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Could the OASIS become a reality?
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The modern smartphone may be the most advanced hardware ever created. When you consider the huge amount of applications/data transfer/online information available, it's mindblowing how advanced a modern smartphone is! Paradoxically, smartphone technology may have peaked at the end of 2010s decade. Apart from more memory space and faster data transfer I can't see any major tech advance in smartphones. It's possible phones of 2020s decade will be near identical in 50 or 100 or 500 years time. Unless you can time travel using your phone or teleport to a new location lol... I can't see any new groundbreaking tech for phones.
We're fortunate to have lived through an historic moment in world history. It's easy to forget how things have changed so much in the last few decades. For example, streaming hd video wasn't possible at the start of this century. If you wanted to download Wargames off the net (assuming someone had uploaded it).... it would have taken days!
Taking a guess, most young people can't relate/connect to rock and roll and his gospel type ballads. Musical taste has changed a lot since the invention of the internet and streaming. Rock and roll ended in the 60s.
Would Elvis Presley be a big star in the streaming era? Probably, but his music would sound completely different. Elvis was considered the king of rock and roll. The king of streaming songs doesn't sound quite as cool.
I didn't enjoy the show that much but I thought the moment when Obi-Wan cried was good. A bit of emotion from Ewan! You felt his sadness. His friend, his apprentice, lost to the dark side.
I didn't like the idea Luke had encountered the Empire/Inquisitors prior to A New Hope. Felt that was unnecessary reinvention. Not to mention the original trilogy never mentioned the Inquisitors. Obi-Wan was, in theory, still a wanted Jedi in A New Hope but that wasn't the vibe you got from watching the film.
Constant looking back, rehashing content, leads to narrative confusion and contradiction. Disney seem obsessed looking back. Maybe they'll take a leap of creative faith and set a new trilogy far in the future and break with some of George Lucas' mythology. The Empire/First Order can't be the enemy forever. It's a huge galaxy. Time for some new villains to shake things up.
Tickets prices are the highest they've ever been so I reckon over two billion is possible. The other huge advantage is the coronavirus pandemic is in decline. Had there been no vaccine, Avatar 2 would be in major trouble, forced to go straight to streaming on Disney +. Thankfully the vaccine saved Cameron from a massive box office disaster.
The vaccines saved Hollywood. Forget Marvel superhero films saving it, it's the scientists that developed the vaccines that are the real superheroes!
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"because they gave him this show which is absolutely awful and he carried it forward on the back of his Scottish accent and good looks."
As mentioned above, Patrick McGoohan was American not Scottish. Born in New York then moved to Ireland as a child. His natural accent was American (had he not left the US) or Irish but at the time he was playing Number Six he had a neutral English accent (the typical Royal Academy of Dramatic Art voice, I guess). He played some roles with an American accent: Columbo, Murder, She Wrote.
Another actor to dramatically alter his voice was Richard Burton. He was Welsh but had a very distinctive English RADA accent. I would imagine many actors of the 1950s/60s changed their accents to improve their chances of getting work. Sean Connery had little of his Scottish accent when playing Bond.
But my idea keeps Fett as a mercenary. He hold no loyalty to Tatooine. He's a mercenary hired by the New Republic and also playing the Imperial Remnants. Playing both sides for financial reward. And the second half of the show would be Fett as an outlaw pursued by the Imperial Remnants bounty hunters.
The main criticism of the show is Disney changed Fett's character. He went from a loner bounty hunter to a leader with a conscience. My idea avoids that character reinvention so I can't see how it's silly. You're entitled to dislike my ending but the premise - Fett playing both sides against each other - is far more in keeping with a ruthless bounty hunter's mindset.
I would argue Jon Favreau hadn't a clue who Fett was, had zero understanding of how a bounty hunter would think, operate. If you start Ep 1 of a Boba Fett show understanding who the character is, how he thinks, you can come up with a storyline that is CONSISTENT with that character. It makes logical sense to think Fett would escape Tatooine and try to prosper. Find the highest bidder, take new jobs. And in a post Empire Star Wars universe a decent twist would be the New Republic hiring Fett or using Fett. Instead we got Favreau showing Fett treating a rancor as a pet. If my idea is silly then his was sillier.
Not only did Maul survive his apparent death in The Phantom Menace, he appeared in Star Wars Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels. And in Star Wars Rebel he died (again!). Obi Wan Kenobi kills Darth Maul in SW Rebels. This dude dies more often than a bad comic on stage.
They blew up the stack building - his aunt's home - because they thought Wade was inside. IOI wanted to win the challenge to control the OASIS and its assets (it was valued at half a trillion dollars) so they would be prepared to kill, I guess. Imagine if you could win a challenge and buy Apple or Microsoft (!), I'm sure some major corp would do the best to take you out and anyone else you know - friends, relatives etc.
It wouldn't be so bad in the Real Player One world. If the IOI arrest you for subversion or scoring too high on Donkey Kong, they'd jail you in a virtual world. That would be easy to escape from. Just take off the headset and you're free. :P
I thought the ending was a bit low budget-ish. After two hours of incredibly detailed CGI world building, the ending involved two vehicles hitting each other down a city street. I dunno, it felt like they had run out of money and Warner Bros said "screw the CGI, let's have a cheap looking car chase instead." :P
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