Played by: Yul Brynner
Westworld was the big-screen directorial debut of Michael Crichton, the master of technology-run-amok thrillers, and 40 years later it still packs a wallop. The main reason? Yul Brynner’s nameless, black-clad and perfectly bald (all over, one presumes) robotic gunslinger. Like the rest of the “entertainers” in Westworld—a futuristic amusement park where visitors can live out their noblest and basest fantasies—Brynner’s animatronic desperado one day suddenly goes icily, murderously rogue. The subsequent violence, while almost placid by today’s standards, is made eminently creepier by the dispassionate intensity of the robots in revolt. (The Simpsons paid brilliant tribute to Westworld in the classic 1994 episode, “Itchy & Scratchy Land.”)
Evil deed: Blowing away park visitors in spontaneous gun duels
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