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In the book '' was based on singer Helen Kane . Kane, however, rose to fame imitating Annette Hanshaw . Hanshaw and Kane have fallen into relative obscurity, while Betty Boop remains an Icon of the Flapper . The online encyclopedia Wikipedia itself may be seen as a large-scale field Experiment in the spread of ''simulacra''. It is notable that many pages contain Factoid s about the meaning of words in the fictitious context of popular movies, video and role-playing games, usually derivative Cliche s in imitation of other such fictions. For instance the 1999 movie '' The Matrix '' explores the relationship between people and their ''simulacra''; and in a further example of self-reference Neo , one of the lead characters from the movie, uses a hollowed out copy of Jean Baudrillard ’s ''Simulacra and Simulation'' as a secret store. Fredric Jameson uses the example of Photorealism to describe ''simulacra''. The Painting is a copy of a Photograph , not of reality. The photograph itself is a copy of the original. Therefore, the painting is a copy of a copy. Other art forms that play with simulacra include Pop Art , Trompe L'oeil , Italian Neorealism and the French New Wave . Jean Baudrillard puts forth God as an example. SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY LITERATURE In Fantasy and Science Fiction literature Simulacra are artificial life forms that are designed to mimic the characteristics of a naturally occurring species. The most common form copied by Simulcra are Human beings. It is believed that Simulacra are a modern day adaptation of the Golem myth. Many stories that include Simulacra share several common themes:
Specific examples of Simulacra in film and television include:
Simulacra do not need to resemble their progenitor in appearance. In many stories it is the mental capacities of man that are being emulated, not the physical form. See M5 (Star Trek) . Philip K. Dick often explored the concept of the Simulacrum. Two of his more famous works include the novel " The Simulacra " (published in 1969) and the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", which was later adapted into the Ridley Scott film " Blade Runner ". In the Film '' Blade Runner '', Android s built in imitation of Human s are banned from the Planet Earth , yet return to Earth in search of their creator. In hopes of having their pre-programmed termination undone, one of the androids meets the engineer who designed his artificial Eye s and says to him, "If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes." In ''Blade Runner'', the androids are not copies of actual humans - all of whom, in the film, have physical defects - but of idealized, perfect versions of humans. Therefore, the replicants are imitations not of reality but of another imitation - ergo, they are simulacra. The novel on which ''Blade Runner'' is based is Philip K. Dick 's " Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? ". Dick's stories often blend the lines between reality and the perception of reality. The electro-machanical 'Andies' in the short story became bio-engineered 'Replicants' in the movie. And despite the Androids/Replicants being hunted by a character named Deckard and being detectable by the special test, the two story lines have almost nothing in common. So in a fitting bit of irony, a movie about Simulacra is in fact a Simulacrum itself. also represents an example of the post-modern sense of Simulacrum. Data is Sci-Fi adaptation of Walt Disney 's character Pinocchio. Disney's character, in turn, was based on Carlo Collodi 's Pinocchio . The Collodi Pinocchio has more in common with Data's Evil Twin Lore than with the innocent character depicted in the Disney film. OCCULT USES In Occult literature, the word ''simulacrum'' is often used to designate an object intended as a representation of a whole, according to Magic principles. For instance, a nail or hair can be used to represent the whole person it belongs to, believed to trap part of the essence of that individual and used for Rituals to represent the person. ''Simulacra'' can be inserted into a doll representing a person to cast spells upon, to establish the binding bridge between the representation icon and the subject. SEE ALSO
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