Has anybody seen the viddie where they put Jim Carrey into The Shining? It's incredible how far technology has come, and it's also incredibly scary. This stuff can and will compromise the integrity of surveillance footage. It's only a matter of time before a grand conspiracy occurs involving this stuff, but is it new? Haven't we all been faked out for decades?

Shortly after the Shining video, we went back to the 90s for a T2 redux with Stallone's face on Arnold's body. I read that this was actually the idea for Face/Off with Travolta and Cage, and it's much more believable to two beefcakes who have a similar body type than it was for Cage/Travolta, but that movie wasn't bad either way.

So photoshop is definitely a thing, and it's much more easy to believe that someone doctored an image rather than a video, but we can go back a few years further... Back to the future... and with Arnold again... in... The Running Man!


Made in 1987 (one of the greatest years of cinematic history), The Running Man was set in the distant future of 2019, just like Blade Runner, only much more believable. We didn't have flying cars and replicants in this dystopian future. Just a few interactive game shows and bad fashions.

So there's a bit in the later half of the movie where Arnold's face is digitally put onto a double's body for a fight with Jesse Ventura. This deep fake is a bit more advanced than our current tech, because they were able to capture and impose his Austrian accent, and they pulled no punches with their body double when Ventura impales him into a spiked wall.



So much talk about deep fakes lately, but they're nothing new! After all, this is the future!