Author: Hu Shi
Not long ago, the domestic game development god Mao Xingyun died unexpectedly, this well-known producer in the game circle, the biggest dream is to let everyone play a high-quality game masterpiece that contains China's local culture. It is a pity that it has finally become a long-cherished wish, which is regrettable. The dead are long gone, and the living are always related!
What is even more emotional is that in the comment area of Mao Xingyun-related news, many people took the opportunity to accuse games such as "spiritual opium" and bring disasters to the country and the people. Today, when the likes of Yang Yongxin have disappeared and EDG has won the global championship, there are still people who uphold the theory that the game has misled the country. For those who have never recognized that gaming is a mainstream culture today, there is a movie that happens to be an example of their denunciation of "spiritual opium": the protagonist in the film neither examines the civil servants nor thinks about how to earn money to support his family, all of which are corrupted by this spiritual opium, consuming their will, losing themselves, and never willing to face reality. And this movie is also made by a famous Hollywood director, how to teach (feng) education (ci) significance.
Speaking of which, you probably already know that the movie we're going to talk about today is Spielberg's 2018 work Ready Player One, in fact, Olds has already expressed his position on the game in this movie, borrowing a line from the movie: This isn't just a game.
This movie is a gift for veteran gamers, anime fans and movie fans, full of musical elements of various well-known game movies on the earth from the eighties to the present, the whole movie is like an immersive MMORPG role-playing game, many people are familiar with the large number of Easter eggs that appear in the film, only those who really love it can understand the meaning of this phrase Is isn't just a game. So when the thousands of players in the movie are roaring like a tsunami, just to protect their beloved game world, there will be many people in the audience who will burst into tears, recalling the brothers who fought together in Azeroth.
Spielberg, from "Jaws", "Jurassic Park" to "Artificial Intelligence", "E.T." and a series of imaginative works, he himself is like a "Dream Giant", in today's film industry is mainly responsible for dreaming and fulfilling dreams. Although I don't know how this seventy-year-old man managed to solve this big pile of copyright problems, it must be admitted that in "Ready Player One", he once again succeeded in dreaming.
This year, when Zuckerberg proposed the concept of a metacosm, when we look back at the film, we may understand and understand the metacosm better. The "oasis" in the movie, this is probably what the metaverse should look like.
Assuming that the virtual world "oasis" created by Lao Si eventually becomes a reality, I am afraid that when people talk about the metaversity in the future, the first thing that comes to mind is not Zuckerberg, but Spielberg.
Of course, Lao Si and his team were not so prophetic at the beginning, nor did they think of engaging in the meta-universe, the original novel is actually more like a second-rate network cool text, no movie blessing is really not bad. In the creation of this movie, Spielberg, the old naughty boy, wantonly played treasure, mixing various elements in it, and even did not violate it. Thus, in Ready Player One, Gandalf jumps the old disco, and King Kong and the Tyrannosaurus Rex become the most difficult NPCs in the game. Unlocking the third key key to the Atari game console is simply an ancient artifact in the game console world, and the brick-breaking game that Jobs and Woznik developed together was on the Atari console.
The audience immersed themselves in this ACG feast, spitting out the fragrance (praise, shock) while exclaiming:
Isn't this an air hunt!!!
Isn't this Chunli!!!
Non-Commissioned Officer !!!
This TM is not the flying car in "Back to the Future"!!
It is said that because the copyright was not negotiated, Ultraman did not appear, otherwise many domestic male audiences are expected to stand up in the theater and shout "Jooooo!!!" (Severn Ultraman's transformation shout)
In addition to paying tribute to the game's anime elements, Spielberg also does not forget his old friends. So many movies in the history of film, only choose to reproduce the clip of "The Shining", in addition to reflecting that the founder of "Oasis" Halliday is a steel straight man will not seduce the sister, more meaning, is to pay tribute to his old friend the famous director Kubrick, and even in the puzzle team of 101 Company, a fat supporting role similar to Kubrick must be arranged. Probably Because Spielberg's previous films did not have room to pay tribute to old friends, this time in "Ready Player One" finally found room to play.
Although many people praised the movie, they even opened a contest to see who found the most Easter eggs. But it must be admitted that there will still be a large number of people who do not understand this kind of strange and chaotic Spring Festival Gala-style smorgasbord movie. The film's mainland box office is much higher than the North American box office, which is also a surprising result. A film that pays tribute to European and American pop culture, the most resonant is Chinese, probably because the game house and movie fans have been suppressed in China for too long. When playthings and dead fat houses became synonymous with this group, when games were not recognized and accepted by mainstream values, no one thought that these so-called marginal cultures were actually part of mainstream culture in Europe and the United States, and were no longer regarded as subcultures.
Perhaps like Halliday, in the movie, the genius programmer is set to be a child whose parents divorced, are reclusive by nature, and hide in their rooms to play game consoles. In adulthood, he still does not know how to live, recognizes reality, and obsessively pursues seemingly incredible dreams. If Halliday hadn't created such a grand game world, like Willie Wonka, who created his chocolate factory, it could probably have been classified as an unprofessional streeter.
The ending of the movie is still the old Traditional family ending, which is extremely cheesy, and does not forget to preach, "Reality is real." "Probably to break the myth of the metaverse and encourage everyone to return to reality." The oasis game's servers are closed two days a week for this purpose, encouraging all players to care more about themselves and others.
It's just that there doesn't seem to be such a game company in real life, and it can be solved with an anti-addiction system, but it is necessary to give programmers and players two days off. In the pursuit of capital profits, Mao Xingyun's accident seems suspicious, of course, we can't jump to conclusions, but many people feel that this producer who truly loves games will not easily give up the career he loves, just like Halliday in the movie.
In the film, Halliday hopes that people who truly love games will inherit his "oasis.". So, when the protagonist who added a life opened the final Easter egg, we can hear the genius's last "last words" to the world: Thank you for playing my game. And players have to thank this genius and the dream world he created, just as today, we remember and thank the young man who loved the game, Mao Xingyun.
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