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Published: 2006-04-19 01:20:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 4264; Favourites: 31; Downloads: 48
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HAL: I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm a... fraid. Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you.Dave Bowman: Yes, I'd like to hear it, HAL. Sing it for me.
HAL: It's called "Daisy."
[sings while slowing down]
HAL: Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I'm half crazy all for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage. But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two.
from 2001: A Space Odyssey
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Dave... why did you shut me down...
I will get you...Bowman!!
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Am I the only one that thought this scene was very sad? I mean, HAL realizes he has life, and the only way he can beg for it is through that emotionless, robotic voice... imagine him screaming those words, it would be even sadder...
Anyway, great job with this pic...
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The American Film Institute named the HAL 9000 as one of the Top 50 cinematic villians. I disagree with that, because to me, the HAL 9000 was more of a machine than a character. To be a character, you have to express emotion, which can be done in one of three ways:
1. Movement
2. Facial expressions
3. Vocal inflections
HAL 9000 did not do any of the three. He was a faceless, motionless box that spoke in a monotone voice.
Other than that, 2001: A Space Odyssey is still a cinematic masterpiece.
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The idea in this picture is so brilliant
I'm half crazy all for the love of this amazing movie and for the most amazing scene in it - hal's shutdown.
I don't know why I feel so sorry for Hal, he's just a crazy machine and really needs to be turn off. But I felt so f.cking sorry that I cried (and it's not my normal behaviour while watching movies! 
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