Mondwest, the film of Michael Crichton, was a fable of SF in which two friends immergeaient in the party Far West of the huge theme park futuristic, where humans have all rights : love, fight and even kill. Because the tourists were in this place for battling robots to ultra-sophisticated “that embodies” the precise roles and timed. Like the Killer in black (Yul Brynner), who was the joy of the guests. But a grain of sand détraquait this splendid machinery and triggered the revolt of the machines.
Redo Mondwest ? In the tv series ? The bet of Jonathan Nolan (the brother) and HBO was pretty damn risky. UFO retro-futuristic, the film seemed to be inadaptable. At the time, because he was the pure produced of an era (a little kitsch and vintage) but also because he had influenced dozens of head-works (from Terminator to Total Recall). Too much matrix.
We saw the driver and the result is intriguing, and incredibly slick – is a success. A fiction postmodern, coupled with a critical bent of the society of the spectacle where we go from the park to a center futuristic (designed way Apple’s app Store), which are designed the attractions and robots. There is talk of a new Game of Thrones, Deadwood of the future, the rebirth of HBO. But whatever it is, sixty minutes, Westworld managed to validate the incoryable buzz surrounding its release. We will return on this episode inaugural, but already hot, here’s five things that suggest that one is faced with a series event.
Westworld : the series will take the opposite course of the film
Ed Harris, great Man in black
How to replace Yul Brynner ? How to be as cool and lethal as the mysterious Gunslinger dressed in black ? It was the alpha and the omega of the original film. The killer. The machine. Cowboy metal, who came to fulfill his destiny. True ancestor of the Terminator (he was running through the last act of Mondwest like Schwarzy in T2) Brynner was a force of destruction and iconic, a block of revenge motivated by a mysterious mission. Here, it is Ed Harris who is wearing the black suit. Savagery placid, mouth pockmarked, silence, sneering. Perfect. He gives his character a little more relief than Brynner in the Crichton and his way of holding a gun is literally creepy. By his game dandy, it transforms especially the man in black character in shakespeare, fully aware of the codes of the piece that he plays, but firmly decided to explode. And then it has the best dialogue ; those who slam, like this, ” You know why it is even better than the real world ? Because the real world is just chaos. It is an accident. Here, all the details converge to something… “.
Robots to be true
It is clear from the (very nice) generic : if the series might be dominated by the perf of Ed Harris, the real issue are the robots, the inhabitants of the park. The film was centered on two guests and the Gunslinger. Westworld is going to visibly refocus his speech on the machines that become the heart of the device. It is around them (and particularly ofEvan Rachel Wood) that are the issues that make people angry and that his obsession with Jonathan Nolan since Memento : the abuse of power, loss of control, the different states of consciousness, hyper-connected world and the moral (or rather its absence). The robots are mainly the writer to dig a bit deeper into the themes of'Inception : the characters are pieces of a space of dream collectivisé and gradually become the mirror of the human. It was the coup of a casting capable of playing it. Evan Rachel Wood is heartbreaking (in the role of the android, who forgets every day what happened the day before), but Thandie Newton transcends the role of Maeve, owner of the brothel – the way she repeats certain phrases with the variations that illustrate the changes made to its software is impressive. James Marsden (cowboy lover), let’s say that it has never been as intense since… X-Men.
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impressive decor
Westworld does not lose time to give the measure of his ambition visual. On the contrary, Mondwest, which, from a graphical point of view, damn the aged, the design of the series is mind-boggling. A plan air of a canyon (great view of Utah) or a dolly shot in the main street of the park indicate very quickly the magnitude of the show. Colossal. Designed by Nathan Crowley, who has nominated the films of the brothers Nolan (whose trilogy the Dark Knight), sets westerniens are actually blowing. It is known that the production was long and complicated, but we understand why, when, stuck to the heels of Teddy Flood (James Mardsen), we scale the city. Everything is there : the dozens of prostitutes in corsets and lace, waiting in the mess ; the street, drowned of cowboys, horses and tourists, the hold-up in preparation…. There are more cowboy, colts, horse and stetsons dusty in the first 3 minutes of the show that in 20 seasons of the name of the law ! But this is not that show. Nolan (who directed the first episode) knows how to use his decor insurmountable. The staging plays on the repetitions or the previously-seen to transform the décor in a ” white page “. It has the force of re-” live ” in the same entry, entering the city in the same way, with the same characters, places of the park very quickly become anonymous ; they are places where one can choose to be who you are and where the past has neither taken nor importance. This was the concept of Deadwood, but pushed here to a level much more theoretical.
The music ? Way out West
For the film by Crichton, composer Fred Karlin signed a partition to half experimental flirtait with concrete music and jazz (ah… the guitar chords combining soul and country music, to the theme of the park). This is Ramin Djawadi (already at the wand on Game of Thrones), which has been entrusted to dress the series of HBO. His melodies are wonderful symphonic sparkling (we think a lot about Poledouris) where piercing yet melancholy. The sound, power, melodic, and this way strange, almost surreal, to produce instrumental versions of big pop hits (the version of "Paint it Black" by the Stones or "Black Hole Sun" of Soundgarden) create a slick sound that crazy. Look at the scene of the fight in the pilot where the cutting action wife note-for-note the music of Djawadi.
have A plan : the stage of the Park
Mondwest told the story of two humans who have come to take a little bit of fun In the original there was this incredible scene where Richard Benjamin and James Brolin are planted in front of the locker room and left their clothes from the 70′s to switch shirts and jeans, cowboy. A scene insignificant, which lasted 30 seconds, but spoke volumes about the transition between the real and the fake. In the pilot of the remake, it is a plan unheard of, to the graphics power striking, a half-second where it all happens – the scales, the value of the premises. A camera movement allows a kick-out of the park and takes us through a long-unzoom on the terrace of the centre in which are controlled, manufactured and repaired the robots. The park becomes a small model observed by the technicians or the designers of Westworld that become the olympians of this futuristic universe, of the gods capable of life or death over the “inhabitants” of this place of fun…
Westworld , which aired on HBO in the United States, arrives as early as tomorrow in France on OCS City at 21h50.
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