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{{quote|''Boy, have we got a vacation for you!''}}
''Westworld'' is a 1973 film by [[Michael Crichton]]. [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|In the near future]], the Delos resort offers simulations of the [[Wild West]], [[The Middle Ages|Medieval Britain]], and [[Ancient Rome]]. Each park has a population of [[Deceptively-Human Robots|robots]],
Two friends, John Blane (James Brolin) and Peter Martin (Richard Benjamin), arrive in Delos to get away from their busy lives. They head into Westworld, where John has been many times before, to have fun and act out various Western-themed scenarios. In particular, the mousy Peter [[A Real Man Is a Killer|earns his manhood]] by defeating the local gunslinger (Yul Brynner) in a
However, the technicians running the park are having problems. The robots break down faster than expected, the memory wipes are less effective, and they begin to resist the visitor's demands. [[Holodeck Malfunction|It is speculated that a computer virus has infected the machines, one that soon causes them to murder humans.]] Alarmed, the head engineer orders everything shut down immediately, but this only results in suffocating everyone in the control room to death (!). With the machines running amok, John and Peter discover the gunslinger has come after them, looking for revenge...
A sequel, 1976's ''Futureworld'', removes the original's giallo influences, being more akin to a sociopolitical thriller. The Delos resort has been revamped and re-opened, and a pair of [[Intrepid Reporter
Notably, Yul Brynner's "Gunslinger" shows up in ''Futureworld'', but only in a [[Dream Sequence]] and having absolutely no logical connection with the original character.
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* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: This movie was made long before the idea of a "computer virus" entered popular knowledge, yet they do refer to it as a "disease."▼
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* [[Amusement Park of Doom]]: Delos resort descends into one.
* [[Bar Brawl]]: John and Peter participate in a simulated one. It involves lots of broken [[Grievous Bottley Harm|bottles]] and [[Chairman of the Brawl|chairs]].
* [[The Cameo]]: Yul Brynner in ''Futureworld''.
* [[The Determinator]]:
** One could say Peter is too, seeing how he's been able to outrun, outsmart and outfight the Gunslinger.
* [[Diagonal Billing]]: Yul Brynner at lower left, Richard Benjamin at upper right.
* [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|Most of the guests and technicians in Delos are dead at the end, and most the robots
* [[Dream Sequence]]: In the sequel. Provides an excuse to revisit the Gunslinger character.
* [[Drink Order]]: They don't serve vodka martinis in Westworld, dummy.
* {{spoiler|[[Everybody's Dead, Dave]]}}: Only {{spoiler|Peter survives, and all other on-screen characters are confirmed or most likely dead.}}
* [[Girly Run]]: Peter. Not sure whether this is Richard Benjamin's natural gait or a deliberate way of invoking the character's effete, citified nature in contrast with the Gunslinger.
* [[Hero-Tracking Failure]]: Happens when the Gunslinger tries to shoot Peter with a rifle.
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