminded me about my self
| growing up, recording dumb re-creations of movies/tv-shows with
| friends.
|
| I had a blast watching that! thank you for sharing.
| lloeki wrote:
| I believe the trendsetter was Star Wars Uncut, made of 15s
| slices:
|
| https://www.starwarsuncut.com/
|
| Which I now realise I never watched in full...
| cafeinux wrote:
| I love the differences between those three movies (The Free
| Movie, Shrek Retold and Star Wars Uncut). Star Wars really
| looks like a work of love. Shrek looks like a work of love
| that tries it's best to not take itself seriously. Free Movie
| looks like a bizarre troll post.
|
| While this is coherent with each movie's tone itself, and
| perhaps with the time each "demaster" was made (I don't know,
| I didn't check), I feel like this is most coherent with how
| each movie is viewed by the community:
|
| - Star Wars is a beloved movie, with a huge honest fan base.
| Thus, it was remade with love and attention to detail.
|
| - Shrek is a beloved movie, but doesn't take itself seriously
| in the first place, and is also a meme. Thus it was remade
| with love, but trying hard to look like it's a troll.
|
| - Bee Movie is mainly a meme, isn't AFAIK a beloved movie,
| and its fan base is mostly made of memers and trolls. Thus it
| was low-effortly remade at this non-flattering image.
| johnnyanmac wrote:
| Bee movie has more of a cult fanbase at best. It's still
| Seinfeld, and the jokes aged surprisingly well.
|
| But there's only so far you can get with a story of a bee
| breaking out of his natural programming,followed by a bee-
| human romance, followed by said bee suing humanity for
| stealing bee-kind's honey. You can't even truly explain the
| plot without breaking it down into 3 episodes.
|
| It's a surprisingly good benchmark to ask "is it better
| than Bee movie" when measuring other Dreamworks movies
| against themselves.
| soperj wrote:
| You forgot the part where the bees then sit around and do
| nothing after getting all their honey back. It's
| basically a diatribe against universal basic income,
| since without the incentive to slave away for the rest of
| their lives, their lives become meaningless.
| Freak_NL wrote:
| > Bee Movie is mainly a meme, isn't AFAIK a _beloved_
| movie, [...]
|
| All you had to do was add one more 'e'. What a senseless
| waste of a pun...
| cf100clunk wrote:
| > Star Wars is a beloved movie, with a huge honest fan
| base. Thus, it was remade with love and attention to
| detail.
|
| Agreed. Star Wars Uncut exists because devotees wanted to
| set the record straight regarding controversial changes in
| later versions, and their efforts were laudable. Still, the
| image and sound quality cannot match the latest, greatest
| studio versions, so watching Uncut versions on the newest
| home theatre gear means accepting the warts and all.
|
| Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's remaster was also a labour of
| love but with a different purpose (image clarity and
| upscaling):
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19453745
| dmonitor wrote:
| I believe you are confusing Star Wars Uncut with Star
| Wars Despecialized Edition. Image and sound quality are
| far, far away from the first thing I would point out when
| distinguishing Uncut from the studio masters.
| wk_end wrote:
| There's an extremely goofy version of RoboCop that's sort of
| like this as well.
|
| https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3528906/
| aceazzameen wrote:
| The Robocop remake was my first thought. Some of those scenes
| are hilarious.
| plussed_reader wrote:
| Our Robocop Remake is a scene by scene remake, made in the
| same spirit as this FreeBee Movie.
|
| Worth a watch with friends present:
| https://vimeo.com/85903713
| vhodges wrote:
| There is an episode of Bob's Burgers that did something similar
| to this. https://bobs-
| burgers.fandom.com/wiki/Brunchsquatch/Trivia#:~...
| bentcorner wrote:
| Also there's the "The Princess Bride: Home Movie":
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29s1yU3nGkQ
|
| Note that this isn't really a fan-remake as it's professional
| actors but with the spliced scenes but it's pretty
| entertaining.
| tzs wrote:
| Similar is "South Park Reanimated: The List" [1]. From the
| description:
|
| > 6 years, 175 animators, 260 unique scenes, 1 copyright
| dispute, and a lot of love-- we are proud to finally present
| the South Park Reanimated Project! We are so grateful for
| everyone who participated and made this such an amazing
| recreation. We hope you enjoy!
|
| [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QXX6AnO0nI
| doublerabbit wrote:
| Incredible. A great episode too.
| sirbranedamuj wrote:
| also featuring a great reimagining of I'm A Believer by Hot Dad
| :)
| dang wrote:
| Related:
|
| _The Free Movie_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36687399
| - July 2023 (100 comments)
| Reviving1514 wrote:
| This is amazing. I love that this exists. I'm surprised how
| negative some of the comments are.
| SV_BubbleTime wrote:
| I skipped to a random spot, and lasted about 5 seconds. Two
| drawings of dicks, 50% scribbles, and a couple frames of just
| the word PENIS. Yes, this is truly a noteworthy effort.
|
| I'm as equally curious as you, just on the other side of the
| horseshoe.
| polonbike wrote:
| Same here. If you skip to a random part of the movie, and
| move frame by frame, it becomes a game of "spot the penis".
| Just one or two can be "tolerated", but we're far from that
| here, so ... My opinion is that it does not really belong in
| HN
| filcuk wrote:
| Because of a penis drawing? Are we in preschool? There have
| been those ever since caveman times.
| shermantanktop wrote:
| Did the caveman Bee Movie have penises in it? Because
| then you'd have a really good point.
| robertlagrant wrote:
| I think the point is we're not in preschool, nor are we
| cave(wo)men, so we don't need the penis drawings.
| gopher_space wrote:
| A penis drawing isn't something that's needed, it's
| something that happens. Feel free to rail against them in
| a Kanute-like manner, but learning to cock an eyebrow and
| say "yeah, that figures" can be self-preserving.
|
| For what it's worth I too prefer the plausible
| deniability of Georgia O'Keefe's outrageous lies. It's a
| more sensible chuckle.
| robertlagrant wrote:
| No-one's railing against anything.
| gopher_space wrote:
| I was hoping to introduce my old "donging through the
| millennia" thesis work and ride that hobby horse around
| the room a little :(
| andybak wrote:
| > My opinion is that it does not really belong in HN
|
| It's a fascinating tech/social experiment. It belongs on HN
| because it was done and the outcome is what it is.
|
| If you actually want to watch the Bee Movie then watch the
| original. I doubt generating a watchable alternative was
| behind anyone's motivation in this.
| aceazzameen wrote:
| I'm sure this one had an absurdly short TTP (time to penis).
| astura wrote:
| >I'm surprised how negative some of the comments are.
|
| It's literally unwatchable - It's 85% scribbles and "jokes."
| tyleo wrote:
| I can understand the negativity because this only appeals to
| specific sensibilities.
|
| I admit that it's low brow but it hits my fascination the exact
| right way. To me there is something special about so many
| people being organized around something so mundane.
| WesolyKubeczek wrote:
| Nice idea, but I'm struggling to remember myself ever having
| consumed so many different pictures of dicks over the course of
| five minutes.
| eigenblake wrote:
| We could probably fine-tune a tiny convolutional neutral net
| image classifier and just hold on the last good frames for longer
| to cover the frames with clear trolling and nsfw images.
| BriggyDwiggs42 wrote:
| I think that would miss the point
| mkagenius wrote:
| No, that point was already made. This will be a new point
| unlike the previous point.
| BriggyDwiggs42 wrote:
| But i like the previous point. Why would you take it from
| me?
| I-M-S wrote:
| It's not taking away, a new point is by definition
| adding. Just like The Free Movie added to The Bee Movie.
| airstrike wrote:
| I think the word "crowdsourced" is conspicuously missing from the
| title. It would explain a lot.
| cafeinux wrote:
| They do say it's "crowd-pirated".
| echelon wrote:
| Back when I was first playing around with AI, I built a website
| where people could upload fine tuned GlowTTS and Tacotron2 text
| to speech model weights.
|
| One of the first things users did was to emit the entire
| transcript of the Bee Movie:
|
| https://youtu.be/0_ToJXHnVFQ?si=qfMNuJXAHW-hWSz5
| r-w wrote:
| Epilepsy warning please! :-)
| pajko wrote:
| The bunny reenactments are cool too: http://www.angryalien.com/
| imdsm wrote:
| I clicked randomly, at 00:37:09 and got a penis
| ikesau wrote:
| I drew a few frames in this, but it was a real shame to see how
| little quality control there was in the final cut. Makes it kind
| of unwatchable.
|
| Progress near the end was really fast, as lots of people had
| caught on and were racing to get as many frames in as possible.
|
| I really don't think this concept has been worn out yet, and
| someone could make their own version of this with a small review
| step and then we'd get some fun, actually watchable hand-drawn
| movies :)
| ElCapitanMarkla wrote:
| What would be interesting is if multiple submissions could be
| made for each frame, and you could rank each.
|
| You could build a version of the best frames every year and
| watch it progress.
| sjf wrote:
| You're right, I can't believe they didn't cut frames that are
| totally unrelated, there so many left in that are just
| scribbles or text.
|
| I just tried making some frames for the dune remake. The editor
| is so hard to use. I can only draw a one pixel line with no
| smoothing. It's really laggy/glitchy. I can barely even make
| out what the original frame is because it's in grayscale with
| an overlay. I got one frame that could have been a landscape of
| snow and rocks, or it could have been sand dunes, or water. I
| have no idea, it was just gray and white blobs.
|
| I get that they are going for a retro style, but even MS paint
| had different size brushes.
|
| It's such a cool idea, I wish the tooling was better.
| GrantMoyer wrote:
| I can certainly see why many commenters here find this many dicks
| hard to swallow, but when I take them wholly with the rest of the
| work, I find they come together satisfyingly and rawly defile
| copyright and DRM.
| yboris wrote:
| Different approach: splice in visual and audio effects of guns
| into Harry Potter
|
| _Harry Potter and the Deathly Weapons_ -- Harry Potter With Guns
|
| https://harrypotterwithguns.com/
| conductr wrote:
| I never watched or read the series but my wife was watching it
| (last week actually), I passed by and saw a chase scene where
| they were shooting from their wands at each other and I made a
| comment like "Oh, it's Jason Bourne for kids.. now I see the
| appeal"
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