Is the first part of "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" based on Kubrick's or Spielberg's concepts/style?
I remember (99% sure) an interview with Spielberg (in a documentary of Kubrick's lifework), where he states that many critics falsely supposed that Spielberg was responsible for the first part (showing the life of the artificial child within its "family") of the movie, while the second part and end of the movie would rather match Kubrick's typical movie style. But, in fact it was the other way around, Spielberg said.
I'm aware the whole movie was based on Kubrick's script and concepts initally, but I would really like to know as a Kubrick fan, what parts of the final movie were elaborated by Kubrick's/Spielberg's views/style and why so many critics were wrong. Is the first part kind of untypical for Kubrick movie style?
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Best reference to this is essentially the interview you talked about:
"People pretend to think they know Stanley Kubrick, and think they know me, when most of them don't know either of us," Spielberg told film critic Joe Leydon in 2002. "And what's really funny about that is, all the parts of A.I. that people assume were Stanley's were mine. And all the parts of A.I. that people accuse me of sweetening and softening and sentimentalizing were all Stanley's. The teddy bear was Stanley's. The whole last 20 minutes of the movie was completely Stanley's. The whole first 35, 40 minutes of the film – all the stuff in the house – was word for word, from Stanley's screenplay. This was Stanley's vision."
Essentially saying that the first part of the movie, where David is with his family up until around the part where he is cast aside when their son returns, is all made by Stanley Kubrick and not by Spielberg.
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