S1m0ne

See also: Simone

S1m0ne is an American film carried out by Andrew Niccol, left in 2002. On the ton of the comedy and Satire, he questions on the new possibilities in numerical creation and the “star system” Hollywood IEN.

Summary

Viktor Taransky, realizer Hollywood on the return, must face the departure of the capricious high-speed motorboat of its film. As more any actor does not wish to work with him, its studio refuses to continue the production. Whereas it is resigned to it, Taransky is approached by Hank Aleno, data processing specialist mild nutter and admiror of his work, which proposes to him to use virtual actors thanks to a program developed during eight years. Taransky refuses, but a few days afterwards, Aleno dies and the fruit of its work bequeaths to him: Simulation One , which makes it possible to create and model with wish a completely virtual actress, Simone.

This one subjugates the public and the profession which do not detect the Mystification, and becomes in two films the absolute high-speed motorboat of Hollywood. This notoriety benefits Taransky, which finally estimates to receive the recognition which is due for him. But frightened by the extent of deception and its identification with its “creation”, it decides to scuttle the career of Simone, but the public does not give up the veneration for its idol.

Taransky then decides to make disappear Simone, but the lure is too perfect, and nobody wants to accept the non-existence of this one. He is accused for murder, and owes its safety only with its ex-wife and her daughter who, discovering the truth, “recreate” Simone to clear it.

Having become aware of impossibility of stopping the process, they invent a virtual family for the Taransky/Simone couple and launch their virtual actress in a political career.

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A virtual actress?

The role of Simone is held by the mannequin Rachel Roberts, of which it is the first appearance with the screen. However, the publicity of film proclaimed that a true virtual actress was used. Roberts signed a clause of confidentiality prohibiting to him to reveal with anyone its implication in film. It used on the plates the pseudonym Anna Green, contraction of anamorphic green screen , the process used for the scenes of computer, of which some are indeed digitized versions of the face of the actress.

In the first distributed copies, the credits did not mention its name, only Simone: Ace Herself . The later copies were drawn with the name from Rachel Roberts.

Around film

  • the film is inspired by the work of Raymond Kurzweil and of its virtual alter-ego Ramona
  • Following the example its character Viktor Taransky who links himself (virtually) with Simone, Andrew Niccol married Rachel Roberts close the turning of film.

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