I, Carlos — eddorre

eddorre

I, Carlos

I saw the trailer for I, Robot last night while I was waiting for <a href =“http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/secretwindow/cms/” target="_blank">Secret Window to start. I, Robot the movie, for those of you that don’t know is loosely based on the Asimov novel by the same name; and when I say loosely based I mean not really at all. The only things that the book and the movie have in common with each other are the title and the 3 laws of robotics; although those have been changed as well. The laws as displayed in the trailer are:

They Cannot Hurt Us
They Must Do What We Say
They Can Protect Themselves

In actuality the laws, according to Asimov, are:

A robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm
A robot must obey order given it by beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law

To its credit, the movie looks interesting enough with a robot standing trial for murder, but I believe that in the end, it won’t be a thought provoking movie. I’m sure that average Hollywood will prevail and it will just be mad robots that Willy Smith has to kill while cracking jokes. Regardless, I’ll plunk down my money to see just that.

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But if you actually understand anything about the English language, the laws almost exactly the same. So they changed the text a little. I have a feeling they only changed the text of the laws to make it more understandable (put it into layman’s terms). After all, you have to remember, everyone assumes people are more stupid today than they were yesterday ;).
Jason

Monday March 15, 2004 09:46
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Actually, my mothership-bound friend, it has nothing to do with the English language. If I were a gentlemen, which I’m not, I would refrain from pointing out that you forgot an “are” in between “laws” and “almost”; regardless the change was made because of marketing/advertising. I’m sure that it would have ruinied the trailer’s momentum to have all that mighty big text on the screen. Not to mention that they have grab your attention from the other 50 trailers that play during the movie. All in all I do agree with your comment about people being stupid. Everything has to be explained to them these days just so that no one will miss out. This is probably the same reason that whenever I’m watching a sci-fi movie or show the acronym EMP has to be translated every single time.
carlos http://www.eddorre.com

Monday March 15, 2004 10:45

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Well Played! Good Form!

It is a pet peeve of mine also that EMP is translated in EVERY movie, tv show, etc. Come on already! Know the audience your media is geared towards. If your audience is a bunch of geeks (which sci-fi usually is), then 98% of them know the meaning of EMP. The other 2% should summarily be shot on sight without any remorse.
Jason

Monday March 15, 2004 12:20
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EMP??? ;)
Stupid Person

Monday March 15, 2004 13:01

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