If you could live out your deepest, darkest fantasies, what would you do? Who would you become?
That’s a question explored in Westworld, a TV reincarnation of Michael Crichton’s 1973 movie, in which rich customers visit a Western-styled theme park filled with humanoid androids. In the original film, Yul Brynner starred as a malfunctioning robot whose relentless pursuit of his victims made for compelling viewing. The TV show, which debuted this month, is equally enthralling and not simply because the updated CGI is breath-taking. The storyline has also been described as ”˜sinister and spectacular’.
Against astonishingly beautiful backdrops, rich ”˜guests’ fulfil their fantasies as they interact with androids, known as ”˜hosts’. The producers’ take on this is that when humans are given this kind of freedom, they will stoop to the lowest forms of depravity. Not just sex, but rape. Not just murder, but torture.
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(LICC) Richard Collins–Lust for power?
If you could live out your deepest, darkest fantasies, what would you do? Who would you become?
That’s a question explored in Westworld, a TV reincarnation of Michael Crichton’s 1973 movie, in which rich customers visit a Western-styled theme park filled with humanoid androids. In the original film, Yul Brynner starred as a malfunctioning robot whose relentless pursuit of his victims made for compelling viewing. The TV show, which debuted this month, is equally enthralling and not simply because the updated CGI is breath-taking. The storyline has also been described as ”˜sinister and spectacular’.
Against astonishingly beautiful backdrops, rich ”˜guests’ fulfil their fantasies as they interact with androids, known as ”˜hosts’. The producers’ take on this is that when humans are given this kind of freedom, they will stoop to the lowest forms of depravity. Not just sex, but rape. Not just murder, but torture.
Read it all.