Once inside, people aren’t just reading books or watching movies they can literally visit Halliday’s memories, rendered in vivid 3D. Much of the hunting takes place at “Halliday’s Journals,” a massive library that replaces the “Anorak’s Almanac” of the book and can be visited by anyone inside the OASIS. Not so in the film, which imagines that Halliday-hunting is a social activity (albeit one that has gone a bit out of fashion, thanks to the lag time between the contest being announced and anyone actually making any headway on it). While we do later see Wade muddling through in the real world and a number of small scenes are faithfully recreated for the big screen (like Wade living in his aunt’s laundry room, and his descent from his RV home into the lower level of the so-called “Stacks” via a well-placed rope), those school-set scenes are mostly snipped, in favor of Wade’s search for the keys and the Egg.
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Spielberg’s film, however, jettisons most that exposition in favor of dropping his audiences smack into the more fun side of the OASIS, with Wade and his best pal Aech (Lena Waithe) gearing up for a very important race (more on that later) that ties into the quest for Halliday’s Easter Egg. It’s a meaty introduction, and it builds out both the real world and the world of the OASIS in vivid ways. Much of the book’s first hundred pages actually take place in and around Wade’s school, which not only functions as a way to introduce the way the world works now (every school is set in OASIS, for one thing) but what kind of person Wade is when he’s not tooling around for fun in the virtual reality environment that serves as his only real refuge.
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Getting to Know WadeĬline’s book spends its earliest chapters diving into the state of the real world (not great) and how Wade functions inside of it (also not great). And considering how bad the real world is, the OASIS is pretty much the only good thing left.īoth Cline’s book and Spielberg’s film are mission-driven stories mostly set in the wild world of the OASIS, but there are a few major changes between the page and the screen. The prize? Whoever wins, gets to own the OASIS. When Halliday (Mark Rylance) passed away, he left a huge quest inside the OASIS, a search for a literal Easter Egg to be undertaken by so-called “gunters” who are required to steep themselves in all the stuff Halliday loved as a kid. Set in the near-future, the film adaptation - written by Cline and Zak Penn - stars Tye Sheridan as Wade Watts (also known by his avatar name “Parzival”), who spends most of his time inside a massive virtual reality system known as OASIS, invented by the elusive Steve Jobs-like inventor James Halliday. Of course, Spielberg has taken his own liberties with the material, though the creative spirit that informed Cline’s book is very much in evidence.
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It’s only appropriate that the movie version of the film, out later this week, was helmed by no less than Steven Spielberg, one of the biggest inspirations for Cline’s story. The movie doesn’t exactly require its audience to know the ins and outs of “Dungeons & Dragons,” but man, it can’t hurt. Ernest Cline’s bestselling novel “ Ready Player One” takes America’s obsession with pop cultural references, the unstoppable push of technology, and an unlikely hero and combines them all up into a single vivid story.