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    This document provides notes on elements from the film Ready Player One that relate to various areas of exploration such as science, technology, environment, culture, identity, community, power, politics, and justice. The notes describe how the film depicts a dystopian future where people escape to the virtual world called the Oasis to avoid poverty and environmental degradation. It explores issues of identity, community, and the quest for power and control in the Oasis.

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    Ready Player One

    This film explores many global issues that fit within the areas of exploration listed below. As you watch
    the film, identify as many elements as you can in the boxes below (some may overlap). These may be
    represented through setting, character, dialogue, visual elements, etc. For future discussion and essay
    organization, be as descriptive as possible in your note-taking to help you return to the evidence.

    ▪ Science ▪ Community
    ▪ Technology ▪ Power
    ▪ Environment ▪ Politics
    ▪ Culture ▪ Justice
    ▪ Identity

    Area of Notes
    Exploration
    Science - By creating a powerful processor and revolutionary
    technology for being able to be truly immersed in the Oasis.
    Technology - In the movie, the main setting of the movie is the Oasis, a
    separate world that is completely virtual. Many people in the
    world use it to escape their poverty stricken lives. The image
    at the beginning of the movie was almost everyone wearing.
    - In the Oasis, there is no limit to technology because
    everything is virtual and made of code, meaning that the only
    limit is imagination and possibly money.
    Environment - The stacks, the first scene in the film, is a filthy, run down, and
    trashed setting in which the main character, Wade, lives in.
    The stacks display the environment of the time and vividly
    depict what could happen if we continue to neglect our planet,
    we could be subject to dangerous and unhealthy
    environments.
    - In the movie, Samantha is an activist in a way, a rebellious
    person who wishes to return to a prosperous world and a clean
    environment. We see this in her green plants on the roof of the
    building she lives in.
    Culture - In the Oasis, there is a unique culture in every place you go.
    There are so many varied places to be and so many different
    things to do that almost anyone can find any setting they want
    to be in. This leads to the question, should you be able to be in
    any setting or culture you want to be in or should you be
    bound to reality?
    Identity - In the Oasis, the people of the world can make themselves
    appear as whatever they want to be and they can live however
    they want to. The Oasis, unlike reality, is a place where you
    can escape the way you were born and be whatever you want.
    The question is whether or not it is good to be tethered to
    reality, or if hiding behind a pair of VR goggles is better.
    - In the Oasis, one of the main characters, H, was a girl in reality
    and another one, Sho, was an eleven year old boy. This does to
    show that anyone could truly be anyone within the Oasis due
    to the anonymous and virtual nature of the Oasis.
    Community - The community of the world, the news, the elections, the
    entertainment, the literature, and the art of the world is now
    pretty much all contained in the oasis, which makes IOI’s
    power grab in trying to control the oasis all that much more
    power hungry.
    - In the end of the movie before the massive fight, Wade talks
    about how he found love, friends, and connection after
    realizing that he could leave the Oasis and find all of these in
    real life.
    - The community in the Oasis was so worth fighting for that
    thousands of thousands if not millions of people came to fight
    IOI in order to preserve the freedom in the Oasis.
    - In the end of the movie, one of the last scenes was when the
    whole community of the stacks, in the real world, came to
    protect Wade, even though they ultimately did nothing when
    Nolan drew a gun on them. This shows the unity that the Oasis
    created.
    Power - IOI, the company that is seeking to take over the oasis is
    making a giant power grab to try and make money and pretty
    much control the whole world’s population’s source of money
    and entertainment.
    - In the end of the movie, Wade ultimately decided to split the
    money and the power that came with controlling the
    Gregarious Games company.
    Politics - In reality, the IOI corporation has virtually unlimited power and
    funds with no restriction because the government has no
    power or will to do anything about it, because of this the IOI
    was able to attack Wade and imprison Samantha’s father for
    the rest of her life without repercussions.
    Justice - In the world twenty five years in the future, Wade says that
    people stopped trying to fix problems, they just tried to outlive
    them. We see this because everyone tries to escape the real
    world and ignore their real problems. As a result, the people
    - Artemis's dad was forced to work in IOI for the rest of his life
    to work down debt because IOI was charging him more for
    living in captivity than he was making. This has scary
    implications for the power of modern major corporations
    which could potentially get so much power if the world ever
    reached such a desperate state that they would be given a lot
    of power.
    - Again, when IOI raids the building Samantha used to live in
    they again have no repercussions. Furthermore, when they
    trap Samantha, they have her trapped physically in the OASIS
    forcing her to work and electrocuting her in the real world if
    she does not comply.
    - In the end, Nolan was sent to jail by cops right after he was
    trying to kill Wade.

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