This week, however, made great strides toward establishing the already sympathetic Maeve as a more relatable character, even as she manifested mysterious robot telepathy powers. Until now, Bernard had been the most relatable character this season, as he has something of a dual nature that sees him interacting with humans and hosts on both sides of the fence. This has left something of a vacuum to fill in Westworld as we are now watching a show where robots run around in diffuse, Game-of-Thrones-like subplots while humans cower and cuss.
Westworld's pilot episode also gave us a clear homage to Ford's The Searchers, re-framing the famous shot of a woman's silhouette standing in a doorway looking out on the frontier landscape.
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Kurosawa, it should be noted, was influenced by the use of windows and wide-open spaces in the westerns of John Ford and there are other instances where the inspiration between genres runs both ways, such as the 2013 Japanese remake of Unforgiven, where Ken Watanabe took over the role originated by Eastwood. They have identical tropes but are set within different cultures." You had this wonderful call and response between these two genres - with the gunslinger and the ronin. "My older brothers and I watched Sergio Leone Westerns and Kurosawa's classic samurai films and were fascinated to discover they had the same plot. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, he said:
Nolan grew up on Leone's films and was well aware of the Kurosawa connection. The shot of Teddy (James Marsden) disembarking the train in Sweetwater back in the show's pilot episode was an intentional homage to a shot from that movie. Westworld co-showrunner Jonathan Nolan has name-checked Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West as one inspiration for the show.
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