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Ready Player One: Master of Nostalgia, Visuals, and Wowing Audiences

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 Steven Spielberg's directed adaptation of Ernest Cline's Ready Player One was a compelling battle of old-school video games combined with futuristic technologies. Through the right cast members, remarkable use of virtual reality, and a rousing musical score by one of Spielberg's frequent collaborators, Alan Silvestri, Ready Player One was a robust film for adults and children to see for their viewing pleasure.

 Set in 2045, young outsider Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan, Scott Summers from X-Men: Apocalypse), escapes from the dismal real-world situation by using the virtual-reality software known as OASIS, created by video game tycoons James Halliday (Mark Rylance) and Ogden Morrow (Simon Pegg). Known as Parzival, Wade races against time to find a mystical Easter egg left behind by Halliday in the OASIS, before a diabolical corporate businessman (Ben Mendelsohn) gets the egg to take control of the OASIS. Through help from the charismatic Art3mis (Olivia Cooke) and his numerous gaming companions, Wade can save the future and make a brighter reality.

 What I loved in Ready Player One was its paying homages to previous other films of 1980s-2010s pop culture, e.g. The Iron Giant or Atari. I liken some of the film to Homer's Odyssey, a man who goes on a dangerous quest beyond imagination to get to the life he deserves. There was a great blending of CGI and live-action for the V.R. sequences for Parzival and other characters in the OASIS. And it had it's moments on deciding whose world is it to rule, such as whether or not it belongs to the antagonistic wealthy or the creative and possibly wunderkind youth.

 Without a doubt, Ready Player One was an outstanding adaptation of Cline's novel. If you haven't read the book, maybe this will give you invite you to. The cast and crew did their hardest and best in this.
Go watch Ready Player One.   
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