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Ready Player One (2018) Movie Review

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Official RPO Poster Directed by Steven Spielberg , Ready Player One is a film that results from the adaptation of the hit novel written by Ernest Cline , to the silver screen. For me, one crucial aspect in order to be able to appreciate an adaptation, no matter how long or dense the source material is, is to understand what an adaptation actually is and what it sets out to accomplish. It is not a carbon copy of the book, nor it is a completely different work of art; there’s a fine line between the amount of differences from the novel and the quantity of changes implemented and that is precisely the spot where an adaptation operates.  Welcome to the OASIS Therefore, going into this movie I was expecting to see a hybrid of Cline’s narrative coupled with Spielberg ’s outstanding vision for what Ready Player One could be, once translated to the cinematic format. The movie follows the story of Wade Watts, a young man who is dedicating all of his free time on the ad