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I seem to recall that I haven't played a game of Tetris in the last 18 years, and what I knew of its conception was sparse in more ways than one, so part of me thought it might be interesting to see what a movie on the subject could offer. But as it turns out, one huge problem got in the way, and that was the unfortunate eagerness of its creators to turn that story into something akin to The Social Network. With the new Apple+ film sure to turbo-charge awareness of Tetris, and the 2018 franchise reboot Tetris Effect bringing the game to modern consoles, subsequently adding an extension where up to three people could play together co-operatively, Brown is confident younger generations will soon start looking at Tetris with the same sort of respect as they do chess. "As soon as Tetris begins, the player understands deeply that this is a challenge worth returning to," he adds. "It's simpler and easier to learn than chess and is no less challenging. Many might argue it's a lot more fun too." Julia Cunningham (28 June 2022). "Taron Egerton". The Jess Cagle Podcast w/ Julia Cunningham (Podcast). SiriusXM . Retrieved 4 August 2022. Is this the most effective way to tell this story?” is a question that repeats itself when watching these types of shows and films, one wondering if a documentary or even a long read might have been preferable. While almost two hours, Tetris is refreshingly self-contained and propulsively plot-heavy, avoiding the bloat that weighs down so many 10-part series that could have been told in one chunk. Our protagonist is Henk, a Dutch-born gaming entrepreneur raised in the US played by Taron Egerton, and we meet him in 1988 as he’s trying to sell a self-designed game at a convention. It’s a bust and his failure leads him to another stall where a Russian game called Tetris is being peddled. He’s immediately addicted and starts a quest to find out how he can become a part of its inevitable success.

Some of the film’s best moments involve Henk and Alexey bonding or talking with each other, or when political tensions and contracts begin to bubble up and congeal. In one scene when Rogers is staying at the Pajitnov’s home, he gets to see the very first home computer version of Tetris. Asking if he can play it, he sits at the desk, playing with a sort of childlike glee and fascination. Then, he asks the game’s creator a question – “Why can’t both lines disappear at once instead of one at a time?” to which Alexey responds, after a brief pause, that he “never thought of that”. These are two people who are meant to be together, to succeed together, and in that single scene, you feel the spark of friendship kindle between them. Image: Apple Tetris the movie... is trying to replicate that satisfaction, that crowd-pleasing appeal that Tetris the video game has. In an interview prior to the film's release, Henk Rogers said that both he and Alexey Pajitnov reviewed the script and made suggestions. However, Rogers noted, "It's a Hollywood script, a movie. It's not about history so a lot of [what's in the movie] never happened." There were events in the movie that did transpire in real life. For instance, Rogers notes that he did convince Nintendo to bundle Tetris in with the Game Boy at launch in place of Super Mario Land. Rogers emphasized that the producers wanted to "capture the darkness and the brooding" that he felt during his time trying to get the rights to Tetris in then-Soviet Russia. He continued, "They tried their best to accept our changes when they had to do with authenticity. But when it started getting into [creative flourishes like] the car chase and all that, it was like 'OK, now it's all them.' We couldn't change anything." [22] See also [ edit ] Over-embellishing a ''real'' story carries considerable risks when you fail to make it as grandiose as you seem to propose. verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ On being told that an American businessman can't obtain a visa, Rogers obtains a tourist visa to enter Moscow. He hires Sasha, a young and seemingly naïve Russian woman as his interpreter, and despite her warnings, enters the ELORG offices. On showing a copy of Tetris for Famicom to Nikolai Belikov, the ELORG chairman, he informs Rogers that his copy is "illegal," as ELORG has not released the video game rights to Rogers. A meeting is arranged to discuss the rights. Love film and TV? Join BBC Culture Film and TV Club on Facebook, a community for cinephiles all over the world.

I watched this film earlier today, I loved it! Sure its completely silly and barely grounded in reality but what did you expect of a movie based on Tetris? As many have pointed out there are multiple documentaries following the truth. Its very clear that its not following the real life events, more taking the idea and running with it to make a movie very inspired by over the top 1980s/early 90s action thrillers. Very fun. So moments like the car chase sequence, or scenes where a CEO goes between multiple different rooms to try and negotiate multiple contracts, with each person getting more frustrated, might feel like a bit much (although a version of the latter did actually happen, apparently), but they add flavour and appeal. Again, this is a feel-good movie, one that we already know the conclusion to. We’re supposed to root for Alexey and Henk because of where Tetris is today in the cultural landscape. Thanks largely to the charisma of the lead actor, this dramatisation just about manages to make us care, but it feels messier than it should. Conclusion

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Munsell, Mike (17 February 2023). "Meet Henk Rogers, video game icon turned climate champion". Canary Media . Retrieved 23 March 2023. Henk Rogers, the man most directly responsible for bringing Tetris to the West, helped set expectations at an early press screening of Apple TV's Tetris movie, which premieres on the streaming service Friday. "It's not a documentary," Rogers said of a film that casts him as a fearless hero working to extract the game from the grip of a brutal, dying '80s Soviet bureaucracy. "Don't expect to see that this is exactly how it happened." All this is immediately apparent if you've read books like The Tetris Effect or Tetris: The Games People Play, which lay out the actual history of the game's long journey outside Russia with much more care and detail. Alternatively, you could hunt down a 2004 BBC documentary that also provides a more direct account of the real drama surrounding Tetris' complicated Soviet-era licensing drama. a b Brittain, Blake (8 August 2023). "Apple's Tetris movie ripped off tech writer's book, lawsuit says". Reuters . Retrieved 8 August 2023.

Pingitore, Silvia (19 March 2023). "Interview with Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov" . Retrieved 4 July 2023. Production had to be shut down temporarily after a coronavirus case on set in Glasgow. Taron Egerton tested negative but still self-isolated for weeks. Apple TV+ offers premium, compelling drama and comedy series, feature films, groundbreaking documentaries, and kids and family entertainment, and is available to watch across all your favorite screens. After its launch on November 1, 2019, Apple TV+ became the first all-original streaming service to launch around the world, and has premiered more original hits and received more award recognitions faster than any other streaming service in its debut. To date, Apple Original films, documentaries and series have earned 322 wins and 1,398 award nominations and counting, including multi-Emmy Award-winning comedy “Ted Lasso” and last year’s Oscar Best Picture winner “CODA.” Cameron, Ewan (20 February 2021). "Hollywood movie Tetris starts filming in Aberdeen with star Taron Egerton". Evening Express. Archived from the original on 1 January 2022 . Retrieved 26 February 2021.

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Tetris is a 2023 biographical thriller film based on true events around the race to license and patent the video game Tetris from Russia in the late 1980s during the Cold War. It was directed by Jon S. Baird and written by Noah Pink. The film stars Taron Egerton, Nikita Efremov, Sofia Lebedeva, and Anthony Boyle. Though the film is obviously not a "Tetris movie", more a geopolitical thriller in which Tetris is a plot point, it's nevertheless a reminder of the global impact of the iconic puzzler, which sits among a rare group of games (including Super Mario Bros and Space Invaders) that continue to captivate audiences decades on from their inception. On paper, Tetris doesn’t sound anywhere near as immersive a gaming experience as the cinematic post-apocalyptic epic The Last of Us, or able to provide the rush of driving a stolen car into the neon sunset on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Yet Tetris is the most ported game of all time – that's to say, the game converted for use onto the most different devices and platforms – and one of gaming's most commercially successful ventures, with a staggering 520 million copies sold globally. So, just what makes Tetris the so-called "perfect" video game, as Egerton's character talks it up in the movie? Anderson, Erik (30 June 2023). "Hollywood Critics Association 2023 Midseason HCA Awards: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Past Lives, Air are Top Winners". AwardsWatch. Archived from the original on 1 July 2023 . Retrieved 2 July 2023. Many retro games don't age well. Either people try to recreate them with 'modern' appeal and they fall flat, or they put a new coat of paint on an old game – hence all the video game 'remasters' and 'remakes' from the past several years. Tetris largely avoids this trap, because it doesn't need a big graphical upgrade to look and feel modern. The original design was so timeless, that the bones behind it will always stand up." But that retelling has just about enough in it to keep us mostly engaged, partly because we’re still so starved of juicy workplace drama ( there’s a reason why the few office-based shows like Severance, Industry and Succession were so popular last year) and that’s essentially what this is, characters in suits trying to get what they want from each other, no matter how ruthless that might make them. Tetris finds its fun in the details of contracts and the specifics of deal-making, realising that even when it’s not on a screen in your hands, it’s all one big game.

And why is this a problem? Quite simply. Tetris is a film that aims to create an intricate story about something that was actually simple, and this carries with it problematic and questionable baggage when you begin to realize that the events unfolding on screen simply don't have that level of momentum, drama and tension to sustain that kind of narrative approach. Jennings, Collier (23 July 2020). "Tetris Movie Casts Taron Egerton as Its Lead". Comic Book Resources. BTW for those unware, both are (often uncredited) sources of funding for a surprising amount of movies that you wouldn't expect, and propping up the careers of certain actors, including the reason Chris Pratt keeps getting cast in weird roles, including Mario! Its a whole kettle of fish. And its not a weird conspiracy rabbit hole. I know many people who've either accepted or been offered funding on seemingly non political films - its more about pushing certain ideas of "good vs evil" and what consitutes "an american hero" or "western values"... even including silly kids movies. I actually had the budget for my own superhero movie slashed because I wouldn't accept such money, as I wanted to retain full control over the script and casting choices. But I don't judge anyone that takes it, often it has little to no impact, and its "free" money (without getting into the ethics of using tax payers money for such purposes. I probably agree with you but lets not start a political flamewar please). Today Apple Original Films unveiled the trailer for the highly anticipated thriller, “Tetris,” starring Taron Egerton.

Instead, Rogers said, expect a movie that "got the feeling across, the feeling of being in Moscow for the first time, breaking the law." When asked why a game as simplistic as Tetris is so often cited as being at the apex of video game development, Monshouwer continues: "It is the prime example of 'easy to learn but hard to master'. On the most basic level, there’s a pleasure in tidying up. Each time you play, you get better. You can get into a flow where your hands and mind become one."