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Pablo a review of the book based on a text from the movie that does not even appear in the book? Well, that is cheap
  • 4 years ago
Bukk It seems you have confused Stanley Kubrick's movie with Arthur C. Clarke's novel. It further appears you have not read the book. Do you know what you're doing here?
  • 4 years ago
Jim Bukk, Pablo,

Don't be too doctrinaire - there was a lot of Kubrick in the novel.

Kelli has nicely recounted the lead-up to the emotional peak of the film. Kubrick was brilliant to gin up sympathy for a (presumably) emotionless, albeit sentient, machine.
  • 3 years ago
dave one of my favourite parts from one of my favourite books, thanks :)
  • 3 years ago
Jack Gattanella There IS a back-and-forth between Bowman and HAL, but it is different than the one you wrote out - Kubrick took the same sort of driving antagonist-conflict, but made different things that happen between the characters to get to the certain point. In a way the book has HAL being even MORE Passive-Aggressive than in the film, if that's possible.
  • one year ago