goose Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Inspired by Babycat, the Westworld SuperFan, it's time to roll up and pay homage to this sci-fi classic!!! Don't be afraid...remember, nothing can go wrong...go wrong....go wrong... http://www.filmdivider.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/westworld-control.jpg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleMoon Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I remember seeing this when it came out in theaters but I don't think I've seen it since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babycat Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 "I don't know what to do if the stagecoach is late". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted April 13, 2015 Author Share Posted April 13, 2015 Chief Supervisor: We aren't dealing with ordinary machines here. These are highly complicated pieces of equipment....Almost as complicated as living organisms. In some cases, they have been designed by other computers. We don't know exactly how they work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babycat Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Peter Martin: John... John... are these girls machines? John Blane: Now how can you say a thing like that? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted April 13, 2015 Author Share Posted April 13, 2015 Michael Crichton wrote the screenplay and directed the movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted April 13, 2015 Author Share Posted April 13, 2015 Get this boy a bib. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted April 13, 2015 Author Share Posted April 13, 2015 Westworld was the first feature film to use digital image processing, to pixellate photography to simulate an android point of view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babycat Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 It was said that MGM, the studio that made Westworld, had a rather bad reputation among filmmakers, including Stanley Kubrick who made The Shining. There were a lot of "unreasonable pressure, arbitrary script changes, inadequate post-production and cavalier recutting of the final film". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babycat Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 The budget was a problem in 1972: $500,000, which might not seem so bad, but there were a lot of factors in this: nearly a hundred people working on every part of the movie: lighting, costumes, transportation, etc, not to mention some expensive actors. So the budget, based on a six-week filming schedule, had to be reluctantly increased by an extra $250,000. The latest extra money went on the cast salaries. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babycat Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Michael Crichton wrote the screenplay and directed the movie. He was also responsible for The Terminal Man and The Andromeda Strain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted April 13, 2015 Author Share Posted April 13, 2015 What ever happened to the plan to re-make Westworld as an HBO mini-series? http://variety.com/2013/tv/news/hbo-gives-pilot-nod-to-westworld-remake-from-jonathan-nolan-j-j-abrams-1200593476/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted April 13, 2015 Author Share Posted April 13, 2015 http://filmschoolrejects.com/news/ed-harris-cast-in-westworld.php An update on my own question: Ed Harris as "The Man in Black"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babycat Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 What ever happened to the plan to re-make Westworld as an HBO mini-series? http://variety.com/2013/tv/news/hbo-gives-pilot-nod-to-westworld-remake-from-jonathan-nolan-j-j-abrams-1200593476/ I've heard of this: as far as I know, it was still going to be made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted April 13, 2015 Author Share Posted April 13, 2015 More on the remake... http://www.ew.com/article/2015/01/23/jonathan-nolan-westworld I actually stumbled across a 3-second teaser as well, on the YouTube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babycat Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 http://filmschoolrejects.com/news/ed-harris-cast-in-westworld.php An update on my own question: Ed Harris as "The Man in Black"? Interesting thought. Did you know Arnold Schwarzenegger was considered for a movie remake? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted April 13, 2015 Author Share Posted April 13, 2015 http://filmschoolrej...n-westworld.php An update on my own question: Ed Harris as "The Man in Black"? Interesting thought. Did you know Arnold Schwarzenegger was considered for a movie remake?That makes sense, from an action star standpoint. However...I can't see him as a cowboy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babycat Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 These are what I own. My book:http://i879.photobucket.com/albums/ab352/Babycat4/20150413_052335-1.jpg And my collection:http://i879.photobucket.com/albums/ab352/Babycat4/20150413_052810-1.jpg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babycat Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 http://filmschoolrej...n-westworld.php An update on my own question: Ed Harris as "The Man in Black"? Interesting thought. Did you know Arnold Schwarzenegger was considered for a movie remake?That makes sense, from an action star standpoint. However...I can't see him as a cowboy.Neither can I. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babycat Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 A fascinating thought about the robots in question, though it may be just me, is the fictional aspect of them, that they're highly complex machines, built by other machines that are even more complicated than the robots created specifically for the resort. Take a look at Futureworld (1976), another resort built up to replace the first one: it's more or less admitted that they don't know what happened to the robots and why they went postal. You would've thought they'd known who the designer of the whole project was, everything. I guess they weren't privy to a lot of information. I could expand on my theory of what went wrong, if anyone's interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Jurassic Park is just Westworld with Dinosaurs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rushman14 Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 absolutely one of my favorite movies as a kid. The first Terminator. http://forsakenstars.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/4347511302_d680c54616.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babycat Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 absolutely one of my favorite movies as a kid. The first Terminator. http://forsakenstars.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/4347511302_d680c54616.jpg I agree. The movie had been described as the first Terminator; locks onto someone and relentlessly pursues them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnRogers Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 I studied filmmaking in college and consider my self a sci-fi geek but have never seen Westworld. For shame John Rogers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rushman14 Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 I studied filmmaking in college and consider my self a sci-fi geek but have never seen Westworld. For shame John Rogers. You should definitely be ashamed of yourself. When I was a kid it was playing in the theater as a double feature with http://chemtrailsplanet.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/soylent-green-poster.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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