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A body double is a general term for someone who substitutes for the credited actor of a character in any recorded visual medium, whether videotape or film. The term is most commonly used in the context of head-to-toe (or nearly) shots involving nudity. For example, Catherine Bell served as a nude body double for Isabella Rossellini in the movie Death Becomes Her. More specific terms are often used in special cases; a stunt double is used for dangerous or sophisticated sequences. Stunt double and body double can both be used for cases where special skills are needed—anyth ...

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Simulacrum (plural: simulacra), from the Latin simulare, "to make like, to put on an appearance of", originally meaning a material object representing something (such as an idol representing a deity, or a painted still-life of a bowl of fruit). By the 1800s it developed a sense of a "mere" image, an empty form devoid of spirit, and descended to connote a specious or fallow representation. In the book Simulacra and Simulation (1981/1995), the French social theorist Jean Baudrillard gave the term a specific m ...

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A doppelgänger is the ghostly double of a living person, adapted from German Doppelgänger (look-alike). The word comes from doppel meaning "double" and Gänger translated as "goer". The term has, in the vernacular, come to refer to any double of a person, most commonly in reference to a so-called evil twin, or to bilocation: Somewhere, in a parallel universe, your evil twin exists. Identical to you in every physical attribute, its mind is twisted, evil and hell-bent on destruction; it is everything you ...

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Kline plays Dave Kovic, who runs a temporary employment agency in Washington, D.C. As a sideline, he makes public and private appearances impersonating President William Harrison "Bill" Mitchell, whom he greatly resembles (and who, of course, is also played by Kline). Mitchell's Chief of Staff, Bob Alexander (Frank Langella), hires Kovic to make an exit at an appearance of President Mitchell, to cover up an extramarit ...

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Doppelgänger - Literature. Bram Stoker's novel Dracula Heine's poem Der Doppelgänger famously adapted to music by Franz Schubert Poe's short story William Wilson Nabokov's novel Lolita Robert Louis Stevenson's novella Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Oscar Wilde's novella Dorian Gray Dostoyevsky's The Double Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy Jorge Luis Borges' The Book of SandSee also:

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Another usage, so far specific to Fantasy and Science Fiction is the android that is specifically intended to impersonate another creature (usually a human being). Many stories that include Simulacra share several common themes: Simulacra are always imperfect copies. Simulacra are distinguishable from the original, because they are based on an idealized form of that which was copied. There is a desire on the part of the Simulacrum to either be more like the original (i. ...

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The film bears significant resemblance, in both its plot and characters, to a little-known Hollywood musical, The Phantom President (1932), which starred the Broadway song-and-dance-man George M. Cohan in the dual role of the cold, corrupt politician and his charming, idealistic double. Claudette Colbert played his politically savvy bride-to-be, and Jimmy Durante was his razzle-dazzle campaign manager. The film included songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. The Param ...

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