What do you think? Impressed by the Hal 9000 prop? Would you like to take a tour of Jackson’s seemingly cavernous prop collection (we sure would)? Let us know in the comments below.
Heywood Floyd: 'Congratulations on your discovery, which may well prove to be among the most significant in the history of science.' EnjoyableGame.wav. That’s a lot of what makes prop collecting so alluring: marveling at the real ingenuity it takes to make something unreal. Douglas Rain as the HAL 9000: 'I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and Im afraid thats something I cannot allow to happen.' Discovery.wav William Sylvester as Dr.
Just a light and a lens produces the blinking and flickering red light that was evil consciousness in 2001. It looks instantly evil with only a smartphone flashlight. Now unleashed, Hal springs to life anytime a bright light is shone through the fish-eye Nikon f8 lens. It wasn’t until just last year that Savage came by Jackson’s collection, saw Hal, and actually took the lens cap off. He thought that was simply how the prop worked, and that he was missing a piece or lens. In the video above from, Jackson explains that he has had Hal for a decade, but when it was shipped to him, the lens cap was on and positioned backwards in the metal backing. Jackson’s original Hal 9000 prop from 2001: A Space Odyssey is particularly wonderful, but he would never have seen Hal “come online” again without the help of the former MythBuster.
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His massive collection contains original props from Ghostbusters to Terminator 2 to Jurassic Park - he likes to surround himself with movie history that inspired him as a child to do what he does today. The HAL 9000 Life-Size Replica features a custom-ground replica, with a sticker of the writing on the Nikkor lens (in case you want your HAL to be accurate down to the close-ups). So much so, that if you ask any one of the virtual. Filmmaker Peter Jackson, much like master maker Adam Savage, is a movie prop collector extraordinaire. HAL-9000, the malevolent supercomputer at the heart of Stanley Kubrick’s classic 2001: A Space Odyssey, is an icon of science fiction cinema.
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