Utopia In The Dust: The Logic Of Science Fiction And Critical Thinking Of Technology In Ready Player One By Spielberg

Ready Player One is a new text in Spielberg's science fiction movies,which reflects the prominent and consistent features of science fiction movies in Hollywood.The notable manifestation of media technology represented by VR technology and the director's ultimate care for the destiny of mankind in the future has made the Ready Player One become a typical text for the study of philosophy of media technology.The competition between the engineering school and the humanities school runs through the course of technical philosophy research.The history of media technology is accompanied by the history of human civilization.The empirical turn of technological philosophy makes media technology an indispensable research proposition among them.In media studies of communication,the media environment school applies the critical philosophical speculation to technical reflection and combines philosophy and media technology research to question the nature and value of media technology.The movie uses VR technology and digital technology to construct a virtual utopia.Meanwhile,this utopia is also in the dust,showing the dual decline and alienation of society and people under the logic of technology.This provides a prerequisite for the logic of science fiction and critical thinking of technology in the filmFirstly,this article combs the technical philosophy theory and the media theory and the overall landscape of the media technology philosophy theory.In addition,it analyzes the typicality of the text of Ready Player One by Spielberg.Then it conducts systematic research to the logic of science fiction and critical thinking of technology in Ready Player One.The logic of science fiction in Ready Player One is based on the current state of scientific development to imagine the future and construct a utopia world and then deconstruct it completely.The movie creates a virtual utopia which represent the freedom,equality and wealth through the construction of the Oasis,the narrative of growth and redemption,the positive characters of God and heroes and the symbols of pop culture-led images.But at the same time,the hell-like real scenes,negative characters full of sin and evil as well as the graphic symbols of violence and killing are all completely deconstructing this virtual utopia,making it in the desperate and dim dust.Undoubtedly,this dissolution of utopia reflects the director's worries about the future world.The logic of science fiction in Ready Player One by Spielberg who is a well-known Hollywood director shows his special thinking about technology.On the one hand,the development of technology has brought material wealth.People can break through the constraints of time and space and social environment to achieve freedom and equality almost.Unfortunately,what have made the original beautiful utopia overturned are technology alienation,the discipline of technology for the body,the restraint of technology on human free will and the panoramic monitoring of technology on society.Ready Player One as a typical text reflects specific logic of not only science fiction movies but also all commercial movies in Hollywood.The business logic is to maximize the economic benefits,which brings a heavy chain to the production a of science fiction movies;Spielberg's humanistic technological view is one of the reasons for the film;from Marx to Marcuse to Heidegger,the critique of western technical reason is to discuss technology alienation,which become the technical philosophy connotation of this movie;the western traditional Christian culture and the meaning of the value on three keys have showed Spielberg's worry and ultimate concern to the humankind in the future.Commercial logic and director's consciousness are the most basic manifestations in the film text.Both are also influenced by western technology philosophy,which is a kind of insinuation of western culture.These four aspects constitute the production mechanism of the logic of science fiction and critical thinking of technology not only in Ready Player One but in Hollywood even in whole western film industry.The western science fiction film referred to by Ready Player One not only uses technology to create a visual feast to seek commercial interests but also reflects the logic of western science fiction and philosophical ideas.This cultural function has an important influence on the production and dissemination of Hollywood science fiction movies,which is an important embodiment of western cultural values.The valuable experience of science fiction movies referred to by Ready Player One in Hollywood can encourage Chinese science fiction movies to have more reflections and references.