Steven Spielberg is the king of audience manipulation, but how does he play with that at the end of Artificial Intelligence? It's hard to imagine two directors with as different of personas as Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick. One was a control freak obsessed with the details, the other is a dreamer obsessed with the audience. You might already know this, but the two of them were actually close friends. They shared an admiration for one another's work and frequently communicated ideas. Eventually, this friendship would lead Spielberg to make one of his most daring films, subverting everything we know about him and his stylistic nature and storytelling tendencies. The idea for A.I. Artificial Intelligence came from Brian Aldiss’s short story, “Supertoys Last All Summer Long.” Kubrick loved the idea of making a story about a boy who could never please his mother, but the more he worked on it over the decades, the more he thought he wasn't the person to tell the story. He knew it had to be his friend Spielberg. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Monday, 5 July, 2021