When I first heard HBO was remaking “Westworld,” I was confused.The hokey 1970s sci-fi/Western mashup best remembered for its gimmicky casting of a cowboy movie icon as a killer robot? Sorry pardner, you lost me.But as the new “Westworld,” reimagined by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, rides onto TV, I decided to give the 1973 original another shot. Like the fictional amusement park of the title, where lifelike robots service holidaymakers’ every desire, “Westworld” has a lot of levels. Saddle up with me to find out what it tells us about our world.We’ve avoided all but a few light spoilers for this 40-year-old movie, which is available to buy or stream on video on demand. The original “Westworld,” written and directed by Michael Crichton, stars James Brolin and Richard Benjamin as two tourists playing out a Wild West fantasy. Their rootin’-tootin’ vacation turns sour when an unexplained malfunction makes the robots turn on them and Benjamin’s character finds himself hunted by an implacable synthetic gunslinger. The black-clad marksman is played in fun meta fashion by Yul Brynner, the legendary lead in the seminal 1960 western “The Magnificent Seven.”For an apparently lightweight (and relatively low-budget) sci-fi movie, “Westworld” has been pretty… Read full this story
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