Adam Sandler Becomes the Bear Jew in Must-See Inglourious Basterds Deepfake
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From Sylvester Stallone in Terminator 2 to Jim Carrey in The Shining, the possibilities presented by the ongoing proliferation of “deepfake” video technology are as endless as they are unsettling. In a pop-cultural context, at least, deepfake videos are fun as hell, allowing cinephiles to not only imagine, but also see the performances Hollywood never actually delivered for one reason or another. The latest example of this souped-up manifestation of fan-casting (first picked by The AV Club) corrects a Film Twitter-favorite missed connection, mapping the face of none other than Adam Sandler onto the iconic Inglourious Basterds character of Donnie “The Bear Jew” Donowitz, the bat-wielding, Nazi-bashing badass depicted by Eli Roth in Quentin Tarantino’s 2009 alternate-history WWII thriller.