Virtual Reality Plot

Hollywood's wonderful track record for originality soars when they attach big ComputerGeneratedImage? budgets to movies based on "VirtualReality".

In movies like TheMatrix, VR is used as an excuse for fairly standard action/fight sequences within a standard "thriller" plot.

Then movies like LawnmowerMan? use the VR for the standard supernatural horror genre.

A good VR plot requires thinking outside the box - something the big movie producers are reluctant to sign off on.

So let's try...

• the hero has the best VR technology but is unaware of it
• the chorus has different VR technology - they are not naive
• the foil character uses thinking first, then technology
• the villian is not using VR against the hero
• the villian is only fooled by the best VR
• the chorus is fooled by the hero using VR against the villian
• the villian is all work and no play
• the hero is pathologically incapable of working, or not playing

Such an elaborate plot would raise play to an art form.