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>Some critics have detected in HAL's wheedling voice an undertone of homosexuality. Was that intended? >No. I think it's become something of a parlor game for
by jimbob45 5y ago
>Some critics have detected in HAL's wheedling voice an undertone of homosexuality. Was that intended?
>No. I think it's become something of a parlor game for some people to read that kind of thing into everything they encounter. HAL was a "straight" computer.
From an interview with Kubrick in 1970[0]. The attempt to transform every male-male relationship in every piece of media to homosexuality has sadly killed the concept of friendship in media, just like it did to Xena and Gabrielle. It's okay for friendship to just be friendship.
[0]http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0069.html http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0069.html
- wolverine876 5y agoThe artist doesn't decide the art's meaning to me (or you). Once the art is released into the wild, it's out of their hands. It's like an open source project, in a way, (or any software release): you release it and then everyone uses and modifies it in different ways, many of which you never imagined. It's not yours anymor; it belongs to the users. I think what is interesting, and most valuable, is that people will find one way or another to attack any normalization of non-cisnormal sexuality. Why is that? (Also, one example doesn't prove anything.)
- pcmoney 5y agoCool, so lit critics can start publishing interpretations of clear expressions of the gay and trans experience and claiming the gay/trans characters are closeted or secretly wish to detransition? (I hope not)
- bigbillheck 5y agoI believe you'll find that this is from a different book by a different author.