Ready Player One (2018)

Ben Mendelsohn: Sorrento

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• IOI Board Member : Who is this 'Parzival' and how the hell is he winning?

  Sorrento : Well, here's a better question. Who cares? Halliday's contest is vitally important. I mean, it's nothing less than a war for control of the future. But this Parzival? He's not even clanned up. He's alone. We have an army.

  Corporate Businessman : And yet, he's got the first key.

  Sorrento : Yeah, he has a key, but you have to get three of 'em to win the contest.

  IOI Board Member : [interuppting]  Our stock dove 6% yesterday.

  Sorrento : [strictly]  Loyalty division is reporting profits of 28%! F'Nale?

  F'Nale Zandor : We're opening five new loyalty centers this month.

  Sorrento : [sternly]  Debt Services dwarfs Hardware. Now, you really wanna talk to me about stock prices?

  Corporate Businessman : The shareholders won't be happy.

  Sorrento : It's not our job to make them happy. It's our job to make them money, but once we launch this little baby, they're gonna *flip*.

  [taps on the screen to planet doom] 

  Sorrento : [gunshots shooting on screen]  We call this Pure O2. This is the first of our planned upgrades. Once we can roll back some of Halliday's ad restrictions, we estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures, so picture this...

  IOI Board Member : All of this implies we win the contest.

  Sorrento : [looks up to him]  Indeed, it does.

• Sorrento : Halliday, this is how you plan to resolve the fate of the world's most important economic resource?

• I-R0k : [dramatically]  The Orb of Osuvox!

  Sorrento : Don't say that again.

  I-R0k : Okay.

• Sorrento : This guy! Back to work, people.