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A Report from an Alleged A.I. Extra
Ahhhhh, the mystery of A.I. The best kept secret in Spielberg's directorial career to date. What is the Beard up to? How is it coming along? Will it be Brilliant? I mean, that's the pressure he's under... adapting a work of Kubrick... dear lord... can you imagine... What's worse is, Spielberg will hold himself to blame for it derailing... but we can't think like that. I am confident that this is the project to bring back that spark of genius back into the kindling of the Beard's noggin. As for this spy's report? Hogwash or truth? We'll see next summer. As for me, I'm dying for the Teaser, which should be on Warner's next big film... and according to rumors... perhaps a website soon. Stay tuned... I can't wait!
This is from an extra..
Jude Law's character is the AI of the title and apparently he is a
shapeshifter.
He described the costumes for the women as being very well-done, high
fashion, revealing, what not but that the men's were quite convservative
little more than stylized tuxedos, it didn't sound like a very exciting
fashion for men three hundred years in the future.
Also, said that the blue screen process being used was a first of it's
kinds. He described it as their being "bar-codes" on the ceiling that the
camera would pick up and when fed thru the computer insert the cityscape.
Said the effects man was watching the effects inserted and the plain blue
screen simiultaneously.
King Mob was here.
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I think Spielberg will actually do a good job on this film.
He's gonna get alot of shit but that's to be expected.
If there's one filmmaker that could "adapt a Kubrick", Speilberg's the man, and it will at least stir up new interest in Kubrick, which can't be all bad... -
I think Spielburg is entering the phase of his career where he doesn't care whether his movies are box office smashes or bombs. I think he's just doing the movies he wants to do. This and Minority Report are two movies I am very much looking forward to.
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How many Talkbackers will it take before the insults about Spielberg having the gall to take on a Kubrick project begin to flood in? We know virtually nothing about this project except that Kubrick wanted it to a fairytale along the lines of Pinnochio. I read somewhere it was a "little boy lost"-type story. I'm sorry, but Spielberg is perfect for this type of film. I know no one will listen to this, but please, reserve judgement until we (at the very very least) see the teaser.
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I too agree Spielberg is the only man for the job I'm sure the naysayers will start coming out of the woodwork soon to decree this but let them yap. Spielberg is gonna give it a good shot either way and if anybody could pull it off and even add a bit of his own tune then he's the man. Good luck Mr Beard.
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No I mean denie. And add one more positive post for Spielberg. That's 5!
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Spielberg IS the perfect director to tackle this. Evidently the Kubrick Is God talkbackers haven't woke up yet. To them, anything that everyone else does is crap, especially someone like Spielberg.
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Holy Crap what can the man do wrong? He's a genius I'm looking foreward to this film.
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Speilberg only makes great films when he has a good script (Raiders, Jaws, Close Encounters) - what A.I's script is like I don't know, but technically he's as well qualified as any to take the reigns from Kubrick.
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Stand back everyone. I have arrived to bash!! Take your lovey-dovey posts with you and don't let the door hit your asses on the way out. Don't get me wrong ... Spielberg is a wonderfully talented director, and I have hope that this film will come out as one of his best. I don't think this will be one of his cash-cows, so he might not screw it up. HOWEVER, this is the same director who wanted to remake A Clockwork Orange or 2001 in order to 'pay tribute.' I'm surprised the world didn't hurtle off of its axis when Van Zant remade Psycho and sent Hitchcock's corpse into a spin. And what's this shit about Speilberg being the 'most-qualified' for the position? I would put many directors before him on that list ...
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Nov 03, 2000 9:10:04 AM CST
It IS possible to admire both Kubrick (God) and Spielberg (demi-
by ziranova
I know I do.
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Kubrick understood mise en scene, cinematography, performances... all of the disparate elements that make up a great movie. Spielberg however, sucks the shrivelled one - in movie making terms. He reduced the Holocaust to a pretty little girl getting offed in the famous Redcoat sequence, painted Nazis as cartoony grimaces in all manner of Saturday afternoon serial rip offs such as Raiders, Temple of Doom, Last Crusade and Saving Private Aryan... sorry Ryan, and made the most ham fisted, incidiously racist rendition of Alice Walker I can even imagine in The Colour Purple. Kubrick knew Spielberg would screw AI in the I/O port - hence his comment about it being reduced to a bad retelling of Pinnochio. I really can't wait to see this movie - I like to see really bad movie making. That's why I was first in line for the random, erratic splattering sof urine you seem to revere as Fight Club, and laughed my ass off right through Bringing Out The Dead, Taxi Driver, Platoon and Natural Born Killers. There's something very, very wrong with the canon of applauded directors...
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jude law. yummy. www.musicnotes.com
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Nuff said
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that, at least according to CA and some Kubrick fan pages, Kubrick expressed the opinion that Spielberg might actually be better at telling this tale than he? That they supposedly worked closely on developing this project together when it was a Kubrick piece? Granted, Kubrick is a genius at what he does, but with the passing of the man, who better to take the reigns of a movie which, admittedly, we are all eager to see (for one reason or another).
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this is not a kubrick film anymore, as some of the kubrick worshippers out there seem to think it is, it'a a spielberg film. he doesn't have to be "qualified to do a kubrick" it's his flick now. don't get me wrong, i would be the first in line to bash practically all of spielberg's flicks as manipulative commercializations and praise kubrick, but what's the difference? just because he came up with the script, as great as he was, is no reason to consider it a kubrick film. usual suspects was not a mcquarrie film, it was a singer film, get it? now, to the real reason i'm posting: brendon, you ripped spielberg, scorsese, fincher and stone-anyone come to mind as someone you like, or does the world just suck? while some of those flicks you mentioned might have a few problems, all of them are at least thought provoking, most of them are good, and taxi driver is an indisputable classic. maybe the reason you laughed through it is because you've seen so many sub-standard copies and rip offs of it that you can't distinguish between them and the original. and to weapon-x: try watching the director's cut of blade runner without the voice over that the studio forced scott to put in the film and that ford read badly on purpose. on second thought, every kubrick film was a snoze fest? go away, the adults are talking.
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Okay, I too think Speilberg is probably the best choice to follow Kubrick as far as finishing Kuby's work . . . no problem there . . .my first Question is this 1.) Who else would you consider to do it? Personally I can't think of too many other directors who would have the confidence and clout to take on this project, or any one who knew Kubrick much better than Steven. But I am curious who everyone (Skinny Bastard seems to have ideas) would consider . . . . 2.) Is there any information on whether there is anyone on the film crew of this movie that is perhaps a Kubrick regular? Someone who has already had experience with his style who would be most apt to make this movie as close to his vision as possible? . . . . . .ok Thats all, otherwise I am looking forward to this as much as everyone else . . .I am just glad that Speilberg is doing this- any attempt to continue Stanley's work is worthwile . . .
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um, hmmm. correct me if i'm wrong but i was under the impression that AI was a kinda retelling of Pinnochio with robots and other psi-fi wacky tings. and not many peeps talk about this, but the capable music video director Chris Cunningham (Bjork's "All is Full of Love"; Aphex Twin's "Come to Daddy" and "Windowlicker"; Leftfield's "Afrika Shox"; and others) worked for a while on the robot design for this film with Kubrick...Cunningham seems to be a robot junkie, which is cool, watch ALL IS FULL OF LOVE over at the sci-fi channel exposure website...i think its scifi.exposure.com And where's my damn NEUROMANCER film??? for wintermute's love give it to me!! and oh yeah i'm glad Jude Law is in this film cause he's great.
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Great line. I also agree that Platoon and NBK were terrible. I watched Platoon once, and couldn't stop laughing - fucking awful film. NBK had two or three neat scenes during the prison riot (the barbershop and the final gate), and the cartoons were used extremely well, but on the whole said nothing. When it tried to be coherent, it fell apart - Stone, as usual, had something incredibly dull and unsubtle to say badly. --- I did, however, like Fight Club. It was a lot of fun. It was really subversive (not socially, but in how it screwed with the audience), and had some great physical comedy (Norton beating himself up - no wires). Would I, for one second, compare it to anything Kubrick did? Nope. Even A Killer's Kiss had more depth than FC, and that was when Stan was in his infancy as a thinker and filmmaker, working with budgets that would barely let him feed his actors. --- I have said a lot about A.I. I will not say anything more. Everyone here knows exactly what I think will happen. Frankly, I'll spend my money finish up my Kubrick DVD collection - only 6 to go! Now, if only Atom Egoyan would get more than Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter out there... --- By the way, I'm curious to get opinions on what the true Kubrick-cultists think about Barry Lyndon. I've had people who swear by everything else the man did give up on BL, and even claim that they can begin to see why some people think he's "boring and pretentious". IMO, BL is one of the stronger films in the Kubrick canon. The photography in the film is beyond brilliant (compare the battle scenes to the cottage - WOW). The opening scene is my favourite in any film - I was laughing so hard I put my foot through a glass coffee table. Barry himself is on the same level of Gomer Pyle and Bill Harford in terms of how badly misunderstood he is. --- Radix malorum est cupiditas.
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Yeah, well I HEARD that there was trouble with the mechanical shark on the set. He refused to get into one of those "futuristic" tuxedo's and besides-- he really looked "fake" in it.
Also, the beginning is supposed to be a really violent storming of a beach with a crazy Semi-Truck in the lead.
Rumour is that ET is behind the wheel and he's PISSED!
Also, a little known artistic choice is the Director's insistance that all things be "The color BURGANDY" or thereabouts. He wants things to be authentically "1941" and will be checking looking over "Kubrick's List" to make sure of the details.
Finally, as for the earlier mentioned Robin Williams V/O-- I've heard that his character doesn't remember how to be a little boy and that the studio suits are saying "he just won't fly" because they don't think that the character's Peter will Pan out.
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Kubrick is Great, Speilberg is great. Hopefully this movie may clense the aweful taste of Eyes Wide Shut out of our mouths.
Cameron is great too (I dont think he's on Speilberg's level though), but he should stick to making movies. I pretty sure Im not the only one that thinks Dark Angel is god aweful. I give it a new shot every week, just because its Cameron, but man, talk about a bad show with bad acting.
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"I am confident that this is the project to bring back that spark of genius back into the kindling of the beards noggin".
FOR THE LOVE OF PETE, that's NOT ENGLISH!!!!!!!! It took me two read throughs to get the sense of it! Does Harry just mash his fingers into the keys and then post without even LOOKING at what he's written??? Am I the only one who cares??
At least TRY to make coherent sentences. And don't vote for your president based on his favorite song or group or movie or whatever. If you plan on voting, do your goddamn homework and know the issues and the stances of the candidates. If you don't, you've got no business voting. -
I absolutely cannot wait to see this movie -- it is so cloaked in mystery -- yet has such an epic scale. A formula for a truly remarkable work. One of the greatest aspects to Spielberg's career is that for the past several years, he has really challenged himself as a filmmaker. I think he really pushes himself. If a project doesn't have an aspect to it that he hasn't done before or it doesn't push the boundaries of film, he doesn't make it. Many directors who have ascended to the ranks he has might feel comfortable enough to rest on their laurels and stay within a comfortable realm -- working only with what they know -- but Spielberg dives into areas that are not so safe. It strikes me that he really does sweat over each project and doesn't seem content to redo what has already been done. I'm speculating but I think that the reason we haven't seen 'Memoirs of a Geisha' and 'Minority Report' or 'Indy IV' on screen yet is because they haven't developed to the point that he can really do something totally new and innovative with them. In order for the project to take off within that brilliant mind, I think he needs that spark...that new revelation...a new world in which to play. But perhaps the greatest thing about Spielberg is that he loves movies as much as any of us...perhaps more so...and he has found a way to transfer that love onto the screen. I mean, that really resonates with the auidence. He loves to do what he does. When a filmmaker is making a work that they themselves really want to see, it has a tangible effect with the viewers. It is my belief that the reason there are a lot of bad movies that get made is because filmmakers don't truly love the medium...they're in it for some kind of personal glory and that shows. Spielberg, however, has a love for film that he lives and breathes. 'A.I.' will be great because it is a labor of love... I believe that he felt a deep sense of loss that the world of film would be denied this Kubrick project and he felt he owed something to the medium...he challenges himself to expand the art....and I cannot wait to see what he does next.
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Nov 03, 2000 2:23:24 PM CST
As one talkbacker once said...Spielberg doing Kubrick is like Br
by alexanderdelarge
A.I. may suck(very likely, considering the cast, the director, etc.), or it may not suck (very unlikely, considering the cast, the director, etc).
I am NOT a very big Spielberg fan, and his decision to do this project which had the potential for being a masterpiece...well, I am not too happy about this. But then again A.I. may be Spielberg's last ditch attempt to buy some association with genius, since that's as close as he'll ever get. In fact, the only Spielberg movies I can watch without feeling revolted are his kiddie movies - the one thing I'll grant the man is that he knows children, because intellectually and emotionally he is one.
Still, I genuinly hope the Spielberg we know will disappear and a new, more confident and daring Spielberg will emerge from it's ashes. One that can make A.I. justice.
And to the guy who said Barry Lyndon was amongst Kubrick's best works, I agree. Many people (as with Eyes Wide Shut) missed it's subtle messages. Those two movies were amongst Kubrick's best in my opinnion. I trust that one day people will realize how great they are, but I don't really count on it...they'll probably keep jerking off to Gladiator and The Matrix...
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Did I read correctly - Jude Law in the title main role (ie that of the little boy!!!) what about the little boy who used to "see dead people". I thought it was him to have the lead role.
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um, anybody check out a-i.com? Looks like a movie to me. I've sent a query off to the advertised email address...
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I checked it out and that website (a-i.com) is owned by someone in the Netherlands. I doubt there is any relation to the film.
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Did a search and Warner Brothers owns the domain www.aimovie.com
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I have never heard of this before. It doesn't sound viable. How could a film camera recognize a bar-code? It's far more likely that what this person saw were reference marks (+'s) on the blue screen backdrop... and that the video tap that is fed to monitors off stage was also being fed into a computer to do a quick chroma key on the blue screen so Mr. Spielberg could see what the b.g. should look like.
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Yes this system does work and it is viable. It's not the camera that reads the barcods, it's a scanner attached to the camera. I stuck up a post before explaining briefly how it works and how it was invented by folks at the BBC, but Father geek obviously took a dislike to it and erased it! Maybe it was because of the word "arse" in the subject, but seeing as they all swear like troopers in their articles and I can see the word "bastard" in the little speil about how to behave in talkbacks, that would seem odd
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Platoon is by no means the greatesy war film ever - no war film that reduced such a fucking horrific conflict to a simple obsession with parricide and a jolly jaunt through Stone's record collection while some 'actors' play soldiers is not going to compete with Full Metal Jacket or Paths of Glory, is it? The full tragedy of war - including the random bits, the bits that won't fit a neat narrative, the boredom, the sitting around waiting for something to do. But I'm not just here to praise Kubrick. I'm here to slag off Scorcese. Taxi Driver? Well, De Niro is brilliant, and his improv-ed dialogue is great, but 'Marty' seems to be working against him all the way. Most of the compositions are signposts rather evocations, simple denotations rather that connotative, breathing moments. The editing only adds to this, and Herrmans risible score? Yeah, in one of Hitch's tongue in cheek boo-giggle-boo fests, but a supposed 'serious exploration of alienation'? As for Fight Club being subversive - well, surely part of ypour argument depends on the 'twist' - which one would have to be death, dumb and blind to miss - those flashes of Brad and the way Ed is first greated as Tyler sort of give it away, dont'cha think. A twist, which, of course isn't properly reconciled, in a film full of empty aphorisms. I'm cutting myself down here - theres a whole library shelf of argument to be made. But be tougher on your films - look deeper. And forget about AI - on any serious level, it's toast.
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see, they hated kubrick because he was someone who wouldn't let them control him. speilberg is a producers dream. he'll take out all the unsentimental views of man vs. nature within himself etc. that stuff that s challenging to the viewer,and beard will make it empty but with lots of thrills and chills. at the same time i don't hate speilberg i sort of like the idea of him ruining his career (that'll be the day) a la d.w. griffith with some huge bombastic film that's an amazing failure. but it's just the hubris of beard "doing a kubric film". there will never be another kubric.
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