![]() In 1972, he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Supporting or Featured Actor in a Drama for his performance as William Cecil in "Vivat! Vivat Regina!" on Broadway. Given that the original lens is very expensive and that alternatives come and go, I decided to see what I could find that allowed creating a good looking, inexpensive lens (eye) from components. Rain was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and trained at the Old Vic Theatre in London. The original HAL 9000 eye was a Nikkor fish-eye lens and in my world, a fish-eye lens is characterized by the 'bulbous' protrusion. There is no battery case, the instructions suggest using double sided tape and sticking it on the back. There is the large HAL logo along with lens details. The HAL 9000 Rainmeter Theme This theme is designed for a desktop that is at least 1440x900 8 customizable Screens and HALs main Lens/Console All screens should open automatically, but if not, open HAL.ini in the SKINPATH/Hal/eye folder. The decals are basic and look nicely printed. The 2 clear lenses look good, no obvious flaws. "The thing that captured the audience's imagination back then more even than a chatty computer decades before Siri and Alexa was that unnervingly, HAL had a mind of his own," the NPR critic Bob Mondello wrote in April on the 50th anniversary of the film's release.Ī survey by the American Film Institute ranked HAL as the 13th-greatest villain in movie history. The first model is a Bluetooth-enabled rectangular HAL-9000 with a red-glowing lens/eye, brushed aluminum faceplate and built-in magnets that can be mounted on any metallic surface. It's very fine and will probably disappear with painting. The red lens that served as the 'eye' of the HAL 9000 computer in '2001: A Space Odyssey' - one of the iconic images in movie history. "This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it," HAL quietly tells astronaut Dave Bowman before proceeding to explain matter-of-factly that it had learned of Bowman's and Poole's plans to disconnect it by reading their lips. HAL concluded that the first command superseded the second. He had been given conflicting programming: Ensure the success of the mission at all costs, while also protecting the lives of the crew. HAL's reasoning and explanation were cold, precise and - at least in its mind - unavoidably logical. Rain's sinuous, detached reading of HAL's lines made the computer's murders of three astronauts as they slept in suspended animation and its subsequent stranding of astronaut Frank Poole to die in open space all the more shocking. The HAL 9000 computer was the sentient controller of life support, systems and - although it wasn't revealed until later in the movie - the very mission of Discovery One, the spacecraft that is sent to Jupiter to investigate a mysterious black obelisk in the landmark 1968 science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick and co-written by Kubrick and Arthur C. dxcffgGEiA- Stratford Festival November 12, 2018 ![]() Our thoughts and prayers are with his family. Today we lost Douglas Rain, a member of our founding company and a hugely esteemed presence on our stages for 32 seasons.
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