After watching the movie, it is not surprising to find that the movie has made a lot of adaptations to the book. Although the entire framework has not changed, the details of the structure have been carefully adjusted. In my opinion, the biggest difference is that the sense of science fiction in novels is rather weak, more like games or e-sports, while movies have become real science fiction films. First of all, although the movie has greatly reduced the old game movie music novels in the original work, replaced by fewer and more popular elements, but the movie uses a unique visual style to present a strong retro-futuristic sense. The retro futuristic style in many sci-fi movie games originated in the 1950s and 1960s, when the rocket took off and the iron curtain came, and the imagination of the future was full of robots, space dreams and deep space fear. The number one player is like the fantasy of the people in the 1980s. Although there was no Internet at that time, the video game industry exploded. It was a brand new dream dedicated to mankind by the technology of that era. In fact, Head-mounted displays were also born around that time. Introduce the 8-bit electronic sound from the 1980s into the wormhole, travel through 30 to 40 years, and then connect with the sensual feast of 2018, magnify and distort it, and play it in the future VR glasses. This is the tune of the number one player. Jumping with the trembling of Michael Jackson, driving the sports car back to the future, the Pentium is all the fantasy blood of the eighties. More important than style, in the original novel, the medium of VR glasses basically exists only as a tool to enter the virtual world, while in the movie, how the two worlds are connected and interacted, the role of the person in it, and the role of VR glasses in it. The role is very realistic. Especially for the scene after the real world has been changed by VR, the depiction is amazing. I am very impressed with the scene of the VR market in the City of Thousand Stars. There is a strong sense of the future and a strong romantic atmosphere in the vision, but it is quite far from the reality where we are. The realistic, weird and retro VR life among the top players may be the nearest future to us. Interstellar travel time and space, the awakening of artificial intelligence, and the intubated Matrix behind it all seem to be out of reach. VR with heavy glasses The world is in the process of being realized, and we are using the unstoppable wave of entertainment capital to rush towards that world at full capacity. More important than the future world is the reflection on the future world. This is the core of science fiction, similar to the opposite of taking history as a mirror. Human meaning points to the future. Without vision, it is difficult to construct the meaning of existence. The future world is the realization and end of meaning. This is the value of fundamental science fiction, at least for many people. The original novel is weak in science fiction, because it mainly talks about how an otaku defeated a capitalist and reached the pinnacle of life through the super familiar otaku culture. Although there are vivid and exciting game details and a climax of killing monsters, it is also very exciting, but the theme is simple, and the popular culture is The positive side, the capital giant is the opposite side, the fight against monsters is upgraded to the end, the game is consummated, and the girl gets his hands. In reality, he becomes rich in one fell swoop. The film has made some subtle adaptations in this regard, not to overwhelm the popular elements of Amway game movies, but to stimulate the audience's popular nerves with various easter eggs while adding some complexity. For example, the villain’s behavior in the original movie is relatively simple, and Nolan in the movie will pretend to say, "Although I look like a corporate executive who is a stupid white-collar worker, but I love pop culture in my heart", the word pop. It has become a symbol of being tall, and the irony is self-evident. The things he does are also smarter and more credible, and are even more in line with the values of business society (except for the part of real pk). In the original book, the protagonist's nerdiness is more terrifying, and the image is more domineering, and he becomes the god in the game at the end of the novel. In the movie, the protagonist is more confused about the future, not sure about how to use the bonus, and full of unconfidence. The strongest belief is just "Never leave the oasis to IOI". Unlike the original, the last life was given by another former executive of Oasis Company, and he was also recruited by the protagonist, which left some aftertaste to chew. There is more space in the original book to explain the hero and heroine from suspicion to love. In the movie, this process is quickly settled, and then a lot of conflicts are placed on the value level of the player and the company, and more observations of the society problem. At the end of the novel, the protagonist was influenced by Halliday and said that for the first time in his life he didn't want to log in to the Oasis, but he didn't seem to have much introspection, because he was already worth hundreds of billions of dollars. In contrast, the image of the protagonist in the movie will be more realistic. The otaku god Halliday, in the original book, is like a wise old man who sees everything, he will always exist in the halo until he finally regains his true body, and after telling the protagonist some great principles that have nothing to do with the whole book, he drifts away. , Like a sage. While in electricity In the shadow, what I saw was an ordinary old man, an old man who talked and bumped, and his eyes were both mysterious and confused. Halliday's confusion comes not only from the regret of not confessing to the girl, but also from the reflection on his own career, in the words of the movie: disgust with what he has created. This is a complex realization, intertwined with emotions of regret, disillusionment and destruction. He wants to simply make a good game, and he wants to go back in time. After a lifetime of thinking, this current genius probably discovered that he really couldn’t go back. The world was no longer under his control. In the end, he had to gamble on everything and played an ultimate game, but the reward for this game was a huge amount of hundreds of billions. Red envelopes, I am afraid it also deviates from the original intention of making a good game. Not to mention the issue of gameplay, the issue of social impact, and whether the egg hunters who have attracted a lot of money are reliable. But Halliday didn't care anymore, he even made a button to destroy everything. This absurd game itself is also very ironic. In the movie, Nolan suggested to Halliday to determine the level of gold, silver and bronze according to the player's recharge. Halliday turned his face in pain. When I saw this, the product manager of a live app next to me slapped my thigh, so I do this every day! This is the fact, no matter how much we remember the past, we can't go back. The adolescence of the Internet is a revolution of elitism. They do everything they can to push the Internet to life, but the networking of life has shattered elitism. Common people’s life has assimilated the Internet into the ordinary real world, and the virtual world has been swallowed and disappeared. In the market. After the network evolves further, it will eventually come back and swallow the real world into the virtual. A new revolution has taken place. The war between new classics and vulgarities, new idealism and capitalist profit machines, carries the historical mission of fighting for the new worldview of the new mankind, and is unfolding in a brand new arena. This is VR. world. Excellent science fiction shows future science and technology, and great science fiction discusses future ethics and values. When reality is like a run-down city among the top players, day by day it becomes dirty, embarrassed and nihilistic, the waves of entertainment and capitalism merge into one, and finally get on the big ship of virtual reality, where will everything go? What will people become? Will players really fight big companies for what values? You refuse to hand over the oasis to IOI, what kind of oasis do you want? Neither the movie nor the novel gave an answer. Spielberg is just telling you that if there is such a virtual world that includes all the popular cultures you like, it will surely carry the banner of reconstruction and save you contemporary humans who want nothing but entertainment. , Retreat from the desert of reality and desperately fled to the madly cool oasis in the VR glasses.
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