Westworld (1973)
- Directed by
- Michael Crichton
- Genre
- dystopian film, Western film, horror film, action film, science fiction film, thriller film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 1,472 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Guests visit a futuristic amusement park where they interact with lifelike androids in a Western setting. The androids begin to malfunction and turn against the humans.
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What happens
Westworld is a 1973 American science fiction Western film written and directed by Michael Crichton. The film follows guests visiting an interactive amusement park containing lifelike androids that unexpectedly begin to malfunction. It stars Yul Brynner as an android in the amusement park, with Richard Benjamin and James Brolin as guests of the park. The film was from an original screenplay by Crichton and was his first theatrical film as director, after one TV film. It was also the first feature film to use digital image processing to pixellate photography to simulate an android point of view. Critical reception was largely positive at the time and in retrospective reviews. Westworld was nominated for Hugo, Nebula, and Saturn awards. Westworld was followed by a sequel, Futureworld (1976), and a short-lived television series, Beyond Westworld (1980). A second television series based on the film debuted in 2016 on HBO. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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