The Westworld creators talk imagery, metaphor and nerdy details in season ones Blu ray special features…
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This feature containsWestworldseason one spoilers.
Many fan theories had been proved correct.
Nods to the 1973 film and to Michael Crichtonsotherfamous theme park story had all been exposed.
Its a great metaphor for what our hosts are going through, says Nolan.
4.Nolan and Joy asked the directors to withhold from using hand-held cameras throughout the season.
Theyre only used in the finale to coincide with and represent the hosts developing consciousness and coming alive.
We didnt want to make it pink, she says.
7.Thandie Newtons Mariposa costume is designed to display her as a sexual object and flaunt her curves.
They borrowed that image for the suspended Vitruvian man seen in the labs and in the opening credits.
12.The Vitruvian man was intended to symbolically represent both humans and hosts, says Lisa Joy.
Both are lashed to the wheel of a machine they dont fully understand, which controls their lives.
14.When Jonathan Nolan was a teenager, he worked on a dairy farm with 800 cattle.
His experience there influenced the storyline about the stray host wandering off and needing to be collected.
15.Melody Ranch Studio in Santa Clarita, CA, stands in for Sweetwater in the series.
TheWestworldteam added the Sweetwater train station set.
16.Elastic Studios, who designed the opening credits for Westworld, also designed the Game of Thrones opening credits.
Looking for a role for Ingrid, they decided to gender-swap and adapt the character for her.
26.Anthony Hopkins has some moves.
He describes the piano as the hosts great-great granddaddy.
31.The Player Piano we see in the Mariposa is actually playing those songs from a real paper piano roll.
35.The finales cemetery scene is a deliberate nod toThe Good, The Bad And The Uglys climactic cemetery sequence.
40.The face shown emerging from the white blood was filmed submerging into it, then played backwards.
41.Tessa Thompsons character, Charlotte Hale, was styled after young, ferocious Silicon Valley-style corporate power.
Thats the turning point for William to start to become the Man in Black.
47.The launch of Fords new narrative is essentially a trap, the showrunners explain.
50.That fight scene, says Jonathan Nolan, is just a taste of whats to come in season two.
Westworld season 1 is out on DVD and Blu-ray.