Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!These two can be covered quickly.
"THX 1138" and "Robocop" are the week after next! How did I get that wrong?!?
Luckily, this week is "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and "Westworld," and I don't see any side movies through the week (well, the wild wild movie "The Wild Wild Planet" features people put under mind control along with other, odder, biological changes).
"The Day the Earth Stood Still" is based on the short story "Farewell to the Master" by Harry Bates. An alien and robot visitor land their spaceship in Washington, D.C., hijinx ensue. One aspect of the story not brought over is that the robot is themaster of their society... or was that fact just hidden in the movie?
"Westworld" is an extension of Disneylands's audio-animatronics. I haven't been to the 21st Century parks of Harry Potter of Star Wars, I don't know how immersive they really are, but I get the impression they still rely a lot on what Disney calls "cast members." Westworld replaces a lot of that with robots, although it's still not cheap -- $1000 a day in pre-'70s-inflation money (although it's set in 1983).
There is a bit of discussion on how to tell a robot, which, as I saw this movie is a schoolkid, I tended to think of as schoolyard rumormongering. The guy pouring drinks in a saloon for five hours is probably a robot, although I wouldn't be too sureabout the guy pounding out horseshoes in the blacksmith's shop. (There are conceivably guests on either side of a bank robbery shootout. On either side of a saloon girl encounter?) The idea that the guns won't fire on anything with a body temperature
easier to believe you've missed another guest rather than that your gun has a firing failure rate more appropriate to Musketworld. Still, for the story, there's a need for the gun to actually fire. For the story... What if the adventure we saw WASthe park experience for our hero? Bought by his friend (who included a death scene for himself) as a cathartic experience of self-reliance? No, I guess we are shown too many "behind the scenes" activities our hero would have been unaware of for us to
The movie was framed in the '70s as "something has gone wrong" in the sense of an engineering problem. So realistic are the robots, however, that it's tempting to assign them the feelings we associate with the programmed actions they are going through.I hear the remake TV series is taking this path. The 1976 sequel "Futureworld" and the '80s TV series "Beyond Westworld" ignored this and assumed everything would go right, engineering-wise, and dealt with nefarious plans people with lifelike robots
Rate them: I had thought to rate Gort along the lines of the Robby the Robot idea of hiding the lines of the person in the robot suit. In this case, they got a human of greater than average size, Lock Martin, and put him in a suit. This is a goodtrick, and will be extrapolated on with amputees portraying the drones in "Silent Running" and a chimp inside the robotic dog suit in "Battlestar Galactica." However, I can't rank these all together. The fact is that I can find it easier to believe in
I don't know about splitting the hairs of the incredibly lifelike androids that fall between 0 and 0.1. These get points for having a reason to be lifelike, and a couple of storytelling tricks: one is that we are told there are "tells," obviousdifferences between androids and actors pretending to be androids, and we are shown they are machines, disassembled, or at least with the faceplate off. In "Futureworld" one of the workmen has made an assistant out of a spare android. It, Clark (played
Well, that covers this Saturday, next Saturday is already covered. I may type something else up next week.--
On Fri, 7 Oct 2022 08:02:31 -0700 (PDT), Jack Bohn wrote:master of their society... or was that fact just hidden in the movie?
"The Day the Earth Stood Still" is based on the short story "Farewell to the Master" by Harry Bates. An alien and robot visitor land their spaceship in Washington, D.C., hijinx ensue. One aspect of the story not brought over is that the robot is the
If by "hidden" you mean "not present at all", then yes, it was.
Indeed, given their characterization as all-powerful policemen, having
them in charge would have been seen as a robot revolt.
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