History Film / Westworld

* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Just before he kills John, and begins stalking Peter, The Gunslinger quietly, and even with a trace of a smile, asks them both to draw, and simply shoots Blane down in their first gunfight, the way a gunslinger would. Subverted after Peter starts running away, and the audience, and Peter, realize the gunslinger has marked Peter and is going to hunt him to the ends of the park in order to kill him. Even the technician attempting to flee that Peter stumbles up on lampshades the fact that Peter is pretty much doomed unless he can safe himself.]]

''Westworld'' is a 1973 science fiction thriller film written and directed by Creator/MichaelCrichton.

[[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture In the near future]], Delos is an expensive[[note]]$1000 a day in 1973, equivalent to about $5657 a day in 2018[[/note]] adult amusement resort offering simulations of TheWildWest, [[TheMiddleAges Medieval Britain]], and {{Ancient Rome}}. Each park has a population of humanoid [[DeceptivelyHumanRobots robots]], with whom visitors can interact 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 (Creator/JamesBrolin) and Peter Martin (Creator/RichardBenjamin), 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 robot (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.

A [[Series/{{Westworld}} television series adaptation]] of the movie premiered on Creator/{{HBO}} in 2016, co-created by Jonathan Nolan (Creator/ChristopherNolan's brother), executive-produced by Creator/JJAbrams, and starring Creator/AnthonyHopkins, Creator/EdHarris, Creator/EvanRachelWood, Creator/JamesMarsden, and Creator/ThandiweNewton.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: John Blane seems like he's on target to be the eventual hero of the story once the park starts breaking down, as he's more seasoned than Peter in the way the park operates. Instead, that prior experience proves his undoing, as he treats The Gunslinger's call to draw as just the normal shtick, (To be fair, there's no glaring read flags that prove anything is amiss) and once the safety parameters are lifted, The Gunslinger easily outdraws and kills him at the beginning of the third act.]]

* NoNewFashionsInTheFuture: Does this take place in 1974, or what?

* HilariousInHindsight: Well, this might be an entry lasting only a year or less, but still... The robots are designed mostly by other computers, as explained by one of the scientists, and humans have hardly idea of how they work. They look close to perfect reproductions of humans, aside for the eyes and the hands. Nowadays we have the prompt-to-image -Midjourney v4.0 or SD 1.5+finetuned models- generators which, with some tries and cunning, can give us great and almost perfect images, even when the images are about humans. But the human images are not completely perfect, there are some body parts that are often defective. Guess which ones? Sometimes eyes and almost always hands!

* HilariousInHindsight: Well, this might be an entry lasting only a year or less, but still... The robots are designed mostly by other computers, as explained by one of the scientists, and humans have hardly idea of how they work. They look close to perfect reproductions of humans, aside for the eyes and the hands. Nowadays we have the prompt-to-image -Midjourney v2.0 or SD 1.5+finetuned models- generators which, with some tries and cunning, can give us great and almost perfect images, even when the images are about humans. But the human images are not completely perfect, there are some body parts that are often defective. Guess which ones? Sometimes eyes and almost always hands!

* NoOSHACompliance: The safety hazards in the park are flat-out obscene. The Delos control room has doors that are entirely reliant on electric power. There is no way to open them or alternative means to exit the room if the electricity ever goes down. Then, of course, there is the fact that the robots in Westworld are inexplicably armed with live ammunition in their guns. Meanwhile, the robots in Roman World and Medieval World have real edged weapons.

* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: The robots, particularly the Gunslinger.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The fat man with the glasses who became the new sheriff of Westworld (after the previous, robotic one was shot down by John) is never seen again after the bar brawl sequence. [[spoiler:Though given his clumsiness and ''complete'' lack of physical prowess, it's safe to assume that he was killed just like the rest of the guests.]]

* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Just before he kills John, and begins stalking Peter, The Gunslinger quietly, and even with a trace of a smile, asks them both to draw, and simply shoots Blane down in their first gunfight, the way a gunslinger would.]]

* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Since John Blane is the "experienced" guest, and since he's played by rugged Creator/JamesBrolin, as opposed to the nerdyish Creator/RichardBenjamin, when things go wrong at the park, it's natural to assume that Blane has a better shot of surviving, or at least helping out Peter by them working together. Instead, he's shot by The Gunslinger at the beginning of the third act, and during the process of having a play-duel with The Gunslinger, as opposed to dying in the middle of something heroic. The audience, like Peter, is stunned when Blane gets killed.]]

* [[OhCrap Oh My God!]]: Peter's reaction when the Gunslinger fatally shoots John.