In a movie about locating an Easter egg, like Ready Player One, there will be a lot of Easter eggs. The film, based on the best-selling book of the same name by Ernest Cline, is packed with past references to 20th century pop culture, some of which date back to the 1960s. There are probably plenty of Easter eggs hidden in the film. movie, but we have selected 32 of the least obvious ones.
The Wonderful Adventure of Pee-Wee is a cultural touchstone for many other people born in the ’70s, and it’s a lot of fun to see it depicted in Ready Player One. It’s subtle, since no characters reference it and it has about 10 seconds of screen. At the same time, however, when Hache, Parzival, and Art3mis enter Hache’s workshop, the audience gets a glimpse of Pee-Wee’s motorcycle leaning against the wall in the background.
Music plays a big role in the film, with a soundtrack full of ’80s hits. Some music from the decade heard in the film is even represented. Early on, when Wade (Tye Sheridan) leaves his house, his neighbor is wearing a T-shirt. T-shirt from The Police’s 1983 album Synchronicity.
In the long run of Ready Player One, 2045 to be exact, everyone spends their time in The Oasis, a virtual reality world. However, the Easter eggs are limited to The Oasis. In the real world, Toshiro (Win Morisaki) wears a Mortal Kombat button on his costume. He also decorated his glasses with a Batman sticker.
There are some places in Oasis that are filled with references to the ’80s. The game revolves around its creator’s favorite things in the ’80s, so most of the characters are obsessed with the pop culture of the decade. A reference appears in the Hache Clubhouse, a neon sign for cocktails
If you’ve read the book, you know that the legendary band Rush plays an important role in Halliday’s (Mark Rylance) youth. There is no Rush on the film’s soundtrack; His song “Tom Sawyer” was used in the trailer. That’s not to say Rush is rarely heavily represented. In fact, the canopy from his album “2112” is everywhere, and at the end a poster is added in Halliday’s bedroom from Halliday’s formative years.
After finding the third key, Wade and Samantha, played by House Of The Dragon cast member Olivia Cooke, talk about the third clue. School House Rock enthusiasts will know that 3 is the magic number and thought it might be important, so they wrote it down. in his notebook.
Perhaps the oldest pop culture reference in the film comes in the form of a toy robot from the 1960s TV show, Lost in Space. Halliday is briefly shown holding him towards the end of the film in the bedroom recreation of his formative years. Lost in Space predates most of the film’s references, the series’ popularity has lasted for decades, and it was even rebooted for a Gen X audience via Netflix in 2018.
In 1978, the Milton Bradley company introduced the Simon electric playset. Since then, it’s been good luck and vital to Halliday. He is seen in one of the scenes in his library at the Oasis, and when he announces the Easter egg. game after his death, he uses a Simon button in the video.
Video games play a huge role in Ready Player One and there are references everywhere. One of the most references comes from the 1982 Nintendo version, Donkey Kong, Jr. It is shown on a wall in the bedroom of a frustrated Oasis user.
Mel Brooks’ space balls are filled with old Brooksian jokes, like heroes driving a ramshackle spaceship shaped like an antique Winnebago from the ’70s. A full-size style of the shipment can be observed in the Axe workshop on Art3mis and the Parzival cat.
For some eagle-eyed viewers familiar with the New York City of yesteryear, they may catch a quick glimpse of East Village’s fabled Ratner’s restaurant, the auto race. With locations on Delancy Street and Second Avenue, Ratner’s was a mythical kosher dairy that was popular with movie stars and celebrities, as well as ordinary New Yorkers. It closed its doors in 2002 after almost one hundred years of service.
Video games, especially those from the ’80s, play an important role in Ready Player One. In one of the first scenes of the film, when Wade is about to enter the Oasis, he puts on his glasses and the audience, who stares, , you can see a small sticker with the Joust game logo.
The car race towards the beginning of the movie: The first challenge of the game is a ton of Easter eggs and one of them is an Ace Chemicals building. Ace Chemicals is, of course, where the Joker became the Joker in the Batman comics afterward. fall into a vat of chemicals.
Do you know what old Jack Burton says at a time like this?” Watch out for my truck!”That’s right, Jack Burton’s truck from Big Trouble In Little China is one of many obstacles in the race via New York, just as the race enters Chinatown.
As racers join the ranks of the racing scene, there are a number of notable pop culture vehicles, including Speed Racer’s legendary Mach five race car. It turns out that we are later informed that this is Daito’s main car in the Oasis.
When, in spite of everything, we meet the “real” Hache, Helen (Lena Waithe), she is dressed in an old military jacket covered in patches. The Wonder Woman logo is visible, as is the Thundercats logo and a few others. The patch has to be the logo of the legendary punk band The Dead Kennedys next to the Wonder Woman patch.
Parzival’s Delorean is precisely one of the most sophisticated references on this list, in obvious homage to Back to the Future. But there is an amendment that is not so obvious. At the front of the car is the red light signaled by KITT. in Knight Rider. It’s also worth mentioning that the “Zemeckis Cube” that Parzival purchases and then uses to counteract time for 30 seconds is an homage to Robert Zemeckis, the director of Back to the Future. Also, in the ebook there is an additional amendment to the Delorean, Parzival added a Ghostbusters logo which unfortunately is not included in the film.
The sacred hand grenade is a very sophisticated reference in the film, but its meaning is. You probably know that the sacred hand grenade comes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but did you know that the name Parzival also comes from Arthurian tradition?Although he does not appear in the Monty Python movie, Wade’s gamer tag comes from another Knight of the Round Table in King Arthur.
There’s a lot on the ground in one of Halliday’s memorabilia in his brain archives, and one of them is a small statuette of Marvin the Martian taken from the Looney Tunes cartoons.
Back to the Future appears a bit in Ready Player One, and one of the less apparent Easter eggs is the “Goldie Wilson for Mayor” sign hanging in the Hache meeting area as Parzival prepares for his date with Art3mis. On the other side of the mirror Additionally, there is a Wil Wheaton For Preaspectnt poster in the same style that is a sophisticated reference to the e-book in which Star Trek star Wil Wheaton is the vice president of the Oasis Council.
One of the hardest Easter eggs to spot has to be the sticker of the greatest American hero on Artemis’ Akira bike. It’s there, but it’s hard to see. United States’ greatest hero has a sizable legacy for many members of Gen X, as the series only aired for forty-five episodes, but the main theme lived on forever.
One of the first references in Ready Player One occurs when Wade prepares to enter the Oasis for the first time in the film. He puts his glasses in a vintage He-Man lunch box from the 80s. Everything great he had in the 80s.
The truck that the A-Team drove in the series of the same call is one of the coolest cars in Hollywood history, so it had to make an appearance here. This is one of several cars up for grabs in the race.
Now we have the meta! On the marquee of a racing movie theater is the so-called “Jack Slater” movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. This is, of course, a reference to the film within a 90s film The Last Action Hero. This movie also has a wonderful soundtrack. of songs from the 80s, such as Ready Player One.
Of all the cool cars on the racing scene, the hardest to identify is Christine from the movie Christine. This, of course, fits perfectly with the film, as another film based on a Stephen King novel, The Shining, plays an important role in the film. as a challenge for the players.
There were many toy fads in the 1980s. Cabbage Patch Kids, Pound Puppies, Koosh balls and, as seen in Ready Player One, Madballs. The line of soft, squeezable balls with rough-looking faces was a big hit shortly in the middle of the decade. In the film, Art3mis throws a “Dust Brain” edition of a Madball at Mecagodzilla, causing Nolan Sorrento’s (Ben Mendelsohn) avatar to explode.
RoboCop is one of two films starring Peter Weller’s characters in Ready Player One. Parzival disguises himself as Buckaroo Bonzai for his date with Art3mis, and before that, as Parzival walks through the Oasis, he walks past an avatar of RoboCop. It’s a brief moment and you may not believe it, but it’s there.
The races through the streets of New York in the film pass through some iconic New York landmarks. Wall Street, Chinatown, and the Empire State Building are visible, as is a lesser-known landmark, the Silver Cup Studios. The iconic sign atop Silver Cup Studios in Queens is well known to New Yorkers and The Highlander enthusiasts, having been destroyed by the sci-fi fantasy classic’s weather war. Although The Highlander doesn’t play a major role in the film edition of Ready Player One, it’s quite prominent in the book.
There are tons of fun avatars in Oasis, too many to list here. One of the funniest has to be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle walking past Parzival in Oasis. He is Leonardo, to be exact, and there is no mention. or even popularity as he walks by smiling. Just one day at the Oasis.
Okay, so let’s admit that this one is a little more obvious than most of the Ready Player One Easter eggs on this list, but Freddy Krueger is one of the first ’80s references that audiences see and it’s just one of many. Horror movies from the 80s. Movie icons, featuring Jason, Chuckie and many others.
Of all the Batmobiles to use, the fact that director Steven Spielberg chose the one from the 60s TV series is perfect. Remember, in the ’80s, before Tim Burton’s Batman in 1989, Adam West’s Batman was the ultimate live-action Batman. Anything else would have seemed odd.
Ready Player One is based on a lot of nostalgia for success, for better or worse, and there’s nothing more nostalgic than sitting in front of the TV and watching your favorite Saturday morning cartoons with a giant bowl of sugary cereal. Of course they had to come up with some examples of cereal boxes that the kids poured those sugar bombs into!
Hugh Scott is the distribution editor at CinemaBlend. Prior to CinemaBlend, he was an editor for Suggest. com and Gossipcop. com, covering celebrity news and debunking false gossip. He has worked in the publishing industry for about two decades, covering pop culture. (videos and TV shows in particular) with a willing interest and love for Gen X culture, its oldest influences, and what it has fostered since. He graduated in political science from Boston University, but was cured of his preference for politics almost without delay after graduating.
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