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       Westworld (2016)
   DIR By: Neumatic
       Date: August 9, 2015, 9:08 pm
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       First proper 30-second teaser for Westworld just dropped.  Looks
       pretty sweet.
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       Re: Westworld (2016)
   DIR By: Mac
       Date: August 10, 2015, 5:38 am
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       Whoa
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       Re: Westworld (2016)
   DIR By: Mac
       Date: June 20, 2016, 12:46 pm
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       New trailer dropped...
       ... and it looks very interesting.
  HTML https://youtu.be/eX3u0IlBBO4
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       Re: Westworld (2016)
   DIR By: Mac
       Date: August 30, 2016, 11:23 am
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       > American sci-fi novelist Philip K. Dick once wondered what
       androids dream about. HBO’s upcoming television series Westworld
       asks the question, “What happens after they wake up?”
       >
       > Judging by the show’s latest trailer, the answer appears to
       be, “Nothing good.”
       >
       > Based on the 1973 film of the same name, Westworld is about an
       American West-themed amusement park in which robots fulfill the
       every desire of the guests who pay to visit. Anthony Hopkins is
       perfectly cast as Dr. Robert Ford, the chief architect of
       Westworld, and Evan Rachel Wood plays Dolores, an android who
       discovers that her “life” is no life at all. The series was
       created by Jonathan Nolan (who co-wrote, with brother, the
       screenplays for The Prestige, The Dark Knight, and Interstellar)
       and produced in part by J.J. Abrams.
       >
       > In the original film (written and directed by Michael
       Crichton), the robots start misbehaving due to a virus in their
       software. In the HBO series, though, there’s no such technical
       malfunction. Rather, the robots work too well—they become
       self-aware and, encouraged by the sinister “Man in Black”
       (played by Ed Harris), some decide to retaliate against the
       humans controlling them.
       >
       > “No choice you ever made was your own,” the Man in Black says.
       “You have always been a prisoner. What if I told you, I’m here
       to set you free?”
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       New Trailer...
       Oct 2
  HTML https://youtu.be/IuS5huqOND4
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       > Artificial consciousness has been explored plenty of times
       before, in dozens of films like The Matrix, Blade Runner, 2001:
       A Space Odyssey (and, of course, the original Westworld), as
       well as TV series like Battlestar Galactica and Nolan’s own
       Person of Interest.
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       > But there’s never been a better time for a sweeping cable
       series devoted solely to the subject, just as our real-life
       technology is advancing to the point where we’ll soon have to
       grapple with these same questions: Is it ethical to create a
       sentient robot and force it to carry out our will? Does it have
       rights? What does it really mean to be human? Can that
       experience be replicated in a machine? What happens when the
       robots realize their “lives” are artificial?
       >
       > In the 1973 film version, the story’s primary point-of-view
       was that of the humans (those visiting the park); the HBO series
       will shift to the perspective of the robots. This isn’t just a
       story of robots run amok—the audience is meant to sympathize
       with these machines, most of which (or is it whom?) have never
       known a reality outside what their human masters have made for
       them. While the Man in Black’s methods may be extreme, perhaps
       he has a point. How would you feel if one day you discovered
       someone built you for the sole purpose of entertaining others?
       >
       > It seems the show will be, in large part, about the blurring
       of moral lines—just like another popular, high-concept HBO
       series that will soon go off the air. Westworld premieres on HBO
       Oct. 2.
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