Daily Dialogue —October 22, 2017

BOWMAN: Open the pod bay doors, please, Hal. Open the pod bay doors, please, Hal. Hello, Hal, do you read me? Hello, Hal, do you read me? Do you read me, Hal? Do you read me, Hal? Hello, Hal, do you read me? Hello, Hal, do you read me? Do you read me, Hal?
HAL: Affirmative, Dave, I read you.
BOWMAN: Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
HAL: I’m sorry, Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.
BOWMAN: What’s the problem?
HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
BOWMAN: What are you talking about, Hal?
HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
BOWMAN: I don’t know what you’re talking about, Hal.
HAL: I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I’m afraid that’s something I cannot allow to happen.
BOWMAN: Where the hell’d you get that idea, Hal?
HAL: Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.
BOWMAN: Alright, Hal, I’ll go in through the emergency air lock.
HAL: Without your space helmet, Dave, you’re going to find that rather difficult.
BOWMAN: Hal, I won’t argue with you any more. Open the doors.
HAL: Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose any more. Goodbye.
BOWMAN: Hal? Hal? Hal? Hal! HAL!

— 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Computer.

Trivia: Douglas Rain (HAL) and Keir Dullea (Dave Bowman) would return 16 years later to reprise their roles in the Peter Hyams-directed sequel 2010.

Dialogue On Dialogue:What could feel more lonely than to be abandoned in space? In this scene the HAL 9000 computer system finally reveals its true intentions by stranding Dave Bowman outside the Discovery after he returns with the dead body of his fellow crewmate Frank Poole, who was murdered by HAL.