![]() ![]() There ended up being crazy lawsuits that licenses to Tetris were hyper-specific and only for certain platforms. Psychologists did literally write about the phenomenon of people dreaming about Tetris because it was so common. It crossed over into all kinds of people in a huge way. ![]() Before the Wii, Tetris on the Gameboy was the one game that non-gamers became obsessed with. Tetris and the Gameboy took the world by storm. I've seen people talk about how tense and crazy that story was. Yes, they did this at the height of the Cold War. Yes, someone did have to go into Soviet Russia to license Tetris while also selling Nintendo on it. ![]() I don't know exactly how much of that this movie is going to dive into, but if they do aim to capture all of the absurd runaround that happened regarding this game, we'll all be in for a really entertaining movie, no fights or car chases needed. Nintendo snaking the console and handheld rights to the game out from under Tengen was them giving a huge "fuck you" to a game company that had been a thorn in their side for a while. This is what happened to "Tengen Tetris", a version of the game made for NES by the company Tengen without Nintendo's permission. At one point, one publisher was called in to re-negotiate rights on a planned release on a new platform, and in doing so they overlooked that the new contract redefined basic terms (think "game system" and "computer"), to essentially make the version they were already selling illegal. People were selling their version of the game thinking they had the full rights to do so when they actually didn't. However, those absurd flourishes aside, the actual story of what went down then was bonkers.Įveryone was trying to rush to get the rights to use the game, but things got all kinds of messed up because the Russian government essentially owned the rights, and between the problems caused by the language barrier and cultural barrier, they were also evidently engaged in some sort of fuckery to try and play the different interested parties against one another. I don't remember anything about the real-life accounts of the struggle to acquire the rights to Tetris that involved fights or car chases. that’s where the Day Lewis, Blanchett, Streep, Winslet, even Stephen Grahams of the world put themselves ahead. with expression, liveliness, scenes that involve full range of emotion or monologues or changes in voice volume & pitch, etc. The diamond standard cumberbatch wishes he could reach though is those who can do a tricky accent but nail it sounding effortless. Still an elite actor though with many accents he does ‘decent’ with, and I think his emotional limitations when doing accents are played off well for something like Dr Strange anyway since Strange is a comic book caricature with a naturally stiff/cold/weird/stoic type demeanour. So the strong accents sound so different to his voice’s natural timbre that it can sound grating or forced or stiff or like he’s trying too hard to seem ‘actory’ & ‘showy’ rather than playing natural flowing true to life characters. I just think he likes doing more than he needs to. Or in The Mauritanian he has a very distinct/strong and very unapologetically southern US accent which was probably deliberate for his ‘gawd bless america’ military serving patriot character. Or in the Boston-set Black Mass he has a very out-there accent which has a strong twang that accidentally reminds me a bit of old fashion humphrey bogart style detective character accents , eg Dr Strange has the more classy/educated bass heavy east coast accent (similar to the upper class accent rosamund pike adopted for Gone Girl, or the type someone like Colin Powell has, or as you say real life doctors believably have) , ![]() Taron is doing great with the west coast more high pitched / soft spoken sorta accent here but I think that’s one of the easier US accents.īenedict’s accents often sound weird because I feel he opts for distinct accents which draw attention to themselves and require extra focus to keep sounding right. Yeah I disagree with the other users comment as far as simplying it to British actors doing ‘American accents’. ![]()
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