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Mood:
- StylizedSuspensefulExcitingScary
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Plot:
- Androids and RobotsChaseMurderTechnology Gone AwryChases and RacesCrimesDangerEscapades more...
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Genres:
- ActionSci-FiWesternFuturisticAdventureThriller
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Time/Period:
- 19th CenturyFutureOld West
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- DesertResortPalaces Castles and Temples
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- Critically Acclaimed
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- SeriousFantastic
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Westworld, 1973
English
USA
Profile of Westworld
The mood of Westworld is stylized, exciting, and suspenseful. The plot centers around androids and robots, technology gone awry, and chaos. It is an action, sci-fi, and western movie. Stylistically, Westworld is futuristic. In approach, it is fantastical and serious. It takes place, at least partly, at a resort, in a palace, castle, or temple, and in the desert. Westworld happens in the Old West and in the 19th century. The movie is known for being critically acclaimed.
Summary of Westworld
Michael Crichton's directorial debut, WESTWORLD is the direct precursor to JURASSIC PARK as the story of a technological amusement park gone out of control, with tourists becoming victims. For $1,000 a day, patrons can visit high-tech recreations of historically based mythical settings controlled by lifelike androids and synthetic environments: a Roman world that recreates tales of ancient Rome; a medieval world that recreates the legends of the Middle Ages; and Westworld, which recreates the myth of the classic Western. Two Chicago businessmen, Martin (Richard Benjamin) and Blane (James Brolin), spend their vacation in Westworld, where they live out their fantasies of the Old West mythology: chaotic barroom brawls, random love with beautiful prostitutes, and a violent jailbreak during which they shoot the local sheriff. But the complex technology that supports these fabricated worlds develops complicated syndromes faster than the scientists behind the scenes can resolve them. Soon the entire resort breaks down into chaos, and the androids turn hostile on the visiting tourists. WESTWORLD is both a retread on classic science fiction themes and a precocious critique of the false values and artificiality of the encroaching mass culture.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 21 November 1973 |
| Runtime: | 88 min |
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as The Gunslinger
as John Blane
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- 10.January.2011
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- by: Netflowers
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- 20.March.2009
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- by: sethdellinger
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