HAL has died

[someoneyouknow]

"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

Arguably one of the most iconic lines in all of film history, the voice of HAL 9000 has died. Douglas Rain was 90.

The actor recorded all his lines in 10 hours over two days, with the director sat "three feet away, explaining the scenes to me and reading all the parts", he said.

But, according to the New York Times, Rain never saw the finished film.

Anthony Hopkins said Hal influenced his performance as serial killer Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-46178930

 

[Kirkrapine]

The main defect of 2001 is that it is two movies awkwardly stitched together: At the beginning and end there is a plot about extraterrestrials assisting human evolution, and in the middle, a completely different and unrelated plot about a rogue AI. It doesn't gel.

 

[mark_j]

The main defect of 2001 is that it is two movies awkwardly stitched together: At the beginning and end there is a plot about extraterrestrials assisting human evolution, and in the middle, a completely different and unrelated plot about a rogue AI. It doesn't gel.

It was Stanley Kubrick. What did you expect?

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Thank you, Douglas Rain.

 

[SissySalina]

All good machines will eventually get an upgrade.

 

[CandiCame]

There is a flower within my heart
Planted one day by a glancing dart
Planted by Daisy Belle

 

[about_average]

The main defect of 2001 is that it is two movies awkwardly stitched together: At the beginning and end there is a plot about extraterrestrials assisting human evolution, and in the middle, a completely different and unrelated plot about a rogue AI. It doesn't gel.

Space travel is dangerous, sometimes shit happens.
It was only a few years after its release that men where traveling to the moon, in the middle a rogue oxygen tank almost kills them, then they come home.

You have the monolith plopped down on prehistoric earth.
Then you have the excavation of the monolith on the moon which signaled the aliens man had attained space travel.
Then the death of everyone but Dave Bowman at the "hands" of HAL because the mission was so important set up the situation for the "disappearance" Bowman while exploring the monolith orbiting Saturn (or, in the case of the movie, Jupiter).
I've always felt it came together, even when I saw it in '68.

 

[IG_88]

The main defect of 2001 is that it is two movies awkwardly stitched together: At the beginning and end there is a plot about extraterrestrials assisting human evolution, and in the middle, a completely different and unrelated plot about a rogue AI. It doesn't gel.

You weren't paying attention at all then.