#123: (Pt. 2) Ready Player One / Tron (1982)

The Next Picture Show

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4.6 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Steven Lisberger’s groundbreaking live-action Disney film TRON is one of the few 1980s properties that doesn’t get explicitly referenced in Steven Spielberg’s new adaptation of Ernest Cline’s novel READY PLAYER ONE, but the earlier film makes up a significant portion of RP1’s source code. After discussing our reactions to READY PLAYER ONE, and hashing out what made Cline’s novel become so strangely controversial, we look at what connects and distinguishes these two films about life inside a video game, from their attitudes about human/computer relationships to how they approach the idea of corporate control. Plus, Your Next Picture Show, where we share recent filmgoing experiences in hopes of putting something new on your cinematic radar. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about TRON, READY PLAYER ONE, or both by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Your Next Picture Show: • Genevieve: Anders Walter’s I KILL GIANTS• Scott: Andrew Haigh’s LEAN ON PETE• Tasha: Rich Moore’s WRECK-IT RALPH SHOW NOTES: Works Cited:• “The Ready Player One Backlash, Explained” by Constance Grady (Vox.com)• “Ready Player One is a truly awful book. I’m really looking forward to the movie” by Todd VanDerWerff (Vox.com)• “Ernest Cline: Ready Player One” (review) by Kevin McFarland (AVClub.com)• Ernest Cline’s “Ultraman is Airwolf” (ErnestCline.com)• “Here are all the references in Ready Player One” by Abraham Riesman (Vulture.com)• “I Kill Giants director Anders Walter on making a likable fantasy with a hateful protagonist” by Tasha Robinson (TheVerge.com)• “Our film critic and the director of a movie he hated sat down and tried to work out their differences” by David Ehrlich (Indiewire.com) Outro Music: Rush, “2112 (The Temples of Syrnix)” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sit in quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.2	Down time can be just fine, playing bangers from the 90s.
0:08.4	Tea break.
0:09.4	Lunch break.
0:10.2	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.1	Sometimes it's not time for some tombollah, right?
0:15.1	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time.
0:29.3	Go on. Play some other time. visit your nan time go on play some other time put your phone down tombole open for fun terms apply 18 plus gamble aware.org It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.
0:36.2	You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?
0:42.9	We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.
0:49.1	Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film
0:53.5	and the way it's shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Tasha Robinson, here again with
0:57.5	Genevieve Koski and Scott Tobias. On the first half of this episode, we discussed Stephen
1:01.5	Lissberger's 1982 film, Tron, in which a programmer is dragged inside a computer to take a symbolic
1:07.0	video game journey alongside programs resisting an evil master computer program.
1:11.6	In this episode, we'll consider a film based on a book that was heavily inspired by Tron.
1:15.8	Ernest Kline's 2011 bestseller Ready Player One also features people entering a video game and
1:20.9	fighting the man, but in very different ways and with a lot more controversy.
1:25.0	Recently, Vox.com featured a piece by Constance Grady called
1:28.1	the Ready Player One Backlash, explained, which tried to pick apart how Klein's Ready Player
1:32.6	One went from being considered a fun, largely celebrated, largely positively received novel
1:37.3	about pop culture to being decried as an annoying exercise in empty nostalgia. The book has
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