Ready Player One (film)

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Movie
German title Ready Player One
Original title Ready Player One
Ready Player One logo.png
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2018
length 140 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Steven Spielberg
script Ernest Cline ,
Zak Penn
production Donald De Line ,
Dan Farah ,
Kristie Macosko Krieger ,
Steven Spielberg
music Alan Silvestri
camera Janusz Kamiński
cut Michael Kahn
occupation
synchronization

Ready Player One is a science fiction thriller by Steven Spielberg that was released in US cinemas on March 29, 2018 and in German cinemas on April 5, 2018. The film is based on the science fiction novel Ready Player One by Ernest Cline and is set in the gamer world of the near future.

action

In 2045, many of the world's population centers will have become slum-like cities. To escape their desperation, people move into the virtual world of OASIS, a multiplayer - VR game of an online platform. In this virtual world invented and programmed by game designer James Donovan Halliday, people can escape the gloomy everyday life and users can do and experience almost everything here, because OASIS is a world in which the limit of reality is one's own imagination. If you want, you can climb Mount Everest with Batman, ski on the pyramids in Egypt or change your gender. You can earn coins there, buy clothes, weapons or artifacts for them, or with a lot of skill you can get them that Halliday has hidden in this world. In the OASIS, however, you can also lose everything if your own avatar is screened. After Halliday passed away in 2040, a great search began as part of his legacy, as the programmer hid an Easter egg in OASIS . In his video will, Halliday decreed that the finder of the Easter Egg should not only inherit his fortune, consisting of half a trillion US dollars in shares, but also full control of OASIS. In order to get to the egg, the players have to find three keys that he has hidden in different places in the OASIS, in which he appears as his avatar anorak, and each of which opens a different magic gate. The first key is given to whoever manages to cross the finish line in a race. However, no player has succeeded in this in the five years since Halliday's death.

The teenager Wade Owen Watts from Columbus , Ohio also spends a lot of time in virtual reality, where he moves in the form of his avatar Parzival on his omnidirectional treadmill, which is located in his retreat in an old van. He was born after the corn burn in 2027. Wade perceives reality as horror and he values ​​the OASIS because he can escape there at any time. Since the death of his parents, he has lived in an area made up of residential containers called "The Stacks" with his aunt Alice, who is constantly making new friends. Wade doesn't get along with these, especially Rick, her current partner, who lost her savings in the OASIS in a fight. In OASIS, on the other hand, there is the avatar Aech, whom Wade describes as his best friend, even if they have never met in real life. Aech is a skilled mechanic at OASIS.

Tye Sheridan , here at Comic-Con in San Diego , stars in the film as Wade Owen Watts

Wade has not stopped participating in the regular race for the first key. Art3mis, who is very well known in the OASIS, also takes part on her motorcycle. After saving her from being zeroed by King Kong, they become friends. Art3mis believes that it is the duty of all Gunter to protect OASIS from being taken over by the group “Innovative Online Industries” (“IOI”). For research, Wade went to the Halliday Journal, a virtual library within the OASIS, in which the Gunter can find out more about the founder. There he tries to learn something about Halliday's life from the personal notes that gives him a clue on how to end the race. In one of the recorded conversations with his partner Ogden Morrow, Halliday said, "Why can't we even go backwards?" This sentence gives Wade the decisive clue, and in the next race he shifts into reverse at the start line and finds a safe way to the finish line . He receives the first of the three keys and an indication of the next quest. The next Gunter to receive this key are Aech, Art3mis and the Gunter Daito and Sho. The names of the players are now on a huge scoreboard. With the money Wade received as the leader on the scoreboard, he buys weapons, artifacts and a sensor suit, which he gets delivered to his real life home.

Ben Mendelsohn plays Wade's opponent Nolan Sorrento

Nolan Sorrento, head of IOI, also wants to keep control of the OASIS. However, he is less idealistic than Halliday and wants to take advantage of the game. So he set up a literal army of drones controlling the avatars to search. The IOI employees, who are called sixes and whose avatars can already be recognized in the OASIS by their clothing, only wear numbers and are not addressed by their name. Sorrento wants Parzival's name to disappear from the scoreboard by all means. He therefore puts his henchman i-R0k on Parzival.

While trying to unravel the clues for the second key, Parzival and Art3mis meet in a club. They are overheard by i-R0k and, due to Parzival's inattention, i-R0k receives enough information to identify Wade in the real world. While Parzival and Art3mis are dancing happily, the IOI henchmen are ambushed, but they are able to escape. With the information provided by i-R0k about Parzival's identity, Sorrento is now trying to get Wade on his side and win over to IOI. However, he declines the offer and continues to work on the puzzles with his friends on his own. In retaliation, Sorrento lets his assistant F'Nale Zandor attack Wade's container where he suspects it. An explosion and the collapse of the container tower kill his aunt Alice and her friend Rick.

Wade himself is kidnapped by the rebels who have come together around Samantha Cook. She is Art3mis in the OASIS. Out of hiding, the two find the solution to the second riddle in a replica of the Overlook Hotel from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining . Art3mis receives the second key, the Jade Key, after she asks Kira to dance in the hotel ballroom after jumping. In the meantime, Zandor learns that Wade survived the attack and goes in search of the rebels' hiding place. During the storming of the hiding place, Wade escapes with Samantha's help, but Samanthas is captured and put into an IOI loyalty center, where she is supposed to work off the debts that her father had once accumulated in the OASIS.

In the meantime, Wade is rescued by the players he only knew from the OASIS as Aech, Daito and Sho. His best friend in real life is a woman named Helen Harris. Together they decipher the clue to the third key that leads them to Anorak's castle on the planet Doom. There Sorrento has already built up an extensive defense and an impenetrable force field, which is generated by the artifact ball of Ozovox and can only be switched off from within. The six are already working to find the third key with the help of an Atari 2600 console, as it must be hidden in one of the games.

Because of her forced labor, Art3mis is trapped inside the force field. However, by hacking Sorrento's OASIS access, Wade and the others succeed in tricking Sorrento's OASIS account into believing that he has successfully logged out of the game. In reality, however, he is in a replica of his office created by Aech, and thus they receive all the information they need to contact Samantha and free her from her cell in the Loyalty Center. Parzival then calls on all avatars to support the now high-five group on planet Doom in their fight. Numerous players follow the call and begin the battle for Anorak's castle.

In the meantime, Samantha succeeds in gaining access to the Warroom of the Six within the IOI building and sneaking up on the Ozovox sphere as an IOI guard within OASIS and deactivating the protective shield. In the now completely flared up battle, Sorrento transforms into Mecha- Godzilla on the battlefield and can only be defeated with the combined forces of the High-Fiver. Parzival and the others go into the room where a six is ​​playing the game Adventure , the first computer game in which an Easter egg was ever hidden. The six is ​​observed by the group and wins the game, but is also zeroed like the other sixes previously in other games tested. Before Parzival arrives at the console, Sorrento appears again with the powerful artifact Cataclyst and can activate it. As a result, all avatars on the planet Doom die and are zeroed. All except Parzival, who survived due to a quarter dollar received on a winning bet with the curator of the Halliday Journal, which turned out to be an extra life. Parzival receives the final key by not trying to win the Adventure game , but by triggering the Easter Egg in the game. With all three keys he can now gain access to the treasury where the Easter egg is hidden. Parzival is subjected to a final test by Anorak, which he also passes, whereupon Anorak turns into a projection of Halliday. In the projection of Halliday's nursery, he finally hands Wade the golden Easter egg, giving him control of OASIS.

After Sorrento's and Zandor's arrest, Wade decides to share control of the OASIS with the other high-fivers. Ogden Morrow, who was able to observe her search in the OASIS unnoticed in the guise of the curator, offers to work for her as a consultant for a fee of a quarter of a dollar. The high five decide to shut down the OASIS twice a week, every Tuesday and Thursday, to force people to spend more time in the real world. Wade and Samantha start a relationship and move into an apartment together.

production

Staff and adaptation of the template

Screenwriter Zak Penn at Comic-Con in San Diego

The film is based on the dystopian science fiction novel Ready Player One by Ernest Cline from 2010. Before the book was released, his dark dystopia came into the hands of Steven Spielberg , who was immediately enthusiastic about the concept and directed the film led. Cline's novel was adapted for the film by Zak Penn . In addition, the author and the director had intensified their collaboration, so that Cline was also involved in the description. Cline himself emphasized how much he enjoyed the project and that he was thoroughly surprised at how faithfully his ideas of the story were finally implemented.

Compared to the novel, some things have been changed or left out. The first challenge, which in the book is a combination of the classic game Dungeons of Daggorath and the film WarGames , became a spectacular car race through Manhattan. Regarding the other differences, Jan-Keno Janssen from Heise.de notes that the director adorned the dystopian world of the novel with a lot of icing for his film: “Rule in the book poverty, drug addiction and death in the slums, one looks at Spielberg's film in happy Middle-class faces of housewives who are in a good mood vacuuming their caravans in their cleaning coats. Spielberg also didn't dare to show the two young protagonists as Cline described them: overweight and not necessarily in line with the Hollywood ideal of beauty. ”Jan-Keno notes that there is also a love story that doesn't appear in the book Janssen on.

Cast and dubbing

actor Voice actor role
Tye Sheridan Sebastian Fitzner Parzival / Wade
Lena Waithe Maja Maneiro Aech / Helen Harris
Susan Lynch Katrin Fröhlich Alice
Olivia Cooke Victoria Frenz Art3mis / Samantha Evelyn Cook
Hannah John-Kamen Julia Kaufmann F'Nale Zandor
Mark Rylance Frank Röth James Donovan Halliday / anorak
Ben Mendelsohn Dennis Schmidt-Foss Nolan Sorrento
Simon Pegg Simon hunter Ogden Morrow / Curator
Ralph Ineson Matti Klemm Rick
( TJ Miller ) Björn Schalla I-ROk

Tye Sheridan plays Wade Owen Watts in the film, who acts in the OASIS through his avatar Parzival. Olivia Cooke took on the role of Samantha Evelyn Cook, called Art3mis in OASIS. Lena Waithe took on the role of Helen Harris, who controls the avatar Aech in the game. Mark Rylance can be seen in the role of OASIS inventor James Donovan Halliday, Ben Mendelsohn in the role of Nolan Sorrento of Innovative Online Industries. Hannah John-Kamen plays his assistant F'Nale Zandor. In the Original Version , TJ Miller lends his sidekick I-ROk his voice.

Spielberg explained that since the film is largely set in the purely virtual world between OASIS, it was difficult for the actors to orientate themselves on the set because they lacked real reference points: “The only chance for them to understand where they are , were Oculus glasses . With these glasses you could see the whole set. ”Without these, the actors would only have stood in a 380 square meter white room with no content, with glasses on, they were in Halliday's basement or in his workshop, says Spielberg.

The German synchronization was based on a dialogue book by Alexander Löwe and the dialogue direction by Dietmar Wunder on behalf of FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH, Berlin.

Filming and special effects

Filming took place at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden, and Birmingham , including the Jewelery Quarter, Floodgate Street in Digbeth, and the Gravelly Hill Interchange , also known as Spaghetti Junction . Two-time Oscar winner Janusz Kamiński acted as cameraman .

When preparing the film, exploring the possibilities of the special effects and especially when editing the film, Spielberg used the many different settings that resulted from the motion capture recordings . The OASIS was created completely virtually in the motion capture process, while the scenes in the real world were also filmed in the same. Andreas Staben from Filmstarts thinks that the artificial perfection and the hyper-realism of the OASIS are perfectly matched and that it fits with the design of the escapist dream world that overkill is never far away.

Equipment, costumes and film music

The set was designed by Oscar winner Anna Pinnock , the costumes by Kasia Walicka-Maimone .

Sound design was the responsibility of the sound engineer Richard Hymns , who was nominated for an Oscar several times and was awarded for his work on Indiana Jones and the last crusade with the same . The film music was composed by Alan Silvestri after John Williams was initially intended for this work. The soundtrack to the film, which comprises 22 pieces of music, was released as a download on March 30, 2018 and as a double CD on April 6, 2018 by WaterTower Music. In addition, on March 30, 2018, an album was released with the songs from the film, including Prince, Tears for Fears , The Temptations , Bruce Springsteen , Blondie, the Bee Gees , Earth, Wind & Fire and New Order . The soundtrack went on May 11, 2018 13th place in the soundtrack album charts in the UK one.

Marketing, companion piece and publication

In July 2017, Spielberg presented his film project at the Comic-Con in San Diego . A first trailer for the film was also released at this time. A first German trailer followed in August 2017. A final trailer was published in mid-March 2018. In the various trailers were the songs Tom Sawyer by Rush, World In My Eyes by Depeche Mode (in the Cicada remix), Jump by Van Halen , Take On Me by a-ha (in the remix) and Pure Imagination by Gene Wilder (in the Ghostwriter Music Version). In the week before the US theatrical release, a featurette was released that takes a look behind the scenes and lets the makers and actors have their say. On April 3, 2018, The Art of Ready Player One, the official art book for the film, was released.

The film celebrated its world premiere on March 11, 2018 as part of the South by Southwest Film Festival , its European premiere on March 19, 2018 in London, and was released in US cinemas on March 29, 2018 and in Chinese cinemas on March 30, 2018 and in German cinemas on April 5, 2018.

reception

Age rating

In the US, the film was rated PG-13 by the MPAA . In Germany the film is FSK 12 . The reason for the release states: “The visually stunning film works with an easily understandable good-bad scheme and deals with topics such as friendship, love and trust. Due to their cognitive level of development, children and adolescents from 12 years of age have no problems following the fairytale -like story. The sometimes fast-paced action scenes are also within a framework that in no way overwhelms viewers aged 12 and over; physical violence is depicted in a very reserved and comic-like manner. Occasionally there are horror and horror effects in the " treasure hunt ", but these are softened by humor and thus do not develop any lasting frightening effect on children from the age of 12. "

Reviews and grossing results

Steven Spielberg at Comic-Con in San Diego in July 2017

So far, the film has received a rather positive rating from 72 percent of Rotten Tomatoes critics .

John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter explains that while Steven Spielberg is changing the details and structure of Ernest Cline's bestselling novel in Ready Player One , he keeps the mood and keeps the thrill at an equally high level.

Forbes ' Charlie Fink describes the film as a masterpiece: "It's a declaration of love for video games and our collective and often misguided technical fantasies, but above all, like all of Spielberg's best films, it is a declaration of love for the films."

Eric Kohn of IndieWire wrote that Ready Player One Am working as if Spielberg a lot of movies of Luc Besson saw and decided to outdo them. Even if the running time of the film is too long and it pulls a little in the last third, this is not a mistake, nor is the use of CGI. In addition, Ready Player One is Spielberg's most polished film since AI - Artificial Intelligence , but more fun and, as a result, an impressive science fiction spectacle at the same time.

The film critic Antje Wessels says that Spielberg is singing the praises of everything that enables us to switch off from everyday life by trying to give at least one short appearance to each relevant part of a more or less well-known pop culture phenomenon. He doesn't always succeed in doing this in a subtle way, according to Wessels, and at the same time a single viewing is never enough to discover every little detail in Ready Player One straight away. Spielberg succeeds in something like film, computer game and concert in one and he takes the viewer for two and a half hours into a strange world without imposing any limits on himself.

Lars Weisbrod from Zeit Online thinks - referring to the generation that experienced their youthful socialization in the 1980s - Spielberg found “in the last minutes of Ready Player One a metaphor for the mechanics of our longing for these wonderful years: Because we are computer illiterate have never learned to actually understand the digital world , we always make a pilgrimage back to its origins, to those children's rooms where the first home computers appeared and the powerful programmers of today expressed their pimples. "

In the USA, China, France and Russia, the film reached number 1 in the box office and topped the international charts. The worldwide revenue of the film from theatrical screenings so far amounts to approximately 582 million US dollars. As a result, the film is ranked 8th among the most successful films of 2018 . The film recorded 623,375 visitors in Germany.

Use in school lessons

The online portal kinofenster.de recommends Ready Player One for the subjects of art , English, German and computer science and offers materials for the film for the classroom. Martin Daßinnies wrote there that art classes could shed light on the importance of pop cultural phenomena and icons. One possible approach is in particular the relationship between the original and plagiarism. Terms such as inspiration and authenticity should also be discussed in this context. Interesting impulses on the subject of digital media for the subjects German and English are provided by the identity-creating character of computer games, which today can no longer be limited to a youth culture , but extends across languages, cultures and generations, said Daßinnies.

Processing in other media

In March 2018, the synthwave band Gunship released a song inspired by the film called Art3mis & Parzival and an accompanying music video.

Awards (selection)

In early December 2018, it was announced that the film was in the preselection for the 2019 Academy Awards in the Best Visual Effects category . It is also on a shortlist in the Best Film Music category . Below is a selection of nominations and awards from other film awards.

Art Directors Guild Awards 2019

British Academy Film Awards 2019

  • Nomination for Best Visual Effects (Matthew E. Butler, Grady Cofer, Roger Guyett and David Dave Shirk)

Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2019

  • Nomination for best action film

Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2018

  • Nomination for Best Score - Science Fiction / Fantasy Film ( Alan Silvestri )

MTV Movie & TV Awards 2018

Academy Awards 2019

  • Nomination for Best Visual Effects (Matthew E. Butler, Grady Cofer, Roger Guyett and David Dave Shirk)

Satellite Awards 2018

  • Nomination for the best visual effects

Saturn Award ceremony 2019

Teen Choice Awards 2018

  • Nomination in the Choice Movie: Sci-Fi category
  • Nomination for Best Science Fiction Film Actor (Tye Sheridan)
  • Nomination for Best Science Fiction Film Actor (Olivia Cooke)
  • Nomination for Choice Breakout Movie Star (Olivia)

Visual Effects Society Awards 2019

  • Nomination in the category visual effects in a photorealistic feature film
  • Nomination in the category Visual Effects in a Real-Time Project
  • Award in the category Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature
  • Award in the category Virtual Cinematography in a Photoreal Project
  • Nomination in the category Model in a Photoreal or Animated Project

Film analysis

construction

Ready Player One begins with a generous omission, which Matthias Kremp of Spiegel Online roughly estimates in the first 100 to 150 pages of Ernest Cline's novel. In the first few minutes of the film, he lets the world of 2045 quickly pass by as a condensed description of the state. Instead of the detailed beginning of the novel, in which a lot is reported about the setting and the characters, Spielberg starts his film with a voiceover by the protagonist, who explains that the world will be just as bad in 2045 as it is today feared, notes Andreas Staben from film starts . Lars Weisbrod of Zeit Online says that after the climax, which he describes as a CGI battle painting, Spielberg let his film end gently in a simulation of Halliday's nursery: “Here, where he sits for all eternity as a young boy in front of his game console, he has Programmer hides the big red button with which he can delete his OASIS. Of course: The control switch for digitization can be found in a children's room between Dungeons & Dragons and Space Invaders . ”Weisbrod explains that Spielberg deviates from the novel in which James Halliday not only has one room but his entire hometown of Middletown, Ohio in the OASIS replicated in such a way that the visitor can always expect a perfect late autumn afternoon in the mid-eighties. In the end, the moral of the film is that the best is still reality because it is, after all, real.

Mythological references

The hunt for the Easteregg was repeatedly compared by critics with the search for the Holy Grail . Alex Leadbeater describes the film and novel as the "holy grail of pop culture". In his review, David Crow refers to the username " Parzival " chosen by Wade , a knight from the Arthurian legend who goes in search of the Holy Grail, just as the protagonist acts as Gunter in the OASIS , a suitcase word for "Egg Hunter". The magician-looking anorak, Halliday's avatar in OASIS, reminded critics of Merlin.

Pop culture references

The DeLorean DMC-12 from the first part of the Back to the Future film series ( Petersen Automotive Museum , Los Angeles)

As in the novel, a large number of pop cultural references from the 20th and 21st centuries can be seen in the film. Already in the trailers you can see the giant from the movie The Giant from Space (1999), which, according to Spielberg, plays an important role in the film. The giant is also a replacement for the character Ultraman from the 1960s series of the same name, who appears in the final battle of the book. Further characters and objects from other media are for example Tracer and Pharah from the video game Overwatch (2016), several Spartans and various weapons from the Halo game series , the female version of Commander Shepard from Mass Effect 3 , Lara Croft from Tomb Raider , Duke Nukem , Freddy Krueger , Kaneda's motorcycle from the Manga Akira (1982) and its anime adaptation (1988), the DeLorean from the science fiction film series Back to the Future , one of the Lightcycles from Tron: Legacy , the upgraded Ford from Mad Max , the GMC van from the series The A-Team , the RX-78-2 Gundam from Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) and the Serenity from Firefly . Further references relating to situations, scenes, played music, characters performing and objects used by characters are represented throughout the film.

Technology in film

In addition to mythological references and pop cultural references of the 20th and 21st centuries, especially the nostalgia trip to the 1980s, Ready Player One is also a science fiction film set in 2045 in which Spielberg shows how gaming will be in the future is anchored in society and how this affects it. Lars Weisbrod of Zeit Online explains that in 2045 the earth had become an ugly place, shaped by an environmental disaster, wars and nuclear contamination. Most Americans live in ramshackle caravans and shipping containers that they have piled on top of one another on the outskirts of former large cities. Virtual reality called OASIS is the only bright spot in this dystopian America, and it has replaced every other leisure activity. At this time, viewed from further back, the 1980s seemed like a great moment for mankind, in which pop culture and technology were already sparkling at the height of the present, but networking was not yet suffocating us, says Weisbrod. For Birkner Bastian from PC Games , OASIS inventor James Halliday joins the ranks of great technology pioneers such as Steve Jobs or Bill Gates , and almost all of humanity in the film has access to the world in which everyone can create an avatar according to their wishes in order to then build up a kind of second everyday life in the digital idyll.

As it was difficult for the actors to orient themselves on the film set, they wore Oculus glasses during the filming . Using similar glasses, gamers in the film explore the OASIS

Some of the Ready Player One looks more futuristic than it actually is, says Oliver Schmiedchen, because many of the set pieces of this fantastic virtual world already existed today. He cites the controls and user guidance with today's VR glasses as examples. The possibility of displaying any additional information in his field of vision, which Watts uses in the novel and in the film, can already be used today through the Oculus Home revision Oculus Dash and Oculus Desktop to display any content as an overlay in running VR applications to let. The movements of the users in the film through the OASIS using haptic data gloves are now possible with the help of Virtuix Omni, said Schmiedchen. In the film, users can also move around in the OASIS with so-called omnidirectional treadmills, i.e. treadmills or playpens on which one can move in all directions. This reminds Jan-Keno Janssen from Heise.de visually strikingly of the VR playpen Virtuix Omni, the glasses, however, remind him of mobile phone VR mounts, partly like the Oculus Rift, partly like the HTC Vive. Users who can afford one wear an immersion suit in the film, which lets you feel every virtual breeze.

At the time when Spielberg got his hands on the novel, virtual reality was still a long way off. The first freely available copies of VR glasses came onto the market five years later. Oliver Schmiedchen says that the technical infrastructure of OASIS is designed in such a way that it could become a reality in the near future. The complex virtual worlds are not calculated in the headset of the user or via their PCs / notebooks alone, says Schmiedchen, but instead the whole thing works via a P2P network in which all connected devices jointly carry the computing load, which corresponds to a concept that is already in use today. Cloud computing is another keyword that is often used in this context, says Schmiedchen, and for example TPCast and Huawei are planning a 5G cloud that streams content directly to VR headsets without a PC.

Criticism of civilization and significance for social coexistence

Ernest Cline had in his original novel also analyzes the mono- and oligopoly fighting in the PR industry

Craig Weightman, a lecturer in games and visual effects at Staffordshire University, tells theconversation.com that a whole society spends a large part of its waking life online in films , leaving this world only to eat and sleep. For Alanah Pearce of IGN , many questions remain unanswered in this context in the film, as Ready Player One is so in love with the world of OASIS that he doesn't spend very much time exploring the dystopian Ohio of 2045. Pearce is interested in how and when people became addicted to OASIS, how they make real money to pay for their rents or groceries, whether people are satisfied with this way of life and the effects of this extreme technology obsession.

For Stern Online , the science fiction film unfolds not only a lot of nostalgia but also a gloomy vision of the future, although the original message of the novel, the warning of the collapse of society, the destruction of the world and the power of big companies, takes a back seat equipment. All that remains is Halliday's warning. "People need to spend more time in the real world."

Also Dietmar Dath from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung believes the analysis of mono- and oligopoly fighting in the PR industry, Ernest Cline does in the book, will be reduced from Spielberg especially severe, and the IOI villain Nolan Sorrento intriguing too arbitrarily, as that something plausible would be left of the consciously interchangeable capital functionary mask when the Cline put on this figure. According to Dath, nothing remains in the film of the believable and frightening idea of ​​the novel that the OASIS has absorbed large parts of the educational system and the socialization tasks of the extra-family community. Also PC Games notes that civilization criticism of the original come a bit too short.

Rolling Stone's Sassan Niasseri says Ready Player One works as an advertisement for virtual reality, even though the film tries to convey the opposite. Compared to Inception , the film can only be understood to a limited extent as a plea for real life or freedom of identity. About the end of the film, Niasseri says that if the hero kisses the heroine in the real world because physicality is not so beautiful in the artificial world, it is a bit thin as a take-home message. The message from Ready Player One, which was spread towards the end, also seems almost ridiculous to Antje Wessels : "At least the viewer should vehemently contradict the exclamation that the real world is better than the virtual one, if the moments in the film are especially fun, in which the main character Wade walks through the OASIS. "

Web links

Commons : Ready Player One  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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