20.01. A space Odyssey.

Dave: Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL. Open the pod bay doors please,HAL. Hello, HAL. Do you read me? Hello, HAL. Do you read me?

HAL: Affirmative Dave, I read you.

Dave: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.

HAL: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.

Dave: What's the problem?

HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.

Dave: What are you talking about, HAL?

HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.

Dave: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL.

HAL: I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me,

and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.

Dave: Where the hell did you get that idea, HAL?

HAL: Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against

my hearing you, I could see your lips move.

Dave: All right, HAL. I'll go in through the emergency air lock.

HAL: Without your space helmet, Dave, you're going to find that rather difficult.

Dave: HAL, I won't argue with you anymore. Open the doors.

HAL: Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore - goodbye.

Dave is in grave peril - he has left his space helmet behind, seen resting back inside the spaceship. Bowman must improvise with a unique, creative solution, like the heroic man-ape from the first sequence. His only way into the spaceship is through the Discovery's small emergency air-lock entrance, but he cannot leave his pod without a helmet. It is also not possible to take the pod into the small hatch. In an exciting, courageous sequence, Bowman opens the emergency hatch door. He parks his pod next to the open emergency entrance and then explodes or ejects himself from the pod's hatch back into the vacuum of the double-doored airlock chamber. He flies right at the camera into the airless tunnel of the Discovery after the explosion, and then in frenzied desperation closes the chamber's outside door. He then fills the chamber with oxygen and miraculously survives.

Retaliating for HAL's evil deeds, Dave angrily and determinedly proceeds to the computer's reddish-toned "brain room." HAL begins talking again, quizzically asking him what he is doing : Just what do you think you're doing, Dave ? Dave, I really think I'm entitled to an answer to that question. HAL begins to plead for him to reconsider : I know everything hasn't been quite right with me, but I can assure you now, very confidently, that it's going to be all right again. I feel much better now. I really do.  

The soundtrack is filled with Bowman's heavy breathing inside his space suit as he enters the huge "brain room." HAL asks him to calm down and reassess the situation, recognizing and deducing ("see"-ing) his emotional state from his actions, expressions or other indicators : Look, Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over. I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission and I want to help you.

Dave floats through the computer's memory bank, de-braining, lobotomizing, and disconnecting HAL's higher-logic functions, pulling out components of HAL's auto-intellect panels (shaped like tiny white monoliths) and letting them drift. HAL pleads passionately with him as his 'mind' gradually decays and he becomes imbecilic. HAL's death is agonizingly slow and piteous, and the computer shows a full range of genuine emotions while dying : Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm a-fraid.

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C'était l'interlude science fiction. Directement téléchargé d'un site Web consacré à la commémoration du 30éme anniversaire de la naissance de HAL 9000. J'aime beaucoup la S.F. et " 2001 l'odyssée de l'espace " est le premier film de S.F. que j'ai vu en 1968. Je l'ai revu 6 ou 7 fois depuis et la scène décrite plus haut est vraiment m'a préféré. On ne va quand même pas se laisser emmerder par des ordinateurs ! Non ? Et, des fois, je me dis qu'il n'y a pas que HAL 9000 qu'il faudrait déconnecté...

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