A humanoid whose machine learning capabilities are so powerful that men can fall in love with her, but it remains just robotic enough to be tampered with, altered and controlled.
The new cliche, birthed in the dawn of mobile computing, smartphones, advanced technology, bots and an unhealthy personification of our devices, is the algorithmic-defined fantasy girl. Gone is the manic pixie dream girl of yesterday the messy cliched girl with a vibrant, unpredictable vibe that men helplessly fell in love with. The robotic girl from W eird Science feels archaic compared to the AI girlfriends of present: Scarlett Johansson’s Samantha in Her, Alicia Vikander’s Ava in Ex-Machina and, most recently, Ana de Armas’ Joi in Blade Runner 2049. The faster technology grows and the simpler it is for us to understand, the more likely it seems possible.
Weird Science would kickstart the idea that anyone who existed just outside the societal norm wouldn’t have to wait for a perfect woman. The doll, an object, became their woman their woman became an objectified doll. The AI girlfriend, Lisa, which Anthony Michael Hall and Ilan Mitchell-Smith conjured up together in retaliation for being humiliated, would become a prize something that could be held over the heads of high school bullies in a sickening, primal gloat. The 1985 film Weird Science introduced the tantalizing idea of someone being able to create their idealized version of a woman - one far superior than a normal, living woman.
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