I, Robot (film)

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Movie
German title I, robot
Original title I, robot
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Country of production United States , Germany
original language English
Publishing year 2004
length 115 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Alex Proyas
script Jeff Vintar ,
Akiva Goldsman
production Laurence Mark
music Stephen Barton ,
Marco Beltrami
camera Simon Duggan
cut Alexander Garcia ,
William Hoy ,
Richard Learoyd ,
Armen Minasian
occupation

I, Robot is a science fiction film directed by Alex Proyas from the year 2004 , loosely based on Isaac Asimov's eponymous book I, the Robot from the year 1950 . The movie was released in German-speaking countries on August 5, 2004.

action

In Chicago in 2035 , humanoid robots are a reality, artificial beings that are used in many areas as workers and helpers. Every “robot” has been implanted with the three laws of robotics which it must absolutely observe and which prevent it from ever being able to stand against a person. The developer company " US Robotics ", whose boss Lawrence Robertson is the richest man on earth, is about to bring the new NS-5 robot onto the market. This type of robot is characterized by the fact that it receives its software updates via an uplink to VIKI, the highly intelligent positronic central computer from US Robotics.

One day, Dr. Alfred Lanning, the chief developer of US Robotics, found dead after falling out of his office window. The Detective Del Spooner, the Dr. Lanning knew from before, is entrusted with the investigation. Due to a traumatic experience, Spooner is an avowed robot opponent: in an accident, a robot saved him from drowning and at the same time drowned a girl because, according to his logic, he had estimated Spooner's chance of survival to be higher than that of the girl. Spooner's left arm, which he lost in the accident, was replaced with a prosthesis .

Spooner is the only one who doubts Lanning's fall from the window was a suicide, thus bringing Robertson and his boss Lt. Bergin against himself. He even suspects a robot of the murder of Dr. Lanning, who was hiding at the scene. The robot calls itself Sonny and claims that it can feel and dream. With a murder, the robot would have broken the laws programmed into it, so that no one but Spooner would believe in it. Together with the robot psychologist Dr. Susan Calvin he follows in the footsteps that Dr. Lanning apparently left especially for him before his death. Dr. Calvin finds out that Sonny is the only robot in the new NS-5 series that has no uplink to VIKI and that it is made of a stronger alloy. In addition, it is the only robot to have a second central unit for emotions in addition to its logically working central unit, which it cannot yet deal with properly.

Robot head of an NS-5 robot

In the evening when Spooner Dr. Lanning's house is searched, a huge demolition robot is apparently reprogrammed and begins to demolish Lanning's house. Spooner barely escapes. He is later attacked by NS-5 robots while driving through a tunnel. His car overturns, but he survives and can defeat the last attacker with his prosthetic arm. Dr. Calvin is supposed to destroy Sonny by using nanobots on Robertson's behalf , but she helps him to escape. She and Spooner understand that Sonny had no bad intentions and even find an ally in him. Dr. Lanning had found out that VIKI wants to incapacitate the people and take power. The highly developed intelligence has come to the conclusion that it can only really protect humanity if it protects the people who wage wars and poison the earth from themselves. According to her logic, this is the only way she can perfectly fulfill all three laws of robotics and ensure human survival in the long term. VIKI had kept Lanning in the office like a prisoner, who had therefore forced Sonny to throw him out of the window in order to draw attention to the impending takeover through this act of desperation. Sonny had Dr. Lanning's command can only be carried out because he can make his decisions not only strictly according to logical, but also according to emotional aspects.

VIKI controls the new NS-5 robots via their uplink and lets them advance against the people. After a dramatic battle with the robots, Spooner, Dr. Destroy Calvin and Sonny VIKI with nanobots. This also stops the data transfer to the robots, whereupon they return to their normal behavior.

Finally, the scene that Sonny had previously drawn from his dreams on paper becomes reality: He looks down on the dried up Lake Michigan , on which there is a container storage area for the recalled NS-5 robots. The robots that are just entering the container look up at him.

The book by Isaac Asimov

The film has its own story, which only takes up motifs and characters from the book, for example the three robot laws:

  1. A robot must not harm people or cause harm to people through inaction.
  2. A robot must carry out every command given by a human, but only if it does not break the first law.
  3. A robot has to preserve its own existence unless it goes against the first or second law.

In several short stories in the book, cases are shown in which robots behave apparently arbitrarily or incorrectly, whereby at the end of each story it becomes clear that the robots did not behave logically incorrectly, but exactly according to the three laws. Due to their logic, however, they sometimes come to different conclusions, have logical conflicts due to rules that are contradicting for them, assess the value of one being over the other or interpret specifications differently than people thought. The book is therefore more of a treatise on the effects of the three laws developed by Asimov. The robots are indeed very close to artificial intelligence , but rarely cross this limit in the book, and if they do, then only very subtly. In contrast, emotions are programmed into the Robot Sonny in I, Robot . Another difference is that in the book robots are used on other planets, in the film, however, the action only takes place on earth.

In I, Robot, there are some references to short stories from the book, such as a scene where Dr. Calvin suggests interviewing a thousand robots, one of which is lying. This is the theme of the story "Little lost robot".

Reviews

“Visually attractive science fiction thriller with routine action scenes. Due to the superficial constructs of the plot, the film of course misses the chance to film an exciting utopia about the consciousness crisis of a new generation of robots and their dangerous conflict potential in the sense of Isaac Asimov, the author of the literary original. "

- Lexicon of international film

“Alex Proyas may be a long way from being a big hit movie like his Dark City , but it's a solid, fun, action-based food combining diet. [...] Conclusion: Nice summer film that entertains without offending its viewers too much. "

- moviepilot

Others

  • While Spooner takes a shower, he listens to the song Superstition by Stevie Wonder on from the year 1972nd
Audi RSQ, built for the film I, Robot
  • Audi built a prototype especially for the film, the Audi RSQ , which moves on balls instead of wheels and can therefore be steered in all directions. The Audi Le Mans quattro design study served as a design template, the features of which later played a major role in the body design of the Audi R8 street sports car.
  • Spooner's motorcycle is an MV Agusta F4-SPR. Of this model, which has a 750 cm³ inline four-cylinder engine with 108 kW, 300 pieces were produced.
  • The central computer in the film is called VIKI, an abbreviation for "Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence" (in the English original "Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence").
  • The company name in the film is also the name of a real company: US Robotics ; this in turn chose its name after Isaac Asimov's model.
  • Originally, Smith was supposed to contribute a hip-hop song to the film, as he had done for Men in Black and Wild Wild West . Smith decided against it because he was afraid it would take away the seriousness of the film.
  • The bridge ruins in the film are the remains of the Mackinac Bridge , an eight-kilometer suspension bridge over the Mackinac Strait between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron . In the film there is no more water there, but a garbage dump. US Robotics is building a warehouse complex there with containers for robots.
  • The battle scenes, in which many robots can be seen (e.g. in the tunnel), were created with the computer program Massive .

Awards

  • Nominated for the 2005 Oscar for Best Achievement in Visual Effects
  • Nominated for Image Awards (2005) for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture (Will Smith)
  • Nominated for Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films
  • Saturn Award for the best Best Special Effects
  • ASCAP Film and Television Music Award
  • Nominated for BET Best Actor (Will Smith)
  • Nominated for the Black Reel Award for Best Picture, Drama
  • Nominated for the Golden Schmoes Award Best Special Effects of the Year
  • Nominated for the Golden Trailer Award for best trailer
  • Nominated for the International Film Music Critics Award Best Original Score for a Fantasy / Science Fiction Film Marco Beltrami
  • Nominated for the Motion Picture Sound Editors (Golden Reel Award - Best Sound Editing in Domestic Features - Sound Effects & Foley)
  • Nominated for the Teen Choice Award
  • Nominated for the Visual Effects Society Award

Web links

Commons : I, Robot  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Age rating for I, Robot . Youth Media Commission .
  2. ↑ See Me, the Robot
  3. ^ I, Robot. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ^ I, Robot on moviepilot.de.
  5. ↑ Audi RSQ> Studies> Design Studies> Audi Germany. Audi AG, accessed on March 27, 2015 .
  6. ^ The Making of the Audi RSQ for the Epic Movie Event “I, ROBOT”. Audi World, April 7, 2004, archived from the original on January 5, 2008 ; accessed on March 27, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Audi RSQ horror of robots
  8. ↑ Trivia for I, Robot (2004) (English)