Not "STEAL" 👉🏼"COMMANDS IT" "SHAPES IT" .. . Perhaps the 'Secret" is that He actually is NOT "ACTINGG" ,but, is instead creating His own Lifes Autobiography 's ,ect. --*just a theory . 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆.
Hopkins is great actor and this was probably his last great role, and in my opinion this character was most complex from all of his roles. So charismatic and brilliant actor. It would be pleasure to see him in another role like this...
I think the character in Instinct was more complex, but the overall movie wasn't that good. The scenes with him are the ones that shine the brightest. I also never understood why Cuba Gooding Jr. is so praised as an actor and even got an Oscar. He is mediocre at best and I'm not even sure if that's not giving him already too much credit.
The only one who outplayed Hopkins in Westworld was Louis Herthum in that Shakespear scene. It's been some time since I've seen such incredible acting.
The first season told the story. Ford told his story and it was the one worth telling. I watched the first half of season two and it wasn't bad. But I found season one to be so profound, the rest of the seasons seemed so pointless by comparison. Westworld season one was the best thing I'd ever seen on television.
@@gamera5160agreed season one is just perfect. I think it's in season 2, if you haven't seen the beach scene with Ford and Bernard totally go check it out it's probably one of the best scenes ever put on TV.
I don't disagree but it's not that simple. There is so fearsome competition. Here are some of my favorite performances (not a comprehensive list)., Bryan Cranston as Walter White in Breaking Bad. Charles Dance as Tywin Lannister, Michael K. Williams as Omar Little in The Wire, Billy Bob Thornton as Lorne Malvo in Fargo, Justin Theroux as Kevin Garvey Jr in The Leftovers, Michael C Hall as Dexter Morgan in Dexter, Terry O’Quinn as John Locke in Lost, but yeah this is some next level shit right here..
your mind is a walled garden even death cannot touch the flowers growing there there's no deeper or honest truth about you on the inside and for others at the same time
Hopkins is a philosopher, he asks the questions that will make you go in loops. And that’s why he always great at roles that give him the opportunity to express himself
He is incredible at portraying human genius and testing and waiting for a response just by his fucking facial movements-surely him and Caine are the best screen actors
This has to be the most well thought out series ever. It pulls in all human genius-the song is 'The girl with the flaxen hair' is his kid's fave song and he creates Delores.And when the most particular actor on the planet delivers, God, it sits in your head more than any movie I have seen. This is us.
"They come back because they discover something they imagine someone had ever noticed before" - umm EVERY PERSON WATCHING THIS VID IN SEASON 3 haha!! 😂 Love you Ford I know you're not done here🥺💛
Series 1 of Westworld was a masterpiece ... but the story always sadly only had one destination to reach .... Killer robots. They made the journey too perfect, which is why everything since has felt ... less.
They should’ve went a Black Mirror route. Hold onto that idea of the tragic destruction of a man made creation that grew sentience and sought freedom. Tying it with the continuity of consciousness through artificial means, making people essentially immortal through technology. I would’ve even enjoyed a second season that concentrated on the combat team that entered the park, and have it become a techno survival horror story.
@@gregtestagent hem they went to black mirror route with rehoboam and Incite. The most straightful stuff would be action action terminator or "walking dead with robots". In season 4 they are still going into black mirror stuff
@9:15 "hardly your fault" and "your mind is a walled garden, even death cannot touch the flowers blooming there" ...he's raising his children and giving her subtle reassurance he is protecting her. Fantastic writing!!
The philosophy behind this series is so god damn good it makes us question our reality and existence as humans and why did God make us if he even really did
@@PresidentialWinner Actually, Anthony Hopkins talked a lot about the similarities between his Dr. Ford character with Hannibal Lecter, and how he really really didn't want Ford to be seen as a different version of Lecter and how they went out of their way while filming to to avoid placing him in situations where the audience could draw obvious parallels between the two. Hopkins himself even basically essentially choreographed that entire scene between Ford, Bernard and Theresa where Bernard kills Theresa, just to make sure it wasn't a re-do of a Hannibal Lecter/Clarice Sterling scene. Apparently a lot of actors are not fans of that sort of thing (where you see them playing one role of a character and instead see another famous character they've played before that has nothing in common with them). Ridley Scott and Sean Bean had the same concerns about including that "Project Elrond" line in The Martian given that Sean Bean was also Boromir in Lord of the Rings, and Scott felt the line would feel forced (even though it is in the book) and fall flat with audiences. He was convinced to keep it in and it ended up being one of the funniest lines in the whole movie. Scott only kept it in on the condition that Sean Bean didn't speak during that entire exchange.
5:50 'It starts in a time of war; a world in flames... With a villain called Wyatt.' in the most recent westworld trailer Maeve says 'We can save this world; we can burn it to the ground, and from the ashes, build a new world' which means Ford always knew exactly what he was doing, he always knew what was going to happen, that's why he is my favourite character, he is a genius
Not just that i believe he knew Dalores wil somehow get out of westworld and go to the real world just like chess he calculated all future moves and it all started when he put out an update in all hosts (secretely without telling any it/tech team) in the beginning of series
8:33 Delores: Dreams are the mind telling stories to itself. They don't mean anything. Ford: No, dreams mean everything. They are the stories we tell ourselves of what could be, who we could become. My father told me to be satisfied with my lot in life. That the world owed me nothing. And so, I made my own world. I wonder if I'm the only one that doesn't believe Ford actually died in Westworld.
Noone can explain to the "naive" what goes on inside their mind better than Dr.Ford, in the voice and acting of this ,one of a kind, miracle which is Sir Antony Hopkins.
Une série magnifique, un personnage magnifique ! Le scenario est d'une beauté incommensurable avec une profondeur d'une subtilité magique… La première saison de Westwood est un pur chef d'œuvre !
Anthony Hopkins is the truth. Just so relaxed, yet his intensity is always lurking just under the surface. Like an old philosopher, shaman, guru, etc. I've seen him in enough movies over the years to say that he's gotten better as an actor, and he was very good back in the late 60's and 70's in The Lion in Winter, opposite Peter O'Toole and Kate Hepburn. Or TV movies like QB VII, if that's the correct title. Or Magic, where he played a deranged ventriloquist (fun but very creepy). I'd love to see him in a stage production of Shakespeare, like Titus Andronicus, which he did a few years back. He's on a level with Brando or Day-Lewis, but has a totally different style. Need to see The Father soon. Just the best...
he speaks facts. "The piano doesn't murder the player if it doesn't like the music. Never place your trust in us. We're only human. Inevitably, we will disappoint you." trust a piano but not a human. facts.
I listen to the Hopkins West World collections while driving. Great writing, great actor, great music. It could have been an old time radio show and been just as successful. Remarkable.
Seeing these scenes and watching this series all the way through is riveting! Gives me chills how great His Character was. And how he created Delores in the likeness of himself
"The only thing your story tells me Mr. Sizemore... is who you are" In the end, Sizemore became someone else too. I really loved that scene. and btw; Using Mass Effect tunes for a Westworld vid? You did good son, you did good.
I like to think that Ford's story in this show was a representation of Hollywood at it's current state. Ford represents the old-school film directors, who is concerned about story and character. This is oppose to Delos and people like Sizemore are trying to give the audience visual flare with gross lack of story and character (which they think are the "titillation" that Ford mention). The scene at 3:21 is exactly what an old-school film director would point out is missing in modern filmmaking, and more particular, modern storytelling. Ford isn't talking about the park and it's story, as well as the guests of the park. He's talking about the audience, and what stories and characters that we connect with means to us. His entire story is of a creator who cared for the story and character, while the "money men" just wanted to use the brand, characters and just bastardize them just for a quick buck. And as sad as it sounds, it is true. Ford is right. And I look forward to the day when a newer generation that gives a damn about stories and characters will take the stories away from the money men and make those stories great once again. But that's just me. And I could very well be wrong.
I think Hopkins' point about "It means we're done" is really poetic but is missing one flaw - augmentation. Even if biotechnology and genetic engineering hits an upper wall, implanting cybernetic augments is just as plausible and even more likely to broaden the capabilities of any given human being beyond "just" curing disease or combating death.
Plowbeast I think there's another unspoken component to Ford's statements. I think Ford is unimpressed by the human race after all he's seen. Like he told Bernard, "never trust us. We"re only human." And his statements about human consciousness being like the wings of a peacock. That it was all an elaborate mating dance, yet the peacock couod barely fly, "consoling itself with its great beauty." Ford has seen how people really are by their actions in the park. For all humanity's advancement, we're still so barbaric and petty.
Spartain14 However, that's his bias. Even if we pressume majority of guests went there just for "warm bodies to shoot or fuck" and not for stories, they are paying 40k/day so they are very very rich. That's by no means representative sample. Plus, company assures guests that hosts are not sentient beings, but rather very complex toys.
Considering what we see in the show. We can assume that human augmentation is banned, or at least extremely regulated. Even upper management of Delos (probably top 1%) are baseline humans, nothing special at all. So I think that in Fords world, we actually are done. At least for a while.
09:35 feels like he talks about s3 throwback schene of 2 brothers on the country side playing in there childhood and suddenly bad memorys of whats happening in france.. just me or ?
I had to look it up, so here you go. Occam's razor states that the simplest explanation is preferable to one that is more complex. Simple theories are easier to verify. Simple solutions are easier to execute.
This was incredible! I appreciate how you've isolated his voice from the original episode and overlayed it on top of your chosen soundtracks. How did you achieve the isolation of his voice from whatever the music was in the original episode that these scenes were in?
Thanks! In 5.1 surround the voice audio is located in the center channel. If you mute all the other channels you end up with mostly the voice and some sfx.
You're welcome :) and wow, never thought of doing it that way. Where will I be able to find/download the entire season 1 with 5.1 surround sound? I'm planning on doing a few videos on Westworld and just need to get a few monologues isolated.
lol, no you're not tripping. In 5.1 surround all the clean voice audio is usually located in the center channel. If you mute all other channels you end up with only the voice. It's a simple trick with many practical applications :)
6:55 Just only my thoughts but I can't help thinking that Host was Dr Ford's brother. He secretly built one with some helped by Arnold in the early days.
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