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#6 - Ready Player One (2018)

Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast

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The Dystopian Setting

I felt like all the complaints everyone had about this movie. I felt like the references were all passive. It was just like they didn't point things out it just happened. There's no exposition about the world. Honestly there's nothing that you're shown nothing. Here's the thing is I don't really think it was a dystopia. The city looked generally normal. Like when the cops showed up and stuff. Yeah. So it's just a normal city and now people live in trailer parks that are stacked. Right? Some of that was key to make that character an underdog. right?

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