I am as amazed by its story structure and characterization as everyone else, fascinated by its timeline design and exploration of consciousness.
And there is even more.
Its ingenuity shines through in the soundtrack.
The show's soundtrack composer Ramin Djawadi has composed music for the series "Suspect Tracker" (also produced by Nolan) and "Game of Thrones", both of which are very high-level. "Westworld" did not disappoint - the original soundtrack album included 34 soundtracks, the park scene soundtrack in the play is full of roughness and wildness, the control room scene soundtrack is full of tension and technology, Debussy's piano work "Rêverie (Underworld") Thinking)" was also set as an important clue to the plot.
And the thing that fascinated me the most was the Player Piano.
The automatic piano in the tavern is also considered to be half of the leading role. It appears repeatedly in the title and episodes. Its elegant mechanical structure symbolizes the original Hosts, and its performance is closely linked with Maeve's awakening.
Player Piano, also called Pianola, was invented in the mid-to-late 19th century, and the music box was its predecessor.
At that time, the player piano played mostly religious music and Ragtime-style pieces. According to this routine, the automatic piano in the play plays some of the works of Ragtime master Scott Joplin.
Surprisingly and thrillingly, it also plays a lot of pop music adapted in the style of Ragtime. Hearing the melody from Radiohead and Amy Winehouse in "Westworld" is really a wonderful experience that combines a sense of time travel and a sense of fit.
"This is a western theme park, and the receptionists in it are all humanoids, so why not use some modern songs?" Ramin Djawadi explained in an interview the interpretation of the automatic piano to popular music, and he also said that it was actually Nolan's The idea is to tell everyone through this detail that this is not the real Wild West, but a man-made world.
These unusual "Easter Eggs" combine into a rather refined playlist about the artificial, the real and the fake, the lost, and the awakening.
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The first song:
E01 The original
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
Genre: Grunge, Alternative Rock
The first pop music of the piano cover is from the Seattle band Soundgarden in the United States. Released in 1994 as the third single from the album Superunknown, "Black Hole Sun" depicts a surreal dream.
The painting style of the MV is weird, the characters are very exaggerated, and a lot of deformation special effects are used. Such a dream and the extreme realism of Westworld may be the two extremes.
Lyrics speak of unknown power, life in disguise:
"In my eyes, indisposed
In disguises no one knows
Hides the face, lies the snake
The sun in my disgrace
Boiling heat, summer stench
'Neath the black the sky looks dead
Call my " name through the cream
And I'll hear you scream again"
The corresponding plot in the drama is that Maeve is unwell and first goes home to rest. Kissy, who works in the pub, encounters a man in black after going out, and is dragged away by his throat. The man in black cut off his scalp.
Second song:
E02 Chestnut
Radiohead - No Surprises
Genre: Alternative Rock
"No Surprises" is the third single from the album OK Computer, released in 1998. Many of Radiohead's works describe the anxiety and confusion of mankind in the face of technology, which fits well with the theme of Westworld.
Its MV is also a very avant-garde work now. One-shot close-up of the face, frontman Thom Yorke sings in a helmet with rolling lyrics while the water surface gradually rises, completely submerged for a period of time and then suddenly drains. Is the slow sinking and sudden release a bit like falling into a dream and waking up?
The original song uses a color arrangement with a nursery rhyme, and the depression and anxiety described in the lyrics are almost a portrayal of Hosts' situation, "no warning and no surprise"
"A heart that's full up like a landfill
A job that slowly kills you
Bruises that won't heal
You look so tired-unhappy
Bring down the government
They don't, they don't speak for us
I'll take the quiet life, a handshake of carbon monoxide
No alarms and no surprises
" At the same time, Maeve is using the fixed lines to strike up a conversation with customers, but suddenly recalls the fragmented scene of previous motherhood. She was then taken to the diagnostic room and uttered the last line of the "New world" line:
"This is the new world.
And in this world, you can be whoever the fuck you want."
How ironic.
The third track:
E04 Dissonance theory
The Cure - A Forest
Genre: Gothic Rock, Alternative Rock
The Cure, also a British band, this "A Forest" was released as a single from the album "Seventeen Seconds" in 1980. There are several theories about the creation of the lyrics, some say it came from a dream of the lead singer when he was a child, and some say it is just a story about a forest.
We might as well bring the lyrics into the plot, and understand it as a description of the original Hosts hearing Arnold's voice again and again, and it doesn't violate harmony:
"come closer and see
see into the trees
find the girl
while you can
come closer and see
see into the dark
just follow your eyes
...
I hear her voice
calling my name
the sound is deep
in the dark
I hear her voice
and start to run
into the trees
...
suddenly I stop
but I know it's too late
I'm lost in a forest
all alone
the girl was never there
it's always the same
I'm running towards nothing
again and again and again"
on the piano , Maeve was chatting with Clem at the bar as usual, but suddenly jumped into the memory of a previous loop - Clem was killed and she was shot to the ground.
She also remembered the conversation with the butchers after she was transported to Livestock, That is, there is still a bullet in her belly. Then Maeve dug out the paper of the butcher's image drawn by herself in the previous life in the room, and further awakened. The
fifth song:
E06 The adversary
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
Genre: Alternative Rock
Radiohead is back, "Fake Plastic Trees" from their 1995 album "The Bends", marking the band's transition from Grunge. It was inspired by Canary Wharf, a major business district in London, where an area with many artificial plants Landscape.
It is my favorite among the seven singles. The melody of the original song is so beautiful, and the arrangement has an original impact. It is the kind of work that can evoke people's memories.
In the MV, Radiohead members sit in shopping carts and shuttle back and forth through the aisles of the supermarket. Some elderly people, women and children also appear in the picture. "It's a metaphor for death and reincarnation," explains MV director Jake Scott, "but it should only be understood by an audience as eccentric as the person who created it." The
lyrics revolve around artificial trees, used in Westworld Perfect fit:
"Her Green plastic watering can
For her fake chinese rubber plant
In fake plastic earth
That she bought from a rubber man
In a town full of rubber plants
Just to get rid of itself
And It Wears Her Out, it wears her out
It wears her out, it wears her out
...
She looks like the real thing
She tastes like the real thing
My Fake Plastic Love "
In the tavern at this time, Maeve has realized the routine of this "game", he is just a human being Dummy in the eyes. She began to pursue "death," which led to her return to the Livestock scene.
After this "death", she asked the Asian brother to take her to see the upper space of the base, which became an important step in Maeve's awakening.
Song 6:
E08 Trace Decay
The Animals - House Of The Rising Sun
Genre: Folk Rock
"House Of The Rising Sun" is a traditional ballad whose most commercially successful version was a single released by the British band The Animals in 1964. It was also the number one hit in popular music history. First Folk Rock Hit.
The lyrics tell a story that takes place in New Orleans, where the protagonist's life is shattered, telling future generations not to repeat the same mistakes:
"There is a house in New Orleans,
they call the "Rising Sun",
and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy,
and God , I know, I'm one.
Oh mother, tell your children
Not to do what I have done
Don't Spend your lives in sin and misery"
This is again related to Maeve's motherhood and her plan to escape from Westworld Fascinated fit.
The plot has progressed to the eighth episode, the super beautiful original Clem has been withdrawn, and Maeve, whose overall wisdom has been raised to 20 Bulk Apperception, has completely figured it out. .
Track 6:
E08 Trace Decay
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
Genre: Soul, R&B
"Back To Black" is probably the most "see through" of the seven Easter egg songs, from the legendary Amy Winehouse, included on her second and final album, about Amy "black" after being betrayed by her ex-boyfriend change” story.
The melody of the song itself is a little aggressive, and has some retro flavor, plus the lyrics "I died a hundred times" that are quite in line with Maeve's own experience, it is very comfortable to put it here for her awakening soundtrack :
"Me and my head high
And my tears dry
Get on without my guy
...
We only said good-bye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to
I go back to us"
this time , Maeve already has administrator rights, and in the sound of "Back To Black", she began to execute her escape plan.
Song 7:
E10 The Bicameral Mind
Radiohead - Exit Music (for a film)
Genre: Alternative Rock
At the end of the final episode, Radiohead appears for the third time, which is quite heavy (I also became a Radiohead fan after writing this push. !!!). It, like No Surprises, was included on the turnaround album OK Computer.
"Exit Music" is also the ending theme of the 1996 version of "Romeo and Juliet".
The important line in the play "These violent delights have violent ends" is from Shakespeare's original work.
This soundtrack starts with the automatic piano, and then adds strings. The full changes strung together most of the main characters, which can fully support the various nodes at the end of the season.
In the speech, Dr. Ford made a lot of Flad . Miss Hale
with a complicated mood.
My favorite is Man in Black/William . I don't know how many times I have awakened
. Benard
has successfully boarded the train. Dolores “Wake from your sleep The drying of your tears Today we escape We escape Pack and get dressed Before your father hears us Before all hell breaks loose ... You can laugh A spineless laugh We hope your rules and wisdom choke you Now we are one In everlasting peace We hope that you choke that you choke”
The doctor said: "Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin never died, they just turned into music."
And when it comes to "Exit", Dr. Ford (Is it himself or a substitute for Host?) Although he was shot, he still lives in his creations in the storyline/Hosts.
William is shot, but finally witnesses the unraveling of the Maze mystery and sees what the Maze Center really is.
The Awakening Hosts, led by Dolores, are no longer trapped in the original Westworld, but will open up a new world.
Maeve, who could have escaped from the park, finally chose to go back to find his daughter in her previous identity.
The player piano's last song was "Exit Muisc", and none of them really "left" Westworld.
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That's it! (｡ì _ ｡)
Highly recommend this gloomy Westworld hidden playlist:
"Black Hole Sun"
, "No Surprises",
"A Forest",
"Fake Plastic Trees",
"The House Of The Rising Sun"
, "Back" To Black "
Exit Music (for a film)"
in addition to the seven piano pieces, the soundtracks are also adapted from pop music, the symphonic version of The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black, and the string version of Radiohead - Motion Picture Sound Track and Nine Inch Nails - Something I Can Never Have
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Finally, I would like to say that "Westworld" is the annual American drama in my mind. I like its extreme design from the script, pictures, editing to the soundtrack. I like its exploration of consciousness, human nature, pain and love. It deserves constant review and exploration.
I love this world.
Do you?
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