Ready Player One Review

Spielberg's feast of colours and 80s nostalgia is definitely a fun ride, but it's success is also a grim signifier of a broader trend in Hollywood .

For more than half a month after the release of "Top Player", the entire Internet has exploded. The vast majority of fans and game fans have eagerly unearthed every character hidden in the film at the edge of the picture. Each sentence mentions a dialogue in the 80s arcade masterpiece, and its enthusiasm is never lost in the movie. The madness of looking for an egg with hundreds of billions of bonuses and control of the world’s largest corporate.

The popularity and big sale of "The Number One Player" is by no means an accident. In a sense, this is the highest point of the “nostalgic boom” in recent years.     People use the film to nostalgia, this is not a new thing. As early as 1985, Robert Zemigis, the screenwriter and director of "Back to the Future" ("The No. 1 Player" also has a tribute to the film), let the protagonist Marty cross back to 1955 and poked the year. The tears of a middle-aged man who grew up in the 1950s. The "intertextuality" technique of shaping stories through past texts has existed at the beginning of the narrative.

But in recent years, Hollywood has begun to use the nostalgic plot to win the box office for the film. The tribute to the classics, tribute, or continuation is no longer what filmmakers add to their respect and admiration. Instead, it becomes the core element of trailers and posters, attracting the audience's number one trump card. From "Star Wars 7" (2015), the ubiquitous restoration of the classic moments and even the context of "Star Wars: New Hope", to "Jurassic World" (2015) and "Jurassic Park" "The scene of the confrontation between Tyrannosaurus Rex and the Pirates of the Dragon, so that "Beauty and the Beast" (2017) will be the classic boxing version of the movie in the form of a live-action version.

The "Top Players" can be described as the peak, these films are just to recall a movie with the audience, at most the series they belong to. But the number one in the "Top Player" spans the two major areas of film and games, covering everything from "Sparkling" to "Watching Pioneer", hundreds of popular cultural symbols from the 1980s to today. This makes the film no matter for the 80s that were scared by "Ghost Street" in an hour, or after playing the "Halo" series of works, you can find your own memories in this film. In the process of watching this film, I often swelled my mouth and even shouted out with excitement.

 The question is: Is this enough?     

Spielberg said in an interview during the film that he deliberately deleted many of the many eggs in his films that involved his previous work. He did not make too much explanation for this, but this move can already show his attitude: he wants to shoot a movie, not a collection of eggs. But in my opinion, the final fate of this film is roughly the same.

When tens of thousands of netizens excitedly said that this film is the most enjoyable movie they have ever seen, the collection of many classic characters is enough to make the film become their masterpiece of film history, stop to look at the movie’s gaze Players seem to be a bit cold, but I think this is necessary. Calm down and analyze, you can see a lot of problems in this film: the action scene shows Spielberg's unparalleled scene scheduling, but the main plot is still in the cliché; several protagonists rely on the actors' performances to make the audience like, but Because the film is used to shape characters too little, there is nothing impressive. The virtual world of "Oasis" is very shocking, but it lacks the practical significance given in many novels.

Admittedly, we may need such a movie, a love letter to pop culture, an opportunity for us to collectively remember the past. But what we miss, the movies and games that we are honoured are the original works of that era. When 27-year-old Steven Spielberg decided to use his career to make a gamble to shoot "Jaws," when 32-year-old George Lucas was willing to give up his accumulated reputation to shoot Star Wars, When Marcus Posson quit his job and concentrated on developing "My World," they didn't know what to do, but they still bravely moved forward, only to turn their own fantasy into reality. It is these people who dare to take risks and have made a monument in the history of pop culture.     The nostalgic plot is beautiful, but it can't be a substitute for the story anyway. In this era of nostalgic plots being used as weapons by the studios, we need more needless narrators, filmmakers who can break the limitations of the subject and play the new elements with the intrinsic elements.     Only in this way can we create a new generation of classics.