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Game Over Player One (Gaming)

by Cody Miller @, Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Saturday, April 07, 2018, 09:58 (2208 days ago)

I’m a little surprised nobody has mentioned anything about Ready Player One on here especially given the Spartans cameo.

Given the talk about video game movies, on a plot and story level it was fairly entertaining and well done. Not perfect; I felt like Wade’s home situation could have factored into things a little more, but whatever.

But the biggest thing that stood out to me was the downright regressive treatment of gender. Holy smokes was this movie troubling. It pretty much brought back the 80s action movie notion of women as trophy and accessory. Halliday completely eliminates any agency or humanity for Kira, who spends her existence literally on a pedestal waiting as a quest reward. She was almost exclusively seen and treated though his male gaze.

In true 80s fashion, the hero wins the girl just because he did something heroic, despite her initial rebuffs. I was wondering if Samantha had had a horrible disfigurement instead of a minor birthmark, or if she was a quadriplegic or something, Would Wade have been disappointed then?

Yeah the movie was fun, but it was shockingly backwards socially.


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