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Ready Player One is a 2018 American science fiction action film based on Ernest Cline's novel of the same name. The film was co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg , written by Cline and Zak Penn , and stars Tye Sheridan , Olivia Cooke , Ben Mendelsohn , Lena Waithe , T.J. Miller , Simon Pegg , and Mark Rylance .
Mar 29, 2018 · Ready Player One: Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe. When the creator of a virtual reality called the OASIS dies, he makes a posthumous challenge to all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune and control of his world.
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- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- Steven Spielberg
- 2018-03-29
- The location. The year is still 2044, but in the book, Wade Watts lives in Oklahoma City—not Columbus, Ohio, the headquarters of both OASIS and IOI. The Stacks appear in the film much like they’re described in the movie (though there were 15 people living in his aunt’s trailer in the book, not three), but Wade begins his journey far from any of his in-game friends or anything else that matters to him in the real world.
- The future. The book is much more dystopian than the movie. As Wade narrates about the death of James Halliday: “The people of Earth had other concerns.
- The rich man’s game. In the movie, Wade has free reign of the OASIS. It’s a virtual paradise. In the books, he’s too poor to travel anywhere beyond the boring starter planet Incipio and his public school on Ludus.
- The weight. In the book, Wade struggled mightily with his weight. It made going to school in the physical world through sixth grade miserable for him. When he moves to Columbus, he actually enables a voluntary OASIS fitness lockout, so that he wouldn’t be able to visit OASIS unless he followed a mandatory daily exercise regimen.
Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan), an orphaned, 20-year-old Gunter, lives in a Columbus, Ohio, slum with his aunt. In the OASIS, Wade goes by his avatar Parzival, and has partnered with Aech, a male avatar that serves as a virtual mechanic. He later befriends well-known player Art3mis after saving her from dying in-game - referred to as being "zeroed ...
Mar 20, 2018 · What surprised me the most is that Ready Player One is a genuinely funny movie, from start to finish. From a hellish, scary-looking Oasis avatar unexpectedly talking about his real-world neck ...
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Mar 28, 2018 · And not only video games. “Ready Player One,” written by Mr. Cline and Zak Penn, dives into the magma of fan zeal, male self-pity and techno-mythology in which those once-innocent pastimes are ...