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Digital tetris blocks11/23/2023 IPhone 6, iPhone 6s, iPhone 7, iPhone 8: 750x1334 IPhone 5, iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c, iPhone SE: 640x1136 MacBook Pro 13.3" Retina display, MacBook Air 13-inch Retina display, MacBook Air 13.3"(2020, M1): 2560x1600 Download this wallpaper as dual monitor desktop:ĭownload this wallpaper as triple monitor desktop:ĭownload this wallpaper as quad monitor desktop:ĭownload this Wallpaper as iPhone desktop or lock screen: iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS: 320x480 This image is for personal desktop wallpaper use only, if you are the author and find this image is shared without your permission, DMCA report please Contact Us At one point, Robert Maxwell appeals directly to his friend Mikhail Gorbachev, while Henk tries to pull the corporate equivalent, ambushing Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi.WallpaperFlare is an open platform for users to share their favorite wallpapers, By downloading this wallpaper, you agree to our Terms Of Use and Privacy Policy. Tapping into late-1980s nostalgia - including the launch of the handheld Game Boy console - the movie doubles as a nifty history lesson, reminding audiences of just how tense things were between the Soviet Union and the rest of the world. Picture “Tetris” as a lo-fi version of John Le Carré’s “The Russia House.” Screenwriter Pink is no Tom Stoppard, but he’s plenty clever when it comes to incorporating politics, and by the end, we’re half hoping that Alexey and his family will find a way to defect to the West. “Tetris” shows Henk trying to juggle all these pressures, accelerating as he nears his goal, the way the game does, so you’re really sweating in the final rounds. More than that, if he makes one wrong move, he could wind up in some frozen gulag. If Henk loses the deal, his savings could be totally wiped out. Sure enough, watching these negotiations is a lot more fun than standing over someone’s shoulder as they arrange digital blocks, waiting for a turn. His intention: to beat the capitalists at their own “game.” The next thing we know, Henk’s in one room trying to woo Alexey while Belikov is playing the other bidders against each other. Suddenly, the KGB is getting involved, and a high-ranking agent named Valentin Trifonov (Igor Grabuzov) wants a cut, arranging with the Maxwells to sell the rights out from under Henk. Technically, Henk isn’t allowed to conduct business while visiting Russia, and Belikov further informs him that the license he’s been using to produce Tetris with Nintendo is not legit. Henk gets there first, traveling on a tourist visa (it helps that he’s not American) and relying on a local woman named Sasha (Sofia Lebedeva) to serve as translator. To get the distribution rights to Tetris, all three interested parties must travel to Russia and meet with Belikov (Oleg Shtefanko), the head of the Moscow Computer and Science Center. Henk’s a Boy Scout compared with these cheaters, and though the other players come across a bit too cartoonish at times, it’s a colorful mix of personalities to set against one another. What matters to us is that Henk is up against two more-experienced software competitors: Andromeda owner Robert Stein (Toby Jones), who’s already secured the PC rights to Tetris, and the repugnant father-son combo who run Mirrorsoft, Robert Maxwell (Roger Allam) and his nepotistic No. Turns out, the contract side of things is a lot more complicated than he (or we) can keep up with, and it may take a business major to untangle all the legal back-and-forth. It’s an unconventional and slightly clunky choice to introduce our hero in an investment meeting, but Baird wants us to like the little guy he dubs “Player 1,” and Egerton has the affability to deliver key exposition while trying to convince the bank to back his vision.įrom the moment Henk discovers Tetris at a sales conference, he’s smitten, buying a license to release the game in Japan - or so he thinks. For example, he gamely presents new characters and locations using retro-style 8-bit title screens, and later on, during the climactic car chase, the screen pixelates at points, as if we’ve crossed over into an arcade session of Spy Hunter.įor the story to work, we have to care about the characters, so producer Matthew Vaughn (whose flashy fingerprints we can feel all over this film) enlists “Kingsman” star Taron Egerton to play Dutch-Indonesian entrepreneur Henk Rogers, a Japan-based family man who puts his life savings into Tetris. Slightly tamer here than in his earlier indie projects (like truth-in-advertising “Filth”), Baird brings real-world insights and highly original stylistic ideas to the table. That detail, plus the fact everything is happening just a few years before the collapse of the Soviet Union, adds an unexpected political dimension to the negotiations, which has special appeal for director Jon S.
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