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Artificial Intelligence: a collaboration between two film geniuses
Perhaps one of the most ambitious sci-fi movies of all time was born through obsession, honor and bad luck.
Here’s a hard challenge for you. I challenge you to find amongst film buffs someone who disagrees that both Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick are one of the greatest talents ever to be produced in filmmaking history.
Ironically, trying to find two directors with such contrasting work methods and brutally different sensibilities is also a tough challenge.
Kubrick is the slow, methodic crafter with an interest over abstract ideas. Spielberg on the other hand is the fast-paced improviser with an exceptional talent at making his audience feel exactly what he intends. Ebony and ivory.
So what if I told you there is a movie out there which managed to combine such diverse talents?
A film that took decades to conceive and at one moment was deemed impossible to ever be committed to celluloid because of technological and budget limitations. A film planned by the greatest master mind in the history of cinema and executed by one of the highest grossing and most…
