The conflicts between virtual world and the real world will be pushed to the front of the public again. Gore Verbinski, the director of Pirates of the Caribbean, will cooperate with Universal Pictures on a movie based on a Wall Street Journal article released in 2007 about the well-known 3D online game- Second Life. (Via Variety)
This Co-produced movie will tell a story about the love and hate inside and outside Second Life as the article focus on a married man who spends as many as 20 hours a day on a computer, existing through an avatar who is a thriving, muscle-bound entrepreneur. In reality, he is a diabetic, chain-smoking 53-year-old.
Relationship in the story
This kind of story is popular with the young generation as high penetration of computer and online games. New interpersonal relations derive from the Internet applications and the virtual connection. "Nearly 40% of men and 53% of women who play online games said their virtual friends were equal to or better than their real-life friends, according to a survey of 30,000 gamers conducted by Nick Yee, a recent Ph.D. graduate from Stanford University. More than a quarter of gamers said the emotional highlight of the past week occurred in a computer world, according to the survey, which was published in 2006 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press's journal Presence."
Non-mainstream will have the day to turn into mainstream. Maybe the movie can become a new opportunities for the public to hear the voice of gamers.
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