Either way, it's still a great easter egg of its own, that actually includes the words easter egg. It seems that Steven Spielberg had requested music that sounded religious in nature, including the use of a choir, to be used when the audience first sees the OASIS.
This led Alan Silvestri to begin to consider how he might create such music. He took his inspiration from the film itself and actually translated one of the clues in Ready Player One into Latin, adding some additional lyrics to make up the chorus of the piece. You can listen to the piece of music below. The chorus starts at about the second mark with the line Silvestri mentions above. It also confirms the correct Latin words for "easter egg.
It's not clear from what is said in the Blu-ray special feature why Steven Spielberg was looking for the first piece of music inside the OASIS to sound this way, though it's certainly fitting. It's specifically mentioned in the Ready Player One novel that James Halliday spoke Latin, and that Wade Watts studied it in school as well for that reason. It doesn't really come up in the film version, but Spielberg did read the novel, so perhaps that inspired him.
Since not a lot of people speak Latin, it seems unlikely many people paid much attention to the words sung by the choir, but if you had, you would have received one piece of the movie's puzzle a lot earlier than the rest of the characters. Ready Player One is now available on Digital and Blu-ray. The Battletoads and Halo soldiers also make an appearance in the massive charge against the Sixers. A lot of Easter eggs are squirreled away in the vast amounts of graffiti scrawled over just about every surface in the real world.
One such example includes the famous Space Invaders critters , which are also displayed on Halliday's vintage t-shirt throughout the film. His favorite character? The problem is that his short stature cannot be hit by the game's auto-fire feature since the aim actually goes over his head, giving whoever is playing as Oddjob an unfair advantage.
Halliday probably would have made a few casual enemies playing this way Before the N64, Halliday was stuck playing games like Adventure , Pitfall , Centipede and many others tested by IOI for the final key on early consoles like the late 70s, early 80s Atari Later, in Halliday's childhood room, you can clearly see the competitor console ColecoVision , along with its iconic controllers. Back in the 80s, when most kids still had to go to actual arcades to play video games, Robotron: was one of the bigger successes.
It's why Sorrento namedrops it in his chat with Wade Easily missed in the dance club scene is a pair of Street Fighters characters cutting a rug: the hulking Blanka dancing with the lithe Chun-Li. Another Street Fighter reference dropped when Parzival battles Sorrento near the movie's end. Wade blasted the ne'er-do-well with a well-placed, fan-favorite Hadoken , a powerful attack from Ryu. Art3mis' avatar disguise after Parzival's newfound fame is Goro, a four-armed boss character from the Mortal Kombat fighting game series.
Another nod to Mortal Kombat is seen in one of Daito's patches. The Legend of Zelda gets a couple of references: Halliday has a poster for the title in his childhood room and the IOI war room has Hyrule Castle listed on their whiteboard. The Joker joins up with Harley a bit later on. Somewhere in this extensive scene, Gandalf is said to be dancing though I'm not sure if perhaps someone confused Gandalf with Ogden "Og" Morrow's DJ wizard from the book , along with a vast collection of Warner Bros.
Everest with Batman! In the big battle towards the end of the film, you can spot comic book characters Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Yeah, remember they got their start in the comics? Deadshot also joins the party here. There are some Easter eggs that don't quite fit in the aforementioned categories, so you'll find them here.
Some of the most difficult references to spot are probably the user-submitted avatars which were supposedly added to the film as part of a contest. Can you spot them? Though the Bigfoot monster truck has appeared in a number of titles across all forms of media, we wanted to give the recognizable truck a shoutout here as Aech's ride in the NYC race.
Miller 's villainous comic relief version of i-R0k isn't in the book, but the character itself is. He's seen as a poseur and ultimately ends up inadvertently helping the Sixers in a misguided attempt at getting back at Aech and Parzival. In the movie, his avatar's design is a weird combination of Skeletor, Doctor Doom, a Resident Evil Nemesis-like monstrosity, or something out of Skeleton Warriors.
Apparently he's obsessed with Star Wars and inspired by Boba Fett. I'd imagine that his real-life persona looks and acts exactly like Miller. BTW, Anorak , the name of Halliday's avatar, is slang for a person obsessed with niche subjects.
Other items in Halliday's childhood room that we haven't talked about yet are a vintage View-Master toy and his multicolored pin that was a mini version of the electronic game, Simon. Ryu would be proud. This is a reference, to well, the true greatest racer franchise of all-time, no? Well according to commenter Paul Imboden, we now know it is a game called Gorf Why they would include Revenge from Mars and not its infinitely superior predecessor, Attack From Mars , will have to remain a mystery.
Thanks to commenter Erin Grady Brown for pointing this one out! Which considering he was a grown man is… interesting. Cheese, compliments of HBEaker. The restaurant franchise was founded by Nolan Bushnell in after he co-founded Atari in Sound familiar? Like that commercial. You know THAT commercial…. Joy Division is the band that eventually morphed into New Order. Now the struggle on Planet Doom can truly be legendary!
You can see why these characters are fans. Thanks be to Peter J. Daley Jr. Thanks to commenter Eric Sharpe for reminding us of this! We also thought it might be worthy deconstructing each character and what they bring to the table, in case the above references can seem dizzying or daunting.
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