Talking Movies: Five-star masterpiece, we are all number one players
Text | Wheater
March 30, 2018
At the beginning of the release of "Ready Player One" , many film critics were worried about the domestic market. For Spielberg's new film, whether the large number of "easter eggs" set up can be obtained to the complete point.
In fact, this is a completely unnecessary worry. It is said that there are more than 300 complete Easter eggs in "Ready Player One". In general, non-experienced gamers, or movie fans, can find more than 30 places, which is already quite powerful.
Even if you can only have some resonance in rare movies and game experience, it will not affect you to be shocked by the setting of this work.
Take 10,000 steps back, even if you are a post-90s or post-00 audience, you will be attracted by the excellent quality of the film itself.
Not all movies can have no urine spots in 140 minutes. The three passages of customs clearance have a degree of relaxation, stunts, plots, suspense, even thrillers, and blood... nothing.
Spielberg's last sci-fi movie should be "Dream Giant" in 2016. This childish "ET" still focuses on the childhood innocence and fantasy in Spielberg's movies. He has photographed robots, giants, and war horses. This time, Spielberg aimed the elements at games that were very emotional for the post-70s and post-80s.
In fact, before "Ready Player One", 2015's "Pixel Wars" was also a game-like film that captured feelings. But this work is so bad that it was even nominated for the worst movie of the year at the Golden Raspberry Awards.
In the entire film world, those who can preserve the artistic value of commercial films and have commercial value at the same time, I think the three top directors should be Cameron, Nolan, and Spielberg.
The whole movie, in the setting of the plot, mostly has some Hollywood movie routines. Apocalyptic sci-fi, resource-poor, cyberpunk-style world setting. You can understand it as a slightly brighter "Blade Runner 2046". Diaosi play games, counterattack to win everything.
You can say that there are thousands of Hollywood movies made this way for such a vulgar movie. However, Spielberg was quite playful this time. He made a story with an intuitive plot and no twists and turns.
Friends who are interested, you can go to check the film reviews organized by professional easter eggs. About King Kong, Dinosaurs, Batman, Chun-Li... and so on, all the settings, this is itself an exhibition art of movies and games. Although it may only be a second or a few seconds of participation, you are equivalent to visiting a chronicle of movies and games, and making a popcorn movie into an epic temperament is too awesome.
I personally think that one of the best easter eggs in the movie must be the participation of Gundam. It is said that this part itself is Ultraman coming to fight Godzilla. If it is really copyrighted, this scene, I am afraid it will really force the audience to scream. But Gundam is undoubtedly a memory killing for the people in the 1980s who are now gradually entering middle age. Blood is such a thing, really, no matter how old you are, familiar music, familiar characters appear, you can't help but bleed.
And the plot of "The Shining" is directly immersed into it, which is so wonderful that it is unnecessary. You can imagine that a comedy-type sci-fi movie can still incorporate a thrilling and terrifying atmosphere. This is simply divine creativity. Thinking of the horror movie "The Cabin in the Woods" back then, it was only the stunned ten minutes. And "Ready Player One" is moving you with this kind of whimsy from beginning to end.
Those elements of the movie are love letters dedicated to the old memories of the gaming era, especially the arcade and handheld era, and the integration of movie elements is even more as a filmmaker. . Those hard-earned easter eggs, and the lengthy process of collecting accolades that copyright allows, aside. "Ready Player One" itself shows the quality of an excellent commercial film in terms of special effects, plot, rhythm, and soundtrack. And the movie itself, in terms of anti-vulgarity, also did quite well.
When everyone thought that the core of unlocking Halliday's secret was love, the final answer was the regret of friendship. What I want to express is the review of life by a genius who had social fear in childhood and was immersed in the game world. True love (friendship and love) is the most important thing in life. This is the same as the Oasis Five Heroes teaming up to fight monsters, and finally all players rushed to help.
I think that the final battle of the game will definitely remind many gamers of the siege battle in the game they were obsessed with. Every ID sacrificed and returned to zero is like being killed in a virtual world. But honor and defending honor keep them from dying.
Even the villain will be afraid of his "a piece of equipment that has only been accumulated in ten years". For those civilian players, defending the freedom of the game world, and they do not experience the sense of existence in reality.
Games, and movies, are the best tools for indulging in this world. He can let everyone who is mediocre find their place in the game. Although the addiction to games will make us lose our enthusiasm for real life, but you can't deny that in those difficult years, in those green years, those old friends in the game, accompanied countless nights, countless Passion, fighting.
People will always return from the unique game world to the mediocre life. The difference is that Spielberg will commemorate his lost time in the form of a movie. This is also a record made for each era. That's why I give him full marks.
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