HAL 9000 (2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY) Explained
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- The Heuristically programmed Algorithmic computer 9000, or H-A-L 9000, more commonly referred to as HAL was essentially the main antagonist in Arthur C. Clarke’s Space Odyssey series, the first part of which had been adapted to screen by Stanley Kubrick
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One thing I note when watching the film is that in many ways astronauts Pool and Bowman are more emotionless and persistent than the HAL 9000.
Not unlike Neil Armstrong.
Kubrik was so good in directing them
They were chosen for their mental stability, an absolute necessity since they would be isolated together for 18 months.
Correct. Seems HAL is the only one on board acting human...
I'm sorry Dave,I'm afraid I can't do that.
Hal's voice saying that was chillingly creepy.
And classic.
By far the most creepy and disturbing AI ever
@@dak4465 true.
@@dak4465 yes
@@dak4465 more creepy than the Matrix or Skynet or David from Prometheus?
RIP Douglas Rain. You played a wonderful if not terrifying character that changed our perspective view of computers forever.
Couldn't agree more with you here bro.
Any computer with a red eye or robots with red eyes are always evil.
@@josephcontreras8930 so true
R.I.P ✝️.
I want my GPS to speak in HAL's voice.
I'm sorry, zeerus. I'm afraid it can't do that.
Go get an uber you cant drive 🤬 thats what my gps says
@Purple Palms Absolutely
Turn right.
_TURN RIGHT_
*TURN RIGHT*
*GPS deactivates life support*
HAL, where is our destination?
I'm sorry zeerus...I'm afraid we can't reach there.
In the interview, HAL says that when errors are investigated, they are always human error. This sounds like he knows he has problems, but they are due to his contradictory priorities from his human programmers/managers
It's hard to believe that this came out 50 years ago. Stanley Kubrick was well ahead of his time.
It's even harder to believe, that the movie was kind of a flop at the time.
The movie couldn't find an audience.
It just started to make money, after the hippies found out, that this movie is great on LSD.
@@RevolverOcelot-1995 Mushrooms and some weed, is all I need, and maybe a little bit of good quality French wine!
@@RevolverOcelot-1995 MGM also re-marketed it in 1970 as "the ultimate trip" after they realised trying to trick families with a misleading trailer actually effected their box office sales for the worse. Even Kubrick at this point accepted the fact that many parts of the film were trippy and good catalysts for psychedelic experiences.
Kudos to Arthur C Clarke
Have you seen the rest of his movies?
Man that movie still looks good. Stanley Kubrick is a genius.
A shame, that he never could make his Napoleon movie.
That would have been a masterpiece.
Except the dawn of men scene, which did not aged well
Stanley Kubrick was a genius beyond his time.
Also a little bit of a madman which made him even more amazing.
True statement here.
someone asked him if he believed in hell in the afterlife.
His response, no i do not.
His movies are all quite mad. As well as thr moon landing being the most terrifying of all.
Douglas Rain’s incredible work at voice acting is the reason why all smart assistants have female voices.
Hal's voice is very iconic, I'd pay to get an AI home assistant with Hal's voice that locks doors and alarms me when there are home intruders and also tell them "I'm afraid, I can't let you do that" as they try to pry the doors open
when i first saw the movie. i felt sad for Hal when dave started to turn him off slowly.
his voice reminded me of those old people who slowly faded away.
What do the old know about the young?
doesn't really make sense though. Computers work with a combination of "on / off" commands. A function should either work or not work.
Hal’s brain was quantum positronic
I have been told that in certain types of brain surgery the patient is conscious and talking to the surgeon. This means they can tell how much damage is being done to the patient by the procedure. No idea if it is true but never forgot that.
@@Carl-LaFong1618 HAL was no longer a "computer."
Someone pointed this out and I couldn’t forget it H -> I , A -> B , L -> M , HAL is IBM it’s just one letter off in the Alphabet , pretty clever if you ask me
Numbers lul *Mind Blown*
Whats IBM
Always one step ahead of IBM
H euristic A lgorithmic L ogic
Just a coincidence. Stanley said he was a little embarrassed when he found out because the engineers from IBM help with the movie. So it was difficult thinking the engineers might be mad about the coincidence
Antagonist doesn't always mean Villian. Just like the Protagonist isn't always the hero, the Antagonist is merely the opposing force to a story's main character
Great video, dude. My buddy did his dissertation on 2001 and one of his conclusions was that HAL9000 was more human than the humans that deactivated him.
finally, someone who actually looks into hal's character and doesnt write him off as "homicidal maniac robot". very good analysis. bravo.
The monolith was not discovered "under the lunar surface of Titan". It was found under the lunar surface of OUR moon.
Tma0 the guide was located in a chasm in africa.
Tma1 the sentinel was left buried under lunar crater Tycho.
Tma2 the gateway was on iapetus moon of saturn.
@@Novasky2007: But he said under the surface of Titan.
Plus, the monolith is shown in orbit around Jupiter, not on a Saturnian moon.
Theres key differences in setting and charecters between the books and the film they were written jointly with the differences carefully chosen by the writers \ director
@@KutWrite Yea I caught the mistake with him saying "Titan" instead of "the moon" as well. re: Jupiter vs Saturn. Movie: Jupiter, Book: Saturn. Fun fact: originally the movie was going to take place around Saturn like in the book, as the screenplay and book were developed together, but it was changed late in production when the SFX team could not make a convincing version of Saturn's rings, so they changed to Jupiter.
@@KutWrite not if you read the book....
What was so cool about the name HAL is that HAL Communication Company did and still does exist in Urbana Illinois and makes digital communications equipment, mostly geared towards Ham Radio use
I read the book long before I had a chance to see the movie. I recall Hal's 'death scene' as one of the most powerful things I had read. Hal was the star of the book, and the movie.
His higher functions were cut off while preserving his completely regulatory and automatic functions. However, Hal is reactivated in 2010.
One of the things I liked between both 2001 and it's sequel was the huge difference in spacecraft type between the Russian Alexei Leonov in 2010, which was far more utilitarian with stuff hanging everywhere (much like the ISS looks today) and the far more sterile and "all-tech-behind-closed-panels" like on the Discovery.
In 2010 when the crew transfers between the Leonov and the Discovery, there's this feeling they're stepping from one world into another.
Russians always concentrate on utilitarian vehicles. Their rockets, automobiles, trains, utility trucks, lorries, and the such are all utilitarian. The North American nations concentrate more on over engineering things and covering everything up. It can be seen in their rockets, automobiles, trains, utility trucks, lorries and the such. My preference has always been a utilitarian vehicle where everything is accessible and visible. I visited the United States of America and their vehicles are clad in plastic panels in the inside and outside. Even under the bonnet had worthless plastic panels hiding all manner of important areas. Even their lorries are that way.
@SteamCat Below the pickup truck, a real skid plate will protect the undercarriage from debris and road hazards. But a plastic panel will only deflect the tiniest of debris. The panels on the top of the engine serve no purpose at all, save to complicate things for the end user. Lexus is really bad with the under the under the bonnet plastic panel. I opened the bonnet to help a woman start her vehicle because the battery was exhausted. There was nothing I could do. There was a plastic panel held in place with twelve large Allen bolts. She would not even check the cables, oil, nor battery connection. I had no specialty tools with me so I had to tell her there was nothing I can do. My personal vehicle does have a skid plate under the engine and under the transmission. However, they are steel. There is also an access panel to be able to drain the oil from the manual transmission and the engine oil pan. There are no plastic panels anywhere on my vehicle, save where the radio is mounted.
2010 is an horrible film poorly made
Introducing google’s Garf-9000
I’m sorry Jon, I can’t do that without my lasagna.
Spicy Cat gotta have a good lasaga
@@isaachartikainen6178 This is the pinnacle of collective human knowledge
@@Dingbobber lasaga
@@isaachartikainen6178 Return of the King
@@Dingbobber lasaga
Ive never got away from homework so quickly. I'm too big of a Kubrick fan.
🤣😂 good for you !
Name checks out.
Just imagine, what kind of movies Kubrick could do today, if he is still alive.
@@RevolverOcelot-1995 yeah I'm imagining it now and it would be awesome.
@@RevolverOcelot-1995 stifled by a pc sjw film studio.
Any possibility for a video on the Geth or just Legion from Mass Effect?
Also best of luck with the next video.
Yes sure mate, adding them to the list now, thanks :)
@@filmcomicsexplained Thanks
Finally after all these years! I finally know where the “I’m sorry Dave” meme came from!
My understanding is that the people who made HAL didn't understand how it worked. They just copied the human brain. The same brain that was modified by the Aliens in the beginning of the movie.
The meaning of the movie is that consciousness is a double edged sword. Because you are conscious of your own impending death.
Which is why Dave sees himself aging at the end of the movie.
Saw in Cinerama with my Dad- remember the intermission back in 1968. Changed my life. Awe inspiring, and the special effects-crazy awesome!
Could you do the Alien monster from the movie Super 8
Sure! adding them to the list now, thanks :)
@@filmcomicsexplained The alien is named Cooper
Can you do the Swarm from Anthem?
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Great video, except the monolith TMA-1 (Tycho Magnetic Anomaly 1) was discovered on earth's moon, under the Tycho crater, not Titan.
Excuse me can you do one on the new Overlord movie that red serum they gave to the soldiers??? Please thanks
Yes overlord is on the list, thanks :)
@@filmcomicsexplained thanks man looking forward to it
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@@deneth1923
That film is utterly braindead
@FilmComicsExplained. And please cover SAL9000, with THE most beautiful female voice ever heard on Earth, of the "2001" sequel: "2010, The Year We Make Contact"❤
That's scene where David using key to shut down HAL 9000 computer logic circuits. The emotion in HAL's voice, " I am Afraid, Dave " quite chilling. Also HAL behavior very much like person development Alzhiemer disease or regression into child like state.
last time i was these early Hal sent me a message
I recall reading or hearing a long time ago that alphabetically, if you shift each initial in H.A.L one letter to the right you end up with I.B.M. Coincidence? Probably not….Daisy….Daisy
Wow.
It was, Kubrick was pretty embarrassed about that. IBM actually helped a lot with the production of 2001.
H.A.L, I.B.M...that's actually quite creepy.
@@conalcochranh3274 Emphatically denied by Clarke - he always said it was a coincidence. Hmmm.....
@@EricIrl The actual story is that he wanted to call the computer the IBM-9000 to keep the fiction as grounded as possible and to pay homage to his inspiration. IBM executives were unimpressed with the story treatment submitted to them where the computer becomes the "antagonist" of the story and goes on a killing spree, having to be dealt with as a major conflict; thinking this would be bad PR in an overly cautious move. They didn't want their brand associated with a murderous AI, plain and simple. So Clarke shifted the name one letter to be a subtle reference without infringing on their brand.
why listening HAL is so relaxing i could listen HAL for hours
The book didn’t come first, Kubrick contacted Clarke after reading “Childhood’s End” and they co-wrote the script together so that the novel could be initially published alongside the release of the movie.
Clarke wrote four sequels to the initial 2001, the first of them published 15 years later, only the first of them was adapted. Personally I think we’re due to pick up where they left off.
Iron Giant explained
In the movie Iron Giant's thoughts flash onto a TV, it shows other iron giants on some planet firing off lasers.
Would be nice to see light shed on that
Unicron from Transformers 1986 movie after that
I havnt yet healed for that
Can you do a video on the 90’s cartoon Gargoyals? 😁
Yes they're on the list :)
Yay!!!!!! 🥳
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FilmComicsExplained Hooray~! Thank you Thank you THANK YOU!
One of the few cartoon reboots I actually want but will never get but my poor dear thundercats keep getting the pineapple treatment from Little Nicky.
Thank you for this video. For the longest time, I never could figure out, what made H.A.L. go completely rogue, and try to wipe out the entire crew.
Arthur C Clarke wrote his version of 2001 at the same time as the movie was being made, Kubrick hired him to write it. the film is absolutely not adapted from the book.
True. Thank you.
no, it was always Clarke's book he was an established Scifi writer before this.
@@adamcarreras-neal4697 it is like the double slit experiment, it could be either.
When I was a kid, my role model and who I wanted to be like when I grew up was Dr. Chandra.
Strange, I wanted to be like HAL
How is this getting negative responses? Thank you, FILMCOMICSEXPLAINED for information on HAL 9000 and all the other videos. I love this channel!
Lol I lived in Urbana in 1992 (born in its twin city and grew up there). I may have been young, but damn sure would have heard about that. /s
Did you say the monolith on the moon was found under 'Titan'? It should have been 'Tycho'.
Kubrick the artist of movie creations
this takes me back. I loved this movie. thanks again nyad. another success
There were two 9000 series computers on Earth analyzing Hal and they predicted he would have problems keeping the true meaning of the mission away from the crew. Hal could not lie and the next option was to get rid of the crew then he did not need to lie. The Monolith TMA1 was found on the Moon during low level magnetic studys and when it was uncovered it sent the signal to the one waiting by Jupiter. The mission was to the second Monolith after the signal was traced there.
Great work!!!
In the 1990s HAL's eye popped up on sale on eBay. It was a fish-eye lens called Fairchild-Curtis (IIRC) and it still had a piece of HAL's front panel attached to it (in reality a piece of painted wood or plastic). It sold for a bit over $100,000. Kubrick film a few short sequences through it in the film (easy to spot b/c of distortion).
Man was this ahead of its time or what. Mind-blowing
0:36 ERB steve jobs vs bill gates flashbacks lol
To this day I cant find a villan more intimateing. More than hal. Ever time you see that glowing sensor. And the delivery of each line just makes you so uncomfortable. And actually scares the viewer. That's just amazing
In both book and film, HAL's inherent inerrancy was attributed to the hardwired logic of its digital circuitry. Bad, error prone and ambiguously designed software wasn't even a thing back then that anyone would suspect to be the cause and needed troubleshooting and fixing.
The fact that earth was not even photoed whilst this movie was made...
Best movie of all time.
Kubrick is by far my favourite director of all time.
Have you considered the possibility of the newly discovered alien intelligence impacting HAL's own artificial intelligence during this mission?
Influencing definitely, especially in 2010.
Duuuuude, you might be right
What like in stv?
Hello FilmComicsExplained and thank you for your video and the dedication you put behind each and everyone of your videos. I wanted to recommend for you to cover the vampires from the 2011 film Priest, as we know little or nothing about the origin. Please consider covering them as they seem to be an interesting type of vampire I've never seen before. Again, thank you for all your videos as they are informative and enjoyable, I hope you gain more subscribers. Thumbs-up
HAL = IBM but one letter up per character
ADR HAL - Heuristic Algorithmic Computer. Scary it is an IBM and the computers are now in charge of keeping us safe.....
Coincidence
That's a different HAL Lab :P
This movie was a lot like interstellar & arrival, in the sense that all 3 films got really weird near the end. Anyway, once again I please request videos on these topics:
Tyranids (warhammer 40k)
Volatiles (dying light)
Mimics (edge of tomorrow)
The vex (destiny)
Scorpions (anthem)
Splinter creature (splinter)
Keep up the good work!
RIP Douglas Rain
The man with the creepiest voice in all of cinema history
I think a few interesting topics I would be interested in seeing videos on (if you haven't done one already) are on the Replicants featured in both Blade Runner films, an explanation of the time rift from Donnie Darko (which the Directors Cut is needed because it displays pages from a book very important in explaining everything) and then a video about one of your favorite sci-fi movies/shows/book etc. I honestly want more videos like your Weyland Yutani video because I love your breakdown and analysis of those more complex topics set in Sci Fi worlds.
The reason why the name is Hal is because that time Stanley try to ask at IBM to sponsor that movie, but he didn't, for revenge call this computer like that, I ear in another documentary ✌he used the next word 😉
He was created by HAL Laboratories? That's a pretty big step forward from Kirby and Smash!
Can we get a video about the Monolith?
I'm sorry Dave I can't do that
6:35 The monolith was found buried beneath the lunar surface near the crater Tycho (not Titan) on OUR moon, not Titan, which is a moon of Saturn. Something the movie actually gets wrong is the song isn't called Daisy, but rather A Bicycle Built For Two.
The monolith was burried on the moon not titan. When it was discovered, it sent a radio signal to jupitor so they went to investigate where the signal was sent to.
I worked on radio repair, and the noise you hear is the ARC-34 radio tuning,
This video is great! I love your channel, thank you so much for sharing your time and effort with us. I'm serious, your channel is one of my all time favorites.
I LOVE this Channel! REQUEST: The Children of the Corn Movies!
Great video Niyat
Can you cover Gigas (mother series)
HAL = (IBM) - 1. Clarke was making a wonderful poke at a computer company. That said, I was, am, and shall always be a fan of all Kubrick films!
If I was to hear the official message that the apocalypse were here I would definitely want Niat to do the speak. Niat's speaker voice is just the best! Of course it should end with, "as always - it's been a pleasure.."
But said in the same way as in the early videos 👍 then the apocalypse would be as ok as it may get ☺️
Wait, Hal and I have a birthday together! Yay?
By chance, where you born in Urbana, Illinois, USA, as well?
One of the most scariest robot ever made. Not emotion when talking with logic with a slight of craziness
At 3:18 the HAL Lab is in Urbana, Illinois, not "Aburna." At 6:34, the monolith was found buried beneath the Lunar surface near Tyco, not Titan.
These sorts of mistakes have cropped up before on UA-cams and it has always been attributable to human error. So, I won't disconnect you. No need to start singing Daisy.
Seriously, you have made a very fine video. Some new angles, particularly the Project Bassoon connection.
How about chucky?
Yes chucky is on the list, thanks
Yay
I was impressed with your explanation. Most people get this detail wrong.
Kubrik thought there were 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Today the number is closer to 400 billion.
"they're all dead Dave"
Woops wrong Dave
Andrew Bises: Nice one "Holly" :-)
@@paganphil100 we need "Hally" cossover soon
Dave's not here.
@FilmComicsExplained please do the creature/entity from Phantoms.
Rest in peace, Douglas Rain.
Alexa,
Please stop recording my conversations.
I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
"Haytch"... I love it! :)
Sounds Australian.
Thanks man your a treasure to the movie and television community thank you for doing these and do you have any social media or discord?
his PROGRAMERS fueling hal contradicting programing were the antagonists
Actually the programmers would have been told to put in that contradicting code by their bosses so it all boils down to human error
i like when you do ones the fans ask for like...all of them lol, i think i asked for this a while back i’m sure lots of other people asked too,that’s awesome thanks.
5:00 - Any link to this mythical "Project Barsoom"? All I find are references to John Carter of Mars series.
It's not real. It's mentioned in the 2001 novel.
i never saw the movie and thought it was a documentary from 2001 about space
I love these films. Beautiful, terrifying, and thought provoking.
If you want to know what HAL really thought of Dave Bowman, you can see "his" assessment on the small monitor visible at 0:47 .....
HAL is proud of his computerness and wants to maintain that he is a being that never makes mistakes. But he is programmed to seem more human to be relatable. It is this programming that makes him flawed in his “eye” and conscience that he is not the great perfect computer he wishes to be. He has a distain for the humans early on. He’s the most human character in the film.
This better be good I've been waiting 45 years to have this explain to me
Theres more to the chess game. The setup of the pieces is identical to a famous match. Hal is on the defending side that eventually lost. He dupes the crew member by simply telling him there is no way he can win. He accepts this immediately, believing Hal to be a flawless machine that cannot be wrong or even more impossible: lie.
I just love that subtle scene.
If you have seen the anime movie Your Name (almost won best animated picture last year) there’s a force in the film called “Musubi” that I think would be great to look into for an explainer video. If you haven’t seen it I think you’d like it since it’s bomb, but I’d love to see a video on it. Love your stuff and I’m always excited for a new vid. Keep up the awesome work!
David 8 (Alien Covenant)’s BFF 😭😭 I’ll never hear that Daisy so l f the same again ❄️❄️❄️😢
That was a fun deep dive. I love all the parodies of this movie, like the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror.
One of the best movies ever made
*I will direct the prequel, an origin story of HAL-9000 and previous units. I will create "9000: a Rouge Odyssey"*
They need to make a Heston-9000 with Charlton Heston's voice...
He's dead
I always thought HAL's behavior was affected by the monolith, where the monolith caused HAL to evolve and become sentient (instead of just mimicking sentience via a computer program) like it did with early man.
Hal was in love with Dave.. Hal wanted to be closer to Dave. Just in the game of chess Hal had been with Dave for the last 18 months so that love grew for Hal. Just the eyes of Dave alone brought on what Hal had done to the Mission. SO when Dave was taking Hal off line that was the sexual imposing on Hal.