Ready Player 1 notes

 

  • Opens with shot of very futuristic city 

    • Many drones seen around

    • Looks run down and overcrowded

    • Large screens seen

  • Drones used for delivery

  • Shows many people playing virtual reality games in their homes

  • Main character born in 2027

    • Now 2045

  • “Everyone is looking for a way to escape”

  • The oasis is the name of the virtual reality space these people spend most of their time

    • Able to do anything, go anywhere, create anything, or be anyone in this space

  • The oasis is where everyone spends their time 

    • Where people meet and interact

      • People don’t know what others look like in real life, only in the virtual space

  • Scene of mom ignoring a fire in her house with her child to play the virtual reality game

  • Star trek flower creations shown

  • When the creator of the oasis, Halliday, died he left a message that he left an easter egg in the oasis

    • Whoever found it would inherit his money and be given special powers

  • Sixers

    • Working to win halliday’s contest

  • License plate: parzival

    • Wade’s avatar name

  • Very action packed game scene

    • Dinosaur shown

    • Large gorilla trying to take over the city

    • Wrecking balls swinging

  • People spend/gamble real money in this game

    • Wade’s aunt’s boyfriend

  • Appears that the game is more important to many people than actual human connections

  • Players are able to see halliday’s memories

  • Wade figures out one of halliday’s clues and wins the car race

    • Is rewarded with a key

  • Face scanning tech shown

  • Wade is willing to risk everything for a character he has never met in real life

    • Even tells her his real name even though it is an unspoken rule that you din’t give out personal information

  • Players can feel real life pain if hit in the game

  • Wade’s aunt is killed by the head of ioi because he told them his real name

  • Samantha (art3mus) saves wade after ioi kills his aunt

  • Thousands of people gather to help defeat ioi in the oasis

  • Fighting scene very similar to that in Avengers: Endgame

    • Potentially where avengers drew their inspiration from

  • ioi has so many people working for them that as soon as one player dies there are hundreds standing by to take their place

  • Made of wades friends zero out to help fight against ioi

  • Wade killed samantha to keep her safe from nolan sorrento

  • Nolan sorrento uses the weapon that kills everyone in the game, including himself

    • Just so that wade would not win the final key

    • Doesn’t kill wade because halliday gave him an extra life

  • Halliday tests wade by asking him to sign a contract that would make him the sole owner of the oasis

    • Wade knows its a test and is instead given the power to destroy the oasis at any point he sees fit

  • Halliday’s avatar in the oasis seems to be an independent thinking being

    • Able to react to what is happening around him and what wade says

  • Wade gets the golden egg

    • Almost killed by nolan sorento but he stops once he realized he won the game

  • The child version of halliday finishes his game when wade wins

  • Halliday refuses to answer what he is when wade points out that he is not an avatar

  • Wade chooses to split his winnings with his friends so they can all run the oasis together

  • They choose to close the oasis two days a week because “reality is the only thing that’s real”

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