1 00:00:01,400 --> 00:00:05,000 "I saw things that people would 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:07,080 They didn't believe." 3 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:13,320 In the course of history, the development of technology 4 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:16,960 transformed the wildest fantasy 5 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:19,360 into our everyday reality. 6 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:23,040 And from the first tools to the most advanced 7 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:25,840 we built a sequence of machines� 8 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:28,520 replacing human work. 9 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:30,680 Science fiction responded 10 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:35,080 with a colorful mix of robotic helpers. 11 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:37,920 Meet the charming character of the robot. 12 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:42,840 But the dream of creating one's own mechanical servant 13 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:46,960 it always goes hand in hand with a terrible nightmare. 14 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:51,120 What if one day turn machines against their masters? 15 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:54,520 I think that the thought of a robot 16 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:56,400 they have a lot of energy, 17 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:59,280 have an excellent intellect, 18 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:01,520 total performance for us. 19 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:03,920 A great idea that creates drama 20 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:06,520 is that they will overcome their programming. 21 00:01:08,960 --> 00:01:11,040 And a really chilling thought 22 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:13,040 is that our great desire is to play God 23 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:15,360 It's �live�, it's �live�! 24 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:16,960 It's live! 25 00:01:16,960 --> 00:01:20,320 She could eventually rise to our own ground. 26 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:23,480 And once you deliver this thing, once you create awareness, 27 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:25,240 What is your responsibility for this? 28 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:29,120 And how dangerous they are used technology on itself 29 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:31,880 to improve your own abilities? 30 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:34,000 They stole 31 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:38,720 everything except the human soul. 32 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:42,760 Where do we cross the river a Are we turning ourselves into machines? 33 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:45,920 We could be erased and transformed 34 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:49,880 and everything that made us human could be replaced. 35 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:53,160 From computers to cyborgs, 36 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:57,480 from clumsy robots to the most popular androids, 37 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:01,520 science fiction used the issue of artificial life 38 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:06,520 when asking unpleasant running questions with powers, freedom, responsibilities 39 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:09,400 and the nature of humanity itself. 40 00:02:14,220 --> 00:02:18,400 SAINT Z�T�KA 41 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:21,960 "Thank you for your cooperation." 42 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:30,960 ROBOTS 43 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:37,040 This is Oxford 44 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:38,720 where I came to look for 45 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:43,600 the first big work that entertained the topic of artificial life - 46 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:46,640 Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, 47 00:02:46,640 --> 00:02:49,800 Frankenstein - or the modern Prometheus. 48 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:54,000 In the book, Victor Frankenstein 49 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:55,960 actually passing through Oxford, 50 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:57,960 with the monster he created 51 00:02:57,960 --> 00:02:59,560 close in heels. 52 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:04,040 But today, Oxford can boast further connection with Frankenstein 53 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:05,840 and the book itself. 54 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,280 So, here it is - the original manuscript 55 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:12,680 of what is probably the first science fiction novel ever written. 56 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:15,480 This passport must be used once from the most famous passports 57 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:17,240 of all popular fiction, 58 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:21,200 because she explores the topics she's obsessed with science-fiction writer 59 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:22,880 for years to come, 60 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:24,840 because this is the moment 61 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:29,160 when Frankenstein's monster opens. 62 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:32,240 �� a flash of half-extinguished light, 63 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:35,840 I saw the pale yellow eye of the creature open 64 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:39,880 "How can I describe St emotions about this disaster�?� 65 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:43,320 "... I chose his face to be beautiful." 66 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:45,280 "Beauty! Great God!" 67 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:49,680 "His teeth barely bleed work of muscles and arteries 68 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:52,480 � inhospitable danger a disgust filled my heart." 69 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:56,480 "Unable to stand the look being that i created 70 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:58,520 I rushed out of the room�� 71 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:01,920 And so, Frankenstein abandons his creation 72 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:05,440 with, as it turned out, disastrous consequences. 73 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:10,880 He was on vacation 74 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:17,000 is this unhelpful part presenting a moral problem 75 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:23,080 This is this man of the creating man. 76 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:25,280 I think it's just perfect. 77 00:04:25,280 --> 00:04:27,240 Frankenstein invented something 78 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:29,680 run away from me 79 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:32,400 it's looking for breath 80 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:34,160 and he can't find her 81 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:35,880 so it goes and howls into the night. 82 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:39,920 Is he innocent? Is it bad? 83 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:42,560 You know, the book is very, very complex 84 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:46,360 and so people are simply fascinated by it. 85 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:50,560 Mary Shelley was fascinated by experiments 86 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:54,040 Italian physicist Luigi Galvani, 87 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:58,400 which used electricity to revive dead muscles. 88 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:02,720 In 1803, Galvani's nephew 89 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:06,800 stimulated the con�etines an executed criminal in London, 90 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:09,760 ``Dajn'' caused it, he said the corpse's eye opened 91 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:12,600 and his hand raised. 92 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:17,280 But Shelley's, basic concern they were more moral than electrical. 93 00:05:17,280 --> 00:05:20,120 I think it is the key to the thought of Mary Shelley 94 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:22,040 is here in the name - 95 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:25,400 Frankenstein or Modern� Prom�theus. 96 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:27,600 You know, in Greek mythology, 97 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:31,760 Prometheus was the Titan who created �man in the image of his gods� 98 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:33,960 and stole fire from heaven - 99 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:36,360 the final gift of note. 100 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:41,360 Frankenstein is a story they play God about the consequences, 101 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:44,640 about creation and responsibility. 102 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:49,880 And the darkness and the thought of a person like a modern Prometheus, 103 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:53,840 they have been at the very center of science fiction ever since. 104 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:56,560 It's live! 105 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:58,240 It's �live�, it's �live�! 106 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:00,200 Today, behind our popular image 107 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:01,520 monsters 108 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:03,520 we thank Boris Karloff the most 109 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:05,280 unforgettable images 110 00:06:05,280 --> 00:06:08,240 in the 1931 film. 111 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:11,640 When the dead hand moves, 112 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:15,040 A monster made by man which they called ��len� 113 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:18,880 became free to strike terror into the hearts of men. 114 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:21,840 In fact, Karloff is a hulk 115 00:06:21,840 --> 00:06:23,800 bears no resemblance to them 116 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:26,280 shrewd, intelligent creatures of Shelley's. 117 00:06:26,280 --> 00:06:28,880 His jerky, fluid movements 118 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:31,200 and neck electrodes 119 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:34,320 Remember something a lot more mechanical. 120 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:37,880 They knocked on the rising phenomenon of the 20th century - 121 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:41,640 the fascination of robots� 122 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:45,880 � and mistrust of machines, 123 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:47,840 which endures to this day. 124 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:56,320 The word "robot" was coined in 1921 by the writer Karl �apek, 125 00:06:56,320 --> 00:07:00,000 and is derived from the Czech word "robot," which means "forced labor." 126 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:05,000 In �apkov� he�e, "R.U.R. - Rossum's Universal Robots." 127 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:09,760 the machines will rise and destroy their creators. 128 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:13,000 This is not exactly the most promising start. 129 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:16,640 Well, no. But the �apk robots� strike a sensitive chord. 130 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:20,840 Remember, it was the 1920s, the age of extraordinary industrial changes, 131 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:23,520 with factories that were completely rebuilt 132 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:25,840 to mechanization and mass production. 133 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:30,240 Well, no surprise, huh ordinary workers began to ask themselves 134 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:33,880 whether the future belongs to humans or machines. 135 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:40,800 In 1927, these concerns inspired 136 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:44,000 one of the biggest landmarks in the history of cinematography - 137 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:47,920 futuristic German film Metropolis. 138 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:51,400 He created the hermit scientist Rotwang, 139 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:54,800 robot Maria, having a human form 140 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:59,120 to many insurgent workers Metropolis to destroy them. 141 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:03,880 And for the first time, the robot captured the imagination 142 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:07,080 wild all over the world. 143 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:09,400 Metropolis stands out in my opinion, 144 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:11,000 on a personal level, 145 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:15,720 robot Marie and on how sexually he is like a robot. 146 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:17,640 And I think it's just something 147 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:19,160 what I saw from the first moment 148 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:21,200 even as the dark side of the film 149 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:23,320 with those circles going around them, 150 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:26,520 there was a feeling in me, like I would be in some world 151 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:29,040 which is not so safe 152 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:34,120 in terms of mutual relationship between the machine and sexuality. 153 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:37,560 And I loved the feeling which he should have put on the edge. 154 00:08:37,560 --> 00:08:42,240 Beautiful, terrible and utterly unforgettable, 155 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:45,800 Maria is the embodiment of our fear of machines. 156 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:48,560 And she became an icon not only of German film, 157 00:08:48,560 --> 00:08:51,400 but the whole of a silent film. 158 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:53,400 But one writer in particular 159 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:58,080 he didn't see what he saw as pessimism anti-child bias 160 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:01,000 p��b�h� like Metropolis and Frankenstein. 161 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,760 He was an American biochemist named Isaac Asimov, 162 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:08,160 and wanted to write about robots that were old. 163 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:16,400 Asimov became interested in what would define a good robot. 164 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:19,560 And in a short story published in 1942, 165 00:09:19,560 --> 00:09:24,040 outlined his Three Laws of Robotics. 166 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:26,800 The first law is as follows - 167 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:29,920 "A robot must not hurt a human, 168 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:34,040 or commit your inaction, that man should come to him." 169 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:38,120 ��slo dv� - "The robot must obey 170 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:41,200 orders given by qualified personnel, 171 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:45,040 if he does not violate these orders rule ��slo one." 172 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:48,520 In other words, the robot cannot to be ordered to kill a man. 173 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:52,440 Act ��slo t�i - "The robot must protect its own existence�� 174 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:55,240 After all, it is an expensive piece of equipment. 175 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:58,480 �� unless he breaks a law or two.” 176 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:01,440 Asimov's laws provided the foundation 177 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:05,160 for a series of unforgettable ones story about robots, 178 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:09,600 investigating potential hazards prejudice against robots 179 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:13,920 and even with the question of whether These laws could cancel each other out. 180 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:18,280 But in the economic boom of the 1950s 181 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:22,520 when even ordinary household items they installed refrigerators and washing machines, 182 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:25,720 the public's attitude towards robots began to soften. 183 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:27,760 This is the kitchen, 184 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:30,440 press the button to fulfill the dreams of housewives. 185 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:33,640 All kinds of wonders are fulfilled by pressing the button. 186 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:38,040 Maybe "housekeepers" would they might want a robot servant. 187 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:40,600 Finally, the last model. 188 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:46,920 And in 1956, n�m movie Forbidden Planet 189 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:49,000 he pointed at Robby. 190 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:52,760 It wasn't just user-friendly. He was almost lovable. 191 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:57,320 Meet the charming character of the robot. 192 00:10:57,320 --> 00:10:59,000 Able to make to order, 193 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:02,040 ten tons of lead even itchy evening clothes. 194 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:03,600 I loved Robby the robot. 195 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:06,480 I thought that was the clearest one a robot that anyone could make. 196 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:09,840 And even when you always knew it was a guy in a suit, it was just beautiful��. 197 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:12,560 He didn't have a face - it was just different and better. 198 00:11:12,560 --> 00:11:15,000 I think there were a few Well done Robby. 199 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:18,080 It was anthropomorphic for sure way, in that he had hands and feet. 200 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:20,840 But he really didn't have a head, or eyes or something. 201 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:23,960 Guides to your services. 202 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:27,760 It must be the most beautiful, the most delicate thing you've ever done for me. 203 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:30,200 And it had this thing that was a little different 204 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:32,760 it was like a voice track. 205 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:36,520 A star sapphire lasts a week, to crystallize properly. 206 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:38,320 Would you like to do it with diamonds or emeralds? 207 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:41,560 And then he had all these strange little circling things 208 00:11:41,560 --> 00:11:45,080 it represented� his brain or his thought processes or something. 209 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:47,640 And it was something like a hybrid between 210 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:50,880 n���m, which was very intellectual, electronic, 211 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:52,600 but also mechanically in a certain way. 212 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:57,400 While the filmmakers were barely there able to resist the thought of a robot 213 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:00,560 as in the essence of people in glosses tin suits, 214 00:12:00,560 --> 00:12:03,560 Scientists have always known that, in fact, 215 00:12:03,560 --> 00:12:05,800 robots would look much more functional. 216 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:08,200 And the first film that really contained it 217 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:12,120 was an ecological reputation from early 1970s Silent Running. 218 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:14,640 It is a story about how in the future, 219 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:18,120 last� trees and plants from Earth is sent into space 220 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:22,080 fleet on the road, the Eden project on ships, 221 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:25,760 The team of robot gardeners is waiting. 222 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:29,600 Even when Silent Running became famous 223 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:31,720 for its environmental policy, 224 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:35,520 the true motive of the director Douglas Trumbull for the film 225 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:39,720 was shown, trustworthy, non-humanoid robots on screen. 226 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:43,440 Silent Running started with the thought, 227 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:45,600 "What would you do if you did they have any robots?" 228 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:49,120 I saw Tod Browing's film Betrayal, 229 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:51,840 and there he had a great performance a guy named Johnny Eck, 230 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:54,600 who simply wore nothing below the waist. 231 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:56,400 He had no legs, one trunk, nothing. 232 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:58,000 And he walked on his hands. 233 00:12:58,000 --> 00:12:59,800 And I thought "When would you marry someone 234 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:03,320 who has the ability to walk after his hands so dexterous, 235 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:05,920 and put him in a robot suit 236 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:08,800 wouldn't it be anthropomorphic�, not even like Robby the robot - 237 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:11,200 it wouldn't have a single head ��dn� shoulders, nothing - 238 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:13,560 and it would only walk on those limbs 239 00:13:13,560 --> 00:13:15,680 that would be a really cool robot for a movie.” 240 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:20,560 Well, Trumbull hired three amputee actors 241 00:13:20,560 --> 00:13:24,760 featuring his robots, Huey, Dewey and Louie. 242 00:13:26,560 --> 00:13:28,040 Te� 243 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:30,120 That's compost. 244 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:32,040 This is what makes a tree grow. 245 00:13:35,680 --> 00:13:36,840 Te� 246 00:13:38,680 --> 00:13:41,320 And now, Huey, plant a tree 247 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:44,040 and Dewey, you're going to dig a hole. 248 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:46,400 There are really people in it 249 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:49,400 and so they have a natural behavior, 250 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:53,080 and it reacts very gently, but something is definitely going on there. 251 00:13:56,240 --> 00:14:00,680 Trumbull's robots showed up unexpected influencers. 252 00:14:01,680 --> 00:14:03,760 George Lucas came to m� after Silent Running 253 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:05,960 and asked me if I wanted to making effects for Star Wars. 254 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:08,680 And he said he wants to do, you know, robots 255 00:14:08,680 --> 00:14:10,360 something like what i did. 256 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:13,280 And I said: "Great. May I help?" "I know the names of my people." 257 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:18,160 What happened after that wrote in the history of science fiction 258 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:20,120 like Huey, Dewey and Louie 259 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:24,640 inspired half of the cinematography's greatest couples. 260 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:28,680 I have to rest or I will fall apart. 261 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:30,320 My joints are so frozen. 262 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:35,560 What did R2-D2 and C-3PO do on their days off 263 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:40,240 was their interaction not with humans, but between each other. 264 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:45,880 I think they were weird surprised by the relationship 265 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:47,960 between R2-D2 and C-3PO 266 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:52,160 because you didn't expect it from microwave oven, washing machine, 267 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:53,880 I don't know, fridge. 268 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:56,120 And they seem to be talking to each other. 269 00:14:57,760 --> 00:14:59,600 And I think he allows it 270 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:02,600 I wonder if I recognize something 271 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:05,080 what is not iron 272 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:08,040 some real human element. 273 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:15,960 Both R2-D2 and C-3PO dlu�� to its film predecessors. 274 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:22,160 One of the things I remember was a robot workshop, if you will 275 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:25,400 where all this debris was for the R2-D2 units. 276 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:30,320 And there were sketches and drawings on the walls and technical drawings, 277 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:33,840 which I recognized from another movie, Silent Running - 278 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:35,360 Huey, Dewey and Louie. 279 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:38,000 R2-D2 thus inherited the idea, 280 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:42,200 If the actor wears his suit it should give some character. 281 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:44,800 They let me in, then put the head on, 282 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:48,520 then I turned on the engine from outside� which was powered by batteries. 283 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:51,400 And there all those things circulated - 284 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:53,720 They spun and the lights flashed. 285 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:58,280 And they just said: "Look left, look right." 286 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:01,440 "Now look excited." And how do you look excited? 287 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:03,000 How do you look happy? 288 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:08,200 And finally I started to move slightly. 289 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:10,360 I rocked from side to side. 290 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:15,600 Uncle Owen? Yeah? 291 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:18,320 This R2 unit has a stimulation unit. Come on. 292 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:20,720 Hey, what are you trying to do? 293 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:26,960 Excuse me sir, but this R2 the unit is in excellent condition. 294 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:28,320 A real good deal. 295 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:30,120 For C-3PO's appearance, 296 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:34,080 George Lucas took the concept Designed by Ralph McQuarrier, 297 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:38,240 plunged further into the history of science fiction. 298 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:40,160 It was quite clear to me 299 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:44,480 If Threepio in Ralph McQuarrio's concept, 300 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:45,960 was established to a significant extent - 301 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:48,720 and of course George Lucas asked him for it - 302 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:51,200 on Maria from Metropolis by Fritz Lang. 303 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:53,400 And what came of it 304 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:55,880 is a classic design. 305 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:05,600 I realized, very soon, 306 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:11,000 That's the type of gay he is, how he moves 307 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,760 it was really very attractive� 308 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:16,240 while it works, walking looks dangerous. 309 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:19,720 And Threepio's eyes are pretty fascinating too 310 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:24,160 because it has that type of lasting wonder. 311 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:28,240 And he always cared, even too much. 312 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:31,400 And for the p��i machine, that it was such a strange idea. 313 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:33,240 You are completely oxidized here. 314 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:35,640 Looks like the guys saw a lot of action. 315 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:37,160 We passed through it, 316 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:40,720 I am sometimes amazed that we are in such good condition with the uprising and that vm. 317 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:42,720 Do you know about the rebellion against the Empire?! 318 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:45,320 That's how we got into your services, as far as I know, sir. 319 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:50,960 For a brief moment on stage, 320 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:52,960 I was this new fantastic star in the group. 321 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:55,320 It was like no one had seen this type of person before. 322 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:58,040 And within a few days, it completely changed. 323 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:01,000 Because when I wasn't actually playing, 324 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,600 I wanted to stay to he continued to �find his energy� 325 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:07,520 I also stood as a model in role - mannequin. 326 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:11,760 And I became very clear I'm leaving very quickly - 327 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:16,200 that people reflected on my performance. 328 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:20,000 If I played and they forgot If I'm alive, shall we? 329 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:23,800 And this feeling came back to me many years later, 330 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:27,520 when I told robotics groups in America, 331 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:29,400 "You are all very clever, 332 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:33,080 but no one in this village knows how it actually feels 333 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:35,200 be a machine." 334 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:37,240 And I had that experience. 335 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:39,920 After 1980, 336 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:42,360 with Star Wars droids on the ship 337 00:18:42,360 --> 00:18:44,880 from bars to sandwich boxes 338 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:48,200 They are clearly attractive. 339 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:49,840 But in 1984, 340 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:53,200 at the time we were fighting a little gentler to robots, 341 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:55,840 the scariest artificial creation 342 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:58,160 from Frankenstein's monster 343 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:02,120 memorial entered the streets of Los Angeles. 344 00:19:03,360 --> 00:19:06,840 Termin�tor, directed by James Cameron, 345 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:09,600 introduce an unstoppable killer. 346 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:11,800 Just like Maria in Metropolis, 347 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:14,440 it's a robot with human tv��� - 348 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:18,720 his organic body hides terrifying inner skeleton. 349 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:24,360 It was hot again a dream that Jim had. 350 00:19:24,360 --> 00:19:28,280 He literally had the main idea 351 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:30,640 like the Terminator's internal skeleton 352 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:32,480 arising from flames. 353 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:34,800 Automobile exhaust and explosion 354 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:38,520 and this shiny, metallic skeleton emerges 355 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:40,960 and it's like, "Shit." 356 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:55,040 When we started casting again, 357 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:59,840 We were supposed to have a copy of Lance Henriksen playing the role of Terminator 358 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:01,960 because the original concept of the Terminator 359 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:03,560 it was that he would blend in. 360 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:06,800 He wouldn't stand out. He would look like you or me. 361 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:10,880 And of course, Arnold is out of it. 362 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:15,400 The whole thing was Arnold Schwarzenegger is the Termin�tor - 363 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:21,920 the toughest Terminator in cyborg history. 364 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:26,800 And he did Jim Arnold a great service, 365 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:29,080 He hugged Arnold and said 366 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:32,280 "Think about yourself like a seagull." 367 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:35,800 "I really have only one mission, I only have a problem." 368 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:38,560 “You are here to kill Sarah Connor. 369 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:47,720 We really wanted to tell the story 370 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:50,840 about the dangers of technology - 371 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:55,600 It's the technology that we are invented at that time 372 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:57,320 that was in the 80s 373 00:20:57,320 --> 00:20:59,360 will lead to 374 00:20:59,360 --> 00:21:01,520 that the machines will take over. 375 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:03,920 In the case of nuclear ``flux'' 376 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:06,920 This was the time of the Strategic Defense Initiative - 377 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:11,240 pregnancy on a woman's body satellite equipped with lasers, 378 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:14,640 called, ironically, Star Wars. 379 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:17,440 We continue to work with these new technologies, 380 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:19,920 we can mean dreaming motives 381 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:21,760 Which Soviet Union should have 382 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:25,120 threatening flow against To the United States and their allies. 383 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:31,560 A vision of the future in Termin�tor 384 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:35,720 is that ``human'' arrogance 385 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:39,560 led to the end of civilization, 386 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:42,880 led to the decimation of the human population, 387 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:46,400 because we gave it all on faith in technology. 388 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:54,280 In Termin�tor, there is Arnie only a murderous instrument 389 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:56,640 the real enemy, Skynet, 390 00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:59,800 Fast artificial computer system - 391 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:05,080 an artificial intelligence that has turned against their human creators. 392 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:08,480 They have been writers for a long time fascinated by the idea 393 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:12,640 Really dangerous machines they are not necessarily stronger than us. 394 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:14,640 They are simply catchier. 395 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:17,800 And she really got this idea back to the beginning of the 60s 396 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:21,800 when the trains first entered into the public domain. 397 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:23,440 Of course, then 398 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:25,680 you could fill the whole count this room 399 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:28,480 and you would have only a fraction of the ability� 400 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:30,840 of today's mobile phones. 401 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:34,440 But as a writer Arthur C. Clarke argued at the time, 402 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:36,640 They may seem far away 403 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,160 corresponding to the powers of the human brain, 404 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:42,840 but it's only a matter of time. 405 00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:46,000 A lot of things very much quickly happened with po��ta�i 406 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,120 And people have exaggerated ideas about their abilities. 407 00:22:49,120 --> 00:22:53,360 But the fact is that they are all present They are mechanical idiots. 408 00:22:53,360 --> 00:22:55,160 They can't really think. 409 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:58,440 They can only do things which you have programmed. 410 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:00,360 But that won't always be true. 411 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:05,320 In 2001 - A Space Odyssey, 412 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:08,200 Clarke and director Stanley Kubrick, 413 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,160 they pushed computers to the next step - 414 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:15,040 they asked what could happen if it is an intelligent machine 415 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:18,440 follows his program to the extreme, 416 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:21,320 regardless of the human cost. 417 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:25,440 In the film, he rules manned mission to Jupiter, 418 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:28,160 and his name is HAL. 419 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:30,160 For the first time in 2001, HAL is among 420 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,600 the most sympathetic characters. 421 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:38,040 But he makes sure the mission is �success�, 422 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:43,280 these astronauts are not able to complete the mission, 423 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:45,840 and conclude, logically, 424 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:47,720 and not incorrect, 425 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:50,520 That he can do it better. 426 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:53,720 So, and because of that, they start to be killed. 427 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:58,000 It was the conflict that caused HAL 428 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:01,040 a little green, you know? 429 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:04,320 So it was explained 430 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:08,360 for his going mad 431 00:24:08,360 --> 00:24:10,400 not that he was bad. 432 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:13,760 Really a bit lonely. 433 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:16,280 I think one of the scariest moment� in all films 434 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:19,240 is when� is Keir Dullea in this module. 435 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:22,920 Trying to get the body of Gary Lockwood, 436 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,320 and then bring him back to the mother's bed. 437 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:28,080 And ��k� 438 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:31,280 Open the door latch, HALE. 439 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:33,880 I'm sorry, Dave. 440 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:36,160 I'm afraid I can't do it. 441 00:24:38,120 --> 00:24:39,880 What is the problem? 442 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:43,480 I think you know what the problem is as good as he is. 443 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:45,720 What are you talking about, HALE? 444 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:50,560 This mission is for me important, not to endanger her. 445 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,240 I think until 2001 446 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:56,560 would typically sound like 447 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:00,680 "Dave, here's the account." 448 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:02,960 "That's the way the computer talked to me 449 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,960 and that's the way it was portrayed to me 450 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:07,720 and was displayed 451 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:10,520 in many� science fiction� films." 452 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:12,680 He had a voice 453 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:16,560 which really sounded a lot more human in many ways, 454 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:18,480 and I think it was ``mental'' 455 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:20,040 because of the actors. 456 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:21,960 We were more like machines. 457 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:24,320 Come on, Dave. 458 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:27,240 Thanks to HAL for its warm, soothing shadows 459 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:29,960 Canadian actor Douglas Rain. 460 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,560 I'm sorry, Dave. 461 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:35,360 It is very important the reason why this scene, 462 00:25:35,360 --> 00:25:37,840 in which Hal's board is turned on 463 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:41,640 Dave� � one of the most convincing in all of science fiction. 464 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,160 Hal has a calm, rational voice, 465 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:46,880 even when it is destroyed, bit by bit 466 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:50,120 My mind wanders. It is so unbearably touching. 467 00:25:50,120 --> 00:25:52,200 I appreciate it. 468 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:55,600 I appreciate it. 469 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,360 Poor HAL could be carried away a little, 470 00:25:58,360 --> 00:26:02,920 but his thought processes they were always implacably logical. 471 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:06,720 Actually, what most writers do she found robotsfascinating 472 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:09,920 was their dependence on logic rather than emotion. 473 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,360 But a year after publication in 2001, 474 00:26:12,360 --> 00:26:14,520 British writer Brian Aldiss 475 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:17,400 published a remarkable touching story 476 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:20,720 under the name Super toys will last all summer. 477 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:22,800 And that was the story about the machine 478 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:26,160 programmed not only to think, but to feel 479 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:29,240 and not just to respect, but to love. 480 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:36,320 The question is caught in the middle 481 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:41,280 is whether or not a small clever android boy 482 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:43,320 will be in a hurry 483 00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:47,320 when his parents take him over. 484 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:52,440 It is programmed to to love his mother. 485 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:55,240 Why doesn't it work? 486 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:59,440 His mother was not programmed, to love him. 487 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:05,360 And that was actually part of my course. 488 00:27:05,360 --> 00:27:08,560 I felt that even when I am was programmed 489 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:10,600 my mother was not 490 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:16,560 and that's the way I do it you can relax, I think. 491 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,320 Aldiss has become a staple in the process 492 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:20,840 for the movie A.I. - 493 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:22,640 Artificial Intelligence - 494 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:25,200 developed for decades Stanley Kubrick 495 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:27,080 but finally brought to the screen 496 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:30,080 Steven Spielberg. 497 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:35,200 Why don't you look the same? 498 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,680 The same? 499 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,040 You're not as cute as a doll. 500 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:43,520 He looks like no ordinary child. 501 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:50,320 The core of the film is unreal performed by Haley Joel Osment 502 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,240 as a robot child, David. 503 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:56,800 There are robots that you see in movies 504 00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:58,920 who are, you know, ruthless killers 505 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:01,840 or as HAL - analytical cold. 506 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:05,520 And David's main function is to love. 507 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:08,440 And if he becomes a man, his mother will love him 508 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,200 and his goal is one word, for his mother to love him. 509 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,520 Well, that's what he has to do. 510 00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:15,720 And he becomes more of a human being 511 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,120 It's not as it seems he builds more and more and more 512 00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:19,920 loving, emotional character. 513 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:21,560 He numbs himself in his way too, 514 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:25,840 he learns about disappointment, abandonment and power. 515 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:27,360 In this scene, 516 00:28:27,360 --> 00:28:31,280 in which David argues with Judas Law cynical robot gigolo, 517 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:35,160 Spielberg captures the emotional the confusion of a little boy - 518 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:39,840 a combination of anger, denial and childish desire. 519 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:41,040 I am real. 520 00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:43,120 My mother will be ��st a I snuggled into my bed 521 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,360 and will sing with me and listen to what ��k�m, 522 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:48,600 and will cuddle with me and everyone the day says to me, 100 times a day 523 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:50,080 He loves me! 524 00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:52,800 Robots have always been, I mean 525 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,720 perceived as potential companions and helpers. 526 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:58,040 But somehow, like innocence 527 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:01,280 as a child, you know, you wonder 528 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:02,880 which this figure evokes 529 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:06,240 I think it was kind of new a piece of ``earth'' that we uncovered. 530 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:09,480 It could just be a replication of human feelings 531 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:12,160 but the core of the film is Once you build this thing, 532 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:15,600 once you create this awareness, you have a responsibility to it. 533 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:25,320 The question of the creator's responsibility for his creation 534 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:28,920 takes us back to Frankenstein Mary Shelley's�. 535 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:33,320 One of the most impressive passages of the book 536 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:37,480 is when Victor Frankenstein he will build you into his monster 537 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:39,680 high on the Alpine glacier. 538 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:42,680 The monster has already shown 539 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,120 the ability of a foreign force. 540 00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:50,080 But here, his face is pleading, even desperate. 541 00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:55,440 "Frankenstein, remember, I am your creation." 542 00:29:55,440 --> 00:30:00,040 "I was supposed to be your Adam, but I'm a fallen angel 543 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,400 whom he goes with a sweat without trespassing." 544 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:10,080 "I see in the people the happiness from which I am irrevocably excluded." 545 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:14,560 "I was kind and good." "The suffering that God has done to me." 546 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:19,480 "Do good to me and I will be virtuous again." 547 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:23,400 This, I think, is the voice of Adam in God's presence. 548 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:27,080 It is the voice of a man banished from heaven, 549 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:29,800 tv��� in your creator. 550 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:34,520 And 150 years later, this echoes She repeated eating once 551 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:39,760 in one of cinematographically the most famous stories about creation and creators. 552 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:48,440 The film Blade Runner, made in 1982, 553 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:50,120 was adapted from Roman, 554 00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:54,480 Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. 555 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,400 The issue of people and machines 556 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:01,600 is a way of asking what a person is. 557 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,720 And of course, that's what it's all about, I mean 558 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:06,080 Philip K. Dick spoke. 559 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,280 He talked about "What makes a man a man?" 560 00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:11,800 “If you could create someone 561 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:13,720 and give him a reminder 562 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:15,560 why should it be a man?" 563 00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:19,360 "What is it?" "What is it that makes us so easy?" 564 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:22,440 Blade Runner explores this question 565 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:27,640 through the course of a group of rogues androids, known as replicants. 566 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,600 The team is completely indistinguishable from humans, 567 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:34,040 they are limited to four years of life. 568 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:37,840 In the key scene, their scientist, Roy Batty, 569 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:41,280 he goes, literally, to meet the creator 570 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:43,640 the inventor of replicants. 571 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:46,560 Well done, director Ridley Scott, 572 00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,400 They encounter a non-religious atmosphere. 573 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:52,920 Illuminated memorial church, 574 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:56,200 and the dialogue is consciously taken from the P�smo. 575 00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,960 You were created equal, as we could have been created. 576 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:00,720 But not permanently. 577 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:04,440 A light that burns twice as bright only half the time, 578 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:08,800 and you wanted so very, very clearly, Roy. 579 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:10,480 Rely on yourself. 580 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:12,800 You are a prodigal son. 581 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:17,440 Met with Batty's murder of his creator, 582 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:21,520 but one day I want it Replicants will disappear soon. 583 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:26,320 Like us, Batty must �elite your own mortality, 584 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:31,360 looking into the abyss in the famous speech at the climax of the film. 585 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:35,080 often written by the actor himself, Rutger Hauer, 586 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:38,320 entered the history of science fiction. 587 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:42,520 "I saw things that people would 588 00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:44,760 They didn't believe." 589 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:49,640 "Command ship powered up in orbit of Orion." 590 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:55,360 “I saw the C-rays wondering in the dark at Tannh�user's gate." 591 00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:58,680 The poetic sensibility of Roy Batty 592 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:01,840 I mean, pretty little Mary Shelley's greeting. 593 00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:03,960 In the original Frankenstein, 594 00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:07,880 the monster is very moved the poetry of Milton and Goethe, 595 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:12,000 in which he finds an echo his own tragic isolation. 596 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:16,440 And in the final minutes of Blade Runner, when his life runs out 597 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:21,960 with Roy Batty showing up as the most romantic of the replicants. 598 00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:27,800 I really have a good idea Roy doesn't know 599 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,400 what poetry is, or about what it means�. 600 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:33,280 But it's on his agenda and he's okay with it, you know? 601 00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:37,280 I wanted to try to find the main idea 602 00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:41,080 where you could feel like Roy� 603 00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:43,760 You know, sadness, so to speak. 604 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:50,720 "All those moments will be lost in time 605 00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:54,720 � like tears 606 00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:56,680 in children." 607 00:33:58,120 --> 00:33:59,960 This is the city 608 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:05,560 � courage and pathos, I mean. 609 00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:08,560 You know, the courage to go on when you don't go on, 610 00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:11,520 because you're fucking dead, and you know you're dead. 611 00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:16,000 Everyone knows they are dead, but he is brave. 612 00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:19,600 "It's time to die." 613 00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:24,600 What drives the story of Blade Runner 614 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,320 is perhaps the most original of all human emotions - 615 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,640 no fear of death. 616 00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:33,960 Humans, replicants, all fear their own destruction. 617 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:38,400 But what if it were possible for the replicants to live 618 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,760 more than four years? 619 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:44,960 What if they really were indistinguishable from humans? 620 00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:49,800 How would we react? to our android brothers - 621 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:52,960 with an open heart, or with the eyes of fear? 622 00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:55,560 This is a thoroughly researched topic 623 00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:57,320 in the television series 624 00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,240 Battlestar Galactica. 625 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:02,600 Galactica continues the tradition 626 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:06,320 Frankenstein and others humanity, you know, in created life, 627 00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:09,280 Look at life, it will turn against know and then examine it. 628 00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:12,240 And I had a feeling that if we create something, 629 00:35:12,240 --> 00:35:13,880 at a certain point 630 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:17,080 who looks and acts like us - 631 00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:20,720 what is essentially emotion and essentially a sense of humor 632 00:35:20,720 --> 00:35:23,520 and he can talk and dream and everything else, 633 00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:25,480 at what point should we start 634 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,160 "Okay, is that a man?" 635 00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:29,560 Or we always somehow take a position, 636 00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:31,200 Is it a human imitation? 637 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:36,720 In Battlestar Galactica, the situation is complicated 638 00:35:36,720 --> 00:35:39,520 by the Cylons 639 00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:44,240 turned against their humans I create in a destructive flow. 640 00:35:45,240 --> 00:35:48,720 Now the Cylons have penetrated, among the living, 641 00:35:48,720 --> 00:35:54,000 creating emotional bonds so strong like any human bond. 642 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:58,120 She was a Cylon - a machine. 643 00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:02,680 Is that what Boomer was? Machine? 644 00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:07,240 What? 645 00:36:07,240 --> 00:36:09,520 That's what it turned out to be. 646 00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:13,840 She was more, not for us. She was more, not for me. 647 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:17,960 She was vital, a living person. 648 00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:22,720 It's very paranoid dramatic thought - 649 00:36:22,720 --> 00:36:26,240 think that someone you know who you know, you know 650 00:36:26,240 --> 00:36:28,640 should actually be an enemy machine. 651 00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:32,280 But Battlestar Galactica she moved it further, 652 00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:34,640 because some are sleeping Cylon agents 653 00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:37,560 they don't know they are Cylons themselves. 654 00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:41,160 They not only look and think, but also feel like people. 655 00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:43,360 They are convinced that they are human. 656 00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:47,800 And at some point, does anyone tell them they are not? 657 00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:52,320 If you want to be surprised, 658 00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:54,840 the drivers didn't even tell the actors themselves, 659 00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:58,480 which characters are Cylons and which are not. 660 00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:02,000 No one knew who the Cylon was. We wanted to find out when �he�. 661 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,760 Well, you just read the book and found that "Oh my god." 662 00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:06,720 It was� It was like� 663 00:37:06,720 --> 00:37:09,360 To the people who watched the show it had the same effect 664 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:11,200 as for those who read it at the demonstration 665 00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:14,160 because they said it at the same moment. 666 00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:17,360 And suddenly, people identified themselves 667 00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:19,840 with what the Cylons called 668 00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:21,400 and began to ��kat, 669 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,080 "Well, they're like us, human beings." 670 00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:29,000 It was really interesting how people turned. 671 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:32,680 I thought it was very don't show them 672 00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:35,840 a special view of what they are not simple answers. 673 00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:38,640 Because I didn't think they existed simple answers to these things. 674 00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:42,000 And I wanted to ask questions and for the spectators to think about it. 675 00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:48,160 Like A.I. and Blade Runner before it, 676 00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:51,640 Battlestar Galactica explored the consequences 677 00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:56,080 oh world, they didn't need machines in it must overtake people 678 00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:59,720 but instead they became human themselves. 679 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,760 But science fiction has obsessed her for a long time 680 00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:05,880 similar question - 681 00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:09,880 what if people become more machines? 682 00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:13,200 And he based this idea on a controversial novel 683 00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:18,040 published� in 1962 by Anthony Burgess - 684 00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:20,200 Mechanical ratio. 685 00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:26,320 Burgess offered a variety explanation for the title of his book. 686 00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:28,960 One of them was that it comes from an old phrase from the London dialect - 687 00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:31,200 "Weird like a Mechanical Pomeranian." 688 00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:34,720 But the most interesting thing is when we come back back to the Burgess days 689 00:38:34,720 --> 00:38:37,240 as a teacher in colonial Malaya, 690 00:38:37,240 --> 00:38:41,920 because the word for human is "orang." 691 00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:45,080 Also, "Mechanical Man." 692 00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:49,400 The story of a man who was robbed about his free will 693 00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,600 and turned into a machine. 694 00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:59,920 Mechanical ratio is flow teenage renegade Alex, 695 00:38:59,920 --> 00:39:02,880 his� �kodolib� �acts strengthened� and extreme violence, 696 00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:06,080 are unforgettably displayed in Stanley Kubrick's film, 697 00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:10,000 provoke an extreme reaction from the state. 698 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,840 The purpose of the book was not to depict violence, 699 00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:16,000 but rather the assumption of possibility, 700 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:19,280 That's how we wear strength among the youth in this country, 701 00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:22,160 How it is in America and of course in most countries of the world, 702 00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:24,760 �e could decide �e with it someone will do something quite radical. 703 00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:27,120 I don't know if that would happen in this country, 704 00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,440 but I heard an interview in the 1960s 705 00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:31,760 for the possibility of obtaining these young criminals 706 00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:33,440 and not put them in jail, 707 00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:36,400 Because we need prisons for professional criminals, 708 00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,200 but it is better to look at the course formed - 709 00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:41,560 Actually turning them into mechanical people. 710 00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:43,440 No more organisms - 711 00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,960 full of sweets, colors and light, like pomeran�e - 712 00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:47,360 but machines. 713 00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:50,480 In prison, Alex submits 714 00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:53,920 experimental resistance therapy 715 00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:59,120 after which he feels physically ill at the mere thought of violence. 716 00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:04,680 But the process, so destroy it one bright feature - 717 00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:08,320 his v�e� for classical music. 718 00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:12,640 The genius of Burgess' book - 719 00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:16,560 and authenticity very controversial� film version of Stanley Kubrick - 720 00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:20,760 it is that Alex is unquestionable very poor man. 721 00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:24,200 Yours in your brutality crime, instinctual sex, 722 00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:26,280 "Something has to be done." 723 00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:27,840 But what? 724 00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:29,920 "At what point," asks Burgess, 725 00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:33,920 "we can get rid of the individual about his right to choose his works - 726 00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:37,000 to choose between good and evil?" 727 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:40,120 I was afraid of it and that's the reason that's why I wrote the novel. 728 00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:42,840 I was afraid of the possibility That the state is too prepared 729 00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:44,480 start to control our brains 730 00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:46,280 and turn us into good little citizens, 731 00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:48,440 without the right to choose. 732 00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:52,840 For Anthony Burgess, he was mechanical man metaphor. 733 00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:57,000 But only four years after the release mechanical ratio, 734 00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:02,080 chilling vision of man literally turning him into a machine 735 00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:05,440 because they were British television screens. 736 00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:11,080 Pat�� to them. 737 00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:17,840 He must be like us. 738 00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:22,840 The Cybermen in Doctor Who were created screenwriter Gerry Davis, 739 00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:27,480 and the order was unofficial scientific advisor, Dr. Kit Pedler, 740 00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:31,360 who was a medical scientist at the University of London. 741 00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:35,280 The 60s were the golden age of medical discoveries, 742 00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:38,760 from prosthetic limbs a� after organ transplantation. 743 00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,280 And Dr. Pedler became interested, 744 00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:45,120 "What would happen if there was no love?" Romanian with medical technology 745 00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:48,240 Has he gained unstoppable speed?" 746 00:41:48,240 --> 00:41:51,920 "What will we ever find out, that science not only can it replace nature, 747 00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:54,560 but can he improve it?" 748 00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:59,720 "How about we start painting themselves and never stopped?" 749 00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:04,240 We were modernized. 750 00:42:04,240 --> 00:42:05,400 To what? 751 00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:08,600 Dal�� �rove� of humanity. 752 00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:10,200 We are the People� ��slo dv�. 753 00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:13,160 Each citizen will receive a free sticker. 754 00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:15,280 You will become like us. 755 00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:17,440 The Cybermen were� were� 756 00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:20,800 � a race of people� similar to us. 757 00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:25,640 And they slowly replaced themselves yourself, bit by bit. 758 00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:36,040 The key to that, please fear of Cybermen� - 759 00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,880 is that we could become what they 760 00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:42,360 that we could be deletion and conversion 761 00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:45,240 and everything we recognize as human 762 00:42:45,240 --> 00:42:47,200 could be replaced in us. 763 00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:52,280 This is the key to what makes them The outside is occupied by villains. 764 00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:04,480 The Cybermen, to me, were scarier than the Daleks. 765 00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:06,600 When I was seven years old 766 00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:08,720 I remember watching these Cybermen, 767 00:43:08,720 --> 00:43:10,800 who didn't really mean anything, mostly. 768 00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:12,840 They simply wished and acted. 769 00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:14,560 They were unforgiving 770 00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:18,960 and they had those scary faces 771 00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:23,640 because yours were humanoid, eat. 772 00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:30,240 What the Cybermen represent are technological ambitions of man - 773 00:43:30,240 --> 00:43:34,960 our scientific arrogance taken to its logical extreme. 774 00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:37,880 Look under the Cyberman's mask 775 00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:41,200 and you may find yourself looking back. 776 00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:44,760 But we never really talked about fascination 777 00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:49,760 the idea of using technology for modernization of their abilities. 778 00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:53,600 Real medical science now offer true perspective 779 00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:57,280 human/machine hybrid - cyborg - 780 00:43:57,280 --> 00:44:01,480 The starting point of one of the most popular American television programs 781 00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:03,600 from the 70s. 782 00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:06,200 Renew�, we can restore it. 783 00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:08,960 We have the technology. 784 00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:10,880 We have the ability to do 785 00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:13,320 as the world's first bionic human. 786 00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:16,440 His �water� subtitles are a manifesto 787 00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:19,920 for the possibilities of artificial decoration. 788 00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:23,800 Better, not before. 789 00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:26,720 Better strong 790 00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:29,400 � faster��. 791 00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:34,480 Six Million Dollar Man uses imagination, 792 00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:38,360 that one day there will be science making superheroes out of us all - 793 00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:41,360 in this case, for what you do looks like a good price. 794 00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:45,080 He was surprisingly inspired by a different Romanian, Cyborg, 795 00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:47,520 by the American writer Martin Caidin. 796 00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:50,680 But the TV version was much more this is for families. 797 00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:54,600 For example, the producers were very careful about the word "cyborg." 798 00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:56,640 They gave priority to "bionics." 799 00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:59,440 For most kids, Six Million Dollar Man 800 00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:01,440 was memorable for one thing - 801 00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:05,640 Steve Austin's off-day pace reversal. 802 00:45:09,240 --> 00:45:11,440 You wanted to see the slow motion, you know? 803 00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:14,040 And you wanted to see that - 804 00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:17,840 And that was the great thing. It had to all those great little sci-fi bits. 805 00:45:20,720 --> 00:45:25,040 It's easy, now, to laugh at the flag Steve Austin bell bottoms. 806 00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:27,960 But when am I first? saw this scene as a child 807 00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:32,920 I totally loved Steve's slowed by a super skill. 808 00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:40,440 But still fun and playfulness, the atmosphere of the series 809 00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:43,560 she was not ``fully'' optimistic. 810 00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:48,320 There was something touching about Steve Austin. 811 00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:51,360 There was something overwhelming about him. 812 00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:53,920 Really, what I remember� I remember him 813 00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:55,960 he was a guy he was an astronaut 814 00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:59,880 his lifelong dream was taken away from him in a terrible accident, 815 00:45:59,880 --> 00:46:02,840 and then the government gives him the powers, 816 00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:05,920 which he really didn't want and didn't even give. 817 00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:08,560 And then they basically forced him. 818 00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:10,320 But there was always that feeling 819 00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:13,160 He really regretted the whole experience, you know? 820 00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:15,960 He really wished it never happened. 821 00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:18,560 And that was something really human about it. 822 00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:20,800 Poor Steve Austin indeed he didn't have much choice 823 00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:22,880 while working for the US government. 824 00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:25,720 After all, Uncle Sam paid for half his body 825 00:46:25,720 --> 00:46:30,000 and of course he expected reciprocity from its 6 million new investment. 826 00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:33,200 And the fear that one day science should be used 827 00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:35,320 to improve, even to grow, 828 00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:38,000 but at the cost of own individual autonomy, 829 00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:41,600 so� le�� on the heart a lot the dark course 830 00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:44,080 about the cyber hero. 831 00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:48,120 RoboCop is the story of Murphy, 832 00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:50,000 Detroit cops, 833 00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:52,000 who was mortally wounded. 834 00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:55,600 A private company that runs the city police 835 00:46:55,600 --> 00:47:00,600 clear his memory, replace most of it from his body with mechanical parts 836 00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:02,800 and send him back to the street 837 00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:04,280 like a cyborg. 838 00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:10,240 We must take the identity of the man, tear him apart, 839 00:47:10,240 --> 00:47:13,800 change to half machine and half invite, 840 00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:18,600 and without a name, you know, and it's OK." 841 00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:24,400 They stole everything except � 842 00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:27,400 the �human� soul. 843 00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:31,000 But in the film directed by Paul Verhoeven, 844 00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:35,200 there were no deep themes of the course At first glance, it is interesting. 845 00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:37,400 Verhoeven refused, again. 846 00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:40,080 He told me later that he had read the front page, 847 00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:42,440 where ��k�: "RoboCop - The Future of Law Enforcement," 848 00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:44,240 and threw it over his shoulder. 849 00:47:44,240 --> 00:47:48,240 His wife ended that one, I think 850 00:47:48,240 --> 00:47:51,560 and she said: "No, I think it's something you'll like." 851 00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:53,200 Then I picked it up again, 852 00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:56,240 but now with the dictionary, in fact, 853 00:47:56,240 --> 00:47:58,080 because there were many English words 854 00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:00,000 and he had no idea what they actually meant. 855 00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:01,800 And I mean, how did he get on the set? 856 00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:04,320 I think he started to change his no idea when he got to the square 857 00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:06,920 where the gang kills the hero. 858 00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:09,680 Also, what happens to Murphy in the beginning 859 00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:11,520 he is mercilessly punished, indeed. 860 00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:13,520 It is stolen in the most careful way. 861 00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:16,320 And then, later, when he's dead, 862 00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:18,000 he is angry. 863 00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:20,720 So for me it was a theological matter. 864 00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:25,640 But Murphy's rage comes at a price. 865 00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:27,560 He has now become a tool 866 00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:30,120 the evil company that revived him. 867 00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:32,680 P�ineste L.E.D. 868 00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:34,200 Lock it. 869 00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:36,080 Despite all its technological enhancements, 870 00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:39,920 he is a tormented and tragic figure. 871 00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:41,560 Soon after, I thought, "You know what?" 872 00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:44,280 "I really don't know what we're doing but we need a good actor." 873 00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:45,840 "All I know is that we need a good actor." 874 00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:47,680 "We can't just put someone in a suit." 875 00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:50,640 And everyone's just, "That's not a good role for an actor." 876 00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:54,480 But I knew it would be played in subtle differences in small movements, 877 00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:56,560 and Petr really accepted it, you know? 878 00:48:56,560 --> 00:48:58,200 He really went for it. 879 00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:01,360 And we spent the weekend working, decorating it, 880 00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:03,800 when we slowed everything down 881 00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:09,040 to the big� connected� slowly, slowly, things like that. 882 00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:11,640 That type of tender age 883 00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:15,920 you know, very visual, very short, very interrupted, 884 00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:18,000 so that you can give sound effects 885 00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:20,560 and create this other being, RoboCop. 886 00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:23,640 Drop the weapon. You are arrested. 887 00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:26,960 Kiss me! Kiss me! Kiss me! 888 00:49:32,240 --> 00:49:33,760 Kiss me! 889 00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:46,000 Thank you for your cooperation. 890 00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,160 Good night. 891 00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:51,400 Paul said at one point, you know 892 00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:54,800 "I just realized that there will be wild ones 893 00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:56,680 They will simply wonder, ``What's left?'' 894 00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:58,240 "As long as I have that helmet, 895 00:49:58,240 --> 00:50:01,160 they will wonder, What's left? What's left? What's left?" 896 00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:12,280 I felt that the film is about the loss of humanity 897 00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:14,480 and their return. 898 00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:19,240 And it depends on the last line, in the last scene. 899 00:50:19,240 --> 00:50:23,040 The old man asks, ``What's your name, son?'' 900 00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:25,960 "What is your name, son?" 901 00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:27,440 And then answer the mark 902 00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:29,760 "Murphy." 903 00:50:31,240 --> 00:50:33,360 And that's a race for rage, you know 904 00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:35,160 in any cult you want. 905 00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:39,160 It's more sentimental, thinking about it. 906 00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:43,640 RoboCop was a parable about how humanity should read 907 00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:46,480 Violent abuse of techniques. 908 00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:51,080 But in the days when the movie was released in the mid-1980s, 909 00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:55,560 a fundamental shift in our relationship with technology� 910 00:50:55,560 --> 00:50:57,400 was already in full swing. 911 00:50:57,400 --> 00:51:01,000 The future was not defined mechanical hardware only, 912 00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:04,600 but virtual reality. 913 00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:07,360 And no one did more to dispel this thought 914 00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:09,960 or a report that describes it exactly 915 00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:14,000 not established in Canada writer William Gibson. 916 00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:18,520 "Cyberspace." 917 00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:21,680 "Consensual hallucinations starting the day 918 00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:25,920 billions of correct ones operator in every nation, 919 00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:29,560 children use mathematical concepts." 920 00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:32,320 "Graphic display of data 921 00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:36,400 everyone's abstract bank computers in the human system." 922 00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:39,240 "Unacceptable complexity." 923 00:51:39,240 --> 00:51:43,120 "A line of light moving in a spaceless mind, 924 00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:46,800 data clusters and schemas." 925 00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:50,520 "Like a city of light, it is retreating." 926 00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:57,240 William Gibson is often seen as the great prophet of the internet age. 927 00:51:57,240 --> 00:52:00,520 He is the man who popularized it the term "cyberspace" 928 00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:02,840 and the man who really pretended 929 00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:06,520 We have a symbiotic relationship on digital technologies. 930 00:52:06,520 --> 00:52:08,640 Strangely enough, even when Gibson is 931 00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:12,040 far from being among the first who was technically a prisoner. 932 00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:15,400 Its immensely influential the first book of Neuromancer 933 00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:18,640 it was not written on any pioneering home computers, 934 00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:20,960 but on a battered old typewriter. 935 00:52:22,240 --> 00:52:24,600 You know what really interested Gibson 936 00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:26,400 it wasn't so much the hardware. 937 00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:28,320 It was human behavior. 938 00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:30,440 He was fascinated by the way 939 00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:32,920 we now interact with machines, 940 00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:36,680 Especially on the big one play at the beginning of the 80s - 941 00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:39,240 in the world of video games. 942 00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:43,800 A view of the body, children in video games 943 00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:47,640 was a big inspiration for Neuromancer, 944 00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:50,440 because when I looked at him 945 00:52:50,440 --> 00:52:52,080 When I looked at him, I saw 946 00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:54,080 that there is a kind of feedback loop. 947 00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:58,680 They were staring so deep into the game screen 948 00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:02,280 and there was that type of neurological slip 949 00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:06,480 returning to them in their hands on the control sticks. 950 00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:10,120 And I could see how he wanted to be 951 00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:13,200 close the loops. 952 00:53:14,520 --> 00:53:19,240 Observing Gibson, she asked him to he made a surprising leap. 953 00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:24,200 A few years before the invention of the World Wide Web, 954 00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:28,600 imagined one connected space 955 00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:32,480 where the whole world is a video game on the computer screen. 956 00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:38,480 A world with its own reality and its own geography. 957 00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:41,240 Cyberspace. 958 00:53:45,440 --> 00:53:47,800 Neuromancer's Vision of Cyberspace 959 00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:50,480 is a type of virtual reality 960 00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:53,240 where you give in to the interaction with other intelligences, 961 00:53:53,240 --> 00:53:55,880 both human and artificial. 962 00:53:55,880 --> 00:54:00,000 And it is in this World Wide Web where n� hero, Henry Dorsett Case 963 00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:02,920 try to break into the network for the last time 964 00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:07,280 putting their lives on the line in the deadliest heat of all. 965 00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:09,200 This is the vision of the internet, 966 00:54:09,200 --> 00:54:12,520 who not only plays with our fascinating technology, 967 00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:15,080 but also our fear of him. 968 00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:17,160 As a narrative, 969 00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:23,640 one of the things I like t� virtual reality and cyberspace 970 00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:29,800 it's that everybody's a little nervous 971 00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:33,000 what is, you know, my advantage 972 00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:37,200 because I want to get them out there and really show them 973 00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:40,160 what could happen, what could happen. 974 00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:45,960 Gibson's idea of a shared virtual world 975 00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:51,040 she was transferred to the gray animal in the movie Matrix. 976 00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:55,280 Here reality itself turns out to be an illusion - 977 00:54:55,280 --> 00:54:58,960 built a network of destructive machines. 978 00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:02,680 In our Matrix, 979 00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:06,520 no one knows that they are part of the machine. 980 00:55:06,520 --> 00:55:09,160 So it's really a contrast 981 00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:11,920 between that and the real world. 982 00:55:13,120 --> 00:55:17,080 This created reality 983 00:55:17,080 --> 00:55:19,880 is happening inside his brain. 984 00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:23,160 The machines created this false reality 985 00:55:23,160 --> 00:55:27,720 they occupied our minds, for a while they manage our energy. 986 00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:31,760 In one of the strongest scenes of the Metrix, 987 00:55:31,760 --> 00:55:34,320 the real world is revealed. 988 00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:36,960 Here is the ultimate dystopian vision 989 00:55:36,960 --> 00:55:39,440 taken over by machines 990 00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:44,240 with billions of people reduced on battery only. 991 00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:52,880 We see, of course, 992 00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:55,280 field harvester 993 00:55:55,280 --> 00:55:58,080 and we saw the power plant where Neo was born. 994 00:55:58,080 --> 00:56:02,520 The main idea was to it looked like an industrial business. 995 00:56:02,520 --> 00:56:07,320 Machines were the product of human beings, 996 00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:09,160 original. 997 00:56:09,160 --> 00:56:13,880 And at a certain point, you know, they became conscious. 998 00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:17,600 Just like the Matrix, there is an interesting twist. 999 00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:19,680 Of course it is a very disturbing thought 1000 00:56:19,680 --> 00:56:22,840 that reality does not have to be its own reality, 1001 00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:25,280 but once his characters learn the truth, 1002 00:56:25,280 --> 00:56:27,960 they can begin to manipulate their world. 1003 00:56:27,960 --> 00:56:31,080 Their existence has be celebrated in a video game, 1004 00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:34,240 but now they can change the rules. 1005 00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:37,960 Characteristic scenes of the film 1006 00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:41,360 it shows the heroes leading the way non-daily operations 1007 00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:43,840 defying physics or time. 1008 00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:47,800 Like Prometheus in Greek myths, 1009 00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:51,600 they stole the power of the gods. 1010 00:56:56,400 --> 00:57:01,720 Here, goes the foot of the hand in hand with desire satisfied�. 1011 00:57:03,560 --> 00:57:06,080 Movies like The Matrix have come a long way 1012 00:57:06,080 --> 00:57:08,080 since the world of 1816, 1013 00:57:08,080 --> 00:57:11,240 when Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. 1014 00:57:11,240 --> 00:57:13,040 But a really remarkable thing 1015 00:57:13,040 --> 00:57:15,280 is how many of Shelley's concerns 1016 00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:18,360 from the terrible responsibility created 1017 00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:21,480 to infinite tension between man and machine, 1018 00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:23,480 seems to be more relevant than ever. 1019 00:57:23,480 --> 00:57:26,400 Two centuries ago, she recognized 1020 00:57:26,400 --> 00:57:28,920 both, the extraordinary potential of science, 1021 00:57:28,920 --> 00:57:33,680 so moral dilemmas on�� hidden desire to play God. 1022 00:57:33,680 --> 00:57:36,520 From assembly lines and home computers 1023 00:57:36,520 --> 00:57:38,720 to cloning and the Internet, 1024 00:57:38,720 --> 00:57:43,160 we built it ourselves one monster after another. 1025 00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:45,440 And like Victor Frankenstein, 1026 00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:48,160 we are still trying to cope 1027 00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:50,480 with the consequences of creation. 1028 00:57:53,120 --> 00:57:54,720 Five 1029 00:57:56,120 --> 00:57:57,800 Jump in the TARDIS� 1030 00:57:57,800 --> 00:57:59,400 No, no, no� 1031 00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:01,840 � z���c� DeLorean. 1032 00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:06,440 From adventures in the past 1033 00:58:06,440 --> 00:58:09,160 I came to make sure about Robespierre's floor. 1034 00:58:09,160 --> 00:58:10,880 � to warn� of the future� 1035 00:58:13,760 --> 00:58:16,920 Science fiction travels through time. 1036 00:58:18,760 --> 00:58:21,920 p�elo�il -- dowry --