Isso é abordado em um artigo com o proponente Bill Pearson. Em suma, o robô precisava parecer como se tivesse sido usado continuamente por quinze anos e tinha sofrido de negligência e uso indevido por seus antigos usuários (algo que funciona como uma pista). e / ou prenunciando a reviravolta no final do filme).
The photo above is how Gerty arrived on the set a day before we began shooting in the Sarang facility set. As you can see, he is very clean and nice and has no graphics or dirtying down on him at all.
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I was worried that Gerty needed to look like he'd been around for fifteen years and also possibly beaten up and abused a bit through the course of living with Sam. I don't mean in a negligent way, just the same way a fifteen year-old computer might look if you dug it out of the garage and put it in your living room.
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I also put some ripped corners so it looked like this happened as routine and it occurred to me that I would probably draw on Gerty if I was living in the Sarang base. I'd also ride around on the robot arms and make them do bucking bronco type tricks when I got bored.
Por que o GERTY (o prop) estava realmente tão sujo, isso também é abordado na mesma entrevista. A resposta curta é que ele está coberto de borra de café e teve cola aplicada para fazer parecer que ele foi coberto em (agora removido) notas post-it.
So I ran off to grab a cup of coffee granules, added in a bit of boiling water to make it all mushy and started rubbing him down and putting some stray stickers on him whilst the first setup was being shot out in the greenhouse.
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When I was dirtying Gerty down at extremely high speed, I was trying to think about what my computers get like after I've had them for a couple of years. I tend to use post-it notes quite a lot and they inevitably end up being stuck all over my computers and monitor. I ran off to the production office and wrote down some notes that sounded like things Sam might not want to forget (such as servicing the boom on Rover 3), and just stuck them on him. Now it's all finished and up there on the screen it's a bit weird for me seeing my writing all over him.