{"id":22019,"date":"2018-06-10T19:25:58","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T09:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=22019"},"modified":"2018-11-05T10:45:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T00:45:34","slug":"ready-player-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=22019","title":{"rendered":"Ready Player One"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Director:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Steven Spielberg
\nWriters:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Ernest Cline and Zak Penn
\nCast:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Tye Sheriden, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, T.J Miller<\/p>\n

\u00a0T<\/span>he real world sucks.<\/p>\n

In fact, people are so keen to escape reality that when a Mark Zuckerberg-esque tech mogul creates a world of infinite possibilities that you can experience via Virtual Reality goggles, most people choose to check out of their daily existence and simply spend every waking moment in the Oasis.<\/p>\n

This is the premise for\u00a0Ready Player One<\/em>, which was originally a novel by Ernest Cline which he has now adapted into a screenplay which has been directed by Steven Spielberg.<\/p>\n

The hero of the story is Wade Watts, a nerdy boy who is obsessed with James Halliday, the late founder of the Oasis.\u00a0 When Halliday dies\u00a0he sends a message to the world announcing an easter egg hunt in the Oasis with the prize being nothing less than ownership of the Oasis technology and the company itself.\u00a0 Watts’ avatar in the Oasis is known as Parzival and in this world he and his virtual buddies race to find the next clue in Halliday’s competition as they battle against the nefarious IOI Corporation.<\/p>\n

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I never really quite clicked with\u00a0Ready Player One<\/em> when I read it a couple of years ago<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The pop culture minutiae that Watts obsesses over made him a cringey and awkward protagonist and I was never sure if the author was mocking him or if I completely misread the tone of his writing.\u00a0 After all, he’s asking the reader to get excited about the nerd in school that tries to recite the whole of\u00a0Monty Python and the Holy Grail<\/em> at girls.<\/p>\n

Spielberg’s interpretation of the story is to play it with a straight face.\u00a0 Parzival is a genuine hero and he’s supposed to be un-ironically cool.\u00a0 The film drops the Eighties-centric pop culture references from the book and broadens the scope so there’s\u00a0Overwatch<\/em> characters,\u00a0Street Fighter<\/em>‘s Chun Li and whoever else they could get under the Warner Bros licensing banner to turn up.<\/p>\n

It was when Parzival sincerely utters the film’s most infamous line – “a fanboy\u00a0knows a hater<\/em>” – that I finally understood Ready Player One<\/em>.\u00a0 This is a movie intended for kids.\u00a0 There isn’t any grand message about internet culture.\u00a0 It’s not about the dangers of virtual reality and how we need to stop looking at our phones less.\u00a0\u00a0Ready Player One<\/em> is an adventure movie for young kids.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, I think the adults involved with this production won’t connect with the kids nearly as well as they might hope.\u00a0 Tastes and trends come and go at a rapid rate in this day and age but I feel bad for anyone peddling a “video game” movie story to kids that doesn’t have a single mention of\u00a0Minecraft<\/em> or\u00a0Fortnite<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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