5th September, 2014.
Can I ask you a question … ?
Can I … ?
Have you ever read anything by the late Dr Isaac Asimov … ?
Yes, I know: I can’t actually hear you answer.
Let me just, then, take a minute to briefly explain the subtitle. “That Damn Frankenstein Complex!” is a phrase used — repeatedly, sometimes — in the good doctor’s work: usually by characters of his who built robots.
And usually when those builders saw members of the public, unfamiliar with — and scared of — the robots they’d created.
Now …
I don’t know about you: but I feel Asimov hit a nerve, there.
Let’s face it: how many people do you know who are nervous around technology … ?
Exactly.
So the fact I can think of a few films that also be accused of suffering from it.
The Will Smith version of I, Robot, for example.
War Games, with Matthew Broderick.
And — arguably … ?
Arguably, I think we can also include the Wally Pfister directed film, Transcendence, in there.
Although, possibly, it’s a better film that I, Robot …
~≈É≈~
