《头号玩家》:斯皮尔伯格的怀旧游戏_BEC初级作文

《头号玩家》:斯皮尔伯格的怀旧游戏

In the real world, IOI encourages Oasis fans to run up debts that it collects by forcing them into indentured servitude. Sorrento’s villainy sets up a battle on two fronts — clashes in the Oasis mirroring chases through the streets of Columbus — that inspires Mr. Spielberg to feats of crosscutting virtuosity. The action is so swift and engaging that some possibly literal-minded questions may be brushed aside. I, for one, didn’t quite understand why, given the global reach of the Oasis, all the relevant players were so conveniently clustered in Ohio. (If anyone wants to explain, please find me on Twitter so I can mute you.)

在现实世界中，IOI怂恿“绿洲”的粉丝们大笔举债，通过迫使他们接受奴役契约来搜集债务。索伦托的邪恶势力在两条战线上展开战斗——哥伦布市街头的追逐反映了绿洲里的冲突——这激发了斯皮尔伯格施展精湛的剪辑切换技艺。这场戏速度很快，扣人心弦，所以一些比较实际的问题可能被冲淡了。比如说，我不太明白，既然绿洲是全世界都在玩的游戏，那么，为什么所有重要的玩家都如此便捷地聚集在俄亥俄州（如果有人想解释，请去Twitter上找我，这样我就可以拉黑你了）。

But, of course, Columbus and the Oasis do not represent actual or virtual realities, but rather two different modalities of fantasy. Wade’s avatar, Parzival, collects a posse of fighters: Sho, Daito, Aech and Art3mis, who is also his love interest. When the people attached to these identities meet up in Columbus, they are not exactly as they are in the game. Aech, large and male in the Oasis, is played by Lena Waithe. But the fluidity of online identity remains an underexploited possibility. In and out of the Oasis, Art3mis (also known as Samantha, and portrayed by Olivia Cooke) is a male fantasy of female badassery. Sho (Philip Zhao) and Daito (Win Morisaki) are relegated to sidekick duty. The multiplayer, self-inventing ethos of gaming might have offered a chance for a less conventional division of heroic labor, but the writers and filmmakers lacked the imagination to take advantage of it.