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Westworld by Michael Crichton Westworld by Michael Crichton Ebook Westworld currently available for review only, if you need complete ebook Westworld please fill out registration form to access in our databases Download here >> Paperback:::: 168 pages+++Publisher:::: Ishi Press (April 4, 2017)+++Language:::: English+++ISBN-10:::: 4871872599+++ISBN-13:::: 978- 4871872591+++Product Dimensions::::5 x 0.4 x 8 inches++++++ ISBN10 4871872599 ISBN13 978-4871872 Download here >> Description: This is the original screenplay of Westworld as it was just two days before actual shooting began. Before this, there had been many cuts, changes, additions and deletions over a period of months. Much can be learned about actual film making from reading this book. It is to be suggested to read the Forward by Former Story Editor Saul David and the introduction by Michael Chrichton at least twice, once before downloading and seeing the original film and then afterwards. Now it is said Westworld was ahead of its time in depicting the dangers of computers and automated systems. Now we can realize that when the ro I am not sure that the author Michael Chrichton even realized what he had done here. He says that his goal was merely to provide “entertainment”. We now understand that the robots in the movie are breaking down because of a virus or a bug in the system. The guests are paying and coming to Westworld to experience life as it was in the days of Pompeii before it was destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, or the Medieval World of the 13th Century or the Wild West of the 1880s. Now we know the robots start breaking down or malfunctioning that they are being hit with a programming bug or by a computer virus. In this and many other respects this movie used new technology and did things that had never been been done before. I am reviewing the “Ishi international press.” I have read every other Crichton novel and publication publically released to date and this is my last publication I have to finish to achieve that goal to be “all.” I have 60 pages to go to finish. Anyways what this is is a screenplay that was used when shooting began for the film, there are some differences between what is found in the screenplay and the movie. (Dialog when the gunslinger and Martin shoot out in the bar for example) These differences occurred due to the nature of what occurred during a budget crunched filming, editing by MGM and in general how actors changed what happened while filming. If you like the movie and want to know what was intended before it was shot, this book is for you. Even before this however there was more editing that occurred that’s different than the screenplay, though to my knowledge it is not publically available. 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