This is the political manifesto of OTAKU: "That was a great era, because before that, we were isolated and helpless."
Everyone loves "Ready Player One" for a reason. According to the rough separation method, I will divide the audience of movies into two categories. One is the most ordinary audience. They enter the cinema to relieve reality and come with the appeal of visual spectacle; the other is movie fans. They only account for a very small part, and they will have a deeper view of the movie when they go to the cinema, and that is to find a certain sense of subcultural identity
Regardless of ACG’s nostalgia and fandom and other sub-cultural elements for the time being, "Ready Player One" itself is an excellent Hollywood movie with a smooth narrative and outstanding visual spectacles. The little characters in the film overcome their own obstacles, obstacles of others, and the world through adventure and hard work. After the obstacle, I won everything. This is the popular Hollywood mythological text that has swept the world. The overhead world built by Spielberg on this text has reached a high level of imagination and visual wonder, so even if it can’t Audiences who recognize any subcultural symbol can also get an immersive movie-watching experience. This is the excellent background of the film, and it is also the basis for capturing the largest audience, but it is the intensive nostalgia of the new generation of subculture that has made the word-of-mouth myth of "Top Player".
The new-generation subculture here refers to the games, movies, music, and animation pop culture that swept the world from 1980 to 2000. The founder of the film "Oasis" Halliday died in 2045, and his growth stage can be Roughly locked in the 20 years between 1980-2000, the overhead world constructed by Halliday is a super collection of pop culture in those 20 years. In the overhead world, almost every frame is about the 1980-2000 pop Cultural easter eggs, or the whole movie itself is a huge easter egg, and the greatest pleasure of this movie is to discover these hidden information. To some extent, "Ready Player One" is a summary of the popular culture wave of the last two decades of the last century.
What’s more remarkable is that Spielberg himself is a standard-bearer character in the wave. The nostalgic aesthetic is one of Spielberg’s film features. Such a standard-bearer master sums up the popularity of the last two decades of the last century. Culture, I'm afraid it couldn't be more appropriate. The seventy-year-old man maintains such creative power and control, all of this may be derived from his never-changing childlike innocence, and the creative spirit of many Spielberg films comes from this childlike innocence.
But childlike innocence alone is not enough. As an outstanding genius at the end of the new Hollywood wave, Spielberg relied on his hard power to "build the world" and "manipulate people's hearts" to tell us that he is still one of the greatest directors of our time. Because he must know that one of the most important emotional statements of popular subculture audiences in the last century was to find a certain "sense of identity" in the globalized world. This sense of identity may be based on a love of a movie, a piece of music, and a game, and the diversified inclusiveness and spiritual freedom brought by the development of the Internet and popular subcultures in the last two decades of the last century have allowed even the most People at the bottom can also break the barriers of real life and find their own circles on a global scale. Their customs clearance code is the "Easter Eggs" in the movie, because only it can break the region, class, race, age, and gender. The shackles on people.
"Thank you for playing my game" has broken the emotional core of the whole movie. To some extent, the popularity and development of ACG and film subculture in the last 20 years of the last century is actually the independence of various subculture niche circles. The core of the declaration is spiritual freedom. When expressed in the concrete, it is the sense of tolerance and identity that cultural diversity brings to various small circles of people.
This is the political manifesto of OTAKU: "That was a great era, because before that, we were isolated and helpless."
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