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A.I. Tops at the Box
Office
Monday
July 2, 2001
The sci-fi fairy tale debuted in the top spot at the weekend box office, pushing last week's number one hit, "The Fast and the Furious" out of the fast lane with an impressive 30-million dollar opening.
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Much like the classic fairy tale, "Pinocchio," the Steven Spielberg/Stanley Kubrick epic follows David, an android child played to eerie perfection by Haley Joel Osment, on a dark and perilous journey to become a real boy and win his mother's love.
Haley says, “This movie has a lot of underlying themes. One of them: what responsibility do we have towards things that love us, artificial or not?"
And it's a pretty heavy theme from the man behind fantastic summer-fare as "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Jurassic Park." Spielberg says, "Well, I think that we have to be very careful about how we as a species use our genius. It's not so much that the machine can love us, it's how much love do we invest back into it in return."
Co-star Jude Law plays smooth talking lady-killer, Gigolo Joe. He believes only the collaboration between Spielberg and the late Stanley Kubrick could tackle the thought-provoking themes of "A.I."
Law says, "There's obviously an innocence to it that Kubrick perhaps felt he wouldn't be able to tap. And there's also maybe a darkness that he felt his friend Steven Spielberg should maybe explore a little more, and the result is, I think, awesome."
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