![]() ![]() “It's like The Goonies or any other movie where a group of young people band together and there's just the right group of people, each with their own set of skills, and when they cooperate they can accomplish anything,” he says. Freed from the first-person narrative, Cline says he was happy to involve the other characters earlier and not show everything through Wade’s eyes. For one thing, the characters meet in real life much earlier on (in the book they only meet in the Oasis until the very end). ![]() Other aspects of the novel don’t cross over quite so easily, and the film version necessarily strays from the novel’s plot in some important ways. The characters are humanoid but with otherworldly traits they have exaggerated, anime-like, facial features and, in some cases, robotic limbs. Cline describes the Oasis as “photorealistic but not like real life”. The film portrays the Oasis well, creating a suitable spectacle and keeping a clear separation between real and virtual worlds without making the avatar versions of the characters too cold or unsympathetic. ![]()
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