Ready Player One and Marriage Is a Private Affair both have conflicts against a central power, which influences the way in which the main character achieves their goal. In Ready Player One, Wade is faced with the conflict of an organization, the IOI, and in Marriage is a Private Affair, Nnaemeka is faced with the problem of his father disapproving of his choices. In the book Ready Player One, the main character Wade is faced with the problem of the IOI as competitors in the hunt for Halliday’s Easter egg, which contained billions of dollars and special OASIS effects such as immortality. Wade is faced with the problem of a large powerful organization with lots of resources and shady methods trying to achieve the same goal as Wade, to find …show more content…
In Ready Player One, Wade is conflicted with trying to achieve Halliday’s Easter egg and obtain all its riches, while in Marriage is a Private Affair, Nnaemeka is conflicted with trying to achieve his father’s approval on his marriage choice. Although both these stories include a protagonist facing a larger antagonist, in Ready Player One, Wade has helped in achieving his goal. “I think this might be Halliday’s way of telling us how many keys are required to open the Third Gate” (Cline 308). This quote proves that it took three different keys to open the Third Gate, implying that at least three of the characters had to reach it and work together in order to open the gate. However, in Marriage is a Private Affair, Nnaemeka has no help against proving his point to Okeke besides Nene, which Okeke isn’t very fond about in the first place. In Marriage is a Private Affair, although Okeke doesn’t like Nene, he doesn’t make it impossible for him to marry her and go against his word. This is unlike Ready Player One because whenever the IOI reached a gate or a key location before the gunters, they would put invincible shields up to make it impossible for anyone else besides the Sixers’ to make any progress on the hunt. Eventually, the gunters got ways of entering the shields, either by nuking them or killing the wizard that was keeping the shield up, but for the time being it was impossible for anyone to make any progress. In Marriage is a Private Affair, the antagonist Okeke also has other opinions about Nnaemeka. A quote that shows this is “Have you thought of consulting a native doctor about your son?” (Achebe 4). This quote shows that not only does Okeke think that something is wrong with his son, but other tribe members do too. The tribe members think that Nnaemeka is sick, so Okeke should consult
“The Producers” is one of the most famous musicals in Broadway. Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan adapted the musical from the 1968 film of the same name. The musical is about two producers that oversell interest in a Broadway flop in order to become wealthy. The musical consist in play with in the musical. The producers, Max and Leo, choose the worst play ever written and the worst director. However, the play turns out to be successful and Max goes to jail and Leo escapes with the money to Rio. The two more important external event in the play are the event when Leo decides to help Max and the moment when the play becomes a success.
‘The Patriot’ is a movie which included several differences and similarities to the actual history of the American Revolution, including a bias against the British. Directed by Ronald Emmerich, the movie was a depiction of the American Revolution, with Benjamin Martin as our strong and fierce main character.
The Patriot. A person who is willing to fight for their country against enemies. The Patriot begins in the year 1776 in the colony of South Carolina. Mel Gibson plays a planation farmer who fought in the French-Indian war named Benjamin Martin. A War was about to begin and Benjamin wanted no share partaking in the soon-to-be American Revolutionary War. He was more concerned about his two eldest sons who wanted to fight under General George Washington. The beginning of the movie starts out with Benjamin Martin peacefully living with his kids whom no longer have a living mother. Benjamin’s oldest son, Gabriel, joins the war without permission from his father. As the rest of the family are at home one afternoon, Colonel William Travington burns the Martin Plantation to the ground and his second oldest son was killed immediately for interrupting Travington’s plan. Benjamin finds a way to seek revenge because of the rage he experiences after his family is hurt. He begins to realize that he needs to fight for his children and he will not do it alone. Both Benjamin and his oldest son, Gabriel, decide to join the militia as a way of showing what they are capable of. Throughout the film, Benjamin Martin becomes a soldier whom others respect and admire. He shows the militia what it means to truly care for not only his men, but also for his family. As the film progresses, a turn of events take place that show Benjamin’s continued want of revenge against General Charles Cornwallis. The Continentals and the militia soon commence the battle at Cowpens. This is when Benjamin Martin meets his enemy, Travington, who murdered his two eldest sons. After a drawn-out battle, Benjamin stabs Travington in the neck and kills him for the sake of his children. It is then that General Cornwallis retreats his forces and the rest celebrate. Even though some portions of The Patriot aren’t as accurate as we perceive, it is a film full of war and despair, but also a film that contributes to the importance of dignity and the love for one’s family.
The film, Good will hunting (Bender et al., 1997), is an American classic flick which is lauded for its fresh and ordinary approach towards depicting situations that is realistic and relatable. In the film, Good Will Hunting (Bender et al., 1997), this is clearly show up that, savagery Will Hunting experienced as a youngster and after that shows as a grown-up; along with flashes of a sweet attitude towards his companions and mental virtuoso. It is about a young man struggle to find himself. He is unwillingly treated to a psychologist just to keep him out of trouble. In this journey, he finds out what he is and what matters to him the most. This movie uses strong and effective technique on evoking emotions and empathy to the audience through exposing them to various technicities of filmmaking such as color, camera technique and many more. After reading the book (OpenStax 2016), we can have adopted different kinds of psychological theory to explain this movie. Good will hunting is related with Erikson’s psychosocial theory of personal development (Neu-Freudian theory),Freud’s psychoanalytical theory and the five-factor model of personality (Big-five: OCEAN).
Synthetic, pretend, mock, fake, these are all synonyms to the word virtual. “Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline shows the positives and negatives to living entirely in a virtual world. Although there are favorable aspects to developing and nurturing online friendships or even relationships there are fallible aspects as well that seem to outnumber what may appear harmless at first. In this book we are shown 3 different sets of online relationships, that of best friends, a couple and “brothers”. Aech and Wade are the first real relationship shown in this book and they model best friends. These two have been best friends for the past 4 years and have spent countless hours together playing video games, watching movies and just talking. Because
Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in literary work. It has been discovered that there is indeed a common theme surrounding both George Orwell’s novel 1984 and the LEGO movie. These pieces of literature serve to warn its readers/audience of the dangers of totalitarianism. Both the movie and the novel portray a “perfect” totalitarian society, where the government has complete and total power and control. When one looks beneath the surface of these “perfect” societies, it becomes evident that they are nothing of the sort. These “perfect” societies have removed individual expression and has caused everyone to be conditioned to think alike. The citizens are conditioned to meet the needs
In the movie, See What I’m Saying, there are three Deaf men and one Hard of Hearing women. Their names are: Robert DeMayo, TL Forsberg. Bob Hiltermann and C.J Jones. Through out the movie, each person shows us a glimpse of their lives and what they have to deal with on a daily basis. See What I’m Saying shines a light on the oppressive behaviors within the performing arts industry and within mainstream media, and how these four individuals must navigate through their lives as performing artist.
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No it’s… a Greaser? The Outsiders is a book written by S.E. Hilton about a boy named Ponyboy Curtis that is a Greaser who is involved with a murder of a Socs along with his friend Johnny Cade. While it was under self defence, the cops would never believe them so they flee the town. Ponyboy is faced with many challenges along the way that involve his brother's (Sodapop and Darry), his safety, a church fire, and Johnny and Dally Winston death. During all this chaos, heroic actions are taking place throughout the story with most of the characters. Three heroes from The Outsiders include Johnny Cade, Darry Curtis, and Two- Bit Mathews.
Hayakawa’s career was jumpstarted by his leading role in The Cheat, the film catapulted him
In the movie Silver Linings Playbook, by David O. Russel, depicts two main characters, Patrick Solitano Jr. and Tiffany Maxwell, that both struggle with psychological disorders. Patrick Solitano, who was a former high school teacher, catches his wife in the shower with another man (the history teacher) while his wedding song was playing, therefore instantly becoming violent. As a result of going berserk on the history teacher, he has to spend eight months in a psych ward, and is diagnosed with bipolar disorder. On the other hand, we have Tiffany Maxwell, who is thrown into a sea of depression due to a sudden car accident that kills her husband.
The real world in 2045 is an overcrowded, bleak, shortage filled era with trailer homes averaging with fiveteen people. Since the world is so overpopulated, real supplies like food are limited, resulting in the staple of people's diet being soy bacon and powdered eggs. Wade, the main character in Ready Player One by Ernest Cline describes reality as a kick in the teeth. Nobody told Wade that there are wars being fought, violence is killing innocent people like his own father and poverty and temperatures are rising resulting in an overall decline in civilization. This lead to the creation of OASIS, a virtual world designed by Halliday that created hope for most of the population.
Monotonous processes in everyday life take a toll on the livelihood and overall quality of life in the everyday individual. Breaking the monotony requires an escape from these processes into whatever gives comfort to that individual. For some, this escape is a book, a videogame, sports or a club; for Wade Watts, and most of the world in 2044 CE, the escape is a haptic-enabled virtual-world simulation known as the OASIS. In Ready Player One, James Halliday created the OASIS (Cline 1), or Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation (Cline 48), a massive multiplayer online simulation game, which is a virtual universe with countless worlds, a public-school system, combat simulation, businesses and a host of other simulated activities
Based off of Kathryn Stockett’s 2009 novel, The Help is a movie told from an African American’s point of view during the early 1960’s in Jackson, Mississippi. The three main characters include, Aibileen Clark, Minny Jackson, and Eugenia (Skeeter) Phelan. Skeeter is a young writer who has recently returned from the University of Mississippi. She has been advised by the Elaine Stein, who is the head editor at Harper & Row, to write about a topic she is passionate about, that way she can continue her dream of becoming a serious writer. In addition, Skeeter accepts a writing job down at the Jackson Journal where she writes a housekeeping column. Ironically, she has no housekeeping experience as she grew up with in house help. In order to keep her job she goes to Aibileen, her friend Elizabeth Leefolt’s housekeeper. At this point in her life, Aibileen is just trying to get by. She writes out her prayers on a daily basis as a way to clear her mind since she is fairly reserved on the outside. On the contrary, Aibileen’s friend Minny is also a housekeeper, but she has a rather sharp tongue which doesn’t usually work in her favor. Consequently, she is trying to find a new employer, but is having trouble since there is a bit of discord between her and the most influential socialite in Jackson, Mississippi.
Good Will Hunting, a world famous film by Matt Damon, is one of the most well-crafted and profound films the world has ever seen. Released in 1998, the movie depicts a young South Boston screwup as he journeys from convict to mathematician thanks to his brilliant mind and the guidance of two clever but contentious men at each shoulder. Will is a young man looking to get through life with easy drinking and careless behavior, but after a run-in with a group of policemen and a challenging chalkboard, he is forced into therapy with a recovering widower and begins completing complex math problems with an unstable professor who is past his prime. He also takes up with a pre-med student at Harvard from England who shows him new ways to think about the world, even when he thought he had seen them all. The brilliance of Good Will Hunting comes in the shape of the witty dialogue, symbolic motifs, and a retinue of dynamic characters around the changing Will, and these all come together to create not just a film, but a work of art.
The movie The Patriot takes place in South Carolina in 1776. The colonies were tired of paying taxes and all of this from England. They decided to go to war and fight for independence. This movie is mainly about how a farmer named Benjamin Franklin lived in South Carolina and the British brutally murdered his second oldest son right in front of his family then later the same person Col. Travingston kills Benjamin’s oldest son Gabriel. Due to this he joins the militia in order for justice of his sons. At first he wants nothing to do with it but once his sons were murdered he wanted revenge. The Patriot was about the American Revolution, the Patriot militia fighting against loyalists in the south. The film was mainly about Benjamin Martin’s family and fighting for liberty against England. They did show us about the war and them fighting in it but it was mainly about Martins’ life. They did show us them fighting in the war and how they would line up and fight in the war but they didn’t show us enough.