The Unrealized Potential Of Ready Player One
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Published 2018-08-31
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Ready Player One is filled with pop culture easter eggs, and yet it still feels surprisingly empty. Today, I take a look at how the decisions made when adapting the film affected the themes of the story, and why the filmmakers could have gone further to address the issues of the source material.
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All Comments (21)
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What did you guys think of Ready Player One? Note: It's been pointed out to me that the Holy Hand Grenade is a Monty Python reference. My apologies for missing that.
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"Ready Player One is the fantasy of never being wrong." Holy shit, that's perfect.
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Major theme of Iron Giant: What if a gun didn't want to be a gun? Ready Player One: Make him blow more people up than anyone else.
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Just Write: "So he recited the entirety of Monty Python and the Holy Grail" Also Just Write: "A... holy hand grenade?????"
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I watched an analysis of RP1, and this quote from it really hit me. "It's a movie about a bunch of people trying to keep their fantasy-world, because they know they can't fix their real one"
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Holy Hand Grenade is from Monty Python, and they totally missed a chance to count off "1, 2, 5!".
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So we're not going to talk about how ironic it is that the instead of being a celebration of "nerd culture" it ended up being a hollow attempt by a corporation who doesn't really care about the material as a whole but just as a way to make profit. Which is exactly what the film was trying to criticize and rebuke with its villain.
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I mainly watched to see if anyone else noticed the whole "iron giant, symbol of pacifism, used as an instrument of wanton destruction" thing. Talk about getting your themes crossed
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we really are in the era of entertainment where "ha, i get that reference" now counts as an alternative to actually having a story
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"The best romance writing since Attack of the Clones." LOL
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“A lot of writers know the rules about writing, but they don’t know how to write.”
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"Because I love you, Arty" ...What? Why? For what? Since WHEN? .... WHYYYYY? I really, actually cringed. For real.
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Another problem with this movie: One of the main points of turning a book into a movie is to visualise what is described in the book. But the most visual moment in the book, the final battle, was extremely underused in the movie! There's just a bunch of big things punching each other! The movie has spaceships and all kinds of different combat. It could have been awesome in the movie, but instead it just was barely even in it.
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The last five minutes of the video are great. Fantastic point about how the villians should have focused on just the facts and the heroes focus on the themes of the work in order to win.
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DID THIS DUDE ACTUALLY NOT GET THE HOLY HAND GRENADE?????!!!
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"There's Something About Mary" isn't a chick flick, it's a 90s grossout comedy starring Ben Stiller and Cameron Diaz, who at one point gels her hair with jizz. Other than that (and the other thing everyone already pointed out) great video!
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Wait, if Robert Zemekis exists in this universe, then so does Back to the Future, and if Back to the Future exists then doesn’t Stephen Spielberg exist too?
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The only thing I really have a problem with is it taking three years to find the keys. Nah, 4Chan would've found that shizz in a week, tops.
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23:26 I love how you just nonchalantly proposed a way better story.
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The most unrealistic part of ready player one is that there isn't anyone running around as a nasty little goblin man.
