Hello internet! Welcome to Film Theory where I am 100% totally Matt Pat and not some deep faked talking picture of him.

Ain't that right, Obama?

Yes, that's right, my good friend Matt Pat.

... Hello internet. Welcome to Film Theory. The show that hopes to one day be hosted by an AI-generated assemblage of vocal lines gathered from the past 10 years of video uploads.

That's not even a joke, I'm being absolutely serious, I'm just a talking cutout.

How much easier could it be for a computer to just make this stuff up while I'm off relaxing on a beach somewhere?

Anyway, before we get into the meat and potatoes of today's theory, I wanted to start things off with a little story about a long-forgotten movie. Back in 2002, New Line Cinema released a sci-fi comedy named Simone,

or, uh, S-1, MZero N. Some tells me that mainstream audiences of 2002 weren't super comfortable

with Leit Speak. Anyway, this film starred Al Pacino as a frustrated, over-the-hill movie

director whose latest project goes to hack when his lead actress quits in the middle of filming.

Fortunately, his software genius friend leaves him with, get this, experimental computer

animation software for generating photorealistic humans.

And thus, Simone, the perfect actress, is born.

Good morning, Samoa.

Good morning, Mr. Tuansky.

A star is digitized.

And people buy it.

In fact, people buy it too well.

She becomes the hottest, most beloved star in the world.

So now, he has to generate fake interviews, fake publicity events.

She ties with herself at the Oscars.

She even has a live appearance using hologram technology that would put Hatsune Miku to shame.

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