DecodingReady Player One
Let’s press play.
Its time to deconstruct the new trailer for Steven SpielbergsReady Player One.
What strikes me is how much the character looks like a young, babyfaced Spielberg.
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Trailers welded together in Jenga-like structures.
Remember Madballs from the 80s?
One of the snarling characters is rendered in graffiti in the lower right.
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This is the first of many throwbacks.
All night long, a giant screen outside his window projects dream imagery at him.
The song playing is World in My Eyes, by Depeche Mode.
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Bigger than Jobs
That would be Steve Jobs.
He may have been the force behind the iPhone, but Halliday created an entirely new universe.
Godlike, he now commands his admirers in a quest from beyond his own life.
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Hidden message?
ThisWiredmagazine cover goes by in a flash, but there’s a QR code in the lower corner.
Maybe it leads to something?
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He wants to make it harder (and costlier) to enter a new reality.
They have a texture to them thats almost pixelated.
If they look a little like video games, thats because they are video games.
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Haptic suit
We see the handprints of Art3mis rising up the chest of Wades haptic suit.
These garments allow users to feel sensation sometimes pleasurable, but pain is also possible.
Actual humans can get injured from their suits if they take a severe enough hit.
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Here we see it displayed like a relic in the Vatican.
Celebrate good times
Here you see Aech doing a little happy dance during the race.
A wizard hands Wade one of the keys but this is no ordinaryDungeons & Dragonsman of magic.
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Halliday’s own avatar in the OASIS was a Gandalf-like sorcerer named Anorak.
This comes off as him, handing over the spoils of victory for one part of the puzzle.
Here, she welcomes him to “the revolution.”
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Laughing matter
The Joker and Harley Quinn are shook.
Although the OASIS is steeped in 80s pop culture, a movie from the 1930s can still sneak in.
Some things are timeless.
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Behind them to the left is Lara Croft fromTomb Raider.
1981 Quarter?
In Clines book, Parzival secures an extra life by playing a perfect game ofPac-Man.
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That extra life comes in the form of a digital 1981 quarter.
Could the archive have contained a puzzle that leads them to this reward?
Always go to your library for research, kid.
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Libraries hold unexpected treasures.
But I found something much bigger than just myself.
Are you willing to fight?
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Those answering the call include DCs Deadshot.
Gundam
A giant flying robot that can shapeshift into a jet rises to heed the call.
With friends like these, how can Parzival lose?
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