Enemy of the state - Freeze,Rotate,Zoom,Focus,Enhance!

Movietwist · 221.2K views · 2010-11-16 · 1:16

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Overview

A one-minute scene from the film Enemy of the State showing absurdly implausible image enhancement, with freezing, rotating, zooming and focusing on a video.

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Invoked as a joke whenever AI image reconstruction or enhancement is discussed.

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Film & TV clips Computer vision, speech & NLP

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b1n · 2026-06 · Joke / meme
Enemy of the State predicted this: [VIDEO] It's only a matter of time before it's in use by law enforcement: [LINK]
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janfoeh · 2026-05 · Reference
I've never forgotten this SIGGRAPH demo from almost twenty years ago, in which the authors effectively switch camera and light source computationally (... in a static scene) [1] Ever since then, I have viewed scenes such as the "lingerie store scene" from Enemy of the State [2] with a little bit less eye rolling... [1] - [LINK] [2] - [VIDEO]
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pitzips · 2025-02 · Joke / meme
Reminds me of that scene [1] from Enemy of the State where they "Rotate us 75 degrees around the vertical" in one of those "enhance, enhance" tropes. [1] [VIDEO]
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