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

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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.

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

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@quirkafleeg2017 · in “Nobody Knows What They're Doing (2013)”

> the NSA not strictly having it's own wet-works arm doesn't make [the movie Enemy of the State's] 90-00's portrayal as a semi-omnipotent foe any less depressingly accurate I love that movie, but let's not say things we can't take back. [VIDEO] :)

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@trilinearnz2020 · in “NeRF in the Wild: reconstructing 3D scenes from internet photography”

Anyone remember this scene from Enemy of The State (1998)? [VIDEO] Jon Voight: "Can the computer take us around to the other side?" Jack Black: "It can HYPOTHESIZE" :)

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@pitzips2025 · in “WonderHuman: 3D avatars from single-view video”

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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@janfoeh2026 · in “Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image”

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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@b1n2026 · in “Lift4D: Harmonizing Single-View 3D Estimation for 4D Reconstruction In-the-Wild”

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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