History Film / S1m0ne

* 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.

* 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.]]

* MsFanservice: The eponymous S1m0ne played by fanservicing Canadian model/actress Rachel Roberts.

** 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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''[=S1m0ne=]'' is a 2002 ScienceFiction comedy-drama film written and directed by [[Film/TheTrumanShow Andrew Niccol]] and starring AlPacino and Rachel Roberts.

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).

''S1m0ne'' is a 2002 ScienceFiction comedy-drama film written and directed by [[Film/TheTrumanShow Andrew Niccol]] and starring AlPacino and Rachel Roberts.

* 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.''

** 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.

''S1m0ne'' is a 2002 ScienceFiction comedy-drama film written and directed by [[Film/TheTrumanShow Andrew Niccol]] and starring AlPacino.

* 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)]].

* 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)]].

* ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin - How Victor gets his hands on Simone in the first place.

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.

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.

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.

* AmbiguousSyntax: Hank's gravestone reads: "Remembered virtually forever".[[note]]"Remembered virtually, forever" or "Virtually forever, remembered".[[/note]]

** 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.

* 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 in the sand.]]

* DudeWheresMyRespect - What motivates Victor.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer

* 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."

* 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.

* SdrawkcabName: Viktor checks Simone into the hotel under the psuedonym "Ms Enomis".

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Why is Ernest Borgnine in the database consisting of female movie stars in Simulation One?

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* Letters2Numbers: The title.