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WORSTWORLD
Crazy #5, July 1974
w: Marv Wolfman
a: Bob McLeod
Before Michael Crichton created the blockbuster franchise of movies about robot dinosaurs gone rogue with Jurassic Park, he created a movie about robot humans gone rogue with Westworld. This was a science-fiction film about the Delos corporation, the business behind Romanworld, Medievalworld, and Westworld, amusement parks where you can live out your fantasies in one of these worlds that simulated life in the historical past.
The movie begins with a commercial for the Delos corporation hosted by Ed Wren (Robert Hogan) introducing the audience to these parks and interviewing exiting guests for their reactions to visiting these parks. Then we see Peter Martin (Richard Benjamin) and John Blane (James Brolin) flying in to Wetworld and being served by a stewardess who may or may not be a robot, showing how lifelike the simulations at the parks really are.
Everything at Westworld is realistic. The food, the lodgings, the bars, the prostitutes, but only with conveniences up to a hundred years old. You can have gunfights but you can tell the difference between a robot and a real person because the guns are programmed not to work on real people.
Technicians are supervising everything in all the parks to make sure everything goes smoothly and recalling any models that don't work. Things start to go wrong when Peter kills one of their models in a gunfight (Yul Brynner) and it keeps coming back.
Peter shoots the gunslinger yet again and is sent to jail for it. He's able to blast his way out and he and John flee to the desert. (Not shown: Robots start disobeying guests and rebelling in Medievalworld). Peter and John return to town and John is shot and killed by the gunslinger, who chases Peter out into the desert again. We see it from the gunslinger's point of view.
Peter escapes into the laboraratory, then to Medievalworld, where all the guests and technicians have already been killed. Peter destroys the gunslinger by throwing sulfuric acid on him and setting him on fire, which finally defeats him after several attempts to get up.
references are made to 2001: A Space Odyssey and Henry Kissinger.
Nick Carraway (Sam Waterston) lives in East Egg on Long Island and has gone across the harbor to visit his cousin Daisy Buchanan (Mia Farrow) and her husband Tom (Bruce Dern)in West Egg. She is there with her friend Jordan (Lois Chiles). They're rich but don't seem to do anything for a living.
Nick's home is next door to the mysterious tycoon Jay Gatsby (Robert Redford), who throws extravagant parties nightly. Daisy reacts strange when Nick mentions Gatsby, but we don't know why yet.
Tom is having an affair with Myrtle Wilson (Karen Black), the wife of his auto mechanic George (Scott Wilson).
After attending a party of Gatsby's, Nick is invited to lunch the next day with Gatsby and his business partner Meyer Wolfsheim (Howard Da Silva). Later, when Nick invites Gatsby and his cousin Daisy over for tea it is revealed that they had been lovers in the past and their relationship begins again.
Daisy did not marry Jay Gatsby in the first place because he was too poor, but always loved him and not Tom.
They all go for a trip to the city and Daisy reveals her affair with Jay but cannot bring herself to say that she still loves him. She drives off in Gatsby's car, accidentally running over Myrtle. Word gets to Myrtle's husband George, who thinks Gatsby killed her and shoots him. Nobody attends Jay Gatsby's funeral and everyone continues their life as if nothing happened.
IF THE PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT YOU WESTWORLD PRODUCED THE GREAT GATSBY
Crazy #10, April 1975
w: Nina Mende, Marv Wolfman
a: Bill Skurski
UPDATE:
Cover for British edition.
UPDATE 2:
THE NOT SO GREAT GADSBY
Cracked #124, May 1975
a: Sururi Gumen
