March 2018

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There’s no doubt Director Black Panther is the first Steven Spielberg is teaching film in Marvel Studios’ you something with his movies without banner tenthit. What yearyou see and up front are you even knowing

Melbourne Audience at the premiere screening.

When asked if Sheridan would play the game in reality he said he would definitely play the game. “I think there’s something really fascinating escaping to a completely immersive world”, he said. And nothing that any thinkpiece or column images taking you to another world, a story that from all of Spielberg’s films which avatar would could writeyou can take fromBut the fact it just below makes laughaway or cry. sitting he play, despite taking longer than he should have is a this greatentertainment time at the cinemas. The story, is a message. You don’t know to think about it and Spielberg giving him a hard the it’s cast,there the but direction and the execution it’s something that sits in your mind time for taking so long, “Possibly be Jude Law all amounted to one of the best entries weaving its way through until that moment in from AI”, he decided. intotime the Marvel Cinematic Universe ever. where you remember that fateful piece of Certainly most people’s top three. information. And without even knowing it Steven While the film is split into two what with reality Spielberg has made your mind up for you. and inside the Oasis where Sheridan is playing And it did it without pulling in any an animated version of himself, Sheridan had flagship franchises, Readyheroes Player from One isother Spielberg’s latest blockbuster his work cut out for him. Ultimately playing two like set theinCaptain America sequels, Anta futuristic but not too far-fetched 2045. versions of himself Sheridan had to manoeuvre ManBased or Thor: Ragnarok. Ulysses Klaue on the best-selling novel of the same name the world of motion capture. and byEverett introduced in managed Ernest Ross Cline were released in 2011, Cline Avengers: Age of Ultron and Captain to build a world and Spielberg managed to bring “Because you’re in a motion capture costume with America: Civil War respectively, the wonderful and cautious tale tobut life. reflective traction markers all over you, you kind that was more of a case of those movies of have to visualise and create the environment borrowing a Black core character The world has Panther had an energy crisis brought on by around you”, Sheridan said. rather thanwarming vice versa. Black Panther To escape global and overpopulation. stands proudly on its own two feet. this reality everyone heads to the Oasis, a virtual Behind the scenes you have another talented simulated world using goggles and clothing which person leading the way, Director Steven Spielberg It iscan certainly watershed in world. simulatea what is felt inmoment the virtual (Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan, Indiana Hollywood, and representation certainly Jones). It would be hard to imagine Ready Player matters The and Oasisthe wasguaranteed created bysuccess James of Halliday who One without the creative and adventurous mind this when feature more studios to to an Easter hewill diedinspire hid three keys leading of Spielberg doing something so visually amazing. be more representative. Egg which would handThe overprimarily his fortune and the Something that took Spielberg some time to bring black cast were relatable and itcontrol was never corporation and in turn over the Oasis. to life. distracting… or whatever statements Five years has passed, yet no one has been able to people throw to whitewash theirThat is until come closeintohere finding the first key. “There were so many artists 8 to 900 digital artists. movie. This cast’s acting chops were off orphan Wade (Tye Sheridan) otherwise known Character artists, background artists that painted the ascharts. TheirParzival, skin colour doesn’t his avatar manages to figure out the the landscapes, artists that did nothing but focus matter! Never in the hundred first clue. But along the way he isplus met with some on the details to make the Oasis seem utterly real. reviews I’ve written hasform that ever beenlead an by Noalan resistance in the of IOI It took three years from the time I read the book issueSorento and I refuse to spend any more of (Ben Mendelsohn). With Wade’s clan of and script to the time I’m sitting here talking to the wordcount on it. inside the Oasis, they take on which he found you. It’s the longest project I’ve ever been involved Sorento who is doing whatever it is he can to win in”, Spielberg said. To the reiterate, thetakeensemble game and control of is the epic. Oasis. Chadwick Boseman carries over from his Spielberg has managed to find a perfect balance backdoor entrance The film is driveninbyCaptain the viewAmerica: point of Wade played between the visual splendour that is the Oasis CivilbyWar a true(X-Men-Apocalypse, headline act. Black Tree of Life, Tyewith Sheridan and that of reality. A future reality where there Panther as plays aspirational Captain Mud)iswho a prettyasstraight shooter. He is hasn’t been that many changes from the current Ameirca as cool Tony Stark, oddlyand happier thanashe should be and considering he’s world, but enough to show technology has clearly for bonus point he’s also royalty like Thor.her boyfriend an orphan living with his Aunty and surpassed anyone’s imagination. A fine figure to include in theBut second-gen who doesn’t like him. what Sheridan does lineup than post-Untitled bring to will this take is an over innocence and honesty that is The reality side of Ready Player One has an eerie Avengers. harder to act than it is to actually be. And you sense of possibility for the current Earth outside of could notice this in the Interview he gave to the the movie itself which Spielberg agrees with.


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