I love analyzing how computers in movies work. In S1m0ne, director Viktor Taransky replaces a high-maintenance actress who’s walked off the set of his movie with a computer-generated actress. The public thinks she’s a real person and demands to see more of her. Taransky eventually responds by scheduling a huge stadium concert, where Simone appears in hologram form amid a stage full of smoke.
He creates this elaborate effect with a simple button on the computer console:
It’s lucky the computer comes with that button on it. Otherwise he never would have pulled it off.
(It’s honestly a good movie with an interesting premise. It just gets rather carried away with the technology.)
