Steven Spielberg is back with a brand new movie “Ready Player One” in which you will find an amazing amount of references of pop culture from the 80’s and other movies and video games! A must to see for any geeks!
To list all the references in this movie will be tedious!! From Jurassic park to King Kong, Star Wars to Chucky, the list goes on forever! But also little of pop music!
But here how it works (to understand the movie) and the scene related to Michael Jackson:
In “Ready Player One,” Steven Spielberg’s dizzyingly propulsive virtual-reality fanboy geek-out, Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan), a teenager living in a dystopian trailer park in the year 2045, spends most of his time strapping on a headset and immersing himself in the OASIS, a techie surrealist theme park of the senses. Once inside, you never know what you’re going to see or imagine next — though it’s hard to go for more than 30 seconds without encountering some succulent tidbit of pop nostalgia, most of it from the 1980s.
Early on, there’s a shoot-the-works car chase in which Wade — or, rather, his avatar, Parzival, who resembles a frosted-blond, plane-cheeked Keanu Reeves in a jean vest — climbs into the wing-doored DeLorean DMC-12 from “Back to the Future” and races through a cityscape at pedal-to-the-metal speed to the tune of Joan Jett’s “I Hate Myself for Loving You,” even as he’s pursued by King Kong and the T. Rex from “Jurassic Park.” (Blink and you’ll miss the Batmobile.)
A bit later, Parzival goes on a date with Art3mis (Olivia Cooke), who is also an avatar, with punk-red hair and the oversize eyes of an anime kewpie doll. He gets ready for the evening by morphing into assorted outfits — he tries on Prince, Michael Jackson’s Thriller Jacket, and a Duran Duran trench coat before settling on the shaggy suit and tie of Buckaroo Banzai.
Let’s face it, Michael Jackson couldn’t not be in this movie with all the 80’s references!
Here the trailer for you:
Go to see this movie and see if you can spot MJ tribute! 😉
And here it is:
