Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Ready Player One

Directed by Steven Spielberg

It is the year 2045 and the world is on the brink of collapse. It is in this ghetto world that Wade Wyatts (Parzival) is born. An orphan sent to live with his aunt and her useless bf, he escapes reality by gaming in Oasis, where he can be cool, handsome, full of superpowers, smart etc. When James Halliday, the creator of Oasis died, he left 3 keys and an Easter egg for gamers to find. The prize money is control of Oasis.

He meets Samantha Evelyn Cool (Art3mis) and falls in love with her. Just like him, she knows everything about James Halliday and can complete all these sentences the creative mentioned. 

Parzival finds the Cooper key by driving backwards to the finishing line, which resembles a Michael Jackson Neverland gate and driveway. Art3mis finds it next. As the first on the scoreboard, IO1 is alerted to kill him.

IO1 the evil corporation, hires thousands of games, scientists to crack codes to be the first to win and rule Oasis. They also incarcerate people who owe them real money in the real world to power up this virtual world.

Sorrento from IO1 offers Wade a job which he turns down of course. IO1 bombs his place and killed his aunt and bf. Art3mis saves him and brought him to their hideout.

They constantly go to the Halliday Journals or digital library where the curator shows virtual records. Second key was found by Art3mis in The Shining. They enter room 237 where scary zombies kill them and crazy father with axe chops them up. Eventually only Art3mis reaches Halliday's gf and only love by stepping on those zombies and got the Silver key. 

Before that Parzival and Art3mis go on a dance date in this club where people dance by skydiving. 

The bad guys catch up and incarcerate Art3mis. The hi 5 team is formed with Shoto, Acheh. They go to the virtual land, where Sorrento has cast a protective spell over where the third key is hidden. Parzival gets help from all gamers who came in the throngs. The Iron Giant helps them fight to the gates where Parzival and Art3mis witness how Adventure is played, but he still lost. The key is to wonder in the dark and find a box to bring to the other side. Parzival did it by sacrificing Art3mis so she can escape IO1. He found the Crystal key, meets James Halliday, got the golden Easter egg but didn't sign his life away. They got all the rights to Oasis, made it such that no one can monetize this, and close on Tues and Thursday because the real world is just if not even more important.

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