A.I Artificial Intelligence and Adventures of Pinocchio

  • Dreamworks and Warner Bros production
  • Sheila robot

    • Human face

    • Stabbed in hand, asked how that made her feel

  • Create a robot that can love

  • Asks Sheila what is love?

    • Gives proper answer

  • Build a robot child that can love

    • Love for parents, that will not end

  • Can you get a human to love a robot back?

  • Monica’s biological son is in a capsule 

    • Waiting for cure for his rare disease

  • Replacement for Monica’s son 

    • Face seems real 

    • Henry says he can return him 

  • Monica’s mecha son->David 

  • Cybertronics are in charge of Mecha returns

  • David begins imitating, learning humans routine

  • Monica becomes invested in David 

  • David stands wooden-like

  • Monica locks David in linen closet 

    • David asks if it is a game

  • David begins creepily laughing at the dinner table after following Monica using utensils

    • Henry and Monica laugh back

  • David repeats again if it is game

    • David calls her Monica at the beginning, Mommy at the end

  • Imprinting protocol causes David to show child affection 

    • Could feel Monica’s hand on his neck

  • He realizes Monica will not live forever

    • Shows affection by saying I love you and puts hand on her leg

  • Befriended by robotic teddy bear

    • Named Teddy

    • Belonged to Martin(biological son)

  • Teddy cares for David’s well being

  • David transfers into phone voice- robotic like, picks up the phone Monica, he goes on.

  • Martin’s disease was cured

    • Came home with oxygen mask and in wheelchair

  • Martin makes it clear he does not want a sibling

    • Makes Teddy choose who he likes more

    • Teddy could not choose

  • Martin asks David human like questions

    • When is your birthday? 

    • Can you break this? 

    • First thing he can remember is a bird with big wings, feather on the bottom 

  • David draws the bird

    • Looks like a peacock

  • Monica reads Pinocchio story to Martin and David on a kayak and as a bedtime story

  • Martin and David have a spinach eating competition 

    • Teddy reminds him that he will break if he takes part

    • David breaks and must be fixed

  • Martin makes David make a promise

    • Cut off Monica's hair during the night

    • In return he will tell their mom that he loves David

  • Martin compares lock of hair to princess story

  • David fearfully cuts Monica’s hair

    • Henry wakes and shakes him 

  • Henry thinks that a robot that can love can also hate

  • Pool party

    • Mecha (mechanical)  and Orga (organic?)

    • David is poked with a knife

      • Grabs Martin and they both fall in the pool

  • David stays at the bottom of the pool

  • Their father sees this as an act of hate towards his “brother”

  • Teddy helped David write notes for Monica

  • Henry wanted David to be returned and destroyed

    • Monica drives past Cybertronics; isn’t strong enough to return him 

  • Monica leaves David and Teddy in the woods as unregistered Mecha

    • Asks again if it is a game

    • Both begin crying at separation 

  • Pinocchio became real, if he becomes real he asks if he can come home

  • David is captured and is taken to Flesh Fair

    • Unregistered mecha’s are destroyed

    • Teddy is seperated

  • Flesh fair environment similar to circus

    • Mechas are placed in cannons

    • Loud crowds surrounded

  • Henry believes that David is dead

  • David escapes with Joe

    • Joe is a male prostitute 

  • Joe murdered Sam

  • Joe searches for Blue Fairy with David 

    • Remembers it from Pinocchio story 

    • Blue Fairy will transform David into real boy

  • Joe and David go on their way to Rouge City

  • Dr. Know- answer engine

    • David gives Joe 7 dollars

    • Fairy tale category 

      • David sees mock Blue Fairy in the room 

  • David and Joe go to Rockefeller Center (flooded) in flying vehicle 

    • David sees an identical version of himself

      • Destroys his copy Mecha 

    • Meet his creator Professor Hobby

  • Hobby tells David that he is real 

    • Deceased son, David is a namesake

    • Copies of David and female version Darlene being manufactured

  • David falls off ledge into ocean 

    • Joe saves him

    • David tells Joe he saw the blue fairy underwater 

  • Joe gets picked up by authorities electromagnet

  • David and Teddy find Pinocchio land underwater

  • Fairy turns out to be a Coney Island statue

    • David still believes it’s real and asks to be turned into real boy 

    • Wonderwheel falls on vehicle

  • Davids power drains away from frozen ocean 

  • 2000 years pass

    • Mechas now are silicone

    • They find teddy and David-they are original mechas that knew humans

  • David is revived and touches Blue Fairy; it collapses

    • He recreates his home using memories

    • Interactive fairy tells him it is impossible to make him human

  • Recreate Monica with the locks Teddy saved (dna)

    • Tells him she will only last a day and this process can only happen once

  • Monica tells David she loves him and always has

    • “To that place where dreams are born"-David


Comparisons A.I and Adventures of Pinnochio

-Both Pinocchio and David do not know how to properly act because they are not actually human

-David has trouble understanding basic human functions (such as drinking coffee in the morning)

-Pinocchio is gullible and does not listen to advice

-David is fascinated by eating, and Pinocchio is always hungry and wants to eat

-Both are child-like and care for their parents

-Both were designed as toys

-David wants to be a real boy

-After Monica read Pinocchio to Martin and

David, David romanticized becoming a real

boy

-Ate spinach to try to be like Martin

-David listens to Martin’s bad advice similar to how Pinocchio listened to the cat and fox

-Teddy is similar to the cricket in Pinocchio

-David was abandoned

-David wants nothing more than for Monica to love him; Pinocchio wants to make Geppetto proud

-David is searching for the blue fairy

-David sees parts of past Mechas be dumped and meets others like him; related to Pinocchio meeting other marionette puppets like him

-Joe is another bad conscience

-Innocence is a big theme in both stories

-David and Pinocchio both get tricked into spending their money

-David dives into the ocean to find the blue fairy, and Pinocchio does it to escape which eventually leads to saving his father

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