From Jonathan Klotz
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When you talk about it Westworld Today it is assumed that they talk about the HBO series 2016 and not about the original 1973 film. There are a considerable number of fans of the series that are not aware that it is a remake, even though they may know something about the book that was written by Jurassic Park The author Michael Crichton, you may not know that the script came before Romanization. For some reason, the original film was memory deletion, although it was a blockbuster hit that produced a sequel and a TV series of the 80s.
A classic strange western
Michael Crichton not only wrote the script for WestworldBut he even led the film with the winners Richard Benjamin and James Brolin as Peter and John, two friends who go on vacation in Delo’s vacation. Roman world, medieval world and Westworld Make up the Park, which contains entertaining interactive functions such as robots when working properly, which challenge guests to perfectly safe duels. Until the robots start to fell and the duels are fatal.
The cause of the malfunction remains unknown, but the aftermath leads to several deaths, since Delos technicians suffocate the death trap in the control room and actively kill human guests. The most dangerous of them is the Gunslinger, played by Yul Brynner, who starts to speak Peter and John throughout Westworld while trying to find a way to escape. While the series finally left the boundaries of the amusement park, the film remains in its massive walls to tell the radiant survival story against uncomfortable machines, and benefits from the laser focus on the fight of the two friends to survive.
Michael Crichtons Hit -Debüt
Michael Crichton had never staged a film before raising his vision to life WestworldAnd it is clear that the talented author could have it if he did not burn out filmmaking, instead a famous director has become. A similar criticism that was later made against the HBO series, which could sometimes feel like two very separate shows, was also said about the original film, with the second half based on a simpler horror film. Crichton enjoyed how fans of the film would discuss ethics behind the park because he had always intended that he was set up as a soulless corporate culture.
Westworld Was a hit that earned 4 million US dollars at the box office, which, if it was adapted to inflation today, that today earns from 1973 worth $ 29 million. A sequel, FutureworldSoon was the green lights without the participation of Crichton, and then the series came in 1980 Beyond WestworldWhich only took a few episodes before it was canceled. Similarly, the HBO series also achieved a return yield with every progressive season, which proves that Crichtonon’s decision to remain hyperfocused in two main characters could have been the right decision.
Fans of the HBO series don’t have to go out and watch the original 1973 WestworldAlthough you have a similar environment and start with the same basic concept, the series goes far beyond Crichtons original vision. It is a funny relic today, and Brynner’s Gunslinger is one of the greatest forgotten horror film villains, but without the weighty moral dilemmata and philosophical debates of the later remake it is a one-note film. If you want to watch a film from Michael Crichton’s spirit, based on an amusement park in which the attractions try to kill the guests Jurassic ParkBut if you want to see two, it is worth seeing the classic from 1973, which was decades ahead of its time.
Then as soon as you watch Westworld on vod through Amazon Prime VideoPresent Appletvor Fandango at homeYou can hear that Genre Podcast, who concludes Michael Crichtons’s first pitch homerun of a science fiction western west.
