The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, September 06, 2002, Image 4

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SIMONE
New Line Cinema
Directed by Andrew Niccol
Starring Al Pacino, Rachel Roberts
Written and directed by the creative mind behind The Truman
Show, Andrew Niccol's SIMONE returns to Niccol's familiar themes:
What is reality in a society obsessed with celebrities, and what is
man's relationship to his creator?
The story of SIMONE follows Viktor Taransky (Pacino), a megalo-
maniacal director whose career in Hollywood is reaching an end.
Fights with self-absorbed actors and financially motivated studio
executives have left him artistically drained and blacklisted. With
the best film of his life only shots away from completion, Taransk/s
prayers are answered when a terminally ill computer programmer
gives Taransky his life's work: a fully digitized actress.
The product of years of programming and the combination of
hundreds of actresses' performances, Simone (Roberts) is indistin
guishable from a real person on screen. Replacing the original lead
in his film with this virtual actress, Taransky completes his film and
Simone is catapulted to stardom.
However, in the following media storm, Taransky must jump
numerous hurdles to convince the world Simone exists. Once this
mission is accomplished, Taransky becomes increasingly over
whelmed by public demand for more work by their new idol, who
begins taking on a life and career of her own, one Taransky finds he
can't easily control. The results are incredibly entertaining, humor
ous and thought provoking, much as The Truman Show was.
SIMONE actually succeeds in being more entertaining than The
Truman Show, but the cost is perhaps a slight decrease in impact.
This 21st century retelling of Pygmalion's obsession with his art
bravely attempts to tackle the relationship of creator to creation, but
stops short of making the type of climactic statement The Truman
Show made, settling instead for a more traditional ending that,
while not out of place, reduces the weight of the movie's message
to more of a social commentary.
Despite this, SIMONE is a fantastic movie, delightful and engag
ing. Definitely worth full ticket price, and even worth owning.
Pacino's performance is excellent, and newcomer Roberts is defi
nitely going to be an actress to keep an eye on.
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Undisputed
Miramax Films
Directed by Walter Hill
Starring Wesley Snipes and Ving Rhair
What if an imprisoned Mike Tyson met up with a convict whe*
match in strength, speed and ferocity? What would have happ?
Would we ever have known?
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security institution that operates a \
league. The undefeated champion o
Monroe Hutchins (Wesley Snipes), a murderer serving a Irfetr
beating his wife's lover to death with his bare hands.
Prison officials work to keep the two separated until oneofpi:
oners, an ex-Mafia boxing fan, arranges the greatest fight the w
never see.
And that's all you need to know to skip straight to the climao.
scene. The rest of the movie ts unimportant filler. Hutchins spec
majority of the movie in solitude, building a toothpick pagc&
spouting warrior-zen quotes like a second-rate Mr. Mryagt. Own
spends the rest of it beating up hapless pnsoners and argur;
lawyers, which has no beanng on the outcome of the fight
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leaves a lot to be desired. The problem, however, is not the ar
the director. It's apparent after watching the movie that ever y
and a half is too long to try to tell a 30-minute story.
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CARPOOL is a completely student run organization that offers safe,
free, nonjudgmental rides home to students in need transportation due
to the effects of alcohol or other circumstances.
Call CARPOOL and two students (1 male, 1 female) will pick you up
and take you home.
Operation begins this Thursday, September 5.
CARPOOL runs every weekend.
As of September 4, 2002, CARPOOL has given 26,353 rides.
Operational Hours:
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
10pm-3am
10pm-3am
10pm-3am
To help save lives, please drink responsibly and designate a driver or call CARPOOL.
For more information please access our Web page at:
http://carpool.tamu.edu
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