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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Where A.I. Artificial Intelligence says it takes place, and where it was really shot.
A flooded New York, a traveling robot circus and a Coney Island ruin, almost all built indoors in Burbank and Long Beach
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Scenes and places
David arrives at the Swinton house
David, a prototype child mecha, is given to Monica and Henry Swinton, whose own son lies in suspended animation. Monica slowly warms to him and activates his imprinting protocol, bonding him to her for good.
Set in Swinton house, Madison, New Jersey — The family home where an 11-year-old mecha boy is given to Monica and Henry Swinton. Google Maps · Apple Maps
A suburban New Jersey town; the house itself is a studio set.
Filmed at Warner Bros. Studios sound stages, Burbank — The article says the film was shot on Warner Bros. sound stages apart from a few weeks in Oregon; which stage held the house is not stated. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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The pool party
Martin's friends tease David at a pool party, and a knife poke triggers his self-protection programming. David grabs Martin and both fall into the pool, and David is blamed.
Set in Swinton house pool, Madison, New Jersey — Martin's pool party, where a prank sets off David's self-protection programming. Google Maps · Apple Maps
The same house and the same set as the first scene.
Filmed at Warner Bros. Studios sound stages, Burbank — The article says the film was shot on Warner Bros. sound stages apart from a few weeks in Oregon; which stage held the house is not stated. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Left in the scrap forest
Monica spares David by leaving him in a forest of discarded mechas and telling him to keep away from people. With only Teddy beside him, David recalls Pinocchio and decides to find the Blue Fairy.
Set in Forest of scrap metal and obsolete mechas — A forest full of discarded and obsolete mechas where Monica leaves David.
A story location with no named place; the film's story gives no map position.
The Flesh Fair
David and Teddy are captured for the Flesh Fair, where obsolete mechas are destroyed before jeering crowds. About to be destroyed, David pleads for his life, the audience revolts, and he escapes with Gigolo Joe.
Set in The Flesh Fair, a traveling mecha-destruction show — A traveling circus-like show where obsolete mechas are destroyed in front of jeering crowds.
A traveling show with no fixed location in the story.
Filmed at Spruce Goose Dome, Long Beach (Queen Mary position used as stand-in) — The film was shot partly in the Spruce Goose Dome in Long Beach; a French fan site ties the Flesh Fair scenes to it. The coordinate is the neighbouring Queen Mary, since the dome has no coordinate of its own. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Rouge City and Dr. Know
David, Teddy and Joe reach Rouge City. There the holographic Dr. Know directs them to the top of Rockefeller Center in the flooded ruins of New York.
Set in Rouge City — A decadent resort town where a holographic answer engine, Dr. Know, sends them to New York.
A built set with digital backdrops; the costumes drew on the Las Vegas Strip.
Rockefeller Center in flooded New York
At the top of Rockefeller Center in the flooded ruins of New York, David meets Professor Hobby, his creator, who says their meeting shows David's ability to love and pursue his dreams like a human.
Set in Top of Rockefeller Center, flooded New York — The top of Rockefeller Center above the flooded ruins of New York City, where David meets his creator.
A real landmark in a future New York; the scenes were built on stages.
Professor Hobby's lab and the copies
David finds copies of himself, including female variants called Darlene, ready to be shipped. Losing his sense of individuality, he falls from a skyscraper into the ocean.
Set in Professor Hobby's lab, above flooded New York — The tower where David finds copies of himself ready to be shipped.
The same New York tower, a fictional setting.
The Blue Fairy at Coney Island
David and Teddy fly to the Blue Fairy, which turns out to be a statue at Coney Island. Trapped when the Wonder Wheel falls on their vehicle, David keeps asking it to make him a real boy.
Set in Wonder Wheel, Coney Island, Brooklyn — A statue from a Coney Island attraction that David takes for the Blue Fairy.
A real amusement park, shown in the film as a ruin.
Two thousand years later
Two thousand years on, Manhattan lies under glacial ice. A group called the Specialists find David and Teddy and rebuild the Swinton house from David's memories.
Set in Ice-covered Manhattan and the rebuilt Swinton house — Manhattan buried in ice, where the Specialists reconstruct the Swinton home from David's memories.
A fictional future, shown through sets.
Characters
- David — An 11-year-old prototype mecha child built to love.
- Monica Swinton — The mother who adopts David, then cannot keep him.
- Teddy — Martin's old robotic teddy bear and David's companion.
- Gigolo Joe — A prostitute mecha on the run who joins David.