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Hey, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab.
I want to see this film before I know anything else. That doesn't mean I won't be a total four year old about it if spoilers come my way before the film's release, but I would prefer they just release this tomorrow. Spielberg's done such a good job keeping quiet and using his online game to generate publicity that I almost hope he makes it to release without any big stuff leaking.
Having said that, the following e-mail was too evocative not to share:
Just thought I'd drop you a line because I heard a rumour about a tidalwave
in a flooded New York sequence in A.I.
With all the stuff about a half submerged city set being built for the film
and the whole post-apocalyptic plot of a world flooded after the ice caps
have melted, it might be true afterall. It could be a major plot point in
the film or merely a short sequence in the inevitable narrated prologue
sequence at the start of the film...
Anyway, I heard that CGI had already been done for this particular sequence
some monthes before Kubricks death in the run up to pre-production on the
film.
Does anyone else out there know of such a sequence?
Now, we've known about the melted icecaps and the flooded cities for a while, but the idea of seeing an actual tidal wave as part of a sequence... it's a striking visual.
I also got in a brief note from Jawad over at the SKG Fansite:
According to the latest premiere magazine, A.I. is going to have DANCE
NUMBERS. More at my site!
Jawad
... dance numbers?!
Man, it can't get here fast enough...
"Moriarty" out.
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I hope those robots are waterproofed....
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I wonder if Noah is in it with his Ark hehe...ok, really bad joke..
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I thought it was common knowledge that there is a sequence with ices melting and stuff. It's an important plot point, too.
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When the A.I. buzz was starting i heard this story, that's more than a year ago.
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guess they thought it was to slow but its spielberg so im there
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At least it happens in the version of the script which was kicking about a decade ago. The android kid leaves his family (who reject him) and travels around under the wing of one Gigolo Joe, eventually ending up in New York via a series of wacky adventures. It seems that Kubrick envisaged the film then leaping foward a millenia or so until a future where there are only highly sophisticated robots left. They find the remains of robo-kid and reactivate his brain so that they can see what he has seen.
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.. so long as that robo chick is in every scene. Yowsa!
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May 10, 2001 4:49:30 AM CDT
Who would want Haley Joel as a son, real or aritficial?
by brooklyn bred
ANd if you ask me that kid is a robot for real. There's something weird about that one.
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The tidel wave sequence has been done before, both in The Abyss and Deep Impact. Spielberg better have something original under his sleeve or he will suffer the wraith of Ain't-It-Coolers (you have been warned).
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May 10, 2001 5:53:20 AM CDT
Dance Numbers? Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
by -mrbean-
Oh please, if there is a God then there will be NO dance numbers in A.I. That would truely suck. This has a chance of being a GREAT FILM and I just don't see how a freakin dance number(s) will work
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If you want to see what the Earth looks like when the polar ice caps melt (among other things) Swim over to the http://www.earthchanges.com/
website and click on the future ,map of the world link on the left side.
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Directed by Senor Speilbergo and based on a doodle by Stanley Rubrick, inventor of the Rubrick's Cube, AI tells the story of naive young robot rapper Nelly as he climbs the ladder of success. Already a pop sensation in the charts, Nelly's AI is also used as the central theme to the movie. Nelly himself is portrayed on the silver screen by Harvey Joel Oswald.
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And if you didn't like "Eyes Wide Shut" (though I did) you can blame WW for that, too. Years and years ago I was wondering what Kubrick was up to next, did a bunch of digging and A.I. was it. And then all the infamous schtuff with the WW production, and its story and world, etc. began getting public. And then Kubrick let it be known here and there that A.I. also involved a flooded world, and that he didn't want his movie in any way associated with, or seem to be influenced by, a "flooded world trend" or some such. Hated the thought of comparisons to what looked like a silly action flick. And so he yanked it until a later date, and started developing some of his other ideas.
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...if some hack way back when got wind of the A.I. concept, and whipped up the WW concept to pitch as studio competition. Or sumthin. Anyway, the short story at the center of A.I. "Super Toys Last All Summer Long!" was written back in 1969(-8?), though more focused on overpopulation issues than environment, so keep in mind the probable true cause-effect A.I./WW relationship of original concept --> hack co-opt.
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Will Speilberg truly be able to capture Kubrik's vision of basketball's Most Valuable Player? I can't wait for the underwater dunk sequence!
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This is at the top of my must see films this year. The John Williams haunting score heard in the trailer just keeps gagging me. I'm just waiting to see this potential classic impatiently.
Just saw the Mummy Returns. What was with that Arnold Vos-dickhead-moron mummy guy (god he is crap) coming into frame out of time to scream NO! when the Scorpion King is speared. Comic timing? I never laughed so hard at a crap film before. -
we have no legs....BUT THAT DOES NOT MATTER! You shall still fall to our might!
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Why would there be a tidal wave flooding new york? I mean the polar ice caps wouldn't melt overnight, it would take years for them to melt, so logically the water level would just rise slowly until new york was completely underwater.
Despite all this, I must say that A.I. is definately the movie am looking forward to the most this summer. -
I'm guessing the 'dance numbers' are actually one dance number that likely appears in the b.g. of a scene or something lie that.
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Of course there will be dancing in AI, haven't you read the other Supertoys stories that Aldiss wrote? The boy robot meets two dancing robots and rather predictably they dance. I can't imagine Kubrick greenlighting a Berkely style routine for any other reason
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