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Dev Patel in The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019)

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ANA DE ARMAS as PALOMA No Time to Die (2021) Dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga

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Bates Motel || Psycho

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Master of the sneak attack

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What always intrigues me about A.I. is how people assume Spielberg ruined Kubrick’s original vision. But after reading a whole bunch on it and devouring all the special features over and over it turns out most of the Kubrickan touches are actually additions made by Spielberg and all the Spielbergian stuff is actually from Kubrick’s original treatment. People assume all the Flesh Fair stuff is Kubrick but Spielberg is the one who wrote most of that and even the ending which people complain about, is almost line for line from Kubrick’s original script pages. From this it’s easier to understand why Kubrick gave this project to Spielberg. Maybe he thought “There’s no way I’m going to get away with this ending without people bashing me….I’ll let Steven do it instead!”. Haha, but wether it’s Kubrick or Spielberg I really think A.I. is a wonderful movie and it ended up in the right hands in my opinion.

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“Davyd (A.I. Artificial Intelligence)” by Pogo

I remember hearing the first sample of this track long ago. It’s a masterpiece.

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The A.I. passage in the Vanity Fair piece I posted last night got me thinking about the film. Spielberg said, “A substitute love child, you know, is almost a crime, and the human race pays for that crime” and that’s certainly true. The only human we see at the end of the film is a projection of David’s mother. Everyone else is long gone, replaced by robots. What interested me though is the idea of David as a victim of the crime Spielberg speaks of. He’s certainly a victim of sorts. He’s first created by Professor Hobby as a means to help the man recover from his son’s death, and then adopted by Monica and Henry Swinton to perform a similar task for them. In the end, he’s taken in by the advanced mechas and is again used - he becomes a lab rat who is experimented on to help the mechas understand human love. But is David totally innocent in all this? Perhaps not. David is committing the same crimes that are being inflicted upon him. Just as he was used, he is now using Monica to help him feel loved. It’s the tragic brutality at the heart of the film. Humanity’s most basic need is for love, and we’ll do anything to gain it.

#interesting post #a.i. artificial intelligence #steven spielberg

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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) dir. Steven Spielberg, cinematography by Janusz Kaminski

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And David continued to pray to the blue fairy… she who smiled softly forever. She who welcomed forever. Eventually, the floodlights died… but David could still see her, palely, by day. And he still addressed her, in hope. He prayed until all the sea anemones had shriveled and died… as the ocean froze… and the ice encased the amphilbicopter and the Blue Fairy… locking them together where he could see her… a blue ghost in ice. Always there. Always smiling. Always awaiting him. Eventually, he never moved at all… but his eyes always stayed open… staring ahead forever all though the darkness of each night… and the next day… and the next day… Thus, 2000 years passed by.

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