Douglas Rain recorded his lines in a studio and didn’t meet Keir Dullea, the actor who played Dave Bowman. “Marty just sounded a little bit too colloquially American, whereas Rain had the kind of bland mid- Atlantic accent we felt was right for the part.” “We had some difficulty deciding exactly what HAL should sound like,” Kubrick said. However, Stanley Kubrick said Balsam wasn’t right for the part. Originally, actor Martin Balsam was chosen for the role (he’s most famous for playing Detective Arbogast in Psycho). Nigel Davenport played HAL on set, but he was replaced after shooting. In rehearsal, actress Stefanie Powell did HAL’s voice, but the androgynous voice was switched out for a man’s. Soon after the film came out, somebody pointed out this resemblance, and this has become part of the mythology. “As far as I know,” Clarke said, “Stanley and I cooked up the name HAL, and if we’d noticed any resemblance to IBM, we would have changed it because IBM was very helpful to us. Clarke, the IBM story is “utter nonsense.” It seems like an unlikely coincidence, but officially it isn’t the source of HAL’s name.Īccording to author Arthur C. HAL stands for Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer.įor years, people have theorized that the HAL name took IBM’s name and subtracted a letter in the alphabet. And he’s got a biography to match any person. It's going to go 100% failure within 72 hours.After all these years, HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey is still our defining vision of scary computers from the future. I've just picked up a fault in the AE-35 unit. You're working up your crew psychology report? Hunter, Kimball and Kaminsky aboard already in hibernation, after four months of training on their own. And the melodramatic touch of putting Drs. For instance, the way all our preparations were kept under such tight security. I never gave these stories much credence, but particularly in view of some of other things that have happened, I find them difficult to put out of my mind. Rumors about something being dug up on the Moon. Well, certainly no one could have been unaware of the very strange stories floating around before we left. You don't mind talking about it, do you Dave? Well, I don't know, that's a rather difficult question to answer. I'm sure you agree there's some truth in what I say. Perhaps I'm just projecting my own concern about it.I know I've never completely freed myself from the suspicion that there are some extremely odd things about this mission. Well, forgive me for being so inquisitive but during the past few weeks I've wondered whether you might have some second thoughts about the mission. Goodbye.īy the way, do you mind if I ask you a personal question? HAL, I won't argue with you anymore! Open the doors!ĭave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Without your space helmet, Dave? You're going to find that rather difficult. I'll go in through the emergency airlock. Where the hell did you get that idea, HAL?ĭave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.Īlright, HAL. I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen. I don't know what you're talking about, HAL. This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it. I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do. Do you read me? Do you read me HAL? Do you read me HAL? Hello, HAL, do you read me? Hello, HAL, do your read me? Do you read me, HAL?
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