Simulation
"Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it."
"Unreal,"
"Not of this earth,"
and
"Where did you find simone?"
"You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman."
Genre: Comedy, Drama, and Fantasy
Duration: 1 hr. 57 min.
Starring: Al Pacino, Evan Rachel Wood, Jay Mohr, Rebecca Romijn Stamos, Winona Ryder,
Director: Andrew Niccol
Producer: Andrew Niccol, Danny DeVito
Distributor: New Line Cinema
Release Date: August 23, 2002.
Writer: Andrew Niccol Format: widescreen.
Sub story : Left in the lurch when a temperamental actress walks off the set, director Viktor Taransky (Al Pacino) is in trouble. Not only is he without a star, but his studio-exec ex-wife (Catherine Keener) fires him, endangering his chance at a comeback. So he decides to take matters into his own hands … digitally, that is. He creates the ultimate star: Simone, a beautiful, computer-generated actress who will always do exactly what he says. Or will she?
Simone Movie Reviews
"I relate better to people when they’re not actually there," Simone, a hot new actress, tells her co-stars about why she will not be physically present in any scenes with them. This is understandable since Simone, short for Simulation One, is actually just the virtual alter ego of Viktor Taransky (Al Pacino), a director who is the wizard behind the curtain. No one knows this secret other than Viktor, who brags to Simone, "Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it."
The story starts with Viktor being jerked around by Nicola Anders (Winona Ryder), a "supermodel with a SAG card." Nicola, the star of his current picture, is very angry because she doesn’t have the biggest trailer on the lot as specified in her contract. Although Viktor tells her that she has the biggest trailer in the entire world, Nicola isn’t happy. She points out that her almost football field length trailer is not as tall as some, so she quits. The movie’s other actors think that she is irreplaceable. As her leading man, Hal Sinclair (Jay Mohr), puts it, "No other actress in the world could play the part!" Viktor reminds him, however, that the picture is a remake.