FILM AI - Artificial Intelligence PRODUCTION: USA 2001 DIRECTOR: Steven Spielberg STARRING: Haley Joel Osment (David), Jude Law (Gigolò Joe), William Hurt (professor Allen Hobby), Frances O Connor (Monica). A SYNOPSYS The story, based on 1969 short story Super-Toys Last All Sumner Long by Brian Aldiss, shows some similarities to Carlo Collodi s Pinocchio (1883). Professor Hobby, who works for a company called Cybertronics, has just designed a new child robot, a mecha, who is capable of emotional love for his mother. Eighteen months later, Henry, a Cybertronics employee, and his wife Monica, who have a comatose son, take David, the first mecha of the new kind, home with them. However, when Martin, the real son, recovers and comes back home, he is jealous of David and the couple decides to get rid of David. Monica leaves him in the wood together with his super-toy Teddy, a speaking teddy bear. Inspired by the story of Pinocchio that Monica used to tell him, David starts a journey to find the Blue Fairy and ask her to make him a real boy. In his quest, he reaches the submerged New York City, where he finds professor Hobby and discovers that he is producing other mechas like himself. With an amphibicopter David and Teddy go underwater and find the rest of a fairytale park with a statue of the Blue Fairy. Unfortunately, a ferry wheel collapses and David and Teddy are trapped underwater. After 2000 years and after a new Ice Age and the death of all the humans, a new species of mechas finds David and Ted. Searching through David s memories, they discover that once he lived with the humans. To make him happy, they recreate his house and BEFORE VIEWING ask him for a wish. David, of course, 1 Answer the questions. wants to see his mum again. The mechas recreate Monica from the DNA 1. The title of the film is Artificial Intelligence. What do of her hair, but unfortunately she can you think it refers to? live only one day. Monica tells David 2. Can you give a definition of artificial intelligence? that she loves him and for the first 3. Read the synopsis and look at the DVD cover of time he reaches the world of dreams the film. Can you identify the characters and /or like a real boy. the places? 194 Module 4 UPGRADING