《头号玩家》：现实中的你，因为真实才最宝贵。
《头号玩家》
「Ready Player One」
Ready Player One – do you buy Spielberg's vision of virtual reality? Discuss with spoilers
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There are so many potential competing narratives[1] to discuss when looking at Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One, so many ghosts in the machine vying[2] for our attention. This is Spielberg's first science fiction movie since 2005's War of the Worlds[世界大战], unless you count the CGI aliens in 2008's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull[夺宝奇兵4]. It is a movie that has largely impressed the critics, yet has led to much navel-gazing[3], largely linked to the widespread reappraisal of its source novel in the wake of Gamergate.
[1]narrative：a story or a description of a series of events 故事；叙述
It's a moving narrative of wartime adventure.
这是对战时经历的感人描述。
[2]vie [vaɪ]
to compete with other people to achieve or get something 竞争；争夺
Six candidates are currently vying for the Democratic presidential nomination.
6名候选人目前正在争夺民主党的总统候选人提名资格。
[3]navel-gazing ['neɪv(ə)l .ɡeɪzɪŋ]：the fact of thinking too much about a single issue and how it could affect you, without thinking about other things that could also affect the situation 一根筋；钻牛角尖
It is a vision of the digital future that seems more corporate and branded than those we have seen on the big screen in the past, yet it also feels closer than ever before to the (virtual) reality we are just beginning to enter.
What did you think of Ready Player One? Here's your chance to give a verdict[4] on the movie's key talking points.
[4]verdict：an opinion or decision made after judging the facts that are given, especially one made at the end of a trial （根据事实作出的）意见，决定；（尤指）判决，裁决
The jury reached/returned a unanimous verdict of (not) guilty.
陪审团一致判定有罪／无罪。
· Virtual race-swapping and digital diversity
It's probably a little unfair that Ernest Cline's 2011 novel, on which Spielberg's movie is not so loosely based, has been branded the unofficial bible[5] for Gamergate types in the years since its publication. At first glance, the big-screen adaptation looks like a pretty progressive affair. Of the five members of Wade Watts/Parzival's High Five team, two are of Asian extraction[6] and two are female – one of whom chooses to appear as a male orc in the Oasis, the virtual-reality world to which everyone escapes from a ravaged, dystopian[7] 2045.
[5]bible：a book, magazine, etc. that gives important advice and information about a particular subject 权威著作
Vogue magazine quickly became the bible of fashionable women.
《时尚》杂志很快就成了时尚女性的必读宝典。
注：Bible还有《圣经》的意思。
[6]extraction
be of French, German, Chinese, etc. extraction：to be from a family that originally came from another country 祖籍法国／德国／中国（等等）
[7]dystopia (n.)：(the idea of) a society in which people do not work well with each other and are not happy 反乌托邦，反面假想国，敌托邦
· Too many Easter eggs can make you sick
In the book, the Oasis[绿洲] is filled with references to 1980s pop culture because its creator James Halliday grew up on video games, comics and movies from that era. But Spielberg has radically expanded the field of play to include nods to everything fromThe Shining[闪灵] (1980, but with the distinct feel of a 70s movie) to Mechagodzilla[机械哥斯拉] (first appearance 1974) to the T rex from the film-maker's own Jurassic Park[侏罗纪公园] (1993).
There's the sense that this expansion makes the movie feel more mainstream than its source material because its reference points are so much easier to spot. At the same time, it also lessens the idea that this is a digital wonderland where only the most po-faced[8] of geeks can succeed. Do you agree?
[8]po-faced：too serious and disapproving 一本正经的；板着脸的
Two po-faced men came to inspect the house.
两个面容严肃的男子来检查这间房子。
· A new vision of virtual reality
Ready Player One stands out from many of the virtual worlds we have previously seen on the big screen. The Matrix[黑客帝国] was a terrifying digital world created to keep human brains from turning into mush while our vital substances were harvested to power the machine hegemony[9] that replaced us. Tron[创:战纪] was similar in its depiction of a vivid and sinister[10] autocracy.
[9]hegemony：(especially of countries) the position of being the strongest and most powerful and therefore able to control others （尤指国家的）霸权，支配权
The three nations competed for regional hegemony.
这3个国家就地区霸权展开争夺。
[10]sinister：making you feel that something bad or evil might happen 不祥的，有凶兆的
By contrast, the Oasis at times feels more like a chirpy[11] virtual Disneyland. Despite all the movie's progressive pretensions, was there not something rather corporate about the way so many of its denizens chose to appear as avatars based on famous franchises, rather than imagining their own bespoke virtual identities?
[11]chirpy ['tʃɜː(r)pi]
happy and active 快活的；活泼的；轻松愉快的
· Digital worlds versus actual reality
At the end of Ready Player One, having secured the golden Easter egg that gives him ownership and control over Halliday's creation, Watts chooses to close the Oasis for two days a week to force people to spend time in the real world.
Yet there is little sense that he plans to do anything much with his newly acquired riches about the grinding poverty[12] that exists outside the digital realm, which rather undercuts the value of his admittedly well-intentioned concession. Sorrento may have been defeated and his corporation forced to deviate from its more nefarious[13]leanings, but did you really buy the movie's determination to promote the value of real life over a plunge down the digital rabbit hole?
[12]grinding poverty：a situation in which people are extremely poor over a long period 赤贫
[13]nefarious [nɪ'feəriəs]
(especially of activities) morally bad （尤指活动）邪恶的，不道德的
The company's CEO seems to have been involved in some nefarious practices/activities.
公司主管看来曾牵涉一些罪恶勾当。
Reality is the only thing that is real.
游戏只是虚拟，
现实中的你，
因为真实，才最宝贵。
珍惜身边的每一个。