I, HATE, I, ROBOT,

This video is about the 2004 "adaptation" of I, Robot suggested by Isaac Asimov and nothing else.

00:00 Asimov
1:52 Hardwired Robot
6:45 2004 Robots
11:30 Little Lost Robot
15:45 Frankenstein Robots
19:06 ROBOTS
26:00 Bicentennial Robot
30:03 Foundation Video

Credits:
Patrick H. Willems as Jeff Vintar

Music by Epidemic Sound.

“Electric Mantis - Daybreak | Majestic Color”

[JustWrite]

If the video underperforms, I'm changing the thumbnail to Will Smith slapping Isaac Asimov

[kodaloid]

One thing I've learnt over the years, is that if I wait long enough, I'll encounter a video essay hating every single movie I loved growing up.

[Entropic_Alloy]

People always miss the part in Frankenstein where Dr. Frankenstein is repulsed by his creation and wanted to destroy it first, while the Monster was looking for validation and acceptance from his creator.

[acaryadasa]

Harlan Ellison on Isaac Asimov: "He had writer's block once. It was the worst ten minutes of his life."

[azerik]

Nitpick: At around 9:30 you talk about how the Doctor pins his hopes on Spooner "a guy he's never met before"...but in the film Spooner has a direct relationship with Lanning. Lanning was the one who gave him his prosthetic arm.

[averyeml]

I am in love with them using “suggested by” instead of “inspired by” or even “partly based on” because not only is that THE WEIRDEST way to phrase that but it brings to mind an image of the book leaning over to Vintar and going “…psst… hey dude, what if…”

[fredbloggs]

“I, Robot” is a book of short stories exploring the various problems that can result from the application of his 3 laws, the studio basically just bought title recognition.

[iDunnoMan]

To be fair, the poor guy who had to do the screenplay for this did just about the best job you could at juggling all those conflicting elements. Hats off to him!

[cosmicspacething]

Fun fact: In the original book for Frankenstein, the “monster” never originally intended to kill anyone at first. It was the doctor leaving him to rot that led to the murderous revenge killing spree. They even tried to negotiate at one point.

[WittyDroog]

"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster" - Asimov

[reptomicus]

The emotional scene for me is when Will's character was forced to kill his dog because it was turning into a robot. Killing a robot dog is a violation of the 5 laws of Voight/Kampf

[CodaMission]

Asimov is so fast as a writer he literally wrote an adaptation to a work before the original was published. I am in awe.

[argolake]

There’s a funny scene to show how cool Will Smith is for being anti-tech. His radio is playing loud music, and Susan Calvin is shouting at it “Off! End program!” And then Will Smith comes in and smugly presses the off button, and we’re all ‘hahaha dumb future lady.’ What fools we were. This is exactly how I feel nowadays shouting “Alexa! Echo! Siri!” Or when I’m uselessly hitting my phone or credit card on a machine like a caveman.

[lucariojet]

FUN FACT: Asimov's book "I, Robot" was also renamed to match the 1939 short story, of the same name, by Eando Binder. Asimov wanted the title to be "Mind and Iron" but the publisher decided to use Binder's title instead.

So, "Hardwired" becoming "I, Robot (2004)" is the most historically "I, Robot" thing it could do. Lol

[purplehaze]

There's something subtly hilarious about wording a credit as "suggested by" instead of "based on" or "adapted from".

[ArithonUK]

"He killed himself in the hope a guy he never met would figure it out" Not true. The doctor spent a lot of time with Spooner replacing his arm. It's how the doctor knew Spooner's paranoia would blame robots.

[DaJackCracker]

Spooner knows the doctor because he got his prosthetics from the guy.

Sonny didnt flinch when he was in the robot line up, he peeked out to see what was happening.

I dont remember the Hansel and Gretel thing being a clue at all, just a reference meant to explain other clues.

[dacedebeer]

The thing about Asimov is that you could reasonably adapt most of his work for theatre. His galactic level shennennigans mostly take place in backroom negotiations, and conflict is mostly verbal. It's a real shame not more adaptations were made back when TV was mostly filmed theatre.

[Charlie-cldk]

The scene where the new robots destroy the olds robots is still one of the most tragic things I’ve seen in a movie.

[jep]

Asimov later added the 0th law of robotics: “A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.” This seems to have also have been adapted into the story for the super computer Vicky logic in overriding the first law.