it's like none before. so there was a very open kind of art school atmosphere let's see let's try there was no oh we can't do that it's you know that was a red rag to standing said oh we can't do that it's for why not why can't you let's try it so everybody was able to be is a magic is heaven is crazy and like it was there were no wrong answers crick wrote the screenplay with fyfe i legend arthur c. clarke the goal was to create the definitive science fiction film probing the question of extraterrestrial life and artificial intelligence that spirals out of control in the form of the onboard computer held. it in the pod bay doors. i'm sorry dave i'm afraid i can't do that. the computer becomes the enemy thanks to bad programming the problem how has to be switched off and becomes the true tragic