“Westworld” with its unique theme and bold filmmaking method is considered HBO’s new trump card.
Unique and bold content
Faced with hints about the end of Game of Thrones in season 8, HBO immediately released a replacement film. Westworld is based on the 1973 film of the same name with a unique theme that immediately attracted television viewers.
Westworld takes the idea of a world in the future, when robots have been developed to the extreme. An amusement park with a western setting is set up with residents who are programmed robots that look, speak and act just like humans.
For each visitor to this park, just by spending 40,000 USD/day, they can do anything with robots, including killing them. After each day, the robot is brainwashed and reprogrammed from scratch to welcome new visitors. The robots here are programmed to not question the appearance of strangers.
But the brainwashing process goes wrong and the robots begin to realize the dangers they face from human visitors. The western robots have found every way to escape this game.
Westworld is not only a realistic role-playing game but also a complex expression of human psychology, in a world where people are free to do whatever they want, without rules or regulations. need order. As one player confided, at first he came here just to fish with his wife and children, but when evil arose, he merged with the evil and called this “the best two weeks of his life.” .
The operator of this park is Dr. Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins). Tien Ford is also the person who programmed the robots in this park and is responsible for brainwashing and controlling them.
However, despite brainwashing, the robots in Westworld still retain terrible memories that happened in the form of nightmares. The robots begin to remember the traumas of the past day. They wake up during the night, sometimes safely in bed, other times on the engineering panel to perform the maintenance needed during the day.
They have been programmed to interpret their memories as dreams, specifically nightmares, and the nightmares begin to multiply with alarming clarity.
Not only does it have bold content, Westworld is also filled with adult scenes such as bloody shooting scenes, rape scenes, nudity… Game of Thrones is also filled with 18+ scenes and that is the reason for the audience to bring Westworld is compared to HBO’s darling.
These scenes not only show the nakedness of the amusement park but also make the audience pay more attention to Westworld, after the 18+ effects that Game of Thrones brings.
Great cast and director
The couple creating the new version of Westworld is Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy – famous screenwriters of films such as Memento (2000), The Prestige (2006), The Dark Knight (2008), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Interstellar (2014)… It can be seen that this couple’s creativity surpasses all limits.
Based on the 1973 film of the same name by director Michael Crichton, the new version of Westworld is more brutal and cruel, making the robots too similar to human versions.
Through 5 episodes, the cast is gradually revealed. The classic villain role is played by actor Anthony Hopkins. The female lead belongs to Evan Rachel Wood, playing the role of a robot named Dolores Abernathy – a kind and compassionate girl. In addition, actor Ed Harris has also begun appearing in recent episodes.
After 5 episodes aired, Westworld is receiving quite good feedback from the audience. However, HBO is still very careful with this project. The evidence is that HBO has not announced plans to produce a sequel or not.
The film has created good buzz and has stable ratings. However, with an investment of up to 100 million USD for the first part, HBO is being cautious before investing such a large amount of money again.
