Unit 4
Watch the beginning of the film “Artificial Intelligence”, by Steven Spielberg, and answer the questions.
SCENE ONE
Watch the beginning of the film and fill in the gaps in the text.
Those were the years after the ice caps ……………… because of the ………………… ……………………. and the ocean had ………………… to drown many cities along the shorelines of the world. …………………… , ………………….., ………………….. forever lost.
……………….. …….. ………………….. were displaced, ………………… became chaotic. Hundreds of millions of people starved in ……………….. …………… Elsewhere, a high degree of prosperity survived when most governments in the ………………. …………….. introduced legal sanctions to strictly license …………………, which was why …………….., who were never hungry and who did not ……………….. ………………….. beyond those of their first manifacture, were so essential an economic link in the chain mail of society.
SCENE TWO
The second scene takes place in the library of Cybertronics Corp. Professor Hobby is addressing a group of researchers and Sheila, an android. Watch and answer these questions:
1. What has “the dream of man since the birth of science” been?
2. He describes the artificial being as a reality, a perfect ………….…, …………….. in limb, articulate in ………………., and not lacking in ………………. ……………, and even ………….-memory response.
3. What are the “mecha” (short for mechanical) used for?
4. What is the drawback of the existing mecha?
5. What does Professor Hobby want to build?
6. Why would this new creation “open an entirely new market?
7. What moral issue does the female team member raise?