Westworld
Westworld, written and directed by
Michael Crichton and released in
1973, was a seminal
science fiction movie starring
Yul Brynner as a malfunctioning
robotic Western movie-style gunslinger in a futuristic
amusement park where wealthy patrons vacation to
role-play their fantasies. The title refers to the name of one of the three themed parks in the movie. Brynner's character, a relentless, emotionless, uncompromising robot bent on the pursuit and destruction of his target foreshadows
Arnold Schwarzenegger's characters in
The Terminator series of movies.