Trivia for
             Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)

                     From www.imdb.com

When work began on the movie in 1993, Joseph Mazzello was cast as
David.

Stanley Kubrick worked on the project for 12 years before his
death, but along the way decided to let Steven Spielberg direct
saying it was "closer to his sensibilities". The two collaborated
for years, resulting in Kubrick giving Spielberg a complete
treatment and lots of conceptual art for the film prior to his
death.

One of the buildings in Manhattan is actually an Apple Macintosh
(Harman-Kardon) subwoofer.

Haley Joel Osment suggested to Steven Spielberg that his character
(David) should not blink. Spielberg agreed and went further to
suggest that none of the androids should blink. In fact, several
of them do (see goofs).

Although Jack Angel recorded all of his voice work for Teddy while
separate from the rest of the production, he was allowed on the
set every day.

Spielberg used the water-filled set from The Perfect Storm for the
flooded world of the future in this movie.

In order to keep the film's PG-13 rating, a building resembling a
penis was digitally removed from the "Rouge City" set.

As a tribute to Kubrick, Spielberg included several references to
his movies.

'Williams, John' quotes Richard Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier" waltz
in the underscore during the approach Rouge City. This was a done
to honor Stanley Kubrick, who left few notes regarding the music
except to tell Steven Spielberg that this Strauss waltz should
appear in the film. Williams refers to his score, which contains a
number of musical allusions to Kubrick's films in addition to the
waltz, as his 'homage a Kubrick'.

While A.I. was based on the short story "Supertoys Last All Summer
Long", that short story has less influence on the movie than the
famous poem by W.B. Yeats, "The Stolen Child". The text of the
poem appears in the movie in two places, and certain stanzas take
on literal meaning as well (i.e. "Till the moon has taken
flight").

The Dreamworks SKG logo is featured a number of times, but most
prominently in Martin's bed.

Spielberg's writing credit is his first since Poltergeist

One of the reasons for Kubrick waiting so long to make the film,
is that he wanted David (Haley Joel Osment's character) to be
played by a robot.

As a promotional tool, the creators developed an elaborate
internet game of discovery and problem solving, through hidden
messages and puzzles in internet sites, telephone answering
messages, e-mail accounts and clues in the film's trailers. The
game, set in the world of A.I. involved websites registered in
several countries around the world as well as telephone numbers
from across the US, and a group of followers called "The
Cloudmakers" followed the puzzle, sharing information.

At the preview showings of the movie, special posters were placed
in the theaters with a list of credits for the "Puppetmasters":
Jordan Weisman, Elan Lee, Scot Bayless, Sean Stewart, Dan Carver,
Pete Fenlon, Todd Lubsen, Paolo Malabuyo, Mark Selander, Mike
Poundsmith, Lynn Knight, David Wells, Shawn Ferminger, and
Christine Hill. No regular movie posters were displayed that
night. The "Puppetmasters" were a team from Microsoft, with
Spielberg's blessing, and quite outside the studio's wishes, that
ran the internet game. No movie credits were listed. Many of the
player's on-line game names were in vertical lists in an outline
of the regular A.I. "Initials" movie poster.

Before the film's release, Spielberg assigned Video Game
developers at Microsoft the task of developing a series of games
based on the film for the XBox game system.

The hotel that Joe Gigolo walks into, when we are first introduced
to the character, has the Hebrew words "Ahava Kshera" in neon.
(Kosher Love)

The band playing at the Flesh Fair is Ministry.

The list of words that Monica Swifton says to David to make him
capable of love was the original list, written by Stanley Kubrick

The movie was originally to be titled A.I., but after a survey it
was revealed that too many people thought it was A1. The title was
changed to A.I. Artificial Intelligence to prevent people from
thinking it was about steak sauce.

Much of the promotional material sent to movie theaters (posters,
stand-ups, etc) misspelled Steven Spielberg's name as "Stephen".

The film shows the World Trade Center towers standing 2,000 years
in the future.

Joe's medallion has "Shangri La" written on it when he start's
playing music in the hotel room.

Director Trademark: Important image seen in rear-view mirror (cf
Jurassic Park (1993), Duel (1971/I) (TV))

Director Trademark: music - John Williams score

Director Trademark: moon - large moon visible in many scenes, is
in the logo for the Flesh Fair, and appears as the design on
Johnson's "balloon" aircraft.

Director Trademark: father - David and Henry are somewhat distant
from each other and, while Monica performs the imprinting sequence
with David, Henry never does.

Spielberg References - The SuperRobots at the end recreate Monica
using DNA ( Jurassic Park) The SuperRobots reach out to David a
few times (ET). The motorbikers from the flesh fair have bikes
shaped like Sharks (Jaws)

Real-life amputees played some of the robots with missing limbs.

Julianne Moore was considered for the role of Monica.

When Joe combines questions during the Mr. Know scene, we hear the
doorbell sound from The Jetsons

Includes many of the trademarks of Stanley Kubrick. Among these
are the narration at the beginning; portrayal of dehumanization
and the dark side of human nature; the shots down the length of
tall, parallel walls, and "The Glare", with David's head tilted
and eyes looking upwards; the scene in the bathroom; the three-way
conflict between David, Monica and Martin; the use of previously
composed music in Richard Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier".

This is the first part of Spielberg's unofficial "running man"
trilogy, continuing with Minority Report and concluding with Catch
Me If You Can.















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