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• As part of the pre-released publicity for this film, it was claimed that Simone would be played by a completely photo-realistic computer-generated actress.
  
  
• In order to keep her role in the film a secret, Rachel Roberts worked on the movie under the pseudonym Anna Green, and is referred to by this name on one of the behind-the-scenes documentaries on the DVD release. Live footage of Rachel Roberts was computer enhanced in order to create the synthetic look of Simone. During some computer screen scenes, a detailed, computer animated version of the actress was used.
  
  
• Rachel Roberts was given the name Anna Green. The name comes from the process it took to create Simone which is called anthropomorphic green screen.
  
  
• In the Academy Awards scene the actresses nominated for the same award as Simone all have computer hardware and software names: Claris Apple, Lisa Packard, and Lotus Corel.
  
  
• When Simone's costars for "Eternity Forever" with whom she conducts a meeting via telephone introduce themselves, most of them have computer software/hardware manufacturers' names: Corel, Claris (Simone worked with her cousin Dell), Hewlett, Lotus, and the two that aren't companies: Mac and Hal, the HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
  
  
• The scene in the graveyard features headstones that bear the names of various crewmembers.
  
  
• At one point in the movie, we see Taransky's daughter Lainey tapping away on her laptop. We see the screen for a split second; she is reading about the legend of Pygmalion, a Greek king who created a beautiful statue of a woman whom he named Galatea. He fell so in love with the statue he had sculpted that he asked the gods to make Galatea real. This they did.
  
  
• As part of the promotion for the movie, "official" Web sites were created for most of the fictional movies featured in S1m0ne (2002).
  
  
• After seeing the photorealism of the computer generated actors in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, the producers started to lean toward the idea of having Simone actually be a computer generated actress. However, after heavy opposition from the Screen Actor's Guild, claiming in so many words that replacement of actors in ALL movies would be the next logical step, the idea was scrapped.
  
  
• In the original theatrical release, Simone was credited "as herself". In subsequent versions of the film, this was changed to "and introducing Rachel Roberts as Simone."
  
  
• Al Pacino's character's name is Viktor, a reference to Victor Frankenstein.
  
  
• The name "Nicola Anders" (Winona Ryder), is an obvious reference to writer/director Andrew Niccol.
  
  
• Al Pacino's character, Viktor Taransky, is based on Ray Kurzweil and his female alter ego Ramona.
  
  
• "Viktor Taransky" may be an oblique reference to long-time first and second unit assistant director Victor Tourjansky, who enjoyed a 20 year career. Tourjansky is best known to James Bond fans, appearing as "Man with Wine Bottle" in 'The Spy Who Loved Me', 'Moonraker' and 'For Your Eyes Only.' In each film, he is a man drinking wine who sees Bond go past in some exotic manner (driving onto a Sardinian beach in a submersible car, motoring through the Piazza San Marco in Venice, skiing across the porch of a château in Cortina). Stunned, he stares at the vino in disbelief.
  
  
• "Hank Aleno"'s last name is an anagram of "alone".
  
  
• In the beginning of the movie, Viktor Taransky (Al Pacino) is removing all the red candies from a bowl of assorted colored candies. He subsequently has a heated conversation with Winona Ryder's character, and it's revealed that this demanding actress's contract specifies that in addition to having the largest trailer on the studio set, she must always be provided with these candies with the red ones removed. This is an obvious reference to a famous 1982 contract rider for the rock group Van Halen, who required that at each concert they be provided with specific foods and drinks including a bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed. (It should be noted that this unusual request wasn't itself important. Rather, Van Halen's crew used the presence or absence of brown M&Ms as an obvious "red flag" indicating whether the remainder of Van Halen's requests would be honored. If the brown M&Ms were absent, Van Halen's group could be reasonably sure that their requests for towels, ice, yogurt, etc. would also be honored.)
  
  

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