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10 Times Steven Spielberg Went Really F***ing Dark

What do you imagine when you think of Steven Spielberg? Do you think benevolent bearded uncle of family entertainment, the man behind such popular fare as ET, Jurassic Park, the Indiana Jones movies and, oh yes, Hook? Or do you think dark lord of Hollywood cinema, responsible for some of the most traumatic moments in recent cinema history?

8) A.I.

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If you can’t remember the time Steven Spielberg worked with Chris Rock, you’ve either forgotten because the comedian’s role was so brief or because his single scene in A.I. is so weirdly distressing that you trained yourself to forget.

In Spielberg’s misunderstood sci-fi classic, Rock plays a robot rounded up and destroyed at a carnival, all for the entertainment of the humans who hate his kind. The reason the scene is so disturbing? Maybe it’s the fact that the robots of A.I. are so uncannily human, or it’s the reminder that mankind can be this unnecessarily cruel.

Granted, Chris Rock can be irritating, but by the time he’s been set on fire and put through a giant blender, you’re pretty much ready to forgive him.