"Ready Player One" has a score of 8.5. The picture is gorgeous and wonderful. It is perfect and thought-provoking.
Let’s talk about the birth of the film first. The film is adapted from the novel "Ready Player One" (Ready Player One) published in 2011 by the American science fiction writer Ernest Cline, but the film adaptation rights were sold to a year earlier in 2010. Warners, that is, it took eight years for the film to make it to the screen. In the first five years, I was looking for a director and a screenwriter. The original author and Zach Payne (the screenwriter of the Avengers series) have tried, constantly polishing the script, and once wanted to give up for many reasons, until Steven Spielberg After seeing the script, I became interested and signed a director agreement before putting the film on the agenda. It was already 2015. The filming finally started in 2016, and it took two years to add post-production. It was originally scheduled to be released on December 15, 2017, but because of the conflict with the schedule of "Star Wars 8", it was finally set on March 30, 2018. It was released simultaneously in North America, and we have the finished product we are seeing now. During this period, Spielberg also directed a political film "The Washington Post", and nominated the best film for the 2018 Oscar and Golden Globe Awards. Although he did not win the award, it still showed the high level of his director. , high efficiency.
The key to making this film was not the usual issues of investment and scene construction, but the licensing of the IP. Because American law is very perfect and strict in protecting intellectual property rights, there are a large number of commercial litigation cases concerning copyright and patent issues. It has to go bankrupt, so the director who shoots this kind of subject must obtain the relevant authorization to perform one by one. For example, in this "Ready Player One", the film involves the implantation of more than 120 characters, props, music, scenes, and plots of historically related film and television dramas, games, animations, and records. A large number of these classic characters belong to one company. IP is mainly distributed in the hands of several major entertainment companies in the United States and Japan. It is not possible for ordinary people to be able to obtain these authorizations in a short period of time. Fortunately, Director Si is powerful, and the team has first-class qualifications. Many problems are easily solved. There are so many film and television companies, game companies and record companies that he can't handle. After all, he is one of the most influential directors in the world today. Therefore, this film The film must also be directed by him. Living up to expectations, since its release, it has received rave reviews around the world, and the box office is sure to set a record. The writing team said that the only people who didn't like the movie might be readers of the earlier original novels.
From this point of view, the birth of a good work is always accompanied by various uncertainties. Many good works may be due to factors such as insufficient investment, lack of good directors, poor screenwriters, replacement of actors, policy restrictions, etc. The reason is stillborn, so an excellent blockbuster is worth our time to appreciate and cherish. If it can go through the scrutiny of time, it will definitely become a classic.
Next, I will talk about this masterpiece in five sections: actor highlights, plot easter eggs, director's sideshow, commercial derivatives and future brain holes. (To be continued)
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