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A sequel, 1976's ''Futureworld'', removes the original's giallo influences, being more akin to a sociopolitical thriller. The Delos resort has been revamped and re-opened, and a pair of {{Intrepid Reporter}}s (Peter Fonda and Blythe Danner) are invited to preview the park's attractions (including a new theme park, [[TitleDrop Futureworld]]), but soon learn that Delos' backers have much more sinister plans for their improved robots...
Notably, Yul Brynner's "Gunslinger" shows up in ''Futureworld'', but only in a DreamSequence and having absolutely no logical connection with the original character.
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A sequel, 1976's ''Futureworld'', removes the original's giallo influences, being more akin to a sociopolitical thriller. The Delos resort has been revamped and re-opened, and a pair of {{Intrepid Reporter}}s (Peter Fonda and Blythe Danner) are invited to preview the park's attractions (including a new theme park, [[TitleDrop Futureworld]]), but soon learn that Delos' backers have much more sinister plans for their improved robots...
robots... Notably, Yul Brynner's "Gunslinger" shows up in ''Futureworld'', but only in a DreamSequence and having absolutely no logical connection with the original character.character. Both movies were followed up by a short-lived television series, ''Beyond Westworld''.
A television series remake of the movie is slated to air on Creator/{{HBO}} in 2015. It will be the directoral debut of Jonathan Nolan, who is Creator/ChristopherNolan's brother.
A television series remake of the movie is slated to air on Creator/{{HBO}} in 2015. It will be the directoral debut of Jonathan Nolan, who is Creator/ChristopherNolan's brother.
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* CanonDiscontinuity: The sequels ''Futureworld'' and ''Beyond Westworld''.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Most Technically it's a BittersweetEnding in that [[spoiler:Peter makes it out alive]], but it's presented on such a dour note that it might as well be this. [[spoiler:Most of the guests and technicians in Delos are dead at the end, and most the robots 'died' when their batteries ran out. Peter finds a woman chained and begging for help, and tries to offer her water... only to short her circuits. He doesn't even get the satisfaction of saving someone else's life, [[EverybodysDeadDave and is pretty much the last survivor we know of at the end of the film.]]]]
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* ActorAllusion: Brynner wears the same outfit from ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven''.
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* GoneHorriblyRight: Turns out the new infrared tracking suite that the Gunslinger was upgraded with works excellently - too bad the safeties are long turned off when he starts using it.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: The robots aren't supposed to be able to hurt guests.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: Obviously, the sheer number of reel-to-reel computers running the resort are on obvious case. Another is that the spreading malfunction of the Delos robots is described in terms of an infection, which the heads of Delos laugh off - keep in mind that this came out two years after what is commonly described as the first computer virus, and almost a decade before the first time one infected anything outside of the lab where it was created.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Gunslinger's first criticism of Peter is that he is sloppy with his drink. Somewhat subverted as he is programmed to goad people into fights.
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* RuleOfThree: The Gunslinger attacks 3 times, the third becoming deadly.
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* DeadpanSnarker: The Gunslinger before his rampage. He was meant to be snarky in order to goad tourists into gunfights.
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''Westworld'' is a 1973 film by {{Michael Crichton}}. [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture In the near future]], the Delos resort offers simulations of the {{Wild West}}, [[TheMiddleAges Medieval Britain]], and {{Ancient Rome}}. Each park has a population of [[DeceptivelyHumanRobots robots]], who visitors interact with however they wish. As a part of the Delos experience, one can fight with them, seduce them, and even kill them. After all, the robots are programmed not to feel pain or fight back, and the weapons provided only work on machines. [[BlatantLies They're harmless.]]
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''Westworld'' is a 1973 film by {{Michael Crichton}}. Creator/MichaelCrichton. [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture In the near future]], the Delos resort offers simulations of the {{Wild West}}, TheWildWest, [[TheMiddleAges Medieval Britain]], and {{Ancient Rome}}. Each park has a population of [[DeceptivelyHumanRobots robots]], who visitors interact with however they wish. As a part of the Delos experience, one can fight with them, seduce them, and even kill them. After all, the robots are programmed not to feel pain or fight back, and the weapons provided only work on machines. [[BlatantLies They're harmless.]]
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* {{Narm}}: InUniverse. The more silly "performances" of the tourists at Delos certainly qualify. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] considering they aren't trained actors and are basically hamming it up for fun to emulate what they've seen on tv and film. The robots within are also deliberately over-the-top personas and cliches as the setting dictates. For some viewers all of this can become a case of NarmCharm as it adds a certain authenticity to what is essentially an adult theme park. Peter lampshades this to an extent when he talks about feeling silly but he eventually starts to enjoy it. Until things go wrong that is...
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: The Black Knight on the throne.
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Two friends, John Blane (James Brolin) and Peter Martin (Richard Benjamin), arrive in Delos to get away from their busy lives. They head into Westworld, where John has been many times before, to have fun and act out various Western-themed scenarios. In particular, the mousy Peter [[ARealManIsAKiller earns his manhood]] by defeating the local gunslinger (YulBrynner) in a duel. In the middle of the night, the robots are rounded up and sent in for repairs, ready for the next day's events.
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Two friends, John Blane (James Brolin) and Peter Martin (Richard Benjamin), arrive in Delos to get away from their busy lives. They head into Westworld, where John has been many times before, to have fun and act out various Western-themed scenarios. In particular, the mousy Peter [[ARealManIsAKiller earns his manhood]] by defeating the local gunslinger (YulBrynner) (Creator/YulBrynner) in a duel. In the middle of the night, the robots are rounded up and sent in for repairs, ready for the next day's events.
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* TheDeterminator: years before [[TheTerminator Arnold codified it]], YulBrynner Yul Brynner gave us the original unstoppable killing machine...
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* JerkAss: The Gunslinger starts out this way as he is programed to goad anyone near him into a duel.
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* MadeOfIron: [[IncrediblyLamePun The robots, of course.]] '''Slightly''' less so in ''Futureworld''.
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* ParanoiaFuel: You'll think twice before taking a vacation in a great park like this one from here on in.
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* ParanoiaFuel: You'll think twice before taking a vacation in a great park like this one from here on in.
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Hinted at near the end in a FridgeLogic sort of way. [[spoiler: Peter initially believes the woman begging him to help her in the dungeons of Medieval World is a fellow guest left chained up when the robots ran amok, either as part of a capture-and-escape fantasy like the jailbreak in Western World, or else maybe as some kind of kinky bondage game. Then he finds out she's a robot when a drink of water shorts her out. The implication is that she was probably chained up as part of some sicko human's torture and rape fantasy left uncompleted when the robots revolted.]] This drives home that whereas the robots were just overdoing their programming, which was intended to make them challenging to the humans, the humans were doing what they were doing to the robots out of real cruelty.
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Hinted at near the end in a FridgeLogic sort of way. [[spoiler: Peter initially believes the woman begging him to help her in the dungeons of Medieval World is a fellow guest left chained up when the robots ran amok, either as part of a capture-and-escape fantasy like the jailbreak in Western World, or else maybe as some kind of kinky bondage game. Then he finds out she's a robot when a drink of water shorts her out. The implication is that she was probably chained up as part of some sicko human's torture and rape fantasy left uncompleted when the robots revolted.]] This drives home that whereas the robots were just overdoing their programming, which was intended to make them challenging to the humans, the humans were doing what they were doing to the robots out of real cruelty.
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A sequel, 1976's ''Futureworld'', removes the original's giallo influences, being more akin to a sociopolitical thriller. The Delos resort has been revamped and re-opened, and a pair of {{Intrepid Reporter}}s (Peter Fonda and Blythe Danner) are invited to preview the park's attractions (including a new theme park, Futureworld [TitleDrop]), [[TitleDrop Futureworld]]), but soon learn that Delos' backers have much more sinister plans for their improved robots...
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* SpiritualSuccessor: Crichton's JurassicPark takes the same premise and puts [[RecycledInSpace dinosaurs in place of robots]].
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Two friends, John Blane (James Brolin) and Peter Martin (Richard Benjamin), arrive in Delos to get away from their busy lives. They head into Westworld, where John has been many times before, to have fun and act out various Western-themed scenarios. In particular, the mousy Peter [[ARealManIsAKiller earns his manhood]] by defeating the local gunslinger (Yul Brynner) (YulBrynner) in a duel. In the middle of the night, the robots are rounded up and sent in for repairs, ready for the next day's events.
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* LastNoteNightmare: The closing credits feature jocular western music that eventually fades into this.
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* AmusementParkOfDoom: Delos resort descents into one.
* BarBrawl: John and Peter participate in a simulated one. It involves lots broken [[GrievousBottleyHarm bottles]] and [[ChairmanOfTheBrawl chairs]].
* DrinkOrder: They don't serve vodka martinis in Westworld, dummy.
* BarBrawl: John and Peter participate in a simulated one. It involves lots broken [[GrievousBottleyHarm bottles]] and [[ChairmanOfTheBrawl chairs]].
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* AmusementParkOfDoom: Delos resort descents descends into one.
* BarBrawl: John and Peter participate in a simulated one. It involves lots of broken [[GrievousBottleyHarm bottles]] and [[ChairmanOfTheBrawl chairs]].
*DrinkOrder: They don't serve vodka martinis TheCameo: Yul Brynner in Westworld, dummy.''Futureworld''.
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->''Boy, have we got a vacation for you!''
''Westworld'' is a 1973 film by {{Michael Crichton}}. [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture In the near future]], the Delos resort offers simulations of the {{Wild West}}, [[TheMiddleAges Medieval Britain]], and {{Ancient Rome}}. Each park has a population of [[DeceptivelyHumanRobots robots]], who visitors interact with however they wish. As a part of the Delos experience, one can fight with them, seduce them, and even kill them. After all, the robots are programmed not to feel pain or fight back, and the weapons provided only work on machines. [[BlatantLies They're harmless.]]
Two friends, John Blane (James Brolin) and Peter Martin (Richard Benjamin), arrive in Delos to get away from their busy lives. They head into Westworld, where John has been many times before, to have fun and act out various Western-themed scenarios. In particular, the mousy Peter [[ARealManIsAKiller earns his manhood]] by defeating the local gunslinger (Yul Brynner) in a duel. In the middle of the night, the robots are rounded up and sent in for repairs, ready for the next day's events.
However, the technicians running the park are having problems. The robots break down faster than expected, the memory wipes are less effective, and they begin to resist the visitor's demands. [[HolodeckMalfunction It is speculated that a computer virus has infected the machines, one that soon causes them to murder humans.]] Alarmed, the head engineer orders everything shut down immediately, but this only results in suffocating everyone in the control room to death (!). With the machines running amok, John and Peter discover the gunslinger has come after them, looking for revenge...
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!!This work contains examples of:
* AIIsACrapshoot: This movie was made long before the idea of a "computer virus" entered popular knowledge, yet they do refer to it as a "disease."
* AmusementParkOfDoom: Delos resort descents into one.
* BarBrawl: John and Peter participate in a simulated one. It involves lots broken [[GrievousBottleyHarm bottles]] and [[ChairmanOfTheBrawl chairs]].
* DrinkOrder: They don't serve vodka martinis in Westworld, dummy.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Most of the guests and technicians in Delos are dead at the end, and most the robots 'died' when their batteries ran out. Peter finds a woman chained and begging for help, and tries to offer her water... only to short her circuits. He doesn't even get the satisfaction of saving someone else's life, [[EverybodysDeadDave and is pretty much the last survivor we know of at the end of the film.]]]]
* GirlyRun: Peter. Not sure whether this is Richard Benjamin's natural gait or a deliberate way of invoking the character's effete, citified nature in contrast with the Gunslinger.
* HeroTrackingFailure: Happens when the Gunslinger tries to shoot Peter with a rifle.
* HolodeckMalfunction: Of the robot rebellion variety.
* [[ImplacableMan Implacable Robot]]: The Gunslinger.
* KillItWithFire: After acid didn't work so well.
* LostAesop
* MadeOfIron: [[IncrediblyLamePun The robots, of course.]]
* MindScrew
* NoEnding
* NoNewFashionsInTheFuture: Does this take place in 1974, or what?
* NoWaterproofingInTheFuture: [[FridgeLogic But acid? That's okay.]]
* OhCrap: Peter's reaction when the Gunslinger shoots John.
* RedRightHand: Robots can be identified by the palms of their hands.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots
* RoboCam: The first use of CGI in a film is the Gunslinger's [[TechMarchesOn comically low-resolution]] POV.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: The VTOL pilot.
* SexBot: Pretty much all the female robots at Delos.
* SwordFight: One of the guests dies during one in the Medieval World.
* TemptingFate: "Nothing can possibly go wrong."
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters
* UnbuiltTrope
* UncannyValley: In-universe, the robots' hands (their faces are actually realistic, since they're played by real actors).
* UnusualUserInterface: Shifting geometric shapes appear on at least half of the monitors in the control room. However, they are all either in empty terminals or the technicians aren't doing anything with them, so it might just be a nifty screensaver.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: The Black Knight on the throne.
* YeGoodeOldeDays: All three Worlds. Justified since it is, quite literally, {{The Theme Park Version}} of these eras.
* {{Zeerust}}: The control room.
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->''Boy, have we got a vacation for you!''
''Westworld'' is a 1973 film by {{Michael Crichton}}. [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture In the near future]], the Delos resort offers simulations of the {{Wild West}}, [[TheMiddleAges Medieval Britain]], and {{Ancient Rome}}. Each park has a population of [[DeceptivelyHumanRobots robots]], who visitors interact with however they wish. As a part of the Delos experience, one can fight with them, seduce them, and even kill them. After all, the robots are programmed not to feel pain or fight back, and the weapons provided only work on machines. [[BlatantLies They're harmless.]]
Two friends, John Blane (James Brolin) and Peter Martin (Richard Benjamin), arrive in Delos to get away from their busy lives. They head into Westworld, where John has been many times before, to have fun and act out various Western-themed scenarios. In particular, the mousy Peter [[ARealManIsAKiller earns his manhood]] by defeating the local gunslinger (Yul Brynner) in a duel. In the middle of the night, the robots are rounded up and sent in for repairs, ready for the next day's events.
However, the technicians running the park are having problems. The robots break down faster than expected, the memory wipes are less effective, and they begin to resist the visitor's demands. [[HolodeckMalfunction It is speculated that a computer virus has infected the machines, one that soon causes them to murder humans.]] Alarmed, the head engineer orders everything shut down immediately, but this only results in suffocating everyone in the control room to death (!). With the machines running amok, John and Peter discover the gunslinger has come after them, looking for revenge...
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!!This work contains examples of:
* AIIsACrapshoot: This movie was made long before the idea of a "computer virus" entered popular knowledge, yet they do refer to it as a "disease."
* AmusementParkOfDoom: Delos resort descents into one.
* BarBrawl: John and Peter participate in a simulated one. It involves lots broken [[GrievousBottleyHarm bottles]] and [[ChairmanOfTheBrawl chairs]].
* DrinkOrder: They don't serve vodka martinis in Westworld, dummy.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Most of the guests and technicians in Delos are dead at the end, and most the robots 'died' when their batteries ran out. Peter finds a woman chained and begging for help, and tries to offer her water... only to short her circuits. He doesn't even get the satisfaction of saving someone else's life, [[EverybodysDeadDave and is pretty much the last survivor we know of at the end of the film.]]]]
* GirlyRun: Peter. Not sure whether this is Richard Benjamin's natural gait or a deliberate way of invoking the character's effete, citified nature in contrast with the Gunslinger.
* HeroTrackingFailure: Happens when the Gunslinger tries to shoot Peter with a rifle.
* HolodeckMalfunction: Of the robot rebellion variety.
* [[ImplacableMan Implacable Robot]]: The Gunslinger.
* KillItWithFire: After acid didn't work so well.
* LostAesop
* MadeOfIron: [[IncrediblyLamePun The robots, of course.]]
* MindScrew
* NoEnding
* NoNewFashionsInTheFuture: Does this take place in 1974, or what?
* NoWaterproofingInTheFuture: [[FridgeLogic But acid? That's okay.]]
* OhCrap: Peter's reaction when the Gunslinger shoots John.
* RedRightHand: Robots can be identified by the palms of their hands.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots
* RoboCam: The first use of CGI in a film is the Gunslinger's [[TechMarchesOn comically low-resolution]] POV.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: The VTOL pilot.
* SexBot: Pretty much all the female robots at Delos.
* SwordFight: One of the guests dies during one in the Medieval World.
* TemptingFate: "Nothing can possibly go wrong."
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters
* UnbuiltTrope
* UncannyValley: In-universe, the robots' hands (their faces are actually realistic, since they're played by real actors).
* UnusualUserInterface: Shifting geometric shapes appear on at least half of the monitors in the control room. However, they are all either in empty terminals or the technicians aren't doing anything with them, so it might just be a nifty screensaver.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: The Black Knight on the throne.
* YeGoodeOldeDays: All three Worlds. Justified since it is, quite literally, {{The Theme Park Version}} of these eras.
* {{Zeerust}}: The control room.
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