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Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)

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• When work began on the movie in 1993, Joseph Mazzello was cast as David.
  
  
• One of the buildings in Manhattan is actually an Apple Macintosh (Harman-Kardon) subwoofer.
  
  
• Haley Joel Osment suggested to Steven Spielberg that his character (David) should not blink. Spielberg agreed and went further to suggest that none of the androids should blink. In fact, several of them do (see goofs).
  
  

• Director Trademark: [Steven Spielberg] [music] (John Williams score)
  
  
• Director Trademark: [Steven Spielberg] [moon] The large moon visible in many scenes, is in the logo for the Flesh Fair, and appears as the design on Johnson's "balloon" aircraft.
  
  
• Director Trademark: [Steven Spielberg] Important image seen in rear-view mirror (cf Jurassic Park (1993), Duel (1971) (TV))
  
  
• Although Jack Angel recorded all of his voice work for Teddy while separate from the rest of the production, he was asked to be on set every day, to re-record lines immediately when necessary.
  
  
• Steven Spielberg used the water-filled set from The Perfect Storm (2000) for the flooded world of the future in this movie.
  
  
• In order to keep the film's PG-13 rating, a building resembling a penis was digitally removed from the "Rouge City" set.
  
  
• John Williams quotes Richard Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier" waltz in the underscore during the approach Rouge City. This was a done to honor Stanley Kubrick, who left few notes regarding the music except to tell Steven Spielberg that this Strauss waltz should appear in the film. Williams refers to his score, which contains a number of musical allusions to Kubrick's films in addition to the waltz, as his 'homage a Kubrick'.
  
  
• While this film was based on the Brian Aldiss short story "Supertoys Last All Summer Long," that short story has less influence on the movie than the famous poem by William Butler Yeats, "The Stolen Child." The text of the poem appears in the movie in two places, and certain stanzas take on literal meaning as well (e.g. "Till the moon has taken flight")
  
  
• The Dreamworks SKG logo is featured a number of times, but most prominently in Martin's bed.
  
  
• Steven Spielberg's writing credit is his first since Poltergeist (1982).
  
  
• One of the reasons for Stanley Kubrick waiting so long to make the film, is that he wanted David (Haley Joel Osment) to be played by an actual robot. After Jurassic Park (1993) was made, Kubrick looked into using digital computer effects to create David.
  
  
• As a promotional tool, the creators developed an elaborate internet game of discovery and problem solving, through hidden messages and puzzles in internet sites, telephone answering messages, e-mail accounts and clues in the film's trailers. The game, set in the world of A.I. involved websites registered in several countries around the world as well as telephone numbers from across the US, and a group of followers called "The Cloudmakers" followed the puzzle, sharing information.
  
  
• The hotel that Joe Gigolo walks into, when we are first introduced to the character, has the Hebrew words "Ahava Kshera" in neon. (Kosher Love)
  
  
• The band playing at the flesh fair, Ministry, was chosen by Stanley Kubrick himself, after overhearing a crew member playing a Ministry album one day on the set of Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Kubrick was also said to have liked the band because they used audio samples from his film Full Metal Jacket (1987) in their 1989 song "Thieves".
  
  
• The list of words that Monica Swifton says to David to make him capable of love was the original list, written by Stanley Kubrick.
  
  
• The movie was originally to be titled A.I., but after a survey it was revealed that too many people thought it was A1. The title was changed to A.I. Artificial Intelligence to prevent people from thinking it was about steak sauce.
  
  
• Much of the promotional material sent to movie theaters (posters, stand-ups, etc) misspelled Steven Spielberg's first name as "Stephen".
  
  
• Joe's medallion has "Shangri La" written on it when he starts playing music in the hotel room.
  
  
• Real-life amputees played some of the robots with missing limbs.
  
  
• Julianne Moore and Gwyneth Paltrow were considered for the role of Monica.
  
  
• When Joe combines questions during the Dr. Know scene, we hear the doorbell sound from "The Jetsons" (1962).
  
  
• The character name "Professor Hobby" is an obscure reference to Stanley Kubrick, who produced his films in the United Kingdom under the name "Hobby Films," which never appeared on screen in any of his films.
  
  
• The first film to use computer animated Pre-Vis.
  
  
• The film also pioneered the virtual studio, a technique which allowed Steven Spielberg to walk through a virtual version of Rouge City with his camera and select shots. This technique was later used on "The Lord of the Rings" films.
  
  
• Includes many of the trademarks of Stanley Kubrick. Among these are the narration at the beginning; portrayal of dehumanization and the dark side of human nature; the shots down the length of tall, parallel walls, and "The Glare", with David's head tilted and eyes looking upwards; the scene in the bathroom; the three-way conflict between David, Monica and Martin; an obsessed hero; imaginary worlds; a journey towards freedom/knowledge; the use of previously composed music in Richard Strauss "Der Rosenkavalier".
  
  
• Stanley Kubrick worked on the project for 12 years before his death, but along the way decided to let Steven Spielberg direct, saying it was "closer to his sensibilities". The two collaborated for years, resulting in Kubrick giving Spielberg a complete treatment and lots of conceptual art for the film prior to his death.
  
  
• Before the film's release, Steven Spielberg assigned video game developers at Microsoft the task of developing a series of games based on the film for the XBox game system.
  
  
• In some trailers for the movie, the words, "THIS IS NOT A GAME" were printed in glowing red letters at the bottom of the screen.
  
  
• The first part of Steven Spielberg's unofficial "running man" trilogy, continuing with Minority Report (2002) and concluding with Catch Me If You Can (2002).
  
  
• At the preview showings of the movie, special posters were placed in the theaters with a list of credits for the "Puppetmasters": Jordan Weisman, Elan Lee, Scot Bayless, Sean Stewart, Dan Carver, Pete Fenlon, Todd Lubsen, Paolo Malabuyo, Mark Selander, Mike Pondsmith, Lynn Knight, David Wells, Shawn Ferminger and Christine Hill. No regular movie posters were displayed that night. The "Puppetmasters" were a team from Microsoft, with Steven Spielberg's blessing, and quite outside the studio's wishes, that ran the Internet game. No movie credits were listed. Many of the players' on-line game names were in vertical lists in an outline of the regular A.I. "Initials" movie poster.
  
  
• The SuperRobots look like the aliens from Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977); apparently Steven Spielberg was using scenes dropped from the movie at the time due to special effects constraints and never filmed until they appeared in AI.
  
  
• When David and Gigolo Joe are journeying through the woods, they mention a town called Haddonfield. There is a real town in New Jersey named Haddonfield, where Steven Spielberg lived for several years as a child.
  
  

• SPOILER: Director Trademark: (Steven Spielberg):[father]: David and Henry are somewhat distant from each other and, while Monica performs the imprinting sequence with David, Henry never does. Professor Hobby made David in the image of his own dead son. He tells David he's as real a boy as he's ever made; in a way, he has to lose his son again.
  
  
• SPOILER: The elaborate series of promotional websites included information about the characters' lives after their last appearances in the film. For instance, one website revealed that Martin Swinton grew up to be an architect who, after being traumatized by David's disappearance, spent his career building sentient AI houses.
  
  
• SPOILER: The World Trade Center is seen when Joe, David and Teddy arrive in Manhattan. The towers are later seen still standing 2,000 years in the future. Less than three months after the film's release, they were destroyed in the September 11 terrorist attacks. Though risking controversy and criticism, Steven Spielberg left the twin towers in the DVD release.
  
  
• SPOILER: When Joe finds Samantha dead, the song playing on the radio is the title song from Guys and Dolls (1955/I).
  
  

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