《头号玩家》彩蛋逆天，用英语怎么表达？

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《头号玩家》有畅销科幻小说作为故事基石，ARG科幻类型，彩蛋谜团数不胜数，名导演品质保证，这些标签都是电影火爆的要素。来看看“彩蛋”用英语应该怎么表达吧！

大概不会有人想到，斯皮尔伯格拍的《头号玩家》虽然身披VR的外皮，打着小写Cyberpunk的科幻旗号，其实电影本身就是一个让流行文化Cultist为之疯狂的巨大彩蛋，其中又包含无数小彩蛋——可能不是二刷三刷就能全部把它们全部找出来那么简单。总之这样一部作品，看《头号玩家》最大的感受就是燃爆了。既然里面的彩蛋找不齐，今天的常用英语口语就来学习如何用英语表达？

一、票房和口碑双高

中国市场成为全球头号票仓，累计票房已突破4亿元。

Steven Spielberg's latest sci-fi film "Ready Player One" has taken in over 400 million yuan at the Chinese box office since its debut on Friday. The film made about 85 million yuan on its debut day.

据美联社报道，该片创造了近10年斯皮尔伯格电影最好首映成绩：

AP: Not adjusted for inflation, it's Spielberg's best opening in a decade following "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," which launched with $100.1 million in 2008.

问题来了，“口碑”用英语咋说？这里有一个例句，你们感受一下：

Jeff Goldstein, Warner Bros.' president of domestic distribution said, "We always believed that this movie itself would carry the day and that's really what happened. We've seen all around the globe that the word of mouth is really propelling it."

1. Carry the day:  To win or have success; to be successful (thefreedictionary.com)

2. Word of mouth: 口碑，口耳相传 the process of telling people you know about a particular product or service, usually because you think it is good and want to encourage them to try it (dictionary.cambridge.org)

例句：We get most of our clients by word of mouth.  

二、“彩蛋”用英语怎么说

电影、动漫、游戏……彩蛋那么多，问题又来了：“彩蛋”用英语到底咋说？要了解“彩蛋”的来源，就必须先认识一位名叫 Warren Robinett 的游戏设计师。

Wikipedia: Atari designers at the time were not given credit for their games, because Atari feared having to bargain with well-known designers. In response to this, Robinett placed a hidden object in the game that would allow the player to reach a hidden screen which displayed the words "Created by Warren Robinett," hence creating one of the earliest known Easter eggs in a video game, and the first to which the name "Easter egg" was applied.

因为 Warren Robinett 当时所在的雅达利公司（Atari）不愿给游戏设计师署名， 他一气之下把自己的名字藏在游戏里。雅达利在发行 Adventure 这款游戏时并不知情，一直到数月之后才有玩家发现这个“彩蛋”的存在。

如今“彩蛋”这个词已经被广泛应用于游戏业和影视产业。

Easter egg: A hidden item placed in a movie, television show, or otherwise visual media for close watchers. (urbandictionary.com) 

在游戏领域当中，要解锁“彩蛋”通常需要一些特殊的技巧。

An Easter egg is a hidden video game feature or surprise. Easter eggs are usually unlocked by using certain techniques to complete in-game tasks, entering specific button combinations or acquiring access to secret game or game file areas. (techopedia.com) 

三、特效做得非常赞

special effect  特效（通常用复数）

Eg. The film's special effects are amazing.

官方的解释是：The illusions or tricks of the eye used in the film, television, theatre, video game, and simulator industries to simulate the imagined events in a story or virtual world are traditionally called special effects 

在电影、电视、戏剧、电子游戏还有模拟器产业让视觉产生错觉的技巧，用于模拟故事中想象的事件或是虚拟世界，都成为“特效”。热映的头号玩家里面的酷炫VR以及无数的游戏玩家热爱的彩蛋无异于给观影者带来了良好的观影感。

缩写：SFX, SPFX, FX。

四、游戏角色

牛津词典中对于avatar有两个释义：一是（印度教或佛教里）“化成人身的神”，用专业术语表达就是“道成肉身”；二是在电脑游戏或社交媒体上，用来代表某个真实用户的虚拟形象。

这两层意思实际非常相似：第一层意思是天神“道成肉身”降临到人间，而第二个意思是凡人幻化成虚拟形象进入虚拟空间。看完这两层意思，我不禁脑洞大开，我们这个世界会不会是天神们的虚拟游戏空间？每个凡人或许只是天神的avatar？细思极恐。在《头号玩家》里，现实生活中的韦德·沃兹（Wade Watts）带上VR眼镜，就摇身一变，变为Parzival。Parzival就是韦德的avatar。

在本片的结尾，绿洲的创造者对男主说了一句，谢谢你玩我的游戏。一个孤独的人在这片虚幻的领土收获了真实的认同感，也许，这才是影片的最想表达的主题。爱玩游戏的朋友千万不要错过这部神作！