In West World, there are many
crossover ideas as to what it takes to run West World and how a television show
or channel must be run. Making sure the consumers are happy while also
understanding the needs of a business is something that each scenario shows and
struggles with I believe. West World in
the end is an amusement park, and catering to the guests and their wants is the
main goal for the business side. Making sure that when the guests come to spend
thousands of dollars a day they can have fun and do anything they want. When it
comes to the business side there is not a strong care for having the story lines
something that is so immersive that the guests have a realization, but the story lines
are just fun, and exciting and allow the guests to do whatever it is they want.
From Fords point of view though this is all wrong. It is not about the profit
and cheap thrills; the park is about the experiences and the realism of it all.
The park is something that is as special creation, that shows amazing advances
and emotion, but when it is used as a business platform that meaning gets lost
is everything it takes to create it. For West World, it is controlled by profit
and those cheap thrills and excitements, not about the experience and the
artistic design of everything, this is shown even more by the voting out of
power that happens to Ford. To completely make West World into the best business
it most remove the creative, and artistic ability of the park.
The way that West World and the
creative liberties that it takes can be seen in how television is made,
especially HBO. The free-ness that HBO gives the creators to make a show into
something that has its own voice, is an important part in many HBO shows. Extra
violence and being gritty in any and every sense, it allows HBO and those
watching the shows to have a good time while doing so. This artistic development
that is allowed though, is the front of what is a huge business that needs the
artistic ability to have that space so they can make their money. The artistic
sense that the channel or show allows is then overshadowed by the business
side, by creating formula setups for what makes viewers sit down and watch
their show. Something where by just having specific traits it will easily draw
in a certain number of viewers each week. Much like the park, where the robots only
must exert a very small amount of human qualities for the artistic value to be
appreciated. The robots could do one thousand different humans like actions,
but if they have sex, and die the guests don’t care about the rest. Much like shows,
after a while it does not matter what is happening or if it is even bad, if the
show has these select, and wanted aspects then it will be watched. Through business
artistic value is created, and both sides of the business-art spectrum are
needed for something to work but after a while the business side completely commodifies
the artistic side until it no longer matters how intricate or in-depth something
is.
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