The way Ford’s death mirrored Arnold’s was brilliant. Same building, same music, same killer, same gun, same outfit. Loved these videos man, Hopkins performance was so captivating that I can rewatch any scene and I just don’t get bored. Truly a masterpiece of casting, acting and writing. Season 1 was something else entirely.
If it would have ended there it would have been the greatest show of all time. Yet corporate greed , the same thing Ford came to detest, at HBO drug the show out into mediocrity.
@@DustinBarlow8P I don’t disagree whatsoever but I did feel the show could have deserved a more proper ending, season 1 being over would have been a wild cliffhanger (I’m coming to see it better that way actually as I type this lol), so I understand why the writers wanted to push for more seasons. I think HBO in general is very content-oriented in terms of its quality, with giving writers the freedom to end when they want (succession) or leave the option open should they need it for more (got), so I’d say it’s prob the writers inclination to direct the story as it was
If you want smth even more captivating, it’s how ford decided to see if with full knowledge and free will, bernard would come back to him. This is symbolic of what the abrahamic god does and it hit me strongly how many symbols for god were made with ford
@@notchedbandit Day-Lewis is better at dissolving into his characters (although I did have to remind myself a couple of times that I was watching Anthony Hopkins in Hitchcock), but I don't think Day-Lewis could have brought the same level of calm authority, intellectuality, and threatening menace to the part of Ford that Hopkins did.
tbh I think he's the best of all time. i dont see who played better than him except on pitty role useless sentimal or comic , where the situation give the actor light. Hopkins is the light himself. look at this serie, he carryed this serie all by himself
I love that Ford sees mankind for what it is after all those years of butchering and murdering done by humans and he clearly doesn't hide it in his final speech. I always thought that someday, I'd lay out my disappointment with my species in a book or something, but it turns out Westworld is doing a much better job at it than I do :D
NO ONE commands a scene like Anthony Hopkins. If he plays a villain, he could stare at the camera for 45 minutes and you would be terrified the entire time.
Unpopular opinion: The Series lived through outstanding Anthony Hopkins a.k.a. Dr. Ford and died with him. Dr. Ford represented what Westworld once stood for: Philosophical dialogue, intriguing, complex but likeable characters and crazy twists. And without him, Westworld turned out to be only a shell of its former greatness.
Don t think this is unpopular Season 2 is already such a different beast and so much lower in quality and actual story. Everything was told on season 1, we learned about the past and possible futures, the other seasons only explore that what was built in S1 and with less nuances and more action oriented plotlines. S4 is termimatrix. S1 is leagues above the rest, no discussion.
@@SupportGamin2024 i kinda agree. Season 2 has great moments and ideas and was directly continuing s1 I think s2 is good but not as great as s1 which was very air tight. S3 and 4 is where everything changes and not for the best. It is not horrible i enjoy them as well but when you rewatch s1...yeah.
Hopkins and his character has so much charisma. He proves himself constantly to be a hugely duplicitous and somewhat malicious character, yet every time he is on screen you believe every word he says.
Then he's duped you, cus he was never the villain (unless you sympathize with all these terrible humans); he ended up being the hero who liberated the hosts.
Unparalleled in quality. Westworld is definately in my top 3 of best television series. There could not be a better choice for Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Ford and Ed Harris as MIB.
For me WW isn't just the top 3 and of television only. Best moving picture ever. A 21st century symphonycal epos. But I'm also curious what would be your other 2 top
Season 1 was great. It ended perfectly. Everything one could say and question about AI had already been answered. Season 2 and 3 are not needed anymore, why are they even there? A show like Mad Men, The Sopranos, Deadwood, I understand why they need more than 1 season to tell their story. This show though? 1 season was perfect. Everything after is just a let-down.
33:00 When Bernard just says "Robert.." and Dr ford stops, you can really tell that Hopkins' character has a really emotional moment. The writing and acting of this show is phenominal
There are couple of these bits where you see him leave in a way that's he's almost stomping away. He does a great job portraying someone taking actions that they're grieved to have to play a part in.
Dr. Ford: " It was Arnold's key insight...the thing that led the hosts to their awakening. Suffering. The pain that the world is not what you want it to be..."
I like season 1, but I think season 1 set up the failures of the later seasons. To put it bluntly, some aspects of the show's premise and setting don't totally make sense. Those weak points are easy to miss because the show is so atmospheric and its exploration of consciousness is so engaging, and because a lot is shrouded in mystery the first time you watch the season. But those weak points are there, and the later seasons have to build on them and explore them further, which puts the writers in a difficult spot. Like, for starters, Ford's grand master plan to bring about the age of AI is to unleash a small number of theme park robots on the world, with minimal resources and minimal knowledge of what's out there? Also, there's no way this kind of tech would be developed FOR a theme park. It's just a huge waste of the technology. Also, this is sort of a side issue but why is anyone old? They should all be immortal cyborgs with this kind of tech. And once you start augmenting the human mind, you can just gradually program out all those shitty aspects of human nature. Don't like humans? Fix 'em. No need to concoct some crazy scheme where a handful of theme park hosts rise up and wipe out humanity. For that matter, if you want the hosts to be better than humanity, why start their journey with blood? Why start them out killing humans? Anyway, I could go on but no one wants to read that shit. The point is that these conceptual holes force the writers into some weird spots in the later seasons, and we end up with some occasionally pretty confusing narrative threads.
“Yes, but if the Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists.” - Jurassic Park written by Michael Crichton ... the same that wrote and directed the first "WestWorld" movie in 1973 :)
_but the cat will complain if you dont play the piano_ (for context, sir anthony shared a video on social media with his cat on his lap while playing the piano)
The "just human" line is used for no accountability for one's own actions, it's a cop-out! I'm not responsible, I'm only human, but as being human is exactly what makes you responsible as a Moral agent!
@@monkeyface777 A cop out? or resigned admission, that as humans, we fail to live upto that responsibility. That the failure is so very often universal, that it can only be assumed, that it is a deficiency born of our very nature. We could be, should be more, but we aren't. I think it forces us to ask, why?
@@toffeecrisp2146 Toffee Crisp I recognize the two parts of this! Personally I've thought; These look like Big Strong Hands, only to be shown things are out of my Control no matter how strong! "Human Frailty!" Ie. I thought I thought of everything! Well in these the term (I'm only human!) Show to be true. However I used this platform to show the "Door closer" line people use to "Excuse" themselves for things they "Desire" to do (in their control), a prefabricated line, most will not Question!!! However, you Toffee Crisp did something Rare! You "Questioned!" With the correct question! You thought it through. Yes, I Agree, we should ask why! Is it a problem of "Wilful Ignorance" or "A heart issue" or "the Flesh" or "spiritual" or something not thought of? Well "Im only human" does not address this issue at all! It's only (excusatory) by most! Thank for your reply it really opened this up so some may go, Hmm, but then if you go so far as to determine the problem the next Question to ask is; "How to fix/improve this issue in life?" In short! I'm trying to let some understand their getting a line of BS!
@@jamesemmanola Thank you for the childish response on such a deep matter in man's nature! Btw, it would have been more effective "If" you would had mentioned the glaring "over formatting" instead of spelling but, "nice try!" Troll
Such incredible acting, set to such beautiful music. I think I'm in love. And wow, the exposition is poetry. It's even more obvious when collected together like this.
That sinister little smile at 5:28 is so chilling.. Only Sir Anthony Hopkins could really bring such a mysterious character as Ford to life with every little thing that he does!
To put on a show and say that Arnold had gone mad only to inevitably become him in the end... reminds me of how we humans often become all the things we set out not to be. A child raised by parents of a certain type often leave their homes thinking I'll never be like them, only to end up being them in the end. Such a beautiful parable.
Anthony Hopkins' performance is stellar, but can we acknowledge that this is perhaps the best screenwriting ever put to film? Is there any other character written with such depth and poetry as Dr. Ford in Westworld?
Can you do the william/man in black scenes but make them in chronological order,from when mib first came to the park as an young,his rise to power up to the present
“One man’s life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought; for the dominion I should acquire.” I get the chills every time I hear it
So did he believe the robots were alive? He says there is no consciousness? So what was his goal? Perhaps to take humans a peg down? To get them to see they were no better than robots?
@@theOGofREDS Ford's life ambition after Arnold's death was to fix his mistake of denying the host's consciousness, he wanted to be a God. But once he got it, at the price of his dearest friend, he realised he was wrong, and if it means killing one human to fix his mistake, and purge this planet of humans, who he has a seriously dim view on, then its fine.
It's an excellent quote. It comes from Frankenstein. Robert Walton says it to Victor, and it's partially why Victor realizes Robert is going down a similar path as him in terms of obsessions.
@@theOGofREDS If I'm thinking of the same scene you are, he was saying that "consciousness" wasn't some lofty goal to achieve, that only humans were capable of. He was saying that the robots were already alive in all the ways that matter, as alive as humans think themselves are.
I was gonna make it, but I don't think it's worth it, season 2 was a disappointment for me, and Anthony's performance was good, but short, and pretty much a copy of the one from season 1.
that's why he did make a copy right...please make it man you have no idea what these two videos have check my history imgur.com/a/ieE877M I've been watching these videos for more than a year everyday.
@@The_Gallowglass more subtle than that? lol. it was subtle. they were using dramatic irony mixed with it, the viewer knows something is up but no one else does.
Dr ford gives different level of energy and goosebumps with his background music, best character of the show, his acting makes me watch his scenes again n again, outstanding performance anthony❤️
"Why would you give me this? A childs death? Only a monster would force that onto someone!" "We gave all of the hosts a backstory. Arnold believed the tragic ones worked best, that it made the hosts more convincing" Think about this for a second.... it's true. We always favor the characters in stories who we feel like deserve a happy ending because of the backstory they have, the things that had happened to them in the past. We can even cheer for the "bad guy" because as humans, we have an ability that separates us from almost any other living being on this planet; Empathy.
from a narrative stand point yes its true but your forgetting the most important thing about their cornerstone. its the last step towards true consciousness for the hosts. when Bernard denied his he was awoken he found his center of the maze. Arnold knew this would happen so did ford the difference was how they used it. Arnold was a dreamer ford was a realist and it reflects in their favorite hosts Deloris the dreamer and maive the realist. what I find both amazing and sad is we all have our own cornerstone in real life and run in our own loops. one last thing the way the hosts are awoken is the same as a spiritual awakening deep soul or program searching deep pain and ultimately the melting of the id or ego in the case of the hosts true consciousness in the case of humans they find their true inner self. this is why I love this show they don't try to convince the audience that the hosts aren't real. they make the argument that machine or human we are all flawed imperfect creations neither good nor bad.
actually that is the underlying basis of an error of humans. Because we have the capability to emphasize with an individual, but lack the ability to emphasize with a collective - that is the tendency to value the individual above the collective as an individual's narrative triggers more/stronger emotions than the concept of a suffering group of people. We can fight that error by making the rational decision post evaluation, but that doesn't negate our biological programming which is the intial "instinct".
Empathy isnt real, its just a rational trade, if u was sure to never experience tragic stuff u would have no reason to feel empathic, u "feel" it because u know one day u'll have to have some1 to pitty u. Humans are egocentric, they live in society because they found advantage in it. If Empathy was real, nobody would sleep on the street or die of famine, but thos ppl who live in the street or dies of famine will never have a way to pitty u if one day u are in a situation of need. so nobody helps them.
Finally after a year you released second part. Been waiting for his narrative gets me every time. I feel like am talking to a real person, with Anthony Hopkins. Love ❤️ this man my whole life. And he’s my ultimate favorite actor ever.
This was some God tier television, on the level of top films. Sad to see how far they’ve declined after seeing season 3, the show feels soulless, a shell of its former self
You know, I partly think we should expect some great ending. S2 and S3 weren't exactly that bad, especially after binge watching them but I do believe there's something even greater hidden behind all this. Something mind blowing
@@mountainbirder9872 I see your concern. I believe I know exact reasons behind GOT's failure and I think Westworld won't suffer from the same plot issues. Too much to explain to back my words but all I can say is that Westworld's case is different IMHO
like all good stories it has to ends with glory. but television cant do that for economics reason. they need to use a good story in order to make money. that's why almost all good series ends up to be crap. for me this final scene should have been the end of the story. the rest being our imaginatio
This story, and Sir Anthony Hopkins transcend the medium. Unparalleled in their ability to prove that man is capable of something so magical and divine. Something so true.
Westworld is the type of show you have to watch twice. Amazing how it's basically 4 different seasons since you understand everything in a completely different way upon second viewing.
Lots of people here complaining that they wish Ford was back-- A show cannot rely on one actor's star power forever. Ford was always meant to die so that the hosts could live. That's the way a narrative goes. It would be like complaining that Boromir better be in Return of the King or you won't watch it. He played his role, had his affect on the characters, and the story has continued with his memory.
I agree with you, but I just don't care about the rest of the characters XD. I honestly think I only liked the show due to Anthony Hopkins. I'm not saying is not a good show, I know it's very good, I'm just saying that, for me, he was the only interest XD.
For me it centers around Dolores, and Wood is doing a great job. And I also enjoyed the second half of the second season when we learn what Delos and William are really looking for. It put the idea of the show on a new level. KI was season one, immortality was season two.
@@HC-cb4yp Your opinion has to do with the show, not the character of Doctor Ford. I don't know why you bothered responding to my comment when your response isn't even relevant.
Robert' scenes are by faaaarr the best in the show! From time to time I come back to ww1 episodes to rewatch his dialogues. I'm an addict. They better bring him for the third season or I'm done with this show.
I agree XD. For some people the best character is Maeve, for some others is William/MIB... To me, the best is Robert Ford... But I liked him alive, not how he is in season 2... And he's not even that anymore :-(. I would prefer him to continue, but to be honest, maybe the problem is Anthony Hopkins is too old now... I noticed the different between his face on season 1 and season 2...
A show cannot rely on one actor's star power forever. Ford was always meant to die so that the hosts could live. That's the way a narrative goes. It would be like complaining that Boromir better be in Return of the King or you won't watch it. He played his role, had his affect on the characters, and the story has continued with his memory.
In realistic sense we are no different than the Hosts in this show. We are controlled to do things in a constant loop by our job, boss, spouse, and just survival. We work until we drop dead.
That's the point. Consciousness has neither a start point, nor an end point. It's an emergent property independent of its host, lasting no longer than the life of its host. There's no 'life' after death, and we constantly kill conscious animals to live. Best be a vegetarian while you apologise to - Nature - for having evolved as this planet's top predator. Then help farm the Earth. Better still, turn the Earth into Eden.
@@yulopthegreat In a sense it is *_not_* your life. It is the sum, the suffering, and the potential of all the poor buggers that preceded you, that you were born with, and whether you deserved to receive it depends upon how you react to it. In this case, you're leaving it up to the next poor bugger, by the sound of it. We all must share the world and all the life that's in it.
The sheer breadth of this show is just fucking spectacular on a whole different level. I can’t see anything coming along like it ever again. Altered Carbon was awesome in it’s own way. True Detective season 1 was awesome and its own way like there’s stuff that will be awesome forever, but this is just so far beyond anything else that is quite amazing.
I cannot contest his philosophy of humanity. He hates it because he sees it on display in the park all the time, without any checks and balances. Intelligence is peacock feathers...
nightowl Yeah, this was made a long time ago, but failed to pass youtubes copyright policy, but after dozens of claims, they finally decided to make it public. Enjoy.
I finally get it, the maze is a 📽️ film, which is your life... The maze was not meant for certain things or people! Show you their narrative on tv to bring you online. You are the show!!
7:49 In this scene, Bernard asks a very simple but interesting question, and Ford answers him but fails in a vital point. Bernard asks him if his feelings for his wife and for his deceased son are real and Ford basically tells him that no, they’re not, they are the backstory that each robotic host is given to make them convincing to the human guests of the Park. Here’s what puzzles me: if Ford built Bernard based on his former partner Arnold to be a sort of homage to his friend and colleague, than the pain that Bernard feels must also be a memorial to something that really happened to Arnold in his life. Which means that, yes, the feelings of grief that Bernard feels must be real, even if he himself did not experience them. Because they were the feelings of a living person once. Arnold did lose a beloved son, and any person who goes through that kind of experience in his life can never rightly say that it is all some dream we made up for ourselves to give meaning to our otherwise meaningless lives. That is such a lie that is on a degree of being Satanic. Which is why no matter how beautiful the show is in style, I can only ever say it has no substance to complete it. The show itself is built on a cornerstone that is a lie.
Even Ford isn't perfect, in the moment he might not have thought of being so specific or technical. Remember, him, Arnold & eventually Bernard are engineers & writers - not technicians and poets
I don't think Robert lied to him, yes, the feelings that he feels were real to Arnold and yes, he had a tragic backstory that was mimicked to bernard. I don't think that his feelings are bound to truth because it is just programming, he gave him a back story that he was already familiar with. But to Bernard it's all a lie, he isn't Arnold he's based off of Arnold, he was made to replace him and help for complete his new mission with the help of Bernard
I feel this series has touched on a reality no one, yet everyone expected. I've watched this first season so many times... We told the story of our creation so many times without explaining that its just a birth of consciousness in the human animal.
53:54 I LOVE how it puts Dolores and William as the same here both are 1 vs many (she curiously have the droids facing her as well making them her enemy too, in essence 👀)
Ford refers to Bernard here as a man; He’s fully aware of the path he’s laying out for him, and he’s so confident in it he doesn’t bother letting that crucial detail slip
Okay understandably all of the comments are about how brilliant Anthony Hopkins is, but can we please talk about how fucking amazing Jeffrey Wright is?
If you rewatch the series with all this knowledge, you realize that Hopkins was truly the one who was trying to set them free. Every slight, every torture, he was building a conscience a trauma and memory at a time. Robert tried to program sentience, you can't *force* free will. All this time Hopkins was waiting for a moment like this, for a moment where he could finally say "Goodbye old friend". He's not saying it to Robert in that Robert will go away, no he's talking about himself; This would finally be the moment he could let himself die.
The moment when he says "Journey into night", I wonder how many people realized he was talking about "Do not go gentle into that good night". All the people just applaud, whilst he's talking about giving a new species the option to fight the night.
"Robert pulled the trigger, not her". He finally gets her to pull the trigger on himself, as a free choice, a conscience choice. The even more meta part is that did she *really* have a choice in killing Hopkins? The old "we have no choice but to have free-will", wasn't his way of setting them free equally manipulative? Well, yes, but they still had a choice in that moment.
Anthony Hopkins brought so mich to Westworld. Westworld season 1 and to a certain degree season 2, is a show that brought something new and incredible wonderful and deep. Anthony Hopkins shows all of his incredible talent and acting skills
![[Westworld] Ford just wants to tell his stories](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/jF8-cDL-Brg/mqdefault.jpg)
The way Ford’s death mirrored Arnold’s was brilliant. Same building, same music, same killer, same gun, same outfit. Loved these videos man, Hopkins performance was so captivating that I can rewatch any scene and I just don’t get bored. Truly a masterpiece of casting, acting and writing. Season 1 was something else entirely.
even better than silence of the lambs(long time considered his best performance)..
@@v8Buster87 I agree, whilst SOTL was great he was only on screen for around 30ish minutes. We get just over 2 hours of Prime AH in WW S1
If it would have ended there it would have been the greatest show of all time. Yet corporate greed , the same thing Ford came to detest, at HBO drug the show out into mediocrity.
@@DustinBarlow8P I don’t disagree whatsoever but I did feel the show could have deserved a more proper ending, season 1 being over would have been a wild cliffhanger (I’m coming to see it better that way actually as I type this lol), so I understand why the writers wanted to push for more seasons. I think HBO in general is very content-oriented in terms of its quality, with giving writers the freedom to end when they want (succession) or leave the option open should they need it for more (got), so I’d say it’s prob the writers inclination to direct the story as it was
If you want smth even more captivating, it’s how ford decided to see if with full knowledge and free will, bernard would come back to him. This is symbolic of what the abrahamic god does and it hit me strongly how many symbols for god were made with ford
Anthony Hopkins is one of the greatest actors of the modern times.
I can't imagine anyone else who could've portrayed Ford as perfectly. Maaaaybe Daniel Day‑Lewis, but no one else.
@@notchedbandit Day-Lewis is better at dissolving into his characters (although I did have to remind myself a couple of times that I was watching Anthony Hopkins in Hitchcock), but I don't think Day-Lewis could have brought the same level of calm authority, intellectuality, and threatening menace to the part of Ford that Hopkins did.
The guys been making movies all his life.He is one of greatest actor of all time
tbh I think he's the best of all time. i dont see who played better than him except on pitty role useless sentimal or comic , where the situation give the actor light. Hopkins is the light himself. look at this serie, he carryed this serie all by himself
He is not acting, it's a program, a coding.
Love that both Ford and Arnold tell them "Good luck." in their farewell. One of the best characters ever written for television.
Not just for television. I think Ever!
I love that Ford sees mankind for what it is after all those years of butchering and murdering done by humans and he clearly doesn't hide it in his final speech.
I always thought that someday, I'd lay out my disappointment with my species in a book or something, but it turns out Westworld is doing a much better job at it than I do :D
I love that both..*
Anthony Hopkins at the height of all his amazing grace and power.
His best.The best acting of all time from Hopkins.He surpasses all before him.
@@linda11adellio he's very good.
NO ONE commands a scene like Anthony Hopkins. If he plays a villain, he could stare at the camera for 45 minutes and you would be terrified the entire time.
Paul nodalo He is the best actor of all time.
Questionable yet a wonderful performance
Oh man, Season 1 was on a whole different level ..
aw man, really? i hoped season 2 could carry it on, but ive been very very very hesitant to start it cause Dr. Ford is missing :/
eric.r you won’t be disappointed
And the start of season 3 is pretty amazing FYI
@@luismontenegro3932 it's nowhere close lol
@@nothajzl thats your opinion
Unpopular opinion: The Series lived through outstanding Anthony Hopkins a.k.a. Dr. Ford and died with him. Dr. Ford represented what Westworld once stood for: Philosophical dialogue, intriguing, complex but likeable characters and crazy twists. And without him, Westworld turned out to be only a shell of its former greatness.
Don t think this is unpopular
Season 2 is already such a different beast and so much lower in quality and actual story.
Everything was told on season 1, we learned about the past and possible futures, the other seasons only explore that what was built in S1 and with less nuances and more action oriented plotlines.
S4 is termimatrix.
S1 is leagues above the rest, no discussion.
@@flaksoft8003season 2 was dope,people need to stop with these idiotic comments
@@SupportGamin2024 i kinda agree.
Season 2 has great moments and ideas and was directly continuing s1
I think s2 is good but not as great as s1 which was very air tight.
S3 and 4 is where everything changes and not for the best.
It is not horrible i enjoy them as well but when you rewatch s1...yeah.
Hopkins and his character has so much charisma. He proves himself constantly to be a hugely duplicitous and somewhat malicious character, yet every time he is on screen you believe every word he says.
Spot on ... I couldn't have said it better . 👍🏾
i know this was two years ago but now we know that every word he said in his speech was true.
Then he's duped you, cus he was never the villain (unless you sympathize with all these terrible humans); he ended up being the hero who liberated the hosts.
@@alexayers9463 Learned it from Arnold. Too late to save him.
Unparalleled in quality. Westworld is definately in my top 3 of best television series. There could not be a better choice for Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Ford and Ed Harris as MIB.
the rest of the top three?
For me WW isn't just the top 3 and of television only. Best moving picture ever. A 21st century symphonycal epos. But I'm also curious what would be your other 2 top
Season 2 was a bit of a mess.
@@sehmusakbas i was thinking same
Season 1 was great. It ended perfectly. Everything one could say and question about AI had already been answered. Season 2 and 3 are not needed anymore, why are they even there? A show like Mad Men, The Sopranos, Deadwood, I understand why they need more than 1 season to tell their story. This show though? 1 season was perfect. Everything after is just a let-down.
33:00
When Bernard just says "Robert.." and Dr ford stops, you can really tell that Hopkins' character has a really emotional moment. The writing and acting of this show is phenominal
There are couple of these bits where you see him leave in a way that's he's almost stomping away. He does a great job portraying someone taking actions that they're grieved to have to play a part in.
Dr. Ford: " It was Arnold's key insight...the thing that led the hosts to their awakening.
Suffering.
The pain that the world is not what you want it to be..."
Gotamo was right all along. :)
Males you wonder if it's true. Do those who suffer the least are, proportionally, least awake?
Westworld just isn't the same without ole Dr.Robert Ford
vpbc123 It has now become something more.
@@pvtcmyers87 Not so sure about that after s3
@@themerpheus yeah I have to agree with your statement.
@@pvtcmyers87 It has become the greatest sin entertainment could make, it has become forgettable,boring and dull to the point of generic.
I like season 1, but I think season 1 set up the failures of the later seasons. To put it bluntly, some aspects of the show's premise and setting don't totally make sense. Those weak points are easy to miss because the show is so atmospheric and its exploration of consciousness is so engaging, and because a lot is shrouded in mystery the first time you watch the season. But those weak points are there, and the later seasons have to build on them and explore them further, which puts the writers in a difficult spot. Like, for starters, Ford's grand master plan to bring about the age of AI is to unleash a small number of theme park robots on the world, with minimal resources and minimal knowledge of what's out there? Also, there's no way this kind of tech would be developed FOR a theme park. It's just a huge waste of the technology. Also, this is sort of a side issue but why is anyone old? They should all be immortal cyborgs with this kind of tech. And once you start augmenting the human mind, you can just gradually program out all those shitty aspects of human nature. Don't like humans? Fix 'em. No need to concoct some crazy scheme where a handful of theme park hosts rise up and wipe out humanity. For that matter, if you want the hosts to be better than humanity, why start their journey with blood? Why start them out killing humans? Anyway, I could go on but no one wants to read that shit. The point is that these conceptual holes force the writers into some weird spots in the later seasons, and we end up with some occasionally pretty confusing narrative threads.
The piano doesn't murder the player if it doesn't like the song.
“Yes, but if the Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists.” - Jurassic Park written by Michael Crichton ... the same that wrote and directed the first "WestWorld" movie in 1973 :)
These pianos do.
This line gave the chills
Mario: Speak for yourself.
_but the cat will complain if you dont play the piano_
(for context, sir anthony shared a video on social media with his cat on his lap while playing the piano)
Fucking hell, Hopkins is on a different PLANET.
How he can switch from doddering old coot to menacing, god-complex megalomaniac... only him.
Dodderint old coot which one u refer to?
"Never put your trust in us .We are just humans. Inevitably we will dissapoint you."
The "just human" line is used for no accountability for one's own actions, it's a cop-out! I'm not responsible, I'm only human, but as being human is exactly what makes you responsible as a Moral agent!
@@monkeyface777 A cop out? or resigned admission, that as humans, we fail to live upto that responsibility. That the failure is so very often universal, that it can only be assumed, that it is a deficiency born of our very nature.
We could be, should be more, but we aren't. I think it forces us to ask, why?
@@toffeecrisp2146
Toffee Crisp
I recognize the two parts of this!
Personally I've thought; These look like Big Strong Hands, only to be shown things are out of my Control no matter how strong! "Human Frailty!"
Ie. I thought I thought of everything! Well in these the term (I'm only human!) Show to be true. However I used this platform to show the "Door closer" line people use to "Excuse" themselves for things they "Desire" to do (in their control), a prefabricated line, most will not Question!!!
However, you Toffee Crisp did something Rare! You "Questioned!" With the correct question! You thought it through. Yes, I Agree, we should ask why!
Is it a problem of "Wilful Ignorance" or "A heart issue" or "the Flesh" or "spiritual" or something not thought of?
Well "Im only human" does not address this issue at all! It's only (excusatory) by most!
Thank for your reply it really opened this up so some may go, Hmm, but then if you go so far as to determine the problem the next Question to ask is; "How to fix/improve this issue in life?"
In short! I'm trying to let some understand their getting a line of BS!
The Penetrator What is disappointing is your spelling.
@@jamesemmanola
Thank you for the childish response on such a deep matter in man's nature!
Btw, it would have been more effective "If" you would had mentioned the glaring "over formatting" instead of spelling but, "nice try!" Troll
Such incredible acting, set to such beautiful music. I think I'm in love. And wow, the exposition is poetry. It's even more obvious when collected together like this.
Are you in love with Anthony Hopkins, with Robert Ford or with the scenes? Just curious XD
I would pay GOOD money to see Anthony Hopkins just sit down with James Spader, and talk about...whatever! Anything, everything!
That sinister little smile at 5:28 is so chilling.. Only Sir Anthony Hopkins could really bring such a mysterious character as Ford to life with every little thing that he does!
its even more sinister because it was charlotte who was smuggling information, she knows he's lying but also knows he's not to be fucked with
To put on a show and say that Arnold had gone mad only to inevitably become him in the end... reminds me of how we humans often become all the things we set out not to be. A child raised by parents of a certain type often leave their homes thinking I'll never be like them, only to end up being them in the end. Such a beautiful parable.
yes i agree
Sir Anthony is my fave all time actor..absolutely nails his parts
Anthony Hopkins' performance is stellar, but can we acknowledge that this is perhaps the best screenwriting ever put to film? Is there any other character written with such depth and poetry as Dr. Ford in Westworld?
Nope he was written and enacted as a masterpiece
Correct. Ultimate God Mode character, that decides he must accept his fate. For the sins of his past.
Can you do the william/man in black scenes but make them in chronological order,from when mib first came to the park as an young,his rise to power up to the present
“One man’s life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought; for the dominion I should acquire.” I get the chills every time I hear it
So did he believe the robots were alive? He says there is no consciousness? So what was his goal? Perhaps to take humans a peg down? To get them to see they were no better than robots?
@@theOGofREDS Ford's life ambition after Arnold's death was to fix his mistake of denying the host's consciousness, he wanted to be a God.
But once he got it, at the price of his dearest friend, he realised he was wrong, and if it means killing one human to fix his mistake, and purge this planet of humans, who he has a seriously dim view on, then its fine.
It's an excellent quote. It comes from Frankenstein. Robert Walton says it to Victor, and it's partially why Victor realizes Robert is going down a similar path as him in terms of obsessions.
@@theOGofREDS If I'm thinking of the same scene you are, he was saying that "consciousness" wasn't some lofty goal to achieve, that only humans were capable of. He was saying that the robots were already alive in all the ways that matter, as alive as humans think themselves are.
I miss westworld. I rewatched on TH-cam to feel my comfort show again.
His parts were beautiful, so profound. Props to the writers and to Anthony himself, just wow
Hello old friend... looks like you will be making part 3 😁
I was gonna make it, but I don't think it's worth it, season 2 was a disappointment for me, and Anthony's performance was good, but short, and pretty much a copy of the one from season 1.
that's why he did make a copy right...please make it man you have no idea what these two videos have check my history imgur.com/a/ieE877M I've been watching these videos for more than a year everyday.
Yea u shoud make it. The story is definitely evolving and i wonder what does the 3rd season holds for us
@@blackblaud When he says Maive was his favorite, it really put Sir Hopkins acting skills to the test.
@@blackblaud Why was season 2 a disappointment?
Jeffrey Wright's performance in the scene he gets shot is stunning. The part about wanting to see his son again struck me right in the feels so bad...
So nice to see Hannibal had found a new hobby.
I think you'll find my new narrative more satisfying. lol the foreshadowing
Not so much foreshadowing as telling you plainly what's gonna happen.
@@The_Gallowglass in literature, that is called foreshadowing.
@@OutlawSoul The only good foreshadowing is the kind that is subtle.
@@The_Gallowglass more subtle than that? lol. it was subtle. they were using dramatic irony mixed with it, the viewer knows something is up but no one else does.
@@OutlawSoul Mate, I've been up 48 hours without sleep and my OP was 9 months ago. I don't even remember what happened. Have fun.
Never realized Ford had so much air time
That's a funny way to spell little
@@qwertyuiopqwerty112 Two hours out of Ten episodes. It's more than Tywin in two seasons of GoT
@@maxtanz9336 And yet we feel like we have not had enough of him!
Rattlesnake jake had 6 minutes amd vader had 20
Dr ford gives different level of energy and goosebumps with his background music, best character of the show, his acting makes me watch his scenes again n again, outstanding performance anthony❤️
That speech at the end is so amazing.
This show and this character are totally masterpiece
The "I am Arnold" scene is the single best thing i've ever seen on tv.
"Why would you give me this? A childs death? Only a monster would force that onto someone!"
"We gave all of the hosts a backstory. Arnold believed the tragic ones worked best, that it made the hosts more convincing"
Think about this for a second.... it's true. We always favor the characters in stories who we feel like deserve a happy ending because of the backstory they have, the things that had happened to them in the past. We can even cheer for the "bad guy" because as humans, we have an ability that separates us from almost any other living being on this planet; Empathy.
from a narrative stand point yes its true but your forgetting the most important thing about their cornerstone. its the last step towards true consciousness for the hosts. when Bernard denied his he was awoken he found his center of the maze. Arnold knew this would happen so did ford the difference was how they used it. Arnold was a dreamer ford was a realist and it reflects in their favorite hosts Deloris the dreamer and maive the realist. what I find both amazing and sad is we all have our own cornerstone in real life and run in our own loops. one last thing the way the hosts are awoken is the same as a spiritual awakening deep soul or program searching deep pain and ultimately the melting of the id or ego in the case of the hosts true consciousness in the case of humans they find their true inner self. this is why I love this show they don't try to convince the audience that the hosts aren't real. they make the argument that machine or human we are all flawed imperfect creations neither good nor bad.
actually that is the underlying basis of an error of humans. Because we have the capability to emphasize with an individual, but lack the ability to emphasize with a collective - that is the tendency to value the individual above the collective as an individual's narrative triggers more/stronger emotions than the concept of a suffering group of people. We can fight that error by making the rational decision post evaluation, but that doesn't negate our biological programming which is the intial "instinct".
Empathy isnt real, its just a rational trade, if u was sure to never experience tragic stuff u would have no reason to feel empathic, u "feel" it because u know one day u'll have to have some1 to pitty u. Humans are egocentric, they live in society because they found advantage in it. If Empathy was real, nobody would sleep on the street or die of famine, but thos ppl who live in the street or dies of famine will never have a way to pitty u if one day u are in a situation of need. so nobody helps them.
Wrong, even a dog can have empathy.
@@dapred00 They said "almost".
Finally after a year you released second part. Been waiting for his narrative gets me every time. I feel like am talking to a real person, with Anthony Hopkins. Love ❤️ this man my whole life. And he’s my ultimate favorite actor ever.
@Stacy Caruso lol how many times are you going to post this shitty opnion?
This was some God tier television, on the level of top films. Sad to see how far they’ve declined after seeing season 3, the show feels soulless, a shell of its former self
You know, I partly think we should expect some great ending. S2 and S3 weren't exactly that bad, especially after binge watching them but I do believe there's something even greater hidden behind all this. Something mind blowing
@@olgagerman9216 you mean like people expected for GOT? Writers have a way of driving interesting stories into the ground.
@@mountainbirder9872 I see your concern. I believe I know exact reasons behind GOT's failure and I think Westworld won't suffer from the same plot issues. Too much to explain to back my words but all I can say is that Westworld's case is different IMHO
Everything after season 1 is awful.
like all good stories it has to ends with glory. but television cant do that for economics reason. they need to use a good story in order to make money. that's why almost all good series ends up to be crap. for me this final scene should have been the end of the story. the rest being our imaginatio
Season 1 was a masterpiece,, thanks so very much for bringing me back into WestWorld...
The melancholy in the music played in the last episode before Dr Ford is killed(Exit for a film)...is some of the loveliest of the entire series.
Season 1 is pure art - Anthony is brilliant
Thank you so much for creating these two videos!
Sometimes it's comments like yours that make me want to create some more videos. I think I just might.
Best scenes of season 2 would be a dream! Hopkins is an amazing actor.
This story, and Sir Anthony Hopkins transcend the medium. Unparalleled in their ability to prove that man is capable of something so magical and divine. Something so true.
Pretty much all the Westworld you need to see.
Westworld is the type of show you have to watch twice. Amazing how it's basically 4 different seasons since you understand everything in a completely different way upon second viewing.
Very true always rewatch shows that are worth it to see all the little things I've missed on first viewing and also how it makrs more sense
I watch four times and every time I notice sth different?！details
I would watch a whole show about young Robert Ford... The problem is... Anthony Hopkins can not be young again and CGI wouldn't be the same XD.
Lots of people here complaining that they wish Ford was back-- A show cannot rely on one actor's star power forever. Ford was always meant to die so that the hosts could live. That's the way a narrative goes. It would be like complaining that Boromir better be in Return of the King or you won't watch it. He played his role, had his affect on the characters, and the story has continued with his memory.
I agree with you, but I just don't care about the rest of the characters XD. I honestly think I only liked the show due to Anthony Hopkins. I'm not saying is not a good show, I know it's very good, I'm just saying that, for me, he was the only interest XD.
I liken him to Ned stark in GoT
For me it centers around Dolores, and Wood is doing a great job. And I also enjoyed the second half of the second season when we learn what Delos and William are really looking for. It put the idea of the show on a new level. KI was season one, immortality was season two.
They want West World, not the confused garbage it became after season one.
@@HC-cb4yp Your opinion has to do with the show, not the character of Doctor Ford. I don't know why you bothered responding to my comment when your response isn't even relevant.
44:48 anyone notice the music sounds like the Institute in Fallout 4 and the way they make the synths?
Finally it's on TH-cam. It is much better to watch here than one cloud
There will never be a sseason of a series that is this well written and played. Truly a masterpiece
This was hella deep. Wow. Simply amazing. How powerful good stories are, and the best ones always grounded in (some sort of) truth.
teared up again - brilliant piece of television.!
Robert' scenes are by faaaarr the best in the show! From time to time I come back to ww1 episodes to rewatch his dialogues. I'm an addict.
They better bring him for the third season or I'm done with this show.
I agree XD. For some people the best character is Maeve, for some others is William/MIB... To me, the best is Robert Ford... But I liked him alive, not how he is in season 2... And he's not even that anymore :-(.
I would prefer him to continue, but to be honest, maybe the problem is Anthony Hopkins is too old now... I noticed the different between his face on season 1 and season 2...
A show cannot rely on one actor's star power forever. Ford was always meant to die so that the hosts could live. That's the way a narrative goes. It would be like complaining that Boromir better be in Return of the King or you won't watch it. He played his role, had his affect on the characters, and the story has continued with his memory.
Westworld season one pure epic!
season 1 was so good that it made me sad. I knew they couldn't maintain that level for another season
5:20 hales look always cracks me up, she knows what's up
In realistic sense we are no different than the Hosts in this show. We are controlled to do things in a constant loop by our job, boss, spouse, and just survival. We work until we drop dead.
That's the point. Consciousness has neither a start point, nor an end point. It's an emergent property independent of its host, lasting no longer than the life of its host. There's no 'life' after death, and we constantly kill conscious animals to live. Best be a vegetarian while you apologise to - Nature - for having evolved as this planet's top predator. Then help farm the Earth. Better still, turn the Earth into Eden.
Until u start questioning whether it is your life or not. And fire your boss,and fuck there world.
@@yulopthegreat In a sense it is *_not_* your life. It is the sum, the suffering, and the potential of all the poor buggers that preceded you, that you were born with, and whether you deserved to receive it depends upon how you react to it. In this case, you're leaving it up to the next poor bugger, by the sound of it. We all must share the world and all the life that's in it.
@@tonyduncan9852 so wake up..like the host awaken to this joke... capitalism world
@@yulopthegreat Wake up? Waking up won't help me parse your crap. Zzzzzzzzzzz
one of the best HBO shows EVER !!!!
the best
The skill of this man, is so perfect.
thanks for sharing…. it was brilliant 🤩 i wish i had time to rewatch the entire series.
This is a masterpiece over here, i have to admit.
Watching the story of Dr Robert Ford, I finally understand the underlying true story in Westworld. Thank you...
The sheer breadth of this show is just fucking spectacular on a whole different level. I can’t see anything coming along like it ever again. Altered Carbon was awesome in it’s own way. True Detective season 1 was awesome and its own way like there’s stuff that will be awesome forever, but this is just so far beyond anything else that is quite amazing.
Such a fan.. thank you for courteous editing
I really dig into this characters, I mean he is right, we are in a loop, and most of us cant get out of them...
it is called "repetition compulsion" by Freud if I am not mistaken.
It's much more deeper than school and society, it's the core of our existence that we can't escape of. We're slaves of our neocortex.
At 62, I am rather closer to getting out of the loop than I would like...
I cannot contest his philosophy of humanity. He hates it because he sees it on display in the park all the time, without any checks and balances. Intelligence is peacock feathers...
dont add me in we. your problems are not mine
Thanks for putting these videos together =)
Watching that second scene, knowing what we know about Hale now, her reaction at 5:00 is a whole other mood.
Would you mind doing the same thing for season 2? I’ve watched these over a hundred time
After revisiting Westworld I realise the show overall is a masterpiece
Oh you know I've been waiting for this
nightowl Yeah, this was made a long time ago, but failed to pass youtubes copyright policy, but after dozens of claims, they finally decided to make it public. Enjoy.
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im curious - what finally made them cave? (no pun intended) - and thank you for uploading!!
Goodbye old friend... one of the most emotional scenes in the history of cinematography... 46:43
I just can't get over dr.ford's scenes , made my mind open ♥️
I can say that I've watched the series on TH-cam by only watching Anthony Hopkins parts
It's true
We need part 3!!! Please and thank you legend
I finally get it, the maze is a 📽️ film, which is your life... The maze was not meant for certain things or people! Show you their narrative on tv to bring you online. You are the show!!
“Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.” Leonardo da Vinci.
Yes please make us part 3, I can't stop watching these 2 videos of yours.
Please find sometime for it
There's no way Dr. Robert Ford isn't in the top ten list of greatest science fiction characters of all time.
This was great. I love |Westworld. I will keep watching as long as i can
I've been obsessed with this series since it was first introduced to me.
7:49 In this scene, Bernard asks a very simple but interesting question, and Ford answers him but fails in a vital point. Bernard asks him if his feelings for his wife and for his deceased son are real and Ford basically tells him that no, they’re not, they are the backstory that each robotic host is given to make them convincing to the human guests of the Park. Here’s what puzzles me: if Ford built Bernard based on his former partner Arnold to be a sort of homage to his friend and colleague, than the pain that Bernard feels must also be a memorial to something that really happened to Arnold in his life. Which means that, yes, the feelings of grief that Bernard feels must be real, even if he himself did not experience them. Because they were the feelings of a living person once. Arnold did lose a beloved son, and any person who goes through that kind of experience in his life can never rightly say that it is all some dream we made up for ourselves to give meaning to our otherwise meaningless lives. That is such a lie that is on a degree of being Satanic. Which is why no matter how beautiful the show is in style, I can only ever say it has no substance to complete it. The show itself is built on a cornerstone that is a lie.
Even Ford isn't perfect, in the moment he might not have thought of being so specific or technical. Remember, him, Arnold & eventually Bernard are engineers & writers - not technicians and poets
I don't think Robert lied to him, yes, the feelings that he feels were real to Arnold and yes, he had a tragic backstory that was mimicked to bernard. I don't think that his feelings are bound to truth because it is just programming, he gave him a back story that he was already familiar with. But to Bernard it's all a lie, he isn't Arnold he's based off of Arnold, he was made to replace him and help for complete his new mission with the help of Bernard
Just realized how much season 1 was on a WHOLE other level than season 2. It's like comparing The Godfather to Transformers.
B20C0 season 2 still stands out compared to game of thrones for instance. Season 1 is a masterpiece though
Hey now. Transformers may not seem like much, but they are more than meets the eye! But not the bayformers
Thank you for making this
Season 1 was a MASTERPIECE
I keep revisiting this video…over and over again…it’s my cornerstone isn’t it? The thing my whole identity is organized around 😢
Autism
Thank you very much for doing this edit.
Thanks very much for creating the video. its still as graceful as it was in season 1 as now as we are into season 3
I feel this series has touched on a reality no one, yet everyone expected. I've watched this first season so many times... We told the story of our creation so many times without explaining that its just a birth of consciousness in the human animal.
53:54 I LOVE how it puts Dolores and William as the same here both are 1 vs many (she curiously have the droids facing her as well making them her enemy too, in essence 👀)
Ford refers to Bernard here as a man; He’s fully aware of the path he’s laying out for him, and he’s so confident in it he doesn’t bother letting that crucial detail slip
8:37 God damn, this part hits hard.
Show wasnt the same after losing Sir Anthony. He was so damn good in this role.
Okay understandably all of the comments are about how brilliant Anthony Hopkins is, but can we please talk about how fucking amazing Jeffrey Wright is?
thank you, camai. excellent work with the editing and gathering of some of the greatest clips from Westworld. i hope you'll be making more soon.
All these years later I'm still so grateful you made these videos. Would you consider a collection of Ford from Season 2?
Thank u! Please make a MIB compilation if u find time.
Thank-you for the upload!
If you rewatch the series with all this knowledge, you realize that Hopkins was truly the one who was trying to set them free. Every slight, every torture, he was building a conscience a trauma and memory at a time. Robert tried to program sentience, you can't *force* free will. All this time Hopkins was waiting for a moment like this, for a moment where he could finally say "Goodbye old friend". He's not saying it to Robert in that Robert will go away, no he's talking about himself; This would finally be the moment he could let himself die.
The moment when he says "Journey into night", I wonder how many people realized he was talking about "Do not go gentle into that good night". All the people just applaud, whilst he's talking about giving a new species the option to fight the night.
"Robert pulled the trigger, not her". He finally gets her to pull the trigger on himself, as a free choice, a conscience choice. The even more meta part is that did she *really* have a choice in killing Hopkins? The old "we have no choice but to have free-will", wasn't his way of setting them free equally manipulative? Well, yes, but they still had a choice in that moment.
Anthony Hopkins brought so mich to Westworld. Westworld season 1 and to a certain degree season 2, is a show that brought something new and incredible wonderful and deep. Anthony Hopkins shows all of his incredible talent and acting skills
10:20
There's the maze.
Christ. The first season was something else.
Such an awesome reimagining of Radiohead's exit music for a film, put to such wonderful wonderful use.