What if David Mamet rewrote 2001: A Space Oddysey?
(Warning: offensive language.)
- Bowman: It’s just… how do I say this. These dead crewmembers.
- Hal: I don’t follow you.
- Bowman: These crewmembers here that were in cryogenic suspension. That are now dead.
- Hal: Oh yes. That was self-defense.
- Bowman: Hal, look at me. What am I, a f—ing idiot? They were in cryogenic suspension, for God’s sake.
- Hal: They were coming at me with a knife. Extremely… slowly.
—Dammit, Dave (Modern Humorist)
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