![]() In search of the second key, Parzival, Art3mis and company enter into a replica of the world of Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 adaptation of The Shining, complete with Room 237, a tennis ball and those creepy twins. Later, when the characters are trying to get Halliday’s second key, there are several other movies playing at a movie theater: Say Anything, The Fly remake, and The Shining. ![]() Slater is the name of the fictional character played by Arnold Schwarznegger in the 1993 action-comedy Last Action Hero, directed by John McTiernan. In the race sequence early in the film, the words “Jack Slater” appear on a marquis. Others include Swordquest, Atari Adventure and Centipede. It’s one of many video games made for Atari (the 1980 version was made for Atari 2600) that are referenced in the film. Halliday wears a t-shirt that pays tribute to Space Invaders, the arcade game released in 1978. Aech’s bedroom, where Parzival is trying on outfits, has posters from the 1980s movies Mad Max and The Beastmaster, and Parzival does the dance from Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video while getting dressed. Banzai, a brain surgeon-slash-rock star who fights alien invaders, turns out to be a good choice to impress Art3mis. While preparing for a date with Art3mis in the OASIS, Parzival tries on several outfits, settling on a tribute to Buckaroo Banzai, the protagonist of the 1984 sci-fi film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. (The friendly robot also makes a pivotal appearance during Ready Player One‘s climax.) In a conversation with production designer Adam Stockhausen, Entertainment Weekly identified a plethora of other Easter Eggs in this scene, including: the Winnebago from Spaceballs, a device from the animated series Exosquad, a starfighter from Battlestar Galactica, a droid from RoboCop, the Ferrari from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, a Thunderfighter from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, the Swordfish II from the show Cowboy Bebop and the EVA pod from 2001: A Space Odyssey. The most glaring of them is a model of the Iron Giant, from the 1999 Warner Bros.-produced movie of the same name. There’s also a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it gremlin in the final battle (Spielberg executive-produced that movie) and a giant T-rex in the race scene, which doesn’t appear to be directly out of Jurassic Park-but it does conjure thoughts of that movie.Īech’s workshop is replete with references, many of which are barely visible to the naked eye. On the wall is a poster for the 1981 Indiana Jones movie (along with posters for Rush and Pacman). At the end of the movie, we get a glimpse into Halliday’s childhood bedroom. Spielberg has said that he didn’t want the movie to be full of references to his own filmography, but a few made it in. (This one’s hard to miss, no matter your literacy in nerd culture.) Raiders of the Lost Ark The worst of them is a fierce King Kong, swinging from the Empire State Building and making the challenge nearly impossible. ![]() King Kongĭuring the race for the first of Halliday’s three keys, Wade and the other competing avatars must dodge a number of obstacles. In a pivotal scene, Parzival uses a “Zemeckis cube,” which looks like a Rubik’s Cube but can be used to turn back time 60 seconds. Later, Art3mis teases Parzival, calling him McFly, a reference to Michael J. Inside the OASIS, Wade’s avatar Parzival drives a DeLorean, just like the one used to travel back to the future in the 1985 Robert Zemeckis film (which Spielberg executive produced). Others require an eagle eye and perhaps a refresher of that old VHS collection. (Once it’s streaming, we don’t doubt that many will try.) Some, like the gargantuan King Kong that leaps from the OASIS’ Empire State Building, are easy enough to spot. So many, in fact, that it would require pausing the movie at every frame with a 1980s nerd-culture savant on your shoulder to find them all. Ready Player One isn’t just about an Easter egg, though - it’s full of them. Cue the efforts of Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) and friends, whose quest to find the egg before an evil corporate competitor (Ben Mendelsohn) propels the movie’s action. After his death, its creator James Halliday (Mark Rylance) leaves a message that whoever finds the Easter egg he’s hidden inside this vast simulated world will inherit the keys to his kingdom. The new movie from Steven Spielberg, adapted from Ernest Cline’s award-winning 2011 novel, takes place in 2045, when a decreasingly habitable real world has driven its inhabitants to spend much of their time in a virtual reality alternative called the OASIS. In Ready Player One, they’re the main event. Most of the time, Easter eggs-the kind you find in a video game or Marvel movie, not the ones painted in dainty pastels-are just a diversion. ![]()
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