"Simulacra and Simulation" and Hollywood

[Otto]

Indeed, we get a nice little list of such stories by and by.
I both liked _The Truman Show_ and _The Matrix_, the latter I admit mostly
because it explains the Déja Vu-phenomenon so well.
Haven't seen _The Thirteenth Floor_ (yet), but Armin Mueller-Stahl would
have fitted perfectly into nearly every RWF-movie.

What I find interesting is Fassbinder's remark that goes for all the listed
movies and for Daniel Galouye's novel imo: "(...) that leads to the
uncertainty of whether someone is himself  a projection, since in this
virtual world the projections resemble reality. Perhaps another larger world
made us as a virtual one? In this sense it deals with an old philosophical
model, which here takes on a certain horror."  Rainer Werner Fassbinder in
1973, referring to Plato's famous paranoia-evoking "Cave"-image from the
Seventh Book of _The Republic_.

By the way, _World on a Wire_ was a tv-production of two 90 movies and I'm
waiting for a repeat to put it on vcr.

Otto

Dave wrote:
> The Thirteenth Floor ...
> http://us.imdb.com/Title?0139809
> ... was adapted as well on Daniel Galouye's
> Simulacron-3.
> Galouye, Daniel F.  Simulacron-3.
>  New York: Bantam, 1964.


Robert wrote:
>
> Or, for a better take (than _The Matrix_) on one of Baudrillard's major
> theme, see Peter Weir's _The Truman Show_.

> best_


on 25/5/02 1:24 AM, Otto at o.sell at telda.net wrote:

> And I still recommend this, 'though I guess it will be hard to get in the
> US
>
> Welt am Draht (World on a Wire, 1973)
> P1 99 min., P2 106 min., colour, German w/English subtitles, 35 mm, New
> Print.
>