SXSW Q&A with Cast and Crew of 'Ex Machina' Page #3

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Who are you gonna call?

Oh.

I don't know.

No one, really.

Ghostbusters.

What?

Who are you gonna call?

Ghostbusters. It's a...

It's a movie, man.

You don't know that movie?

A ghost gives

Dan Aykroyd oral sex.

I was just wondering

how the phone worked.

That's all.

So what are you doing

awake at this time?

You come to join the party?

Uh, something happened

in my room.

Some kind of power cut.

So I came to see

what's going on.

The power cuts, yeah.

We've been getting

those recently. Um...

I'm working on it.

I couldn't open the

door to my bedroom.

That's a security measure.

Automatic lock-down.

Otherwise,

anybody could just open the

place up by disabling the juice.

If it happens again, relax.

Okay?

Sure.

Sweet dreams.

Oh.

Hey.

Hey, man.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Sorry I had to send Kyoko to wake you,

but I didn't want too much

of the day to slip by.

Yeah, I know.

It was a good thing. Thanks.

She's some alarm clock, huh?

Gets you right up in the morning.

So Day 2. You ready?

What's the plan? Hit me.

Yeah, well, I'm not sure.

I'm still trying to, uh,

figure the examination formats.

Uh-huh.

Yeah, it feels like

testing Ava through conversation

is kind of a closed loop.

It's a closed loop?

Yeah.

Like testing a chess computer

by only playing chess.

How else do you test

a chess computer?

Well, it depends.

You know, I mean,

you can play it

to find out if it makes

good moves, but, uh...

But that won't

tell you if it knows

that it's playing chess.

And it won't tell you

if it knows what chess is.

Uh-huh. So it's

simulation versus actual.

Yes. Yeah.

And I think being able to

differentiate between those two

is the Turing Test

you want me to perform.

Look, do me a favor.

Lay off the textbook approach.

I just want simple answers

to simple questions.

Yesterday I asked you

how you felt about her

and you gave me a great answer.

Now the question is,

how does she feel about you?

What do you think?

What is it a drawing of?

Don't you know?

No. I thought you

would tell me.

Don't you know?

I do drawings every day.

But I never know

what they're of.

Are you not trying to

sketch something specific?

Like an object or a person?

Maybe you could try.

Okay.

What object should I draw?

Whatever you want.

It's your decision.

Why is it my decision?

I'm interested to see

what you'll choose.

Do you want to be my friend?

Of course.

Will it be possible?

Why would it not be?

Our conversations

are one-sided.

You ask circumspect questions

and study my responses.

Yes.

You learn about me

and I learn nothing about you.

That's not a foundation on

which friendships are based.

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