Is it OK to be a Luddite?

[Dave Monroe]

Reminds me, the impending release of "Steven
Spielberg's" A.I.  No one even bothers to mention much
any more that Stanley Kubrick had been working on
this, an apparently pretty loose adaptation of Brian
Aldiss' "Super Toys All Summer Long," for some time (a
decade plus?) before his death, holding out for the
time when the state of the art of special effects
would be up to what he wanted.  As the hour
approached, however, he detoured to do Eyes Wide Shut,
an adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's Traumnovelle
(Dream Novella?), another longstanding project.  And
then he died ... Entertainment Weekly ran an interview
with some SFX people Kubrick had consulted in re: A.I.
a while back, and the interesting thing there was that
SK was particularly interested in maintining some
ambiguity about whether or not his young protagonist
was an artificial intelligence or not.  He wanted a
real actor, an animatronic model, and a CGI
simulation.  Sort of how Alfred Hitchcock had
everybody BUT Anthony Perkins take a stab at that
shower curtain, just so nobody could even
subconsciously get a fix on just who was wielding the
knife.  The Spielberg approach?  Compare 'n' contrast:
"His Love is Real, But He is Not."  I cried at the end
of EWS ...

--- Otto <o.sell at telda.net> wrote:
> Karen Hudes:
> Two words: "A.I."

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