"BiCentennial Man" Robot Sex Revisited

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I think I posted a piece about this film sometime ago, memory fails.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Positronic_Man

The Positronic Man (1993) is a novel co-written by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg, based on Asimov's novella The Bicentennial Man.

It tells of a robot that begins to display characteristics, such as creativity, traditionally the province of humans; the robot is ultimately declared an official human being.

The movie The Bicentennial Man, starring Robin Williams, was based both on the original novella and this novel.

There are some quotes from the film I found memorable:

Andrew: One has studied your history. Terrible wars have been fought where millions have died for one idea, freedom. And it seems that something that means so much to so many people would be worth having.

Andrew Martin: That you can lose yourself. Everything. All boundaries. All time. That two bodies can become so mixed up, that you don't know who's who or what's what. And just when the sweet confusion is so intense you think you're gonna die... you kind of do. Leaving you alone in your separate body, but the one you love is still there. That's a miracle. You can go to heaven and come back alive. You can go back anytime you want with the one you love.

Portia: What's right for most people in most situations isn't right for everyone in every situation! Real morality lies in following one's own heart.

Galatea: I think personality is much more important than intelligence, don't you?

[after learning the fate of most sperm cells]
Andrew: They die? One feels badly for them.

The first quote concerns human freedom and the ongoing quest of man to achieve it and that Asimov addressed that issue in giving sentience to a robot was most interesting to me and of course, it applies to the general discussion on human individual freedom in all aspects.

The second quote, concerns human sexual intercourse, ah, between a male and a female, and I think sheds light of much of the current gender confusion at large in the post feminist world.

The third and fourth quotes are from females, one a robot, one a human, that Asimov exploited to express his view of the different psychologies of the male and female.

And lastly, in combination with another well done film, "The Horse Whisperer" with Robert Redford and Kristen Scott Thomas, and oh yes, Robin Williams and Embeth Davitz, (I should search that), in BiCentennial, the thought came to me that although the performances of the actors and actresses was excellent, and with credit due to the producers and directors and scriptwriters and the financial guru's that make films possible, that it all goes back, way back to the writer that created the story.

Since the AH is a writer's community, and many do write more than, 'fuck stories', I thought it pertinent to point out the primacy of the mind of the individual human being that created the idea and expressed it as totally an individual effort.

So many on this forum denigrate human individual freedom that I wish to take every possible circumstance to illustrate that individual humans and their freedom to create and survive is the foundation of human society in direct opposition to those who believe all values are created by the collective and dispensed on a whim.

Yeah, I know, bite me.

Happy New Years anyway!

Amicus...