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notes on the book and movie for the class...

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Film adaptation of RPO ● Medium is the message ○ Form itself is meaning and not just the content ● Whole change in movie ○ Beginning of the movie about dungeons and dragons ■ Acc a race - drive backwards to get the key ○ Narrows the collection of things from the book to the movie ○ Essentially a shortened version of the novel ■ Reduced ○ Doesn’t touch on the fact that people have jobs in OASIS ■ Only portrays it as a form of escape rather a source of employment ● Spielberg ○ Blockbuster auteur ○ Typical spielberg movie ○ Removes references by replacing it by specific pastiches ○ Brings a young-adult aspect to the movie ***narrative is no longer explicitly NOSTALGIA**** ● Trivia is reduced to Halliday himself ● Not many 80s references are kept ● Ongoing theme of 80s nostalgia doesn’t explicitly exist...