Yes, major touchstones like Back to the Future and Street Fighter are featured in both. Whereas the film version of the story focuses mostly on popular movies and video games, with some miscellaneous love thrown to the occasional cartoon, anime, or kaiju, Cline misses nothing. The Movie Expands On the Type of Pop Culture Referencedįor the formative years he grew up in, Ernest Cline wrote the definitive literary time capsule with Ready Player One. However, rather than listing all the individual shifts-which given the sheer volume of homages on Cline’s page would be a fool’s errand-we’ve compiled the biggest changes into the handful of comprehensive categories below. Even so, it is worth noting the differences between the book and film, and just why the changes might’ve been made, as well as why they nevertheless could be off-putting to Cline’s biggest fans. So of course, it was impossible for Spielberg to adapt the full breadth and vision of Cline’s novel, even with the author as one of the film’s credited screenwriters, and ultimately we think that is for the best, including in how Spielberg changed the ending. Fox rinsed his hands in during an episode of Family Ties that was shot between Back to the Future movies. Oh yes, that also includes the kitchen sink, but it’s not just any kitchen sink it’s the one Michael J. Unrestrained by copyright limitations, a two-plus hour running time, or a strict adherence for narrative structure as found in the film’s classist director, Cline threw everything into the literary version of Ready Player One. As perhaps the definitive catalogue of pop culture forget-me-nots for Gen-X, Cline’s literary version is almost a different beast altogether. At this, Zach worries he will be forcibly removed from the program.Yet this is par for the course for fans of Ernest Cline’s 2011 bestselling novel of the same name, which is far more overwhelming in its member berries than the film can ever hope to be. During the battle, Zach disobeys explicit orders, causing the destruction of numerous precious drones. Suddenly, the base is attacked without warning and the new recruits must immediately take to battle stations to defend the base. Apparently, the government has known about an upcoming three-tiered attack from the aliens for forty years. There, Zach learns that Armada is, in fact, a simulation created by the government to train drone pilots against an imminent attack from aliens hailing from Europa, one of the moons orbiting Jupiter.Īt the base in Nebraska, Zach is escorted into a briefing room where he sits next to a woman with tattoos named Lex. And who steps out but Ray himself, who recruits Zach to fly with him to a top-secret base in Nebraska. Still curious about the UFO he sees and uncertain about whether he’s losing his mind, Zach learns that it isn’t a hallucination when a huge spaceship resembling the ones piloted by the Earth government in Armada lands on the lawn of his school.
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