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Amsterdam
2022 · Film · 134 min
Directed by David O. Russell
In the 1930s, three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and an attorney—witness a murder, become suspects themselves and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history.
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> On the other hand, "What is Taylor Swift known for?" the answers "standup comedy", "comedian", and "comedy actress" are semantically similar but represent hallucinations.
Taylor Swift has appeared multiple times on SNL, both as a host and as a surprise guest, beyond being a musical performer[0]. Generally, your point is correct, but she has appeared on the most famous American television show for sketch comedy, making jokes. One can argue whether she was funny or not in her appearances, but she has performed as a comedian, per se.
Though she hasn't done a full-on comedy show, she has appeared in comedies in many credits (often as herself).[1] For example she appeared as "Elaine" in a single episode of The New Girl [2x25, "Elaine's Big Day," 2013][2]. She also appeared as Liz Meekins in "Amsterdam" [2022], a black comedy, during which her character is murdered.[3]
It'd be interesting if there's such a thing as a negatory hallucination, or, more correctly, an amnesia — the erasure of truth that the AI (for whatever reason) would ignore or discount.
[0] https://www.billboard.com/lists/taylor-swift-saturday-night-live-appearances-timeline/
[1] https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2357847/
[2] https://newgirl.fandom.com/wiki/Elaine
[3] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10304142/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_7_act
Also, in "Spider-Man: Far From Home", a 2019 movie with a 160M budget, they go to "The Netherlands" which was shot in Chech Republic, and it looks like Prague but with tulips, with a Polish actor supposedly talking Dutch. And then Spider-Man gets arrested and thrown in a "Dutch" jail which does not look at all like a Dutch jail, but is obviously some middle-european building, which makes sense as "Amsterdam" was shot in Prague too
The movie AMSTERDAM which came out recently touches on the Business Plot, and themes of sub rosa fascists and Nazis in the American ruling class more generally. Fairly worth a watch if you're interested in history viewed through this sort of parapolitical lens.
I experienced what seemed to be a variation of this in Amsterdam, a David Russel film no less. Everything is revealed at the end but a character is tasked with verbally and lengthily repeating everything that just happened as if the audienced hadn't just witnessed it themselves. I was taken aback by sheer idiocy of the segment that it seemed like a caricature of a studio exec finding a very basic plot confusing and taking the final cut from the director and adding a ELI5 scene at the end.