The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (Seth Gordon, USA 2007)
keeps the last 25 years, Billy Mitchell (top left) the world record in Donkey Kong Arcade video game. In the community he is revered for it like a God figure - especially since its ahead of second placed is so huge. When no one Steve Wiebe, a family man and teacher at the other end of the United States loses his job, he is looking for a new leisure activity, buys a Donkey Kong-box and places it in the garage. Wiebe takes to himself when he realizes how good he in Dragons is (strategy, analysis, etc. ..) to attack the world record. From then he spends many hours in his garage. And then he do it well. Fortunately, he has all filmed with a camera - but since no one knows him, the result is challenged. From then on, Wiebe is fighting for the recognition of his title ...
THE KING OF KONG is a very fine, entertaining and interesting documentary made with the charm of an independent production. She manages quite a man who knows not at all in the world of arcade gamers (like me) in bringing to the scene, with its own codes and functional mechanisms. And ultimately it is anyway broken down's human drama and since then the film is also manipulative, he creates it very clear two film personae that in her biography, and due to their different character had almost inevitably become adversaries. And that Wiebe is zufligen the sympathies clear - Mitchell as arrogant, dummschwätzender Redneck is shown (which he perhaps does). Anyway, here immerse yourself in an unprecedented Mirkrokosmos, and it is incredibly exciting, this whole zuzukucken Nerds in the exercise of their passions. A recommendation.
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