What I particularly love about Westworld is how it doesn't lose focus of itself. Like I said, there are a lot of crazy ideas at work in Westworld and I love every damn minute of it. This isn't some virtual reality situation where there is a clear line drawn in the sand by copious amounts of hardware, sensors, and weighty headgear what happens to the park's attractions is physical and realistic - right down to the blood and viscera that a human body would exhibit. Where instead of a Man in Black having a wire crossed and attacking guests of the park, it's an entire population of slaves becoming aware that their world and reality is a fiction created for the personal enjoyment of paying customers. It's a bold twist on the classic robot run amok story. They're programmed to forget what happens to them - but what if they could remember? All that's left for humanity to do is indulge, and the only way to do that is through the confines of a world without rules for humans while creations with seemingly human characteristics must suffer untold numbers of horrors on a daily basis. Diseases can easily be cured, the world seems to be at peace, and the plagues of old appear to have been wiped out. In the show's first episode we see that humanity has a rather creepy future to look forward to the point where human accomplishment has gone so far that there are no more roads to travel. Ford played by the always great Anthony Hopkins conversing with his first creation Old Bill played by an unfortunately underutilized Michael Wincott, we're given a bleak look at what is essentially God talking to Adam. Then we have HBO's Westworld, a show that takes on these themes in its own dark and twisted way and spins out an intricate and engrossing narrative.Īs we watch the park's creator Dr. As gods of creation, how do we treat what we create? If we made them, do they have a soul? While those films endeavor to tackle those heady ideas, Black Mirror is content to showcase the horrors of society by pointing out the dark side of every technological advance we can make. Ex Machina and Blade Runner 2049 both in their own ways touch on man's responsibility with artificial intelligence. With films like Ex Machina, this year's exceptional Blade Runner 2049, alongside Netflix's mind-bending Black Mirror, science fiction films and shows are doubling down on exciting and somewhat terrifying ideas about the current state of human endeavors and their lasting impacts. When the attractions can't hurt you as you do anything you want to them, why would you hold back?Įxploring the soul and what it means to be human seems to be the en vogue theme for science fiction. Chase down the bandit Hector Escaton (Rodrigo Santoro), or you could just drop by Maeve Millay's (Thandie Newton) brothel for a bit of fun while you explore your deepest and darkest desires. Meet the beautiful Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) and her father Peter (Louis Herthum). You can go on an adventure with Teddy Flood (James Marsden). Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins) and partners Bernard Lowe (Jeffrey Wright) and Theresa Cullen (Sidse Babett Knudsen), the park features a number of exciting attractions. Welcome to Westworld, a place where anything goes.
Abrams to take Crichton's original creation and expand Westworld with themes and ideas about humanity that are hauntingly poetic while being intensely terrifying. A film about a futuristic theme park where the main attractions run amok certainly sounds familiar if you're a Jurassic Park fan, but it took HBO and producers Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy, and J.J.
However, it is his first film, Westworld starring an aged Yul Brynner that perhaps had the longest lasting impact on Crichton's career and future success. With films like The Great Train Robbery, Coma, and the vastly under-appreciated Runaway under his belt, Crichton was certainly a reliable entertainer before he jumped ship and started writing novels.
In the long, long ago before he became a best-selling novelist, Michael Crichton was a hot, in-demand screenwriter and director. "They don't make anything like they used to."
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