Ready Player One

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Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Stanley Kubrick: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Stanley Kubrick ⇒ Ready Player One (the host's read). The film contains a deeper homage to Kubrick, maybe its best part.
    “There is a much deeper and fascinating homage to Stanley Cooper.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:08:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

The Shining: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (homage): The Shining ⇒ Ready Player One (the host's read). Ready Player One has a fun sequence set in the hotel.
    “Ready player one, they go to the hotel.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:26:19 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

3001: The Final Odyssey (novel): 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (plot comparison): 3001: The Final Odyssey (novel) → Ready Player One. 3001's brain-implanted virtual reality is compared to Ready Player One.
    “They screw in what's basically, it's like Ready player one.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:30:12 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)

Ben Mendelsohn: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Ben Mendelsohn → Ready Player One. In Ready Player One he plays Nolan Sorrento, a basic evil corporate villain who still brings flair.
    “where he plays a character named Nolan Sorrento, who's just a villain.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:37:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Doctor Sleep: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (Overlook recreated): Ready Player One → Doctor Sleep. Ready Player One rebuilt the hotel as a deliberate CGI recreation the year before; Doctor Sleep puts live actors into it.
    “Ready Player one has this whole sequence where it is truly just a CGI recreation of the hotel”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:15:50 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Ready Player One → E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. E.T. is in the book but was cut from the film by Spielberg.
    “I think ET in particular does not appear in the movie and is in the book.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:08:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

ILM: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Ready Player One → ILM. ILM artists slipped a gremlin into Ready Player One and Spielberg was annoyed, part of his trimming of self-referential Easter eggs.
    “ILM people threw in like a gremlin in some place and like he was just like, god damn it.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:08:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Minority Report: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Minority Report → Ready Player One. Ready Player One treats earnestly what Minority Report satirizes (personalized ads).
    “Some people have noted that the things that that movie satirizes are actually treated in a very straightforward manner in Ready Player one.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:26:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Stanley Kubrick: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Ready Player One → Stanley Kubrick. The film contains a deeper homage to Kubrick, maybe its best part.
    “There is a much deeper and fascinating homage to Stanley Cooper.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:08:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Starship Troopers: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Ready Player One → Starship Troopers. Ready Player One will be competent Spielberg but is no Starship Troopers.
    “It's no Starship Troopers.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:43:14 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)

The Matrix: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Ready Player One → The Matrix. Chris sees it as another orphan-messiah-saves-the-world story like the Matrix and Star Wars.
    “like the Matrix and, you know, like Lords of Arabia and Star Wars are all about like these orphans who've saved the world.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:05:17 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)

The Post: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Ready Player One → The Post. The Post was a three-month shotgun wedding; Ready Player One took four years.
    “you can see that he made the post in 3 months.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:40:10 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

The Shining: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (homage): The Shining → Ready Player One. Ready Player One has a fun sequence set in the hotel.
    “Ready player one, they go to the hotel.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:26:19 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Ben Mendelsohn → Ready Player One. In Ready Player One he plays Nolan Sorrento, a basic evil corporate villain who still brings flair.
    “where he plays a character named Nolan Sorrento, who's just a villain.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:37:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Ready Player One → The Post. The Post was a three-month shotgun wedding; Ready Player One took four years.
    “you can see that he made the post in 3 months.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:40:10 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

contrast (2)

  1. contrast (contrast): Minority Report → Ready Player One. Ready Player One treats earnestly what Minority Report satirizes (personalized ads).
    “Some people have noted that the things that that movie satirizes are actually treated in a very straightforward manner in Ready Player one.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:26:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Ready Player One → Starship Troopers. Ready Player One will be competent Spielberg but is no Starship Troopers.
    “It's no Starship Troopers.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:43:14 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Ready Player One → ILM. ILM artists slipped a gremlin into Ready Player One and Spielberg was annoyed, part of his trimming of self-referential Easter eggs.
    “ILM people threw in like a gremlin in some place and like he was just like, god damn it.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:08:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

lineage (3)

  1. lineage (lineage): Ready Player One → E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. E.T. is in the book but was cut from the film by Spielberg.
    “I think ET in particular does not appear in the movie and is in the book.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:08:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Ready Player One → Stanley Kubrick. The film contains a deeper homage to Kubrick, maybe its best part.
    “There is a much deeper and fascinating homage to Stanley Cooper.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:08:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (homage): The Shining → Ready Player One. Ready Player One has a fun sequence set in the hotel.
    “Ready player one, they go to the hotel.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:26:19 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

theme (2)

  1. theme (theme): Ready Player One → The Matrix. Chris sees it as another orphan-messiah-saves-the-world story like the Matrix and Star Wars.
    “like the Matrix and, you know, like Lords of Arabia and Star Wars are all about like these orphans who've saved the world.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:05:17 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. theme (plot comparison): 3001: The Final Odyssey (novel) → Ready Player One. 3001's brain-implanted virtual reality is compared to Ready Player One.
    “They screw in what's basically, it's like Ready player one.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:30:12 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (Overlook recreated): Ready Player One → Doctor Sleep. Ready Player One rebuilt the hotel as a deliberate CGI recreation the year before; Doctor Sleep puts live actors into it.
    “Ready Player one has this whole sequence where it is truly just a CGI recreation of the hotel”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:15:50 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Ready Player One: Hosts imagine a future Ready Player Two visiting a Doctor Sleep verse of quiet conversations around cups of tea.
    “Well, and I hope that 30 years from now there's a Ready Player one, Ready Player 2, where they go to the Doctor Sleep Averse.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:16:08 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Ready Player One: Griffin's capsule verdict on Spielberg: it's not going to be incompetent.
    “It's a Spielberg movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:43:05 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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