In last night ’s episode of Westworld , “ Contrapasso , ” Billy ( Jimmi Simpson ) , Logan ( Ben Barnes ) , and Delores ( Evan Rachel Wood ) made it to the town at the edge of the park , Pariah . If the name was n’t enough of a clew about what kind of town it was , there was a big old orgy to make it clear .
One of the show ’s executive manufacturer , Richard J. Lewis , spoke toThe Hollywood Reporterabout a number of things in the episode , none more interesting than this : Apparently film a sex company is hard than you ’d think , and requires bringing in special help .
Unsurprisingly , you ca n’t just rent regular extras for your orgy :
We hired what they promise “ limited extras , ” “ special background players , ” who were willing to take part . We also had a sex hairdresser who made sure things looked properly choreograph in that respect . It was all work force on deck , to say the empty-headed punning . We were trying to make things feel graceful and graceful and beautiful and strange .
by the way , if there is some way to put “ gender stylist ” on my sketch , I would very much like the opportunity .
Lewis excuse that the flavor of the riot owed a lot to Eyes Wide Shut , “ some Kubrickian stuff that ’s there , ” and 120 Days of Sodom . “ We really curated the shot to the T , ” added Lewis . “ Sometimes , to me , it has almost a medieval flavor . You ca n’t categorise it , because it ’s so uniquely foreign and beautiful in a way . ”
The “ mediaeval ” commentary — and as THR level out , the almost Roman Catholic plushness of the scene — brings to mind the other two Mungo Park that be in the original movie , Medieval World and Roman Catholic World . Even though Lewis says that the law of similarity is n’t “ intentional , ” it would be very in the mode of this show for something as obviously pandering as an debauch to have so many thematic stratum to it .
But that ’s still not all , because the splurge was flash in a mausoleum in Compton , California . My casual enquiry says it’sAngeles Abbey Memorial Park , which has a mausoleum that has the good computer architecture . Lewis say it was “ a very narrow building where essentially 40,000 body are buried above land . It was a unknown place to begin with . It had a very haunting flavor to it , right from the get go . ( Laughs . ) It was very surreal . ”
In all honesty , it make sense that there ’d be all this work imply in a large sex view . Westworld ’s been meticulous in trying to check that everything it does is n’t just tickle for titillation ’s interest . Which mean that they were going to have to do everything possible to make certain they were n’t merely making erotica . This is a point emphasize by Lewis , who say , “ I think all of us have a modicum of tasting that celebrate us from get it too far into the pornographic world and keep it in the animal world . I think that ’s important . ”
Just a smidge of taste needed , clear . Well , that , and the freedom given by being on HBO and not anywhere else .
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