Comments - IT IS THE JUXTAPOSITION ... - Gaia Community2024-03-28T11:37:56Zhttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=5313775%3ABlogPost%3A19593&xn_auth=noDouglas Rain, who has died…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2018-11-15:5313775:Comment:342202018-11-15T09:56:51.359ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><strong><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/11/12/douglas-rain-classical-actor-serenely-sinister-voice-computer/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/11/12/douglas-rain-classical-actor-serenely-sinister-voice-computer/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Douglas…</span></span></a></strong></p>
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<p><strong><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/11/12/douglas-rain-classical-actor-serenely-sinister-voice-computer/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/11/12/douglas-rain-classical-actor-serenely-sinister-voice-computer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Douglas Rain</span></span></a></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, who has died aged 90, <strong>was the voice of HAL 9000</strong>,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the brilliant but psychotic computer who turns on his human masters</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">in <strong><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/film-obituaries/7367562/Stanley-Kubrick.html">Stanley Kubrick</a></strong>’s 1968 science-fiction film epic 2001: A Space</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Odyssey. On a spacecraft bound for Jupiter, HAL holds two astronauts,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">played by Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood, in thrall. Part Frankenstein’s</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">monster and part Big Brother, the neurotic ...</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“<strong>Heuristically </strong></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>programmed ALgorithmic computer</strong>”,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">with its suave, slightly </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">effeminate voice and </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">single unblinking red eye,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">emerges as the film’s most </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">memorable character.</span><br/><br/><br/></p>
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