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Unexpectedly, not long after the start of April, the game adaptation movie went crazy.
Domestic theaters, "Dungeons & Dragons: Rogue Glory" and "Super Mario Bros. Movie", the former Douban 7.7, the latter 8.1.
One is an action-adventure game that is popular all over the world, and the other is the pioneering work of tabletop role-playing games.
(None of them have yet broken 100 million, but the latter opened simultaneously in mainland China and North America, and the box office on the first day set a new record for North American animation).
Both films retain the game's protagonist setting, unfold a new story, and game fans can pick up Easter eggs everywhere in the movie.
However, the plot of "Mario" is relatively weak, and fat friends who have not played the game choose carefully.
Game fans were happy and gave Nintendo the idea of developing the next new game. (When do domestic games also have this treatment?) ）
Dungeons & Dragons: Rogue Honor is a brand new story setting with no threshold for non-game fans.
The French scholar Jacques Eno asserts in "Video Games" that "video games have always been the future of cinema".
In addition to the two that are being released in theaters, the one that Uncle Meat wants to talk about today can be said to also provide new ideas for game adaptation.
Also adapted from the big hit game.
People who are hot enough to be in front of the screen have probably played it 99%, and I dare say no one has played it.
Unbelief?
Tetris.
Yes, Tetris blocks that randomly drop blocks of different shapes, and can only disappear if they are arranged and combined into a full row.
It's the most ported game in history, and according to IGN, Tetris topped the list with 500 million copies sold as of February 2021.
This Tetris, which is almost forty years old, has more than 425 million mobile users.
I believe that everyone who has played the game knows that Tetris is to deform and stack four squares of seven shapes until the whole screen is stacked and the game is over.
It's not difficult, but it's easy to get started.
Many people may wonder how this game without any character plot can be adapted into a movie.
The game can't, the story behind the game can.
What most people don't know is that the game's release has had ups and downs.
It involved the world-renowned game companies Nintendo, Atari, and the British media bigwig Mirror Group at the time.
In addition, the story takes place in the eighties of the twentieth century, when the United States and the Soviet Union were in the midst of a cold war confrontation.
This copyright battle is a commercial spy war (on the surface).
The rhythm is tight, the narrative is concise, and Uncle Meat subconsciously holds his breath several times in the process of watching...
It is no wonder that the classification of this film on Douban will be a thriller/biography.
The film was streamed online, and the North American media and audience scores were similar, with a freshness of 82% on Rotten Tomatoes, a popcorn index of 88%, and a domestic Douban of 8.1 (rated by 1.3W people).
Although it has little to do with the game itself, the game elements in the movie are quite rich.
Transitions, scenes, character introductions, etc., use the pixel style of the block game, which is quite retro.
The setting of the game's level breaking mechanism intimately reminds the audience which stage of copyright contention to enter.
Car chasing scenes, crashing cars and dropping blood into the pixel universe are also quite interesting.
Ready to beat the level? This is the departure - the following will have some spoilers, please be cautious about the decline.
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. This mustachioed man who is trying to sell is called Henk Enges (played by Taron Edgert), the protagonist of the film, and player 1 in this copyright battle.
Dutch, raised in the United States, started a family in Japan, and is the owner of the Japanese game company Bulletproof Software.
He sells a game of his own design at the show and accidentally becomes attracted to a new game.
Or that he does great things.
Smart people know how to give up.
After playing a few handfuls, he quickly gave up Go and began to strongly amway Tetris to investors.
Henk soon developed the "Tetris Effect" symptom, which means that after playing a video game for a long time, after closing his eyes, a scene in the game will appear in front of his eyes, as if he is still in it
Genk decided to gamble on his house to sell the game in Japan.
It was at this time that Player 2 of the Importance of the game appeared.
The game's founder, Alexei Leonidovich Pakitnov (Nikita Evremov), is a researcher at the Computer Center of the Moscow Academy of Sciences.
Admire ah.
The same is to touch fish, I can only pay to pull shi, and people used computers to create the first generation of "Tetris". (The original game was made up of parentheses)
Such a small game quickly spread, and it didn't take long to catch Eastern Europe by storm.
Thus, Player 3, British Andromeda software salesman Robert Stein appeared.
Alexei's verbal approval was obtained by telex, and without signing any treaty, he contacted the British media giant Mirror Group to negotiate distribution.
It is precisely because of the tumultuous operation of player 3 that more players enter the game.
And the information difference overlaps and updates, and the story gradually becomes exciting.
Uncle Meat is not a spoiler here.
In short, our protagonist, Player 1 Mustache, reacts quickly before the story is halfway through, and there is a loophole in the contract previously signed by Player 3.
The second trait of success appears: dare to think and dare to do.
The spy war film begins, the BGM of the classic game rings, enter the game, oh no, the third act of the film - infiltrate the USSR and fight for block power.
Not only Player 1, but also keen merchants (Players 3, 4, 5) have also come to Russia in an attempt to obtain authorization in their own way.
You thought there was no chance of victory, relying on the slightest possibility, turned over; You thought there was no suspense, but due to the change of time, you were kicked out of the game.
With this time and this weapon, of course, we know that it is the protagonist who turns over.
Player 1, Genk, is a salesman.
But he's also a game designer who can program himself.
He is smart and kind.
When fighting for copyright in Russia, he did not forget to do another thing, to meet the game creator Alexey.
At that time, Alexei did not have the copyright of his own game, and all the income from the sale of the game had to go to the state. But Genk was abided to ensure that Alexei benefited from this.
Henk and Alexei met at the negotiating table, and because of Henk's enthusiasm, Alexei secretly invited him to his home.
Both programmers, the two quickly became acquainted.
Even Genk suggested some of the most important improvements to the game: increase the number of rows that disappear from one to four.
He took him to play drinks, play games, and go to Bungye Di.
Listen to Europe's "The Final Countdown" and dance on the dance floor.
It was at this time that the seeds of revolutionary friendship were sown.
Henk is smart.
He knows that no matter how many unknown variables there are, there is a possibility of turning over with a hole card in hand, and this hole card is the creator Alexei.
Unfortunately, whether the hole cards are useful or not depends on where the table is.
Tetris presents us with a bleak and silent Russia on the eve of disintegration.
Repressive intelligence listening room.
Individual citizens do not have the freedom to buy and sell, and information is closed.
Inside the state system, crumbling.
Passers-by walked the streets dejected, and locals lined up for relief.
The hotel entrance is crowded with translators, and tourists need to rely on a pack of cigarettes to get a taxi.
Even Tetris was born to some extent from this state of depression and fragmentation.
Like many scientific institutions in Soviet times, the Central Scientific Research Institute, where Tetris was born, was permeated with inefficiency and bureaucracy ...
Every day is a boring day, like moving blocks in a game, all the work is carried out in an unbreakable box, in which Pakitnov is tasked with writing a program to test the performance of the hardware and then submitting an evaluation report, the whole process is highly repetitive and tedious.
—Author: The Last Line of Defense | Top Secret Political Insider Behind Tetris
Inspired by an article written by an American mathematician about jigsaw puzzles, Alexei, who loves five-panel dominoes, developed this computer game in 6 days.
It was born in the Electronika 60 computer independently developed by the Soviet Union
Alexei had envisioned writing a story for each block. Each Tetris has its own personality. Square is rude and stupid and simply cannot be improvisational. His favorites are the "J" and "L" shapes, which are suitable for a variety of occasions.
Later, he gave up.
A game with a story and characters may be liked by 30% of people, but 25% will hate it, and if it is abstract, everyone can love it.
What he wants is the meaninglessness of the juxtaposition of the blocks, the satisfaction that can provide imagination and spiritual massage.
In the chaos and decadence, this satisfaction is enough to maintain emotional normality.
Of course, this normality does not last.
Just look at Alexei's attitude towards Henk and know that he envies his blunt sense of such closure and danger.
He envied his freedom, he had a completely different life.
And Alexey's world, only here.
Someone once asked Alexey Tetris how long will it exist?
He replied tactfully.
A game will be replaced, but the joy of focused thinking and full immersion will not be discarded when playing it.
Although human beings have undergone many changes in software and hardware, the human brain has not changed much in nature, and human nature is not much different from before. Many people are still addicted to chess today, knowing that it has been around for thousands of years. Puzzle games can activate the happiness center of the human brain, and although we still don't know the doorway, the happiness generated by this concentrated thinking is very important to human beings.
Games are like that, and I'm sure movies will be like that.
Today's worker: Sakamoto's junior