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I was watching the documentaries for the Spielberg film A I. and I was kind of surprised to hear that with the blessing of Kubrick, he wrote what I have always felt was a Gawdawful ending section to A I.. In my personal opinion, If the film ended upon that long shot drawing back from David in the helicopter, praying to the Blue Fairy to make him real boy, and faded out on that, THAT would have been an outstanding ending to the film, (and a much more Kubrick style ending), than what I have always felt was a tacked on ending with the aliens thousands of years later. I kind of wonder about Speilbergs explanation, as he really got to work on the after Kubrick died, which makes me wonder how Kubrick could have been given the blessing on that danged ending? I actually turn off the film at David praying. I wish I could do an edit of that film to have my "official version'.
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They are highly advanced and evolved robots, NOT aliens. The dialogue makes it very clear, "These robots knew living humans."
Also, this from writer Ian Watson: "The final 20 minutes are pretty close to what I wrote for Stanley, and what Stanley wanted, faithfully filmed by Spielberg without added schmaltz."
And from Steven Spielberg: "People pretend to think they know Stanley Kubrick, and think they know me, when most of them don't know either of us". "And what's really funny about that is, all the parts of A.I. that people assume were Stanley's were mine. And all the parts of A.I. that people accuse me of sweetening and softening and sentimentalizing were all Stanley's. The teddy bear was Stanley's. The whole last 20 minutes of the movie was completely Stanley's. The whole first 35, 40 minutes of the film—all the stuff in the house—was word for word, from Stanley's screenplay. This was Stanley's vision." "Eighty percent of the critics got it all mixed up. But I could see why. Because, obviously, I've done a lot of movies where people have cried and have been sentimental. And I've been accused of sentimentalizing hard-core material. But in fact it was Stanley who did the sweetest parts of A.I., not me. I'm the guy who did the dark center of the movie, with the Flesh Fair and everything else. That's why he wanted me to make the movie in the first place. He said, 'This is much closer to your sensibilities than my own.'"[67] Spielberg said, "While there was divisiveness when A.I. came out, I felt that I had achieved Stanley's wishes, or goals." -
Still, I will end the film at that fade out under the water, (well, it was a dissolve.)Comment
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