For better or for worse, the book entitled, “Ready Player One” by author Ernest Cline, does a better job on developing the setting than the movie entitled, “Ready Player One” by director Steven Spielberg, based on three things, the logic of the world, the technology getting used so as the perk. It went through many changes when being adapted from a novel to a sci fi film, but all the changes might not be worth it.
The first thing that the book did better on is about the logic of the setting. The movie begins in 2045 in a futuristic slum called the stacks located in columbus ohio, it is supposed to be a dystopian society where economic hardship has led people to seek and escape which is why they’re all addicted to a virtual reality world built in the Oasis there’s nowhere left to go except the Oasis…show more content… In both movie and the book Wade acquires an extra life through one of Halliday memories, but that's basically where the similarities stop. In the book he’s exploring one of Halliday’s childhood memories “A Happy Time Pizza”, when he happens upon an arcade cabinet of pac-man with a quarter glued to the top though deductive reasoning he determines that he must get the highest score in pac-man which is really hard to do so in fact, “You had to play all 256 levels perfectly, all the way up to the final split-screen. And you had to eat every single dot, energizer, fruit, and ghost possible along the way without ever losing a single life” (Spielberg 338). In the movie Wade also explores Halliday’s memory library, after placing bet with the curator Wade wins and the curator who happens to be Ogden in disguise grants Wade a quarter which is the extra life. The film tries to make people caring about Halliday’s love life and his feelings, this seems like a cheap trick to get people to relate to Halliday on some emotional level, but the book does a better job here because in the book version, there seems to be a better
