When the movie first came out, it was a "strange trick" to satisfy people's curiosity. Some people would scream and run away when they saw the train entering the station and the tide was blowing, and some people performed the ancient and modern times and landed on the moon on the screen. Real fantasy... People have found that movies can satisfy the imagination and eccentricity in their hearts. It is a dream-making machine that can prolong one-third of life.
With the development and progress of technology and civilization, film has gradually established its status as an art form, has been endowed with more meaning and value, and even has a more detailed "grading standard". Even dreams are divided into illusory dreams, realistic dreams, distant dreams, and dreams that are close at hand... As an audience, how many people dare to say that they watched the movie out of superb artistic appreciation and profound meaning? ? Admit it, you fell in love with watching movies in the first place because it was new, interesting, and fun.
After thinking about this, it is not surprising to look at "Ready Player One", which has an unrealistically high rating but received almost unanimous praise: the storyline of this film is indeed cliché, and there are a lot of flaws in logic, but it has a high degree of performance." The original essence of "movie", it made countless audiences/players have a sweet and gorgeous dream.
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One thing to say, "Ready Player One" is fun and enjoyable, but there are indeed many problems and pitfalls. For example, Nolan Sorrento, a big-hearted boss who sticks his password on his seat and does not lock the office door, is open and honest with softness Slavery contracts control employees, squandering the company's huge resources on the "Oasis", and it is amazing that IOI can remain the second in the world.
In addition, the story is old-fashioned, the structure is unstable, etc. There are also objective situations, and many of the scenes in the film are very vague or even far-fetched... In short, the shortcomings and defects that everyone can calmly and rationally raise are correct. .
However, these may not be the point.
With Steven Spielberg's reputation, achievements, and status today, he doesn't really have to use any works to prove himself, but this time he simply put aside all scruples and just focused on completing a fantasy .
At the age of 72, he can still shoot such a pure work, and Spielberg is qualified to be called " back to basics" .
Speaking of which, the film can get so many surprises after its release, largely because everyone was "deceived" by the propaganda notices before the release : In a future world full of negativity and loss, "Oasis" is not about saving mankind The panacea of the game is not the key code for life and death. Without it, human beings will still get by, the world will still be half-dead, and the earth will still revolve—from the beginning to the end, it is just a game.
"Ready Player One" seems to have a high-pitched tone, but it actually falls softly, which is also in line with the basic, simple and sincere tone of the story that Spielberg has always liked to use.
Another place where the audience is "deceived" is the visual effects of the movie. In the trailer, the characters in "Oasis" are slightly out of line, but when you walk into the theater, put on 3D glasses, and step into that world, you won't be able to. You will find how appropriate its texture is. In terms of special effects, this film is almost impeccable, and only the opening racing scene is worth the ticket price.
Under such an effect, the story of "gentleness" shows no signs of weakness at all. On the contrary, it relies on countless "good sentences" to piece together a gorgeous movement (this is also the future direction of VR game development.) Bar).
Burying four or five or even a dozen Easter eggs in a movie will make the audience feel interesting, but what about using hundreds of Easter eggs throughout the movie, and even the theme is looking for Easter eggs? It's totally a rave party.
The Easter eggs in the film cover many classic pop culture elements such as games, movies, music, etc., including but not limited to : Batman, Akira, StarCraft, King Kong, Overwatch, Star Trek, Alien, Back to the Future, Deep Love Adventure, Magical Adventure, Ghost Resurrection, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Halo, Street Fighter, Thriller, Machine War...
This is a typical quantitative change leading to qualitative change.
The more easter eggs you get, the more fun watching the movie, but even if you don’t understand it, it won’t affect your experience. This movie is very friendly to most audiences – just like the scene of “The Shining”, I and I Aiqi felt the same: "I don't like watching horror movies! It's scary!" Even if you haven't seen this classic movie, you can still follow Aiqi's perspective and enjoy it.
What are people's dreams like? If you are fortunate enough to remember after waking up, you will find that your dreams are often full of absurdities and mashups (for example, my classmates and I took the bus, and after getting off the bus, we went to the burning Honnoji Temple to help Oda Nobunaga. The boss has the face of some hated relative, and then we have the poisoning effect in D&D...), you tend not to hate the weirdness of the dream, but marvel at the magic of the dream.
Of course, we will also imagine more advanced hodgepodge and chaos than "Guan Gong Zhan Qin Qiong", but works that can break through many restrictions such as copyright and settings can basically only be fandoms or pirated copies...
Going back to the beginning of the text - there are some dreams that we can think of in our minds, but we can't see in reality , such as Gundam vs. Mecha Godzilla, steel giants becoming Terminators in seconds, etc...
The biggest advantage and trump card of "Ready Player One" is that he has helped countless fans who love subcultures to realize a beautiful dream: those who sincerely like this movie have more or less found the shadow of their dream in the movie.
In short, the film has scratched some of the most secret itch in the hearts of many viewers, and the exhilaration it brings is enough to make people full of "sentiment points".
However, the spiritual temperament conveyed by the film is more than just "feelings".
It laboriously creates a virtual world that everyone wants to go to, but between the lines it tells everyone to cherish reality.
James Halliday left the players with four tests of "three brights and one dark", in fact, all of them are related to his regrets in his past life : dissatisfaction with career development, lamentation about love memory, miss for the original intention of the game, Regret for friendship choices...
Although the film is based on the game, the more you look at the later stage, the more you will find that it is not limited to the game. This is where Spielberg is smart enough and right.
The climax scene is undoubtedly the final battle. The two sides are the players called by the "First Guild" IOI and the "Oasis Top Five". Behind the latter's bizarre game shapes, there are people who are full of righteous indignation and enthusiasm. Ordinary people , it is reasonable to say that this kind of player group party (carnival) is very moving, but in reality, this kind of scene makes people feel a little... horrifying.
But no one can deny that players who are "indulged" in virtual games are participating in a valuable and meaningful "holy war" at the moment.
To put it a bit "sour", I think this film really reveals a certain educational meaning, that is , people who live wonderfully in the virtual world should also live a fulfilling, active and happy life in real life.
Combined with my past experiences with netizens "Mianji", I think the offline meetings of several friends in the film are also very real and interesting: real fun friends will never "die in the light" because they In the virtual network, they have already become like-minded friends, and this friendship will never change because of the real person's height, short, fat and thin, old and young, beautiful and ugly (of course, if you want to fall in love, you still have to take some risks--).
Frankly speaking, I had so many expectations before watching "Ready Player One" that after watching it, I found that it was not as "cool" as I expected, but this did not affect my admiration and praise for it at all. It has several Everywhere moved me, such as the joy of Halliday's "Thank you for playing my game", such as Wade's simplicity when looking for "the first easter egg"...
They reminded me of the surprise when I first discovered the hidden props of "MapleStory" and the vines in "Super Mario" when I played the red and white machine, and the joy of seeing the Tauren in the toilet when I played the "StarCraft" campaign "Wings of Liberty", It is interesting to hear the interactive dialogue between NPCs through the plot of "Diablo 3"...
I understand those audiences who don't like "Ready Player One" because this movie is not their favorite dream; but I understand more about those audiences who cheer and even cry for "Ready Player One", because I, who have similar dreams, are also one of them.
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