lightning bolt

In Short Circuit, a stray lightning bolt Imbues Number Five with a mind of his own. For the cast and crew, the robot was alive In some ways.
The character of Ben. the Indian scientist, was just a plain old W.A.S.P. in the earlier version. This character was a good inspiration to bring that whole end of the film alive, and make it have as much charm as the robot. There was also a great deal of work on the subsidiary characters, the dialogue and the humor, trying to keep the picture as funny as possible, without being too cute. The film would sometimes want to sink into cutcness and cloyingness, and is even threatening to do so now, as we keep working on it.
For example, we had been doing some recording with Number Five's voice, and he had, along the way. some ad-libs and a fewinspiralional ihings. 
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