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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." Clemente says a big driver behind the appeal of CTWC events is the carefree atmosphere the game fosters, something that's very different from attending a tournament for, say, a game centred on gun violence. "Unlike other e-sport communities that can be somewhat toxic, the Tetris community is supportive of each other," he claims. "I think ultimately that comes from the fact that you're really just playing a game against yourself. You're the one responsible for how you play and what you score. As far as the community [goes], we all speak the same language, Tetris, and that's what brings us together." 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 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.

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 ]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."

Tetris the movie... is trying to replicate that satisfaction, that crowd-pleasing appeal that Tetris the video game has. Dean, Jonathan (24 August 2020). "Taron Egerton: 'The Tetris film is more Social Network than Lego Movie!' ". British GQ. 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. In 1988, Henk Rogers of Bullet-Proof Software markets his newest video game at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. While there, he instead becomes enamored with the game Tetris, created by Soviet programmer Alexey Pajitnov, who works for government-owned ELORG in the Soviet Union. Rogers explains to a bank manager that Robert Stein of Andromeda Software had obtained the worldwide licensing rights to Tetris from ELORG, and signed a contract with media tycoon Robert Maxwell and his son, CEO of Mirrorsoft, Kevin Maxwell, allowing them to distribute Tetris in exchange for game royalties. Meanwhile, the Mirrorsoft representative at CES had sold Rogers the Tetris rights in Japan for PC, console, and arcade.

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Tetris received nominations for Best Music and Best Action/Thriller TrailerByte for a Feature Film at the 2023 Golden Trailer Awards. [18] [19] Egerton was nominated for Best Actor at the 6th Hollywood Critics Association Midseason Film Awards. [20] Lawsuit [ edit ]Pedersen, Erik (29 June 2023). "Golden Trailer Awards: Cocaine Bear, Only Murders In The Building& Oppenheimer Among Top Winners – Full List". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 30 June 2023 . Retrieved 30 June 2023. 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? Taron Egerton stated in a GQ Magazine Interview that the movie is going to be more Social Network than the Lego Movie.