A.I. Artificial Intelligence, also known as A.I., is a 2001 Americanscience fiction drama film directed bySteven Spielberg. The screenplay by Spielberg was based on a screen story by Ian Watson and the 1969 short story "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" byBrian Aldiss. The film was produced byKathleen Kennedy, Spielberg and Bonnie Curtis. It stars Haley Joel Osment,Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Brendan Gleeson and William Hurt. Set in a futuristic post-climate changesociety, A.I. tells the story of David (Osment), a childlike android uniquely programmed with the ability to love.pg9快充网络
Development of A.I. originally began with producer-director Stanley Kubrickafter he acquired the rights to Aldiss' story in the early 1970s. Kubrick hired a series of writers until the mid-1990s, including Brian Aldiss, Bob Shaw, Ian Watson, and Sara Maitland. The film languished in protracted development for years, partly because Kubrick felt computer-generated imagery was not advanced enough to create the David character, whom he believed no child actor would convincingly portray. In 1995, Kubrick handed A.I. to Spielberg, but the film did not gain momentum until Kubrick's death in 1999. Spielberg remained close to Watson's film treatment for the screenplay.pg9快充网络
The film tended to divide critics, the balance overall being positive (one negative reviewer admitted he "got it wrong" when he saw it the first time), and grossed approximately $235 million. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards at the 74th Academy Awards, for Best Visual Effects andBest Original Score (by John Williams). A.I. is dedicated to Stanley Kubrick.pg9快充网络
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In the late 22nd century, global warming has flooded the coastlines, wiping out coastal cities and drastically reducing the human population. There is a new class of robots called Mecha, advanced humanoids capable of emulating thoughts and emotions.pg9快充网络
David, a prototype, is designed to resemble a human child and to display love for its human owners. They test their creation with one of their employees, Henry Swinton, and his wife Monica. The Swintons' son, Martin, had been placed in suspended animation until a cure could be found for his rare disease. Initially frightened of David, Monica eventually warms up enough to him to activate his imprinting protocol, which irreversibly causes David to have an enduring childlike love for her. He is also befriended by Teddy, a robotic teddy bear, who takes it upon himself to care for David's well-being.pg9快充网络
A cure is found for Martin and he is brought home; as he recovers, it becomes clear he does not want a sibling and soon makes moves to cause issues for David. First, he attempts to make Teddy choose whom he likes more. He then makes David promise to do something and in return Martin will tell Monica that he loves his new "brother", making her love him more. The promise David makes is to go to Monica in the middle of the night and cut off a lock of her hair. This upsets the parents, particularly Henry, who fears that the scissors are a weapon, and warns Monica that a robot programmed to love may also be able to hate.pg9快充网络
At a pool party, one of Martin's friends unintentionally activates David's self-protection programming by poking him with a knife. David grabs Martin, apparently for protection, but they both fall into the pool. David sinks to the bottom while still clinging to Martin. Martin is saved from drowning, but Henry mistakes David's fear during the pool incident as hate for Martin.pg9快充网络
Henry persuades Monica to return David to Cybertronics, where he will be destroyed. However, Monica cannot bring herself to do this and abandons David in the forest (with Teddy) to hide as an unregistered Mecha.pg9快充网络
David is captured for an anti-Mecha "Flesh Fair", an event where obsolete and unlicensed Mecha are destroyed in front of cheering crowds. David is nearly killed, but the crowd is swayed by his fear into believing he is human and he escapes with Gigolo Joe, a male prostitute Mecha on the run after being framed for murder.pg9快充网络
The two set out to find the Blue Fairy, who David remembers from The Adventures of Pinocchio. He is convinced that the Blue Fairy will transform him into a human boy, allowing Monica to love him and take him home.pg9快充网络
Joe and David make their way to Rouge City, where information from a holographic answer engine called "Dr. Know" eventually leads them to the top of Rockefeller Center in the ruins of Manhattan. There, David meets an identical copy of himself and, believing he is not special, destroys the copy. David then meets his human creator, Professor Allen Hobby, who excitedly tells David that finding him was a test. David learns that he is the namesake and image of Professor Hobby's deceased son and that many copies of David, along with female versions called Darlene, are already being manufactured.pg9快充网络
Disheartened, David falls from a ledge, but Joe rescues him with their stolen amphibicopter. David tells Joe he saw the Blue Fairy underwater and wants to go down to her. Joe is captured by the authorities with the use of an electromagnet, but he sets the amphibicopter on submerge. David and Teddy take it to the fairy, which turns out to be a statue at Coney Island. Teddy and David become trapped when the Wonder Wheel falls on their vehicle. Believing the Blue Fairy to be real, David asks to be turned into a real boy, repeating his wish until the ocean freezes and his internal power source drains away.pg9快充网络
Two thousand years later, humans are extinct and Manhattan is buried under glacial ice. The now highly-advanced Mecha have evolved into an intelligent, silicon-based form. They find David and Teddy and discover they are original Mecha who knew living humans, making the pair very special.pg9快充网络
David is revived and walks to the frozen Blue Fairy statue, which cracks and collapses as he touches it. Having downloaded and comprehended his memories, the advanced Mecha use them to reconstruct the Swinton home and explain to David via an interactive image of the Blue Fairy that it is impossible to make him human. However, at David's insistence, they recreate Monica from DNA in her hair, which Teddy had saved. One of the Mecha warns David that the clone can live for only a single day and that the process cannot be repeated. The next morning, David is reunited with Monica and spends the happiest day of his life with her and Teddy. Monica tells David that she has always loved him as she drifts to sleep for the last time. David lies down next to her, closes his eyes and goes "to that place where dreams are born". Teddy climbs onto the bed and watches as David and Monica lie peacefully together.pg9快充网络
