{"id":1123464,"date":"2023-03-30T12:56:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T16:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1123464"},"modified":"2023-03-30T12:56:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T16:56:48","slug":"apple-tvs-tetris-biopic-loses-the-true-plot-amid-its-80s-movie-tropes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1123464","title":{"rendered":"Apple TV\u2019s Tetris biopic loses the true plot amid its \u201880s movie tropes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Henk Rogers, the man most directly responsible for bringing Tetris<\/em> to the West, helped set expectations at an early press screening of Apple TV’s Tetris<\/em> 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.”<\/p>\n

Instead, Rogers said, expect a movie that “got the feeling across, the feeling of being in Moscow for the first time, breaking the law.”<\/p>\n

All this is immediately apparent if you’ve read books like The Tetris Effect<\/em> or Tetris: The Games People Play<\/em>, 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<\/a> that also provides a more direct account of the real drama surrounding Tetris<\/em>‘ complicated Soviet-era licensing drama.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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