Ready Player One - Book vs Movie
You know what, I think from this way onward, my blog posts are just gonna be, mainly about ranting about random stuffs.
So it's Labour Day, and my housemates are back at their cosy homes while I am stuck here. I figure it's not much lucrative of time and money to go back home anyway, since I will be on duty this weekend. Besides, I'll get myself a nice 4 day leave next week because of the election so might as well stay this week. Yay. I spent today doing the laundry, and I ran through my movie list. Marvel movie list that I haven't crossed off yet. Watching Infinity War really got my intrigued on a few things and after my student can't stop jabbering about the theories of what's gonna happen in the next movies, I got even more curious and decided that this franchise is worthy of my time.
Also, I have finally finished reading Ready Player One! YAY! WHAT A GREAT BOOK SIMPLY MAGNIFICENT I was so excited because it has been quite a while that I got so immersed in a book. Like, you just wanna keep reading it kinda feels ye know. If you have watched the movie (like I did) and was wowed by it (like I did) you will be even more wowed by reading the book. I am typing this post while listening to Dead Man's Party, one of Halliday's favourites. I am compiling a Ready Player One playlist as we speak, just because. A friend of mine always does this. She has like a few playlists dedicated for certain books. It's a pretty cool idea. You can kinda revisit the feels by listening to these songs. I just felt like doing that with this book because it has a looot of pop culture references from the 80's so for feels sake, why not right.
Reading the book also got me adjjdkgdjkwe because the book and the movie is like 99% different, plot wise. The premise is the same, and the characters but there are some major differences. I'm gonna list out a few that I thought should be included in the movie as well. OK FIRST, APA NI ALL THE RIDDLES LAIN SANGAT PLS. Only the third riddle to acquiring the Crystal Key was somewhat similar but the other two, nada??? The first riddle, was actually, in a planet called Ludus one of the many planets in OASIS. In ancinet Rome, the Latin word ludus has several meanings within the semantic field of play, game, sport & training). So here's another interesting RPO fact. Ludus is a planet designated to build virtual schools. It's a non PvP (player versus player) zone. It means that battles can't take place on this planet. Ludus was created by Halliday because he wanted to make education more accessible for everyone through OASIS. Perzival has enrolled in public school but he has difficulty fitting in so he applied for virtual school. The concept is pretty much the same. You need to attend classes, collect your credits, get your assignments done etc etc. Imagine this, in a biology lesson, they can transport themselves virtually to observe how an actual lung function. Creepy cool. They get to visit the galaxy and learn about the planets. Since the system has haptic gloves that enables your olfactory senses in the virtual world, this is, wicked cool. But the downside of this is, the kids won't have opportunity to develop their social skills in real life.
You know how in the movie, Perzival revealed his true identity to Art3mis right, and that's how the Sixers tracked him down and detonated his aunt's cabin. In the book, The Sixers managed to get their hands on his personal data through the virtual school he attended. When he signed up for the school, he gave away his real name, address, social security number and fingerprint id. These information are suppposed to be confidential but the Sixers bribed their way through. Even though other gunters (egg hunters) were smart enough to not reveal their personal data online, but the Sixers still manage to get their personal info because the other gunters were using the IOI internet service provider. So yeah. Daito was alive in the movie, but in the book, he was killed during the battle at Frozbozz (the planet to unlock the Jade Key, the Second Key). He was fighting off the Sixers to cover for Shoto who was completing the quest. The Sixers were losing to him at that point of time so they broke into his house, in real life, a 43rd apartment floor and pushed him off the balcony to make it look like a suicide. Crazy bastards. Also, Daito was not a kid as portrayed in the movie, he was a 22 year old guy.
Another interesting fact is, Daito and Shoto are not real brothers in real life. They met through hikikomori (a support group for OASIS addicts who had disengaged from the real world, also known as the 'missing millions'). They got close and decided to be brothers in OASIS. In the movie, Samantha a.k.a Art3mis was caught and later on she disguised her way through fighting as one of the Sixers in the epic battle, and she turned off the Orb of Osuvox. In the book, after the Sixers activated the Orb which by the way is at the Anorak's Castle, Wade decided to hack into the IOI database. So he faked his IOI credit account to be maxed out and he was taken to the debt collector prison. He hacked his way through using a backdoor he purchased at the black market online months before and reset for his debts to be automatically paid after he has finished off his mission which he cut off earlier than planned because he discovered that the Sixers were gonna kill Art3mis and Shoto and he wanted to warn them. He also programmed some stuffs to deactivate the Orb of Osuvox. UnderRatEd GENIUS son of a. So yeah after that, they kinda had problems because the Sixers were going after them and then Ogden Morrow THE SAVIOUR offered them the safe haven (his house which btw looks exactly like Rivendell) to fight off the Sixers.
In the movie, Perzival got his extra life from The Curator. In the book, he got it after he played a perfect game of Pac-Man in Happytime Pizza (Halliday's favourite hang out pace when he was a kid) on Archade. He didn't know the function of the coin when he won it. There are a lot more minor details differences between the book and the movie but I guess there are the most apparent ones. I am done geeking out on this now I gotta find a new read to rave about lol. Till then, bye.
So it's Labour Day, and my housemates are back at their cosy homes while I am stuck here. I figure it's not much lucrative of time and money to go back home anyway, since I will be on duty this weekend. Besides, I'll get myself a nice 4 day leave next week because of the election so might as well stay this week. Yay. I spent today doing the laundry, and I ran through my movie list. Marvel movie list that I haven't crossed off yet. Watching Infinity War really got my intrigued on a few things and after my student can't stop jabbering about the theories of what's gonna happen in the next movies, I got even more curious and decided that this franchise is worthy of my time.
Also, I have finally finished reading Ready Player One! YAY! WHAT A GREAT BOOK SIMPLY MAGNIFICENT I was so excited because it has been quite a while that I got so immersed in a book. Like, you just wanna keep reading it kinda feels ye know. If you have watched the movie (like I did) and was wowed by it (like I did) you will be even more wowed by reading the book. I am typing this post while listening to Dead Man's Party, one of Halliday's favourites. I am compiling a Ready Player One playlist as we speak, just because. A friend of mine always does this. She has like a few playlists dedicated for certain books. It's a pretty cool idea. You can kinda revisit the feels by listening to these songs. I just felt like doing that with this book because it has a looot of pop culture references from the 80's so for feels sake, why not right.
Reading the book also got me adjjdkgdjkwe because the book and the movie is like 99% different, plot wise. The premise is the same, and the characters but there are some major differences. I'm gonna list out a few that I thought should be included in the movie as well. OK FIRST, APA NI ALL THE RIDDLES LAIN SANGAT PLS. Only the third riddle to acquiring the Crystal Key was somewhat similar but the other two, nada??? The first riddle, was actually, in a planet called Ludus one of the many planets in OASIS. In ancinet Rome, the Latin word ludus has several meanings within the semantic field of play, game, sport & training). So here's another interesting RPO fact. Ludus is a planet designated to build virtual schools. It's a non PvP (player versus player) zone. It means that battles can't take place on this planet. Ludus was created by Halliday because he wanted to make education more accessible for everyone through OASIS. Perzival has enrolled in public school but he has difficulty fitting in so he applied for virtual school. The concept is pretty much the same. You need to attend classes, collect your credits, get your assignments done etc etc. Imagine this, in a biology lesson, they can transport themselves virtually to observe how an actual lung function. Creepy cool. They get to visit the galaxy and learn about the planets. Since the system has haptic gloves that enables your olfactory senses in the virtual world, this is, wicked cool. But the downside of this is, the kids won't have opportunity to develop their social skills in real life.
You know how in the movie, Perzival revealed his true identity to Art3mis right, and that's how the Sixers tracked him down and detonated his aunt's cabin. In the book, The Sixers managed to get their hands on his personal data through the virtual school he attended. When he signed up for the school, he gave away his real name, address, social security number and fingerprint id. These information are suppposed to be confidential but the Sixers bribed their way through. Even though other gunters (egg hunters) were smart enough to not reveal their personal data online, but the Sixers still manage to get their personal info because the other gunters were using the IOI internet service provider. So yeah. Daito was alive in the movie, but in the book, he was killed during the battle at Frozbozz (the planet to unlock the Jade Key, the Second Key). He was fighting off the Sixers to cover for Shoto who was completing the quest. The Sixers were losing to him at that point of time so they broke into his house, in real life, a 43rd apartment floor and pushed him off the balcony to make it look like a suicide. Crazy bastards. Also, Daito was not a kid as portrayed in the movie, he was a 22 year old guy.
Another interesting fact is, Daito and Shoto are not real brothers in real life. They met through hikikomori (a support group for OASIS addicts who had disengaged from the real world, also known as the 'missing millions'). They got close and decided to be brothers in OASIS. In the movie, Samantha a.k.a Art3mis was caught and later on she disguised her way through fighting as one of the Sixers in the epic battle, and she turned off the Orb of Osuvox. In the book, after the Sixers activated the Orb which by the way is at the Anorak's Castle, Wade decided to hack into the IOI database. So he faked his IOI credit account to be maxed out and he was taken to the debt collector prison. He hacked his way through using a backdoor he purchased at the black market online months before and reset for his debts to be automatically paid after he has finished off his mission which he cut off earlier than planned because he discovered that the Sixers were gonna kill Art3mis and Shoto and he wanted to warn them. He also programmed some stuffs to deactivate the Orb of Osuvox. UnderRatEd GENIUS son of a. So yeah after that, they kinda had problems because the Sixers were going after them and then Ogden Morrow THE SAVIOUR offered them the safe haven (his house which btw looks exactly like Rivendell) to fight off the Sixers.
In the movie, Perzival got his extra life from The Curator. In the book, he got it after he played a perfect game of Pac-Man in Happytime Pizza (Halliday's favourite hang out pace when he was a kid) on Archade. He didn't know the function of the coin when he won it. There are a lot more minor details differences between the book and the movie but I guess there are the most apparent ones. I am done geeking out on this now I gotta find a new read to rave about lol. Till then, bye.
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