TETRIS (2023) vs. The REAL True Story
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 มี.ค. 2023
- In this video we take a look at some of the biggest differences and comparisons between the Apple+ movie TETRIS starring Taron Egerton and its true story.
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🎶 I had the Tetris theme song in my head the entire time I was making this video...🎶
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Great story, great video, great movie even with the weird embellishments.
i must say the casting for this movie was brilliant everyone almost looks exactly like the real people I wish we could have seen an actor playing a young sherigu Miyamoto even if he was only in the movie for a few seconds
you know after re-watching the movie I think Hiroshi Yamauch's translator was suppose to be Sherigu Miyamoto
Except, as Grace Randolph explained, Henk Rodgers is actually Indonesian descent. Why the need to use the typical white actor when there's enough diversity out there?
@@jewishsinger613 you missed the almost in the comment. But the guy they picked is prefect for the every man kind of character they were going for in this so good enough I say. But I do like as much authenticity in my historical movies as possible you want to feel like your watching actual history and so in that regard it is a bit of a shame but I’m sure there’ was a good reason for why they picked the guy he did nail the role. As for Hollywood it has had an over abundance of "diversity" of late. The lack of it here in this movie was defiantly a breath of fresh air.
@@jewishsinger613 Henk Rodgers is partially of Indonesian descent, but is mostly ethnically Dutch for the most part. When Indonesia was a Dutch colony, many Dutch settlers interbred with native Indonesians, but when Indonesia got independence, almost all the Dutch settlers and people their descendants including the mixed ones were migrated back to the Netherlands. There is a lot of Dutch people with partial Indonesian ancestry because of that. Taron Egerton is a pretty accurate representation of Henk Rodgers. If you looks at old photos of Henk Rodgers, you can find that he looks similar except with darker skin from his Indonesian ancestry.
@@rilonius2865 you thinking about it if there was a recast. out of the actors, I know which isn't a lot of them. I believe john leguizamo might have made a good fit for hank rogers. he has the right look and his voice kind of sounds a little like the real hank rogers but he might be a little too old for the role now
Just watched the film. Very engaging. I actually couldn't believe how much history there was behind the legendary game. I did a little research and that's how I came across your video. Very informative, thanks!!
The video essay from video game historian is very interesting, you should give it a watch.
And here i thought pirating a game was no a big deal, I wouldn't download a car.
According to Henk his translator was a KGB agent but he knew that up front.
watched the movie last night. A simple game but a complicated story. Loved it!
A simple game and more importantly, a Perfect game!
@@ankurama42 "it's the perfect game"
it’s not really not a simple game it’s literally perfect and very complex
@@animactor1315 Its perfection comes from its simplicity.
The movie did a good job showing how the man behind Tetras got to be the most played game ever. What do you think was most interesting about what didn't make it into the movie?
You completely misunderstood the licensing issue.
Stein's original contract includes computers and videogames (console) because it used a broad definition of computer. This was Stein's trick, which Elorg did not catch.
So Henk did sub-license videogame properly, but showed Elorg how the original contract with Stein screwed them.
That's why they pressure Stein into signing a new contract, which is amended with a narrower definition of "computer" so that now, Stein loses videogame rights.
^
As in ch. Gaming Historian mentions "when the communist plays capitalist", the plot thickened and the table had turned.
The interesting or dramatic truthpart was left out anyway.. Robert Maxwell was the Mentor of his Daughter ghislaine Maxwell and none other than Jeffrey Epstein. He showed them how to do the horrible blackmail crimes
Its a frwaking movie give it a break🤦♀️💀😂😅🤣
An idea was given a movie was made no everyone is a freaking critic expert but yet no one ever came up with the idea of making the movie.....yeah 🤔🎬🤦♀️😅
I am a tetris player since early 90s, yes I am old. The movie was beautiful as it had the political climate at those (last) years of USSR, the history, riskiness of entrepreneurship, the complicated world of patent or license rights, meaning of freedom, suppression, integrity of a character in trade for true partnership and foxy bad partner screwing up everyone, friendship, loyalty, family…and the songs were just nice surprises in exciting scenes, great acting by ALL cast. Loved it, highly recommend 🙌
It's one of the closest Holywood representations of a real life history too, apart from action scenes. However i played Tetris on Soviet and Chinese made b&w lcd Tetris-only "consoles" in ex-USSR (can't remember if we had one before renewal of my countrie's soverignity in 1990, but around that time) and i don't want to believe i'm old yet (40 last week). Or ever.
The movie also heavily overshadows the existence of Vladimir pokhilko who helped to create Tetris and found animatek with Alexey.
There is a quote from Henk Rogers saying that the translator was indeed KGB but that she didn't act nefariously.
I love that it's a story about a guy who wants to help other guy in Russia to publish his videogame because he loves it. Videogames unites people! 🎮
Чушь. Все было за деньги.
bwahahahaahahahahahahaha .... 🤣 ah the innocence 🥲
The only thing I think they missed in the Tetris story is the existence of Vladimir Pokhilko, but maybe they didn't include him because his story was so shady and controversial.
Who's he?
@@kallepikku4991 The co-creator of Tetris and a homicidal/murderer
@@fabricioa.alcantara8139he was killed!
Amazing movie. Super engaging. I haven't enjoyed a movie about corporate espionage/politics/whatever you wanna call this in a long time. And it's about Tetris no less. The scene where they unveil the Game Boy prototype gave me literal chills.
Yeah! They really capture the 'holy shit' moment of what this means, and you can see Henk gets it. Tetris in your pocket, anywhere, for hours and hours and hours. Total game changer.
That unavailing gave me goosebumps and I welled up. It was so well done from Hanks expression to the music. Absolutely, on point
I didn't realize that was Ghislane's father while watching the film. Then learning of his mysterious death.. it's safe to say that being connected to Ghislane in any matter may result in death.
The Maxwells were the best part of the movie, just total cartoon villains. 😂
Eh buddy, where do you think Ghislaine learned hee "ol' family business" of child r@p3 and trafficking? Her dad, that's right!
Also fun fact: The yacht was called Lady Ghislaine
some family... one by one
AESPA's song "Hold On Tight" for this film deserves an Oscar!!! That's all I say!
Seriously? AESPA song? More like cover of Kobereiniki. Stop being embarassing Kpoper. This comes from asian. Even AESPA was not the holder of song's copyright. They just sing it.
The entire soundtrack is excellent. Various covers of the theme of Kobereiniki. I was also pleased with both the Polina and ReN covers of Holding Out for a Hero, both of which I prefer to the original. However 'Show Star' Ashot Phillipp which was played briefly in the bar before The Final Coutdown, was left off the soundtrack. This is classic russian 80's synthpop and a really good track which has flown under the radar.
I remember my mother told me she used to play this game when she was young. She was borned in the Soviet Union at the 70's and it was the only video game she knew existed back then, and she's pretty competitive. 😂
I really enjoyed this. When they first announced the movie Tetris, I thought about the movie was more focused about the creation of the game itself. After I watched the trailer, I was very interested to see how it will play out. And in the end I must say I really enjoyed the movie, it was crazy to think that a game I enjoyed playing during my childhood, was involved in so much politics. Thanks again too for this review of the movie vs. reality, again I know we all enjoy a good a movie like Tetris, but was interesting at the same to learn some background of the game too and what it went through before it was released to the public, despite the few differences from the real story.
Thought the movie really overplayed a lot of clichés - but it was still quite entertaining
The real story of Tetris is like a level you can't beat - full of twists, turns, and a few falling blocks along the way. It's like the game itself became a puzzle for lawyers! 😂
Until December 2023 when a 12 year kid beat the game by intentionally crash it
The depiction of Soviet Union (especially in the late 1980's) of something like North Korea is quite amusing for someone who was born there. The more amusing part is that Americans think this is a realistic depiction.
Right?! LOL. I mean, they've had so many of these Hollywood KGB clichés over the years that they don't even realize the absolute ridicule of some of the scenes...
@@Sky2288 even in this movie. The whole interaction with the KGB is completely made up. Also the way they showed the Russian guy as being shy and reserved. In reality they hit it off from the beginning.
It's 2023, and America is still making up anti-Soviet propaganda 30 years after it's gone. Talk about holding a grudge. 😂
Classic Americans always thinking they are the good guys/heroes/saviours. Utter bullcrap
Absolutely, the history of Tetris is fascinating! It's true that many people have misconceptions about what really happened. The journey of how Tetris came to be and the legal battles surrounding its ownership is a rollercoaster of events.
I absolutely LOVED the movie 🍿
Me, too! I thought it was a fun ride and loved the soundtrack, very well done!
Same. Brilliant movie. Also close enough to reality to not be off putting, but spiced up for entertainment.
Tetris is half of my favorite episode of John Green's (ended) podcast, The Anthropocene Reviewed, episode 10,Tetris and the Seed Potatoes of Leningrad. These pair nicely IMO, and I'm a bit disappointed that it's not included in the book named after the podcast. Recommend both, because subtle differences and 1 is free, but some of the episodes have art specifically for that episode.
Trifonov was actually a politician, not a KGB official, in the movie.
I love the contrast between 6:29 real picture with bright colors and 6:31 movie where everything is some shade of gray, except for some red flags on the background. And let's not forget evil KGB subplot!
well its film after all not a documentary
@@vjollila96 documentary or not, it will still shape the perception of USSR as a grey and bleak country.
His role in Black Bird was pretty good also. Also from Apple.
Surprising how close it was to reality with some dramatic license but not wholly fictional at all. The book 'Game Over' also brings the story of Nintendo, the Game Boy and Tetris to life really vividly if anyone is looking for more beyond the really good film adaptation.
Thanks! Great presentation, I was looking for exactly this after seeing the movie. It was VERY good... great acting, suspenseful pacing, I was entertained. I also loved the 8 bit art, and the tongue-in-cheek car chase scene that glitched into 8-bit sequences... an inventive way to nod to the more dramatized aspects of the story. :D
The biggest plot twist comes right at the end where text on screen reveals that ‘Hank’ is actually spelled ‘h e n k’
loved this movie... it was fresh and the break we needed from super heroes falling flat to their faces in the box office.... glad it came to streaming first .
The opening is one of the best movie openings I have seen in the recent times....hooks you like Nolan's inception does right in the middle🤯
great summary, thanks you very much
Did Stein greatly MISinterpret the contract? Or did he just interpret it to his benefit without repercussion?
this is the best video i've seen about the movie and comparing it to the real story, thank you for being direct to the point
Gorbachev doesn't refer to him as a politician in the movie. He's talking about Trifanov.
Stein didn't travel "all over the USSR". Eastern Europe and elsewhere.
Other than some added drama, the usual requirement to find a way to add a female (see also: Chernobyl), and the failure to mention that the Tetris company was initially part owned by Belikov, The movie was fairly spot on. The depiction of the Maxwells was pretty good - Kevin apparently said they should have been harder on his father...
He did it was partially owned by Belikov. Belikov owned half of Tetris Company for about 10 years.
Tetris is still one of the best games ever.
@@JacobMadigan Yes it is . Lol .. Tetris is still the best game of all time .. Undefeated! Nevah lost ! Lol
@@JacobMadigan it really is it brought a lot for back in it’s time and still played in history
@@JacobMadigan Yes it is xD It was on the first places of the most selled video games of all time, if I remember right it was beaten by Minecraft which also has an interesting history, but Tetris is still in the top 3 and was on top 1. It selled over 400 Million times, even more, it was and is considered one of the greatest games of all time.
I should have not judged a book by its cover. I found the trailer unappealing and felt like it was a waste of time to watch with family, but now after watching I am searching on TH-cam over origin of Tetris because I found this story very interesting, how the origin of most sold game ever was so crazy.
It's like watching Queen's Gambit all over again with same Russia era theme
Bruh who would’ve thought Ghislaine Maxwell was somewhat related to Nintendo games 💀
Just watched this film and really enjoyed it.
I remember getting a copy of Tetris on 5.25in floppy from a friend in college, and giving it to my roommate in a different college.
Everyone on the floor would stop by to play...until one day we found it had infected my roommate's IBM PC with a 'Ping Pong' virus.
He had to take apart the system to run a low level format to get rid of it and then reinstall DOS!
Thank you. Great recap ...
The part of the translator being a KGB agent is true. but she was dark haired and cheerful.
I've known this story for decades and this is one of the few videos that got it right. TRUTH APPROVED (which is hard to find these days). However, this film is really damn good. I just saw it this afternoon and and it's already on my list of best movies I've seen in a while. I'm looking forward to Pinball. Can't find it yet.
This is hands down one of the best movies I’ve ever seen.
One of the best movies I've seen recently. 9/10
Can you please do videos for YELLOW JACKETS SEASON 2. I like the way you put your videos together vs other recappers
I’m glad that the two dudes that truly seemed to love Tetris (Alexey and Hank) got the full rights in the end.
I would honestly really prefer the movie be less drama and thrill and more contracts, Pazhitnov and Belikov
It was reasonably entertaining, but the Gaming Historian docu is a much more compelling watch.
2:41 Bruh who is doing Toby Jones dirty like that. lol.
I loved the movie! Ever since watching Gaming Historian's doc on it I always wanted to see someone adapt the story. I am a little disappointed they strayed from the actual facts, only because it will spread some misinformation, but it was an entertaining and touching movie based on true life events and the casting couldn't have been better!
I've always thought Tetris was only on Gameboy (apart from the recent VR Tetris I got on Oculus which is really good) how wrong was I!
i literally were just playing tetris on my 3ds. before i head to sleep i went to watch a movie online before i sleep. what a surprise it was when i found the tetris poster in front of me
Do you live under a rock or something? How do you miss that Tetris is on every piece of hardware ever?
@@denimchicken104 it reminds me of doom now that i think of it.
It was the best-selling video game in history until 2019... and I dare say that one of the video games that has been taken to more gaming platforms (consoles, arcade, cell phones, etc.)
the Tetris was sold as "Brick game" in the post-USSR countries later.
Just watched the movie. Really good watch! What a crazy story, never knew this history of this
this was the best feature film i've seen this year.
5:47 Valentin Trifonov was not a KGB officer, several times in the movie he states that he is from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, from the department of foreign trade, IIRC.
The Central Committee was the executive leadership of the Soviet Union, all of the Soviet leader's official title since Stalin was "The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union".
The reason of why the position was called secretary and not chairman or head, was because Lenin and associates envisioned the party with principles of inner democracy.
the TETRIS movie is very entertaining. I like to watch the movie.
Oh snap! That’s Ghislanie’s daddy!
even if tho it felt like that they cutted 1/3 of the actually story I was very satisfied with the film
Its by far the best biopic that has ever been released.
The gaming historian made the best documentary video on the story of Tetris.
In the movie, Gorbachev did not refer to him as a politician. He was talking about Valentin Trifonov who is technicallya politicianby ussr standards. He already knew who Robert Maxwell was and what his story was. The Maxwells were also the only foreigners there, Robert being the only one who was actually relevant or under any focus. And Trifonov was starting to fall under suspicion by other KGB agents by then and was trying to engage in shady dialog (for which he should have been a neutral party and not even present) right in front of Gorbachev. When Gorbachev asked to find out what they could on him, only Robert and Valentine were in focus. Not only that but he specifically said no when asked if he was talking about the foreigner. Valentine was the only one who was not a foreigner.
Of course, this is all just plot stuff; being ad the investigation never happened at all in real life.
I got both Tengen and NES Tetris for my NES
Excelente video my friend
It was fantastic
Amazing cast bravo 😎👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I never bored watch this movie as well this video explained.. it's so good and actors role look legit look a like from this true story..
Robert Maxwell's daughter (and Kevin Maxwell's sister) is none other than Ghislaine Maxwell--the apple didn't fall far from the tree there, methinks...
"Good ideas have no borders"
Just a thought but if you watch the scene again I don't believe Gorbachev was referring to Robert Maxwell when he said "no, the politician" but rather the corrupt Soviet bureaucrat
I really liked the movie, had no idea it was russian
Didn't expect the movie be this good. Made me even respect tetris more.
They should've just adapted Tetris world into a movie. That Tetris game has lore.
Does the film have english subtitles for the russian and chinese dialogue. Watching it on firestick but has no subtitles
I watched it on the Series S and the subtitles popped up for me.
I gotta say it was good....I was stuck in it and I didn't even have subtitles 😂
watch it yesterday and the movie is pretty great!!
0:22 gotta take me out in a date first
best movie ever acting so perfectly match, this is the best adaptation real life tetris video game ever.
The Movie is on pair with the greatest (real) stories of all times:
Jordan Belfort: Wolf of Wallstreet, Frank Abagnale: Catch me if you can, Barry Seal: Only in America, House of Gucci, Ray Crock: The Founder
Life writes the best stories!
the movie is completely fictionous
@@val-tg6yh No. of course there are fictional freedoms (the Gorbachev storyline and the corrupt official as well as the KGB-Agent-translator are basically fictional) but a lot of things are true, for examples all the contracts and I guess the negotiation went somehow how the movie portrayed it.
@@HT-vd4in only that and the name of some characters. All the rest is fictionous.
@@val-tg6yh What more storyline is there? The family storyline is part true part fictitious, but the story about the Russian diplomats intimidating Henk’s family is true, as far as I was able to research it, and this was absolutely terrifying. And the fictional parts are very much plausible.
@@HT-vd4in Yeah, very plausible how everybody in russia were a dark kgb spy like person who doesn't understand jokes (everybody expect those who were at US' side and were like fans of final countdown). Everything in russia being grey and robotic, totally different from the humanistic america, the land of freedom (the same land which made all countries in latin america become dictatorships). The movie doesn't differ from any piece of cold war propaganda. The movie was supposed to be about tetris, instead it became a pro US cold war pamphlet.
I didn’t know what to expect going into the movie, but damn, was it good
This movie for me felt like an Indiana Jones Movie but for copyright rights
Couldn’t have explained it better.
My cousin's husband is Henk's brother....I don;t know why I'm sharing this info....
I CRIED SO MUCH THAT DOTMATRIX GAMEBOY WAS MY CHILDHOOD
did they show the nintendo power image of mario shaking the hand of a soviet general
Ok, where did you first play TETRIS ??
- Toronto Ontario Canada 1990
-At the underground, a dive arcade in the basement level of a store downtown on Yonge Street (which just happens to be the longest street in the world, true story lol ) and Gould st close to Dundas by the Eaton center ……
WHAT ABOUT YOU 🤷🏼♀️♥️
Jesus hollywood finally takes a W with this one 🙌
I was wondering how an Apple+ movie could've gotten that good, funny and entertaining. Yeah, they hired the same director that shot Filth, that's how.
So the real story is more interesting than the movie
Not really
Eh
Both are very interesting, but a little bit of drama doesn't hurt.
@@eduardobonnet2254 they made up a lot of stuff, it was not just "a little drama"
Lol absolutely not. The real story is this:
>contract signed
>new technology
>contract does not include new technology
>new contract signed
>Henk and Alexey become friends
>they create Tetris Company after fall of USSR
>done
Bro where the hells the mandalorian s3 breakdowns ?
do your research better, there are many things to correct, but one of the most important is that the translator was indeed an Agent, but Henk knew this from the start, since all translators in those booths were. Henk himself confirms this in an interview
Its Mr Maxwell god damn it
Would this game be the same without that classic theme song??
They should've cast Zack Morris as Henk. The dude is literally Indonesian/Dutch/Jewish. Plus with the whole retro throwback feel & the fact that he's always had a wily vibe...They missed the boat on that one. Still an incredible movie though..
Can't believe Nikolai Gorbachev made Tetris.
maaarrrkkkk cgr... im more nostalgic for that than anything
Top tier level acting
I used to play Tetris on my old tv, but I watched this movie because of The Final Countdown.
Is this song really part of the real story?
Is this bad that I prefer the gaming historian for teris?
Watching the movie made me think every single second that someone was gonna get shot
after I saw the end of the movie where it had the crt tv that was HD i had to wash my eyes with soap
Awesome Movie
Some of the scenes are cheesy and dramatic, but the movie is still fun to watch.
it is a very entertaining film