Jade Key: Win a three-dimensional rendering of the text-based adventure game Zork.Copper Gate: Complete a WarGames flicksync (more on that below).Copper Key: Defeat Acererak the Demi-Lich (Dungeons and Dragons) in a best of three round of the 1982 arcade classic Joust.In the book, those challenges are as follows: The book’s hunt required Gunters to find a key, follow the clue included with that key to a matching gate, use it to enter the gate and complete a challenge of some kind, and repeat. Pick up my sci-fi novel series, The Earthborn Trilogy, which is now in print, online and on audiobook.Play The Structure of the HuntWhile finding all three of OASIS creator James Halliday’s hidden keys is necessary to unlock his easter egg, the novel actually features even more obstacles for Parzival and the legions of gunters. What did you think of the movie? And how was your view of it colored based on whether or not you’ve read the book?įollow me on Twitter and on Facebook. It’s a much different experience, but both or worthwhile.
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Though the book is still fantastic as well, and worth reading whether you see the movie or not. But by making it more of a blockbuster and cutting some fat, it’s truly a great movie, and some would argue better than the book in many ways.
Ready Player One could have easily been a huge miss, and I have a hunch it might have been had it stuck with the source material religiously. I know there are more changes, big and small, but these three stood out to me in a good way, and I think Ready Player One is a perfect example of a book editing itself through the help of its author and a great director to become the best version of itself it can be for a film adaption. But besides that, I thought they established Morrow well as a “presence” in the form of the Curator, which is revealed at the very end, and we didn’t need to see him more than there and through a few key flashbacks. It didn’t help that Simon Pegg wasn’t British for once. My only complaint with the use of Morrow was that in the very first scene, I thought he was a young Sorrento (Ben Mendelsohn) and I didn’t recognize him as a distinct character (Simon Pegg’s Morrow). At two hours twenty minutes, I can understand why some elements had to be slimmed down for time. It’s hard to imagine this movie without this sequence, and this is another key-puzzle replacement that I thought worked very well, while staying true to the spirit of the original puzzle.įinally, another major change some are complaining about is that Ogden Morrow, Halliday’s old partner, is seldom seen in the movie while he has quite a major part in the original book. The best part of the sequence is following H, a character who has never seen the film, and keeps getting surprised by its more horrible elements. Again, this would have fallen pretty flat onscreen, and what we got instead was arguably the best sequence of the entire movie, a walk through The Shining that seamlessly blends CGI, sets and old footage into a truly amazing love letter from Spielberg to his mentor Kubrick.
The long and short of it in the book is that Parzival had to essentially act out the entirety of Wargames, proving just how dedicated he is to ‘80s pop culture. The second key is dramatically changed as well.
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