Steven Spielberg
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And he takes it in a stride.
He doesn't smile.
He doesn't blink.
He's not warm.
He just listens and says, and he asks how to adjust the chair.
Yeah.
You know, in full recline after his parents sing happy birthday to him.
Badly.
And so the most emotional, and we've all heard this spoken, but it's true, the most emotional character is Hal 9000.
And a great villain, too.
The computer that was built in 1992 in, I believe, Urbane, Illinois.
Yeah.
And that was the most emotional character in the entire piece.
The movie begins with a pretty good character played by William Sylvester, you know, Haywood Floyd, Haywood R. Floyd.
And he's warm and he's commanding and you listen to him.
He's got that great scene in the kind of Hilton, the space station, next to what on the wall it says Hilton 5.
Mm-hmm.
And he's meeting with a Russian delegation that he knows.
I think the Russian's name is Shmirnov or Shmirnikov, possibly.
I don't really know.