Why The Shogun/Westworld Parallel Plot Lines
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My theory on this is that Lee Sizemore is the on screen voice of the overworked and underappreciated creative writers that actually crank out the episodes of “Westworld”. I think they are having a bit of an inside joke while also paying an homage to the crossover commercial success of the “Seven Samurai” and “The Magnificent Seven”.
The fact that a samurai action adventure of honor and duty and good vs. evil could be so directly translated to a western motif speaks to the universality of these themes (and loops) in all cultures and Sizemore was somewhat smugly speaking for the show writers in pointing this out. Also, it indirectly ties in the Yul Brenner character from the original “Westworld” that was clearly inspired by his starring role as a gunslinger in “The Magnificent Seven” and who appeared in the background in the HBO “Westworld” in season 1.
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I’ve seen in interviews that the writers of “The Magnificent Seven” started with a scene-by-scene and character-by-character translation of the “The Seven Samuai” so Sizemore’s copy of the two world’s narratives is a great inside-the-show joke.
Sizemore definitely functions as Westworld’s “fool” and the voice of the writing staff, just like Elsie is the voice of the viewers.