The film plays fast and loose with aspects of the book, and not necessarily for the better (although the novel has its own plot problems). For all he knows, Ar3mis (pronounced as you would if the 3 were an e), as Aech expresses it, “is a 300-pound dude who lives in his momma’s basement in suburban Detroit. Wade has never met the flesh-and-blood counterparts to these avatars. Wade, or rather his avatar Parzival, shares this adventure with friends Aech, Sho, Daito, and Art3mis, a kick-ass Lara Croft type, with whom he is smitten. Boo! The hero of this tale is Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan), an orphaned teen desperate to flee his pitiful life in The Stacks, a vertical trailer park, where he lives with a none-too-cuddly aunt and her physically abusive boyfriend. Basically, you will become the king of the universe, a god, like Halliday, among men.īattling Gunters (short for “Egg hunters”) around the world for the Egg is the evil corporation (is there ever any other kind?) Innovative Online Industries (IOI), which wants to own The Oasis, currently freely available to all, to monetize it. The first to discover that mystery, or Easter Egg, as these hidden treasures buried in games (and movies) are known, wins the entire thing: The Oasis and Halliday’s multibillion-dollar fortune. When the great, reclusive Halliday dies, he leaves behind Anorak’s Quest: a game to find three keys that unlock a mystery at the heart of The Oasis and named for Halliday’s own online identity: Anorak the magician. The Oasis is the creation of one James Halliday (Mark Rylance), a kinda sorta Steve Jobs, and friend/creative partner Ogden Morrow (Simon Pegg, or Steve Wozniak, take your pick). You enter this virtual reality via Google-glass-like specs, to assume an avatar’s alternate identity and engage in a life of adventure and conquest that is the stuff of dreams. Ready Player One, the new film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the mega-selling sci-fi novel by Ernest Cline, is set in 2045, when most of the wretched, catastrophe-rocked globe is entranced by a massive online simulation called The Oasis.
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