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* BathroomStallOfOverheardInsults: When Taransky is in the cinema bathroom washing his face after the screening of ''Sunrise Sunset'', he overhears three guys commenting that the film was "artificial", and he assumes they are talking about S1m0ne and leaves the bathroom. It's revealed they're talking about the period setting of the film, and did enjoy Simone's performance.
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* BathroomStallOfOverheardInsults: When Taransky is in the cinema bathroom washing his face after the screening of ''Sunrise Sunset'', he overhears three guys commenting that the film was "artificial", and he assumes they are talking about S1m0ne [=S1m0ne=] and leaves the bathroom. It's revealed they're talking about the period setting of the film, and did enjoy Simone's performance.
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* ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation: The interface for the S1m0ne program, which features floating menus, Simone's head forming out of a spiral on every boot-up and a matrix of actress headshots from whom Viktor samples vocal affectations. When Viktor [[spoiler: infects the program with a virus, Simone's face erodes away into tiny pixels that blow away like sand in the wind.]]
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* ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation: The interface for the S1m0ne [=S1m0ne=] program, which features floating menus, Simone's head forming out of a spiral on every boot-up and a matrix of actress headshots from whom Viktor samples vocal affectations. When Viktor [[spoiler: infects the program with a virus, Simone's face erodes away into tiny pixels that blow away like sand in the wind.]]
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* MsFanservice: The eponymous S1m0ne played by fanservicing Canadian model/actress Rachel Roberts.
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* MsFanservice: The eponymous S1m0ne [=S1m0ne=] played by fanservicing Canadian model/actress Rachel Roberts.
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** Ultimately, a flesh-and-blood Canadian actress was cast, with minimal special effects used to enhance her. The actress, Rachel Roberts, was not directly credited as S1m0ne, however.
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** Ultimately, a flesh-and-blood Canadian actress was cast, with minimal special effects used to enhance her. The actress, Rachel Roberts, was not directly credited as S1m0ne, [=S1m0ne=], however.
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* ThePrimaDonna: Creator/WinonaRyder plays a stuck-up, prima-donna actress in a role that reeks of AdamWesting. Her agent eventually grows tired of her demands and replaces her with a virtual actress that he created himself. This seems to have created some humility when she returns later in awe of Simone's success.
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->''"Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it."''
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''[=S1m0ne=]'' is a 2002 ScienceFiction comedy-drama film written and directed by [[Film/TheTrumanShow Andrew Niccol]] and starring AlPacino and Rachel Roberts.
''[=S1m0ne=]'' is a 2002 ScienceFiction comedy-drama film written and directed by [[Film/TheTrumanShow Andrew Niccol]] and starring AlPacino and Rachel Roberts.
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The film is mainly remembered today for featuring an early film performance by Creator/EvanRachelWood (as Viktor's daughter) and for its publicity campaign that claimed Simone was a CG-animated actress (in real life, of course, this wasn't the case).
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The film is mainly remembered today for featuring an early film performance by Creator/EvanRachelWood (as Viktor's daughter) and for its publicity campaign that claimed Simone was a CG-animated actress (in real life, of course, this wasn't the case). Also in the cast are Creator/CatherineKeener, Creator/WinonaRyder, Creator/PruittTaylorVince, and Jay Mohr.
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''S1m0ne'' is a 2002 ScienceFiction comedy-drama film written and directed by [[Film/TheTrumanShow Andrew Niccol]] and starring AlPacino and Rachel Roberts.
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* BuryingASubstitute: Since Simone is virtual, there's no body to bury when Taransky proclaims her dead. The coffin is opened and it reveals a paper cut of Simone being buried.
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I'm assuming the childhood bump on the head is the "Jaywalking". Unfortunately, childhood bumps on the head can be serious, and have been linked with later criminality.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: When Taransky [[spoiler: is accused of the murder of Simone]], his lawyer tells him this:
-->'''Viktor's Lawyer''' Here's a psychiatrist in Ventura, well-respected, who is willing to testify under oath that you have diminished capacity...due to the trauma of your divorce, years of abject failure in the movie business and ''a bump on the head you sustained as a child.''
-->'''Viktor's Lawyer''' Here's a psychiatrist in Ventura, well-respected, who is willing to testify under oath that you have diminished capacity...due to the trauma of your divorce, years of abject failure in the movie business and ''a bump on the head you sustained as a child.''
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** Taransky mentions Meryl Streep and Madonna and incorporates elements of both actresses into Simone - which makes one wonder how Al Pacino acted with both of them in ''AngelsInAmerica'' and ''Film/DickTracy'' respectively.
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** Taransky mentions Meryl Streep and Madonna and incorporates elements of both actresses into Simone - which makes one wonder how Al Pacino acted with both of them in ''AngelsInAmerica'' ''Theatre/AngelsInAmerica'' and ''Film/DickTracy'' respectively.
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''S1m0ne'' is a 2002 ScienceFiction comedy-drama film written and directed by [[Film/TheTrumanShow Andrew Niccol]] and starring AlPacino.
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''S1m0ne'' is a 2002 ScienceFiction comedy-drama film written and directed by [[Film/TheTrumanShow Andrew Niccol]] and starring AlPacino.
AlPacino and Rachel Roberts.
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* MeaningfulName: May or may not have been intentional, but Viktor Taransky shares a first name with [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Victor Frankenstein]], whose artificial human creation also ended up draining his mental energies and practically ruining his careers and relationships [[spoiler:(although Taransky gets a much happier ending)]].
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* MeaningfulName: May or may not have been intentional, but Viktor Taransky shares a first name with [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Victor Frankenstein]], whose artificial human creation also ended up draining his mental energies and practically ruining his careers career and relationships [[spoiler:(although Taransky gets a much happier ending)]].
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* MeaningfulName: May or may not have been intentional, but Viktor Taransky shares a first name with [[Literature/Frankenstein Victor Frankenstein]], whose artificial human creation also ended up draining his mental energies and practically ruining his careers and relationships [[spoiler:(although Taransky gets a much happier ending)]].
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* MeaningfulName: May or may not have been intentional, but Viktor Taransky shares a first name with [[Literature/Frankenstein [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Victor Frankenstein]], whose artificial human creation also ended up draining his mental energies and practically ruining his careers and relationships [[spoiler:(although Taransky gets a much happier ending)]].
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* ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin - How Victor gets his hands on Simone in the first place.
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* ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin - How Victor Viktor gets his hands on Simone in the first place.
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* MeaningfulName: May or may not have been intentional, but Viktor Taransky shares a first name with [[Literature/Frankenstein Victor Frankenstein]], whose artificial human creation also ended up draining his mental energies and practically ruining his careers and relationships [[spoiler:(although Taransky gets a much happier ending)]].
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When the main star of film director Viktor Taransky's latest film walks over "creative differences", Taransky is left with two options: scrap the movie altogether, or find a replacement. Unfortunately, given Taransky's plummeting career and the esoteric nature of the film itself there are no actresses who are willing to take the part.
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When the main star of film director Viktor Taransky's Taransky (Pacino)'s latest film walks over "creative differences", Taransky is left with two options: scrap the movie altogether, or find a replacement. Unfortunately, given Taransky's plummeting career and the esoteric nature of the film itself there are no actresses who are willing to take the part.
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There is one last, desperate thing he could try: an acquaintance left him a computer program on a disk, and he can use that program to [[VirtualCelebrity digitally create a replacement]]. It works: the film is a hit, and the "actress" is a runaway success, so Taransky markets her as a real person - giving webcam and phone interviews, "casting" her in his later films, and even performing a music concert as her, but things start to get out of hand. A pair of journalists who are trying to get a lead on the famously reclusive "Simone" are starting to suspect something is wrong, and Taransky himself is beginning to feel overshadowed by his creation.
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There is one last, desperate thing he could try: an a recently deceased acquaintance left him a computer program on a disk, and he can use that program to [[VirtualCelebrity digitally create a replacement]]. It works: the film is a hit, and the "actress" is a runaway success, so Taransky markets her as a real person - giving webcam and phone interviews, "casting" her in his later films, and even performing a music concert as her, but things start to get out of hand. A pair of journalists who are trying to get a lead on the famously reclusive "Simone" are starting to suspect something is wrong, and Taransky himself is beginning to feel overshadowed by his creation.
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There is one last, desperate thing he could try: an acquaintance left him a computer program on a disk, and he can use that program to [[VirtualCelebrity digitally create a replacement]]. It works - the film is a hit, and the "actress" is a runaway success, so Taransky markets her as a real person - giving webcam and phone interviews, "casting" her in his later films, and even performing a music concert as her, but things start to get out of hand. A pair of journalists who are trying to get a lead on the famously reclusive "Simone" are starting to suspect something is wrong, and Taransky himself is beginning to feel overshadowed by his creation.
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There is one last, desperate thing he could try: an acquaintance left him a computer program on a disk, and he can use that program to [[VirtualCelebrity digitally create a replacement]]. It works - works: the film is a hit, and the "actress" is a runaway success, so Taransky markets her as a real person - giving webcam and phone interviews, "casting" her in his later films, and even performing a music concert as her, but things start to get out of hand. A pair of journalists who are trying to get a lead on the famously reclusive "Simone" are starting to suspect something is wrong, and Taransky himself is beginning to feel overshadowed by his creation.
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* RealAwardFictionalCharacter: Doubly fictional when Simone wins Best Actress. To cover up her lack of attendance and maintain TheMasquerade Taransky puts together a clip of her accepting it.
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* VanityProject: Taransky eventually gets fed up at Simone's runaway success eclipsing his. So he fakes them having a split over artistic differences, and makes a vanity project for her. It was ''meant'' to [[InvokedTrope invoke this trope]] and discredit her, but her movie "I AM PIG" ended up getting critical acclaim in a classic SpringtimeForHitler scenario.
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* LeFilmArtistique: One of the films-within-a-film is ''I Am Pig'', an [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible incomprehensible]], [[UnnaturallyBlueLighting heavily blue-tinted]] film which ends with a shot of its star in a wedding dress, CoveredInMud and eating from a pig trough. It's hailed as a masterpiece to the bemusement of the director, who [[SpringtimeForHitler tried to create a thoroughly offensive bomb to tank the fake actress's career]].
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* AmbiguousSyntax: Hank's gravestone reads: "Remembered virtually forever".[[note]]"Remembered virtually, forever" or "Virtually forever, remembered".[[/note]]
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* AmbiguousSyntax: Hank's gravestone reads: "Remembered virtually forever".[[note]]"Remembered virtually, forever" or "Virtually forever, remembered"."Remembered, virtually forever".[[/note]]
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* AmbiguousSyntax: Hank's gravestone reads: "Remembered virtually forever".[[note]]"Remembered virtually, forever" or "Virtually forever, remembered".[[/note]]
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** Taransky mentions Meryl Streep and Madonna and incorporates elements of both actresses into Simone - which makes one wonder how Al Pacino acted with both of them in Angels in America and Film/DickTracy respectively.
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** Taransky mentions Meryl Streep and Madonna and incorporates elements of both actresses into Simone - which makes one wonder how Al Pacino acted with both of them in Angels in America ''AngelsInAmerica'' and Film/DickTracy ''Film/DickTracy'' respectively.
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* GoneHorriblyRight: To the point of being felt overshadowed by his own creation.
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* ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation: The interface for the S1m0ne program, which features floating menus, Simone's head forming out of a spiral on every boot-up and a matrix of actress headshots from whom Viktor samples vocal affectations. When Viktor [[spoiler: infects the program with a virus, Simone's face erodes away into tiny pixels that blow away like wind sand in the sand.wind.]]
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* OminousVisualGlitch: While giving an interview via satellite, [=S1m0ne=] begins to pixellate because the computer that's generating her is running low on memory and clock cycles. The effect is attributed to a fault in the satellite feed.
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* DudeWheresMyRespect - What motivates Victor.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: "Sunrise, Sunset" was apparently supposed to be a deep artistic film, full of symbolism and meaning, but all relevant comments imply that it was nothing but cheap clichés that nobody (either on or off the set) would "get."
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: In-universe. "Sunrise, Sunset" was apparently supposed to be a deep artistic film, full of symbolism and meaning, but all relevant comments imply that it was nothing but cheap clichés that nobody (either on or off the set) would "get.""get".
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* YouHaveToBelieveMe: When Taransky tries to explain the situation to this ex-wife, he mumbles at length about how he created Simone and how he built her, with the occasional mention that she "isn't real." The end result is an apparently drunk director taking credit for the success of his star while trying to paint her as an untalented phony. If he had just opened with the words "computer program," or given the speech in the computer room, he could have avoided a lot of the end problems.
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* YouHaveToBelieveMe: When Taransky tries to explain the situation to this ex-wife, he mumbles at length about how he created Simone and how he built her, with the occasional mention that she "isn't real." real". The end result is an apparently drunk director taking credit for the success of his star while trying to paint her as an untalented phony. If he had just opened with the words "computer program," program", or given the speech in the computer room, he could have avoided a lot of the end problems.
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* PrettyInMink: One of the faked magazine shots shows her on the red carpet and wearing a white fur wrap.
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* SdrawkcabName: Viktor checks Simone into the hotel under the psuedonym "Ms Enomis".
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Why is Ernest Borgnine in the database consisting of female movie stars in Simulation One?
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* HelloNurse...''hello, hello indeed''.
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* MsFanservice: The eponymous S1m0ne played by fanservicing Canadian model/actress Rachel Roberts.
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