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I didn't read any comments before watching the film, I went there purely for Spielberg. I heard that he was going to make a movie about online games, and I was looking forward to it. In the process of watching the movie, I was moved by many sound and light processing, especially the opening part of the racing car, which pushed the tension and excitement that the art of film provides to people to a new height, which is good.
The setting of IOI's "commercial hit the company" is also quite good. The reality is like this, no matter how great a dream is, such as Bitcoin, as long as it is profitable, there will be "mining machine" companies to disrupt the situation. Business can corrupt everything. In the movie, the protagonist defeats the International Trust, but in real life, that hardly ever happens. At the beginning of the birth of Bitcoin, it was originally a revolution. It was hoped that people could no longer be enslaved by the banking system through blockchain technology, but everyone sees what kind of word "blockchain" has become, and the dream has been turned upside down.
If a revolution, a dream, or a utopia is to be maintained, the most critical point is that it cannot be profitable. Once it is profitable, it is not far from destruction.
In short, the sound and light part of this film is well done, and it is a good entertainment film. But after reading it, I felt that something was not quite right. I felt that the story was not quite at the level of Spielberg. I thought about it carefully in some places, and even felt obscene.
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Let’s start with the most obscene ones, and save everyone some time. If you don’t feel obscene after reading this article, you don’t need to read the following articles.
After a series of adventures, the protagonist achieved a counter-attack of Diaosi, became the chairman of "Oasis", married a revolutionary comrade-in-arms, and inherited the huge legacy of the previous generation of virtual founders. Let him sum up the educational significance of this film in one sentence. He said: "Virtual is dreamy, but reality is more worth investing in."
At this time, a part of the audience with a dark mind came up with an idea: But, you are now the biggest "virtual" boss? You will also make money from it later on.
This film resolves this contradiction in this way -
The protagonist holds his daughter-in-law and announces to the world his important measures after taking office: "Oasis" is closed for two days a week, everyone should stop playing games during these two days, and spend more time with his wife and children!
This movie is showing the virtual "benefits" from beginning to end, exhausting all sound and light, and condensing all the friendship, love and revolution into this virtual game called "Oasis", in the setting of this movie, " "Oasis" is a new world that is better looking, more profitable, and more egalitarian. Here, justice is easier to get a voice. For example, the protagonist is vulnerable in reality, but defeats the business group in the virtual world - these are all possible, but you can't tell everyone at the end, what I said before is true and false, everyone Don't believe it all, it's actually better.
It's not just a contradiction, it's hypocrisy.
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The second wretchedness is that the characters have not completed the transcendence. The protagonist started out looking for money and wanted to win the game and live in a bigger house. In the end, my wish was fulfilled, my wife had the house and the money, and I told everyone, "Don't learn to play games every day, buddy, that's my diaosi form, and now that buddy has risen to the level and is enlightened, I call on everyone to close business for two days a week. Don't play games" - what the hell is this? Is this a Hollywood product? I thought that only the Chinese film industry dared to write this kind of stuff. What's the matter, the ceremony in California is also broken?
They tried to save the character, but in a very stupid way.
The transcendence they arranged for the protagonist was placed on a branch of the B-story. The A story of this film is about solving puzzles, fighting and grabbing treasures, while the B story is about love, so there will be a change of "not teaming up - teaming up". The screenwriter wants to show the change in the protagonist's humanity here, from being out of harmony to being in a group. In the end, the beautiful woman came home - quite right, no problem, but put it too far. And in the process of writing, I lost it again and again. The protagonist repeatedly bragged to the female one that he was a lone ranger, a strong mid laner, and that he did not form a team, but he was just bragging. The female one happens to be a five-person team of "World of Warcraft". (An omnipotent black T with the whole team, a Japanese melee output, an 11-year-old Chinese melee thief, a female mage assistant, and a powerful output team leader protagonist.)
So I guess, this stage of script creation is very similar to some script creation in China - the director proposes ideas, a bunch of screenwriters execute it, and then the producers, actors, capital coal bosses, data and statistics companies, etc. all come to give opinions, and the screenwriter The team does not dare to have a temper, and executes them one by one. There are too many bosses, and creators have no status, which ultimately leads to this result.
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You said they wrote it wrong, can you tell the right one? You think so in your heart, do you admit it or not! I wrote this small manuscript without any purpose, it is purely to brush up the sense of existence, just to be a game, Xiaosheng here is ugly, everyone, please don't take it seriously! A normal story should look like this:
The protagonist is a loner. Later, he found that it was difficult to support alone, so he had to start a team. This process is the collision of friendship, love and family, and it is a transformation from "naive, selfish, self-respecting" to "mature, selfless, and tolerant". In the end, the entire team defeated every task completed by themselves and became a hero in the virtual world, but the benefits were won by IOI. The protagonist remembered that he was no longer a dead house after this journey, but the number one player with friends all over the world. He raised his arms, and players from all over the world collectively AFK, immigrated to other games with his feet and started again. The poor guy is still the same poor guy, but the protagonist has become a revolutionary leader in the virtual world, specifically fighting against a big idiot like IOI, and the revolutionary cause is struggling. The first woman worked hard and worked overtime in the 7-11 supermarket every night to earn money to support the first man to continue the revolution. But the reality is cruel. Under the persecution of IOI, the first woman was mercilessly dismissed by 7-11 and could no longer work. When she was about to starve to death, the first woman re-entered the game and used her last strength to overthrow the first man in the virtual world. the tyranny of the IOI. At the moment of celebration, the first woman starved to death in the arms of the first man, and the first man hugged her and cried bitterly: "It's just one step away! Taylor!"
——Don't laugh, I know the first female is not called Taylor, let's be serious, at least this story line is right.
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The confusion of values makes the play of this film especially close to the domestic blockbuster.
Oasis founder Halliday has always been an all-knowing and all-powerful image in the film, but only at the end did he admit that his life was actually a tragedy. Although the virtual world he created was wonderful, in reality, he could not get along with his lover and friends.
"Don't imitate me." Halliday instructed the first man, closed the door and left.
Well, this is indeed quite like Spielberg's projection, he is very sincere in this part, but this is a movie, if you don't understand it, don't talk about life, okay? What did the protagonist and the audience realize? "Don't indulge in virtuality", so although you have to earn money, you have to have taste, and you have to close business two days a week. This is also quite like Spielberg's projection - I know I'm selling spiritual opium, but my mental opium is always less side effects than Marvel's batch of side effects?
Does anyone understand what I'm saying? I'm talking about why this movie is lewd.
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Finally, let's talk about the stinky problems of old children.
To judge whether an adult is a good person, the method is to go up to the right words, tick those who have common interests, and tick if they are not, this is too immature. What? You are stubborn, you disobey your world, you call the shots? So do I despise you because you don't know the allusions to "Taylor"?
Don't do what you want to others, don't think that you and someone of the same age have common hobbies and feel that you are one and the same, and hobbies are just as external as money. You can't just look at the outside. The outside is all about the color. This is the same thing as watching a movie. It depends on the "pattern" and what kind of heart you feel at first.
Specifically, "Ready Player One", I think its original intention is very clear: breastfeeding old children and real children, let them pay more money. (Author's Note: Child is a derogatory term here.) This kind of original intention, the more beautiful the sound and light are, the more annoying it is. is for obscene.
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