comments on the S1M0NE movie

[rick++]

I am usually looking from the annual F/X movie that says something
interesting about the F/X industry. I don't interpret this to be the
blockbusters like Star Wars that have large-scale, but deja-vu F/X.
Last it may have been Final Fantasy for its human realism.
This year is may be S1M0NE for how F/X may operate a couple of decades
from now.

S1M0NE (short for Simulation One) is about a virtual actress that is so good
it fools the movie industry into thinking it is real.
Parts of it are so contrived, and lines so bad, it resembles a B-grade
scifi movie. Pacino plays an on-the-out movie director that stumbles on
futuristic computer technology to make hit movies with a fake actress so
good the world is infatuated with her. Then this actress becomes sort of
Frankenstein creation Pacino tries to control. It requires considerable
suspension of belief that Pacino could acquire such advanced technology,
and that he could execute by himself in secret (more on this below),
and fool his studio and the world. Towards the middle of the movie
the contrivances become untentionally comedic and our audience was laughing
hard. The movie does improve toward the end with some serious comments
on how fakery could hurt people.

An interesting part of the movie was Pacino's animation software.
For Hollywood purposes, it was an extremely simple, but powerful
interface. The computer had the buttons "Voice" and "Scan" that would
instantly capture Pacino's voice and gestures and translate them into
S1M0NE, without any special equipment. The computer also had a "knob"
where you could grab parts of videotaped person, or archived actress
personality and add it to the simulation. "Turn up the Becall ingrediant
to 30% and resuce the Streep to 10% please..."
These days animation software packages have thousands of controls and
options in them. Perhaps a couple decades from now they'll be as
simple and powerful to us as this one.

[shu]

Once quantum computers are produced with regularity, they'll evolove faster
then then human race and take over the world! AAIIIIEEE

i sort of joke, but,
a 12 que quantum computer would be faster then a traditional computer the
size of the universe.
a 5 que quantum computer has already been built
and i think it would be a bad idea to hoook this up with self learning
evoloving software, and a means of manipulating the enviroment.
on the plus side thou, it certainly would be capable of doing something as
simple as what S1mone proposes

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[MSu1049321]

This is not new: look at a book called "Little heroes' by Norman Spinrad. His
version was all about pop stars and rock and roll as part of personality.