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Dec 21, 2012 · “ It’s pretty big, eh, this house?” chuckles Marc Giacomelli, as he and Tikaani, his friendly Alaskan Malamute, pause at the nearly completed home that straddles a double lot at 106 Wychwood...
- “Forgive Me For Being So Inquisitive”
- “I Am Putting Myself to The Fullest Possible Use”
- “I Don’T Think I’ve Ever Seen Anything Quite Like This Before”
- “If You’D Like to Hear It, I Can Sing It For You”
- “Hal Is Alive and Living in Canada.”
- “There Are Some Extremely Odd Things About This Mission.”
Weirdly, HALis a kind of ‘everyman’, attracting so many adjectives over the years that together they describe a character that represents the disturbingly rich variety of personalities AI might come to offer us. Film critic Clyde Gilmour described his voice as “silky, and baleful.” Director Sydney Pollack spoke of HAL’s “droll, evil sense of humour...
University of Toronto Professor of Linguistics Jack Chambers, in considering what Kubrick was aiming for, says “you have to have a computer that sounds like he’s from nowhere, or, rather, from no specific place.” HAL’s Canadianness stems not from “the specific stuff. It’s not the Canadian Raising (‘out’ pronounced as ‘oot’ and ‘about’ pronounced as...
It was an unearthly voice-over job in Universe that first drew Rain to Kubrick’s attention. In the mid-1950s, filmmakers Colin Low and Roman Kroitor set out, at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) to (according to film historian D.B. Jones) “not so much to convey facts about the universe as to invoke a sense of wonder about it.” The documentary...
In late 1967, in a studio at MGMBorehamwood outside of London, Kubrick and Rain sat a few feet apart, to record HAL’s dialogue. Kubrick made only a few comments during the session. Rain hadn’t seen a frame of the film, then well into its final stages of post-production. He never met any of his co-stars–and hasn’t since. He didn’t know much of what ...
Despite 2001’s success, and even as the character of HAL remained indelible in filmgoers’ minds, Rain’s visibility as HALfaded in the years after its release, his role in it acquiring some mystery as he returned to the stage, his face unknown to moviegoers. Years later Rain said, “It’s not that I haven’t wanted to do movies, it’s just that I’ve nev...
The Festival Theatre in Stratford, is, in diagram form, weirdly similar to the layout of 2001’s centrifuge onboard the Discovery. The theatre’s stage thrusts into the auditorium, and has semi-circle seating and ‘voms’ (passages called vomitoria for the actors to make sometimes surprising entrances and dramatic exits amidst the audience). On the shi...
Marc Giacomelli is a writer, creator and creative consultant based in Toronto. His recent work includes 'Its Not What You Think' a documentary on emergency room conditions in...
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MARC GIACOMELLI. I’ve been a creative consultant for SCTV, founding member of openfile.ca, ad agency owner, co-chair of Doctors For Research Integrity and a 2nd Lieutenant in the Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada, Canadian Army Reserve.
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