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* ConsolationPrize: Robert Stein might have lost the Console and Handheld rights, but he still has the "Home Computer" and "Arcade" rights by the end of the movie. [[spoiler: Too bad he is not getting any more money out of the Arcades and his current computer publishers, Mirrorsoft, aren't going to give him anything because they are about to go bankrupt[[note]]. The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue in the [[https://youtu.be/_fQtxKmgJC8 Gaming Historian's Video on Tetris]], states that he eventually lost those rights due to not being able to pay, ''right before the PC-Boom of the [=mid-90s=]''. Even though he had already made more than 250K from Tetris [[MyGreatestFailure he never got over losing it.]][[/note]]]].
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* ConsolationPrize: Robert Stein might have lost the Console and Handheld rights, but he still has the "Home Computer" and "Arcade" rights by the end of the movie. [[spoiler: Too bad he is not getting any more money out of the Arcades and his current computer publishers, Mirrorsoft, aren't going to give him anything because they are about to go bankrupt[[note]].bankrupt]][[note]]. The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue in the [[https://youtu.be/_fQtxKmgJC8 Gaming Historian's Video on Tetris]], states that he eventually lost those ''those'' rights due to not being able to pay, ''right before the PC-Boom of the [=mid-90s=]''. Even though he had already made more than 250K from Tetris [[MyGreatestFailure he never got over losing it.]][[/note]]]].]][[/note]].
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* BrickJoke: A really dark one. Alexey takes Henk to an underground Russian party, where one makes a RousingSpeech about Russians wanting freedom of expression and "Levi's Jeans". Later [[spoiler: when Henk is ambushed and beaten up by the head of the [=KGB=] he is told "thanks for the Levi's" and his jeans are taken away, thereby forcing Henk to walk back to his hotel in his underwear]].
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** A really dark one. Alexey takes Henk to an underground Russian party, where one makes a RousingSpeech about Russians wanting freedom of expression and "Levi's Jeans". Later [[spoiler: when Henk is ambushed and beaten up by the head of the [=KGB=] he is told "thanks for the Levi's" and his jeans are taken away, thereby forcing Henk to walk back to his hotel in hisunderwear]].underwear]].
** During the final big chase when Henk Rogers, Minoru Arakawa and Howard Lincoln are making their getaway in the airport, Henk attempts to give Alexey a goodbye ManHug for being his friend and GetawayDriver. Alexey refuses, telling him that this not the time for "American Sentiment" before telling him to move quickly into the airplane and not look back. [[spoiler: Those words come back in the BigDamnReunion]].
-->'''Henk:''' Is ''now'' the time for "American Sentiment"?
** A really dark one. Alexey takes Henk to an underground Russian party, where one makes a RousingSpeech about Russians wanting freedom of expression and "Levi's Jeans". Later [[spoiler: when Henk is ambushed and beaten up by the head of the [=KGB=] he is told "thanks for the Levi's" and his jeans are taken away, thereby forcing Henk to walk back to his hotel in his
** During the final big chase when Henk Rogers, Minoru Arakawa and Howard Lincoln are making their getaway in the airport, Henk attempts to give Alexey a goodbye ManHug for being his friend and GetawayDriver. Alexey refuses, telling him that this not the time for "American Sentiment" before telling him to move quickly into the airplane and not look back. [[spoiler: Those words come back in the BigDamnReunion]].
-->'''Henk:''' Is ''now'' the time for "American Sentiment"?
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* ChanceMeetingBetweenAntagonists: [[spoiler: Henk Rogers and Robert Stein]] accidentally bump into each other outside of the hotel they were staying at on their way to ELORG. They can only muster a single response.
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* ChanceMeetingBetweenAntagonists: [[spoiler: Henk Rogers and Robert Stein]] accidentally bump into each other outside of the hotel they were staying at on their way to ELORG. They After staring at each other for a few seconds, they can only muster a single response.
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* TheIdealist: Surprisingly [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Nikolai Belikov]] is shown to be one. He truly embraces Soviet Communist ideals and does his best to XanatosSpeedChess his way into securing the best possible Tetris deal, ''not for him but for his country''. [[spoiler: It gets beaten out of him by the corrupt leader of the KGB [[DragonWithAnAgenda Valentin Trifonov]], forcing him to face the reality that Communist Ideals are in fact dead, which makes him decide to do his best [[NiceJobFixingItVillain to help Henk Rogers expose the corrupt Maxwells]]]].
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* AscendedMeme: While talking with a banker about how lucrative his plan to publish ''Tetris'' for Nintendo can be, Henk states that teaming up with Nintendo is "[...]a license to print money", a nod at memes of Nintendo's Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto and Creator/SatoruIwata bragging about the Nintendo DS: "[[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/it-prints-money IT PRINTS MONEY]]".
* AnAesop:
** "Good ideas have no borders"
** Friendship has no borders.
** "Good ideas have no borders"
** Friendship has no borders.
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** While Henk Rogers, Robert Stein and Kevin Maxwell really were in Russia at the same time for the Tetris rights, they never became aware of each other's presence while they were there. The ChanceMeetingBetweenAntagonists between [[spoiler: Henk Rogers and Robert Stein]] never actually happened as Belikov was in fact ''very careful'' in keeping all parties separate and arranging his meetings with them in such a way so that they '''wouldn't''' accidentally bump into each other. It was added to the movie to create tension.
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** Belikov's BatmanGambit in reality only involved him roasting [[CorruptBureaucrat Robert Stein]] over not paying his due royalties and imposing increased rates and penalties (which he was actually prepared to lower if Stein complained) in order to prevent him from [[ReadTheFinePrint reading the fine print]]. The Tetris Arcade rights were not actually involved the negotiations.
** While Henk Rogers, Robert Stein and Kevin Maxwell really were in Russia at the same time for the Tetris rights, they never became aware of each other's presence while they were there.The ChanceMeetingBetweenAntagonists between [[spoiler: Henk Rogers and Robert Stein]] never actually happened met as Belikov was in fact ''very careful'' in keeping all parties separate and arranging his meetings with them in such a way so that they '''wouldn't''' accidentally bump into each other. It The ChanceMeetingBetweenAntagonists was just added to the movie to create tension.
** While Henk Rogers, Robert Stein and Kevin Maxwell really were in Russia at the same time for the Tetris rights, they never became aware of each other's presence while they were there.
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** Apparently, Robert Maxwell wasn't as bad in real life as the film made him out to be. In real life, he was ''even worse''.
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** Apparently, Robert Maxwell wasn't as bad in real life as the film made him out to be. In real life, he was ''even worse''. In fact, while the [[WhiteCollarCrime fraudulent contract]] he offered Nintendo didn't actually happen, Robert Maxwell ''built his empire with these sort of deals''.
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* AscendedMeme: While talking with a banker about how lucrative his plan to publish ''Tetris'' for Nintendo can be, Henk states that teaming up with Nintendo is "[...]a license to print money", a nod at memes of Nintendo's Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto and Creator/SatoruIwata bragging about the Nintendo DS: "[[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/it-prints-money IT PRINTS MONEY]]".
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** While Henk Rogers, Robert Stein and Kevin Maxwell really were in Russia at the same time for the Tetris rights, they never became aware of each other's presence while they were there. The ChanceMeetingBetweenAntagonists between [[spoiler: Henk Rogers and Robert Stein]] never actually happened as Belikov was very careful in being secretive and fact ''very careful'' in keeping all parties separate and arranging his meetings with them separate.in such a way so that they '''wouldn't''' accidentally bump into each other. It was added to the movie to create tension.
* ChanceMeetingBetweenAntagonists: [[spoiler: Henk Rogers and Robert Stein]] accidentally bump into each other outside of the hotel they were staying at on their way to ELORG. They can only muster a single response.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Henk and Alexey's spatial arrangement skills, [[TheTetrisEffect developed through playing Tetris]] allows them to quickly calculate [[spoiler: that Alexey's small car is ''just small enough'' to slip through the space between the road and the big truck that's coming their way allowing them to significantly increase the distance between them and the KGB. There is even a SuddenVideoGameMoment as they are doing so]].
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** While unsuccessfully trying to get a taxi on his first day in Russian, Henk notices a Russian guy raising a pack of Russian cigarettes easily stopping a taxi. [[spoiler: After his ChanceMeetingBetweenAntagonists with Robert Stein, he uses the same trick to quickly get a cab]].
** Henk and Alexey's spatial arrangement skills, [[TheTetrisEffect developed through playing Tetris]] allows them to quickly calculate [[spoiler: that Alexey's small car is ''just small enough'' to slip through the space between the road and the big truck that's coming their way allowing them to significantly increase the distance between them and the KGB. There is even a SuddenVideoGameMoment as they are doing so]].
** While unsuccessfully trying to get a taxi on his first day in Russian, Henk notices a Russian guy raising a pack of Russian cigarettes easily stopping a taxi. [[spoiler: After his ChanceMeetingBetweenAntagonists with Robert Stein, he uses the same trick to quickly get a cab]].
** Henk and Alexey's spatial arrangement skills, [[TheTetrisEffect developed through playing Tetris]] allows them to quickly calculate [[spoiler: that Alexey's small car is ''just small enough'' to slip through the space between the road and the big truck that's coming their way allowing them to significantly increase the distance between them and the KGB. There is even a SuddenVideoGameMoment as they are doing so]].
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** As the [[https://youtu.be/_fQtxKmgJC8 Gaming Historian shows]], the real Robert Stein was more direct in his dealings and was, in fact, already negotiating handheld rights with Atari when Henk Rogers contacted him[[note]] In reality, the Gameboy had already been out in Japan, bundled with Mario, for some time by then[[/note]], meaning he didn't go behind his back to screw him. Also, the movie severely underplays the fact that ''he was the man who discovered Tetris, recognised its huge potential and first bought it to a wider audience''. In general, he was a more sympathetic person than the CorruptBureaucrat with a ChronicBackstabbingDisorder portrayed in the movie.
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** As the [[https://youtu.be/_fQtxKmgJC8 Gaming Historian shows]], the real Robert Stein was more direct in his dealings and was, in fact, already negotiating handheld rights with Atari when Henk Rogers contacted him[[note]] In reality, the Gameboy had already been out in Japan, without any bundled with Mario, games, for some time by then[[/note]], meaning he didn't go behind his back to screw him. Also, the movie severely underplays the fact that ''he was the man who discovered Tetris, recognised its huge potential and first bought it to a wider audience''. In general, he was a more sympathetic person than the CorruptBureaucrat with a ChronicBackstabbingDisorder portrayed in the movie.
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** While Henk really was the one that suggested Tetris to be bundled with the Gameboy, in reality it was already out in Japan without any bundled games at the time Henk went to Russia to negotiate the handheld rights.
** While Henk Rogers, Robert Stein and Kevin Maxwell really were in Russia at the same time for the Tetris rights, they never became aware of each other's presence while they were there. Belikov was very careful in being secretive and keeping them separate.
** While Henk Rogers, Robert Stein and Kevin Maxwell really were in Russia at the same time for the Tetris rights, they never became aware of each other's presence while they were there. Belikov was very careful in being secretive and keeping them separate.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: While roughly based on an account of real-life events, some events were either embellished or introduced to make for a more compelling story:
** The ending car chase was invented purely to give the film an exciting climax. However, the idea didn't come out of nowhere: while it's true that Robert Maxwell attempted to sic the KGB on Henk and co. in retaliation for obtaining the rights to ''Tetris'', in reality the KGB told him that there was nothing they could do since their hands were tied trying to deal with their collapsing government and to [[KnowWhenToFoldEm just give up.]]
** Henk was not blackmailed to abandon his pursuit for the rights to Tetris, nor did he miss his daughter's recital to secure the rights.
** The Russian government never threatened Henk's wife.
** Apparently, Robert Maxwell wasn't as bad in real life as the film made him out to be. In real life, he was ''even worse''.
** Valentin Trifonov is an original character made specifically for the film, based on all of corrupt officials in the USSR's ranks.
** A minor factual error presented in the ending: Alexey and his family are shown immigrating to San Francisco. They actually immigrated to Seattle.
** The ending car chase was invented purely to give the film an exciting climax. However, the idea didn't come out of nowhere: while it's true that Robert Maxwell attempted to sic the KGB on Henk and co. in retaliation for obtaining the rights to ''Tetris'', in reality the KGB told him that there was nothing they could do since their hands were tied trying to deal with their collapsing government and to [[KnowWhenToFoldEm just give up.]]
** Henk was not blackmailed to abandon his pursuit for the rights to Tetris, nor did he miss his daughter's recital to secure the rights.
** The Russian government never threatened Henk's wife.
** Apparently, Robert Maxwell wasn't as bad in real life as the film made him out to be. In real life, he was ''even worse''.
** Valentin Trifonov is an original character made specifically for the film, based on all of corrupt officials in the USSR's ranks.
** A minor factual error presented in the ending: Alexey and his family are shown immigrating to San Francisco. They actually immigrated to Seattle.
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* WorkingClassHero: Alexey Pajitnov is an odd case. Despite his game becoming a national sensation, he and his family are still stuck in poverty thanks to being screwed over by his country's communist government.
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* AvoidTheDreadedGRating: Screenwriter Noah Pink introduced profanity into the script to prevent the movie from being perceived as a children's film.
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* AvoidTheDreadedGRating: Screenwriter Noah Pink introduced profanity into the script to prevent the movie from being perceived as a children's film.film, possibly due to the lack of on-screen violence and blood. The f-bomb alone is dropped a whopping '''31 times''' in the film, while other swears only see usage in the single digits.
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* AvoidTheDreadedGRating: Screenwriter Noah Pink introduced profanity into the script to prevent the movie from being perceived as a children's film.
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* PacManFever: In the scene where Henk demos ''Super Mario Land'', we hear random music and sound snippets of the game that obviously don't match up to what's happening on-screen.
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* ArtisticLicense: In regards to computer science: When convincing Nintendo to pack ''Tetris'' with the Game Boy instead of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand'', he is able to rewrite his source code for the game to run on the Game Boy simply by changing a few lines of code, and it looks exactly like the commercial release of the game. In reality this would've required major modifications to the source code.
** In addition, it's claimed that ''Super Mario Land'' was programmed in C, which also happens to be the language Henk Rogers' version of Tetris is written in. C compilers in the 80s were not optimized enough to output efficient code to run on video game consoles of the era, and so most games were programmed in assembly. [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality This was likely done because assembly can look like random gibberish to the average layman, while C is much more human readable.]] It was also likely to HandWave the fact that Henk was able to rewrite ''Tetris'' to run on Game Boy so quickly, as C code can be compiled to run on multiple platforms, while code written in assembly would require complete rewrites to run on a new platform.
** In addition, it's claimed that ''Super Mario Land'' was programmed in C, which also happens to be the language Henk Rogers' version of Tetris is written in. C compilers in the 80s were not optimized enough to output efficient code to run on video game consoles of the era, and so most games were programmed in assembly. [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality This was likely done because assembly can look like random gibberish to the average layman, while C is much more human readable.]] It was also likely to HandWave the fact that Henk was able to rewrite ''Tetris'' to run on Game Boy so quickly, as C code can be compiled to run on multiple platforms, while code written in assembly would require complete rewrites to run on a new platform.
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** [[Creator/Nintendo]]'s executives look great in this movie. Their business practices are completely above board and they even end up sticking their necks out to help Henk finally secure the deal in Moscow. Even when it looks like Tetris is lost to Atari, they confirm they have no issues with Henk and promise to work together on another project.
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** [[Creator/Nintendo]]'s The Nintendo executives look great in this movie. Their business practices are completely above board and they even end up sticking their necks out to help Henk finally secure the deal in Moscow. Even when it looks like Tetris is lost to Atari, they confirm they have no issues with Henk and promise to work together on another project.
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* HonestCorporateExecutive: Henk. He is initially accused of being [[CorruptCorporateExecutive the other kind]] until he points out that he's doing things that are severely disadvantageous to his interests just to secure the rights legally and points out where Stein screwed ELORG in their initial contract.
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** Henk. He is initially accused of being [[CorruptCorporateExecutive the other kind]] until he points out that he's doing things that are severely disadvantageous to his interests just to secure the rights legally and points out where Stein screwed ELORG in their initialcontract.contract.
** [[Creator/Nintendo]]'s executives look great in this movie. Their business practices are completely above board and they even end up sticking their necks out to help Henk finally secure the deal in Moscow. Even when it looks like Tetris is lost to Atari, they confirm they have no issues with Henk and promise to work together on another project.
** Henk. He is initially accused of being [[CorruptCorporateExecutive the other kind]] until he points out that he's doing things that are severely disadvantageous to his interests just to secure the rights legally and points out where Stein screwed ELORG in their initial
** [[Creator/Nintendo]]'s executives look great in this movie. Their business practices are completely above board and they even end up sticking their necks out to help Henk finally secure the deal in Moscow. Even when it looks like Tetris is lost to Atari, they confirm they have no issues with Henk and promise to work together on another project.
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* AscendedMeme: While talking with a banker about how lucrative his plan to publish ''Tetris'' for Nintendo can be, Henk states that teaming up with Nintendo is "[...]a license to print money", a nod at memes of Nintendo's CEO[=s=] bragging about the Nintendo DS: "[[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/it-prints-money IT PRINTS MONEY]]".
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* AscendedMeme: While talking with a banker about how lucrative his plan to publish ''Tetris'' for Nintendo can be, Henk states that teaming up with Nintendo is "[...]a license to print money", a nod at memes of Nintendo's CEO[=s=] Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto and Creator/SatoruIwata bragging about the Nintendo DS: "[[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/it-prints-money IT PRINTS MONEY]]".
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* AscendedMeme: While talking with a banker about how lucrative his plan to publish ''Tetris'' for Nintendo can be, Henk states that teaming up with Nintendo is "[...]a license to print money", a nod at memes of Nintendo's CEO[=s=] bragging about the Nintendo DS: "[[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/it-prints-money IT PRINTS MONEY]]".
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* DefrostingIceQueen: A platonic version with Hank and Alexey. Alexey has good reason, of course, to be icy as friendships with foreigners are illegal.
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* DirtyCop: Valentin Trifonov is a KGB agent that is supposed to look after his country's best interests. He instead makes a deal with [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Robert Maxwell]] to give him a piece of the Tetris profits, once Mirrorsoft signs a deal.
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* RichBitch: Kevin Maxwell is a male example of this trope, being assigned the position of being president of Mirrorsoft, [[{{Nepotism}} purely through the merit of being Robert Maxwell's son]] and looking down arrogantly on anyone that is not [[CorruptCorporateExecutive his father]]. [[spoiler: He does get ''somewhat'' better when he witnesses first-hand [[BrokenPedestal what sort of person his father is]]]].
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** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Robert Maxwell]] gets called out by Mikhail Gorbachev when he makes a speech to him about protecting his country from capitalism and capitalists.
--->'''Gorbachev:''' If am supposed to prevent capitalists from invading the Soviet Union, then what are '''you''' doing here?
--->'''Gorbachev:''' If am supposed to prevent capitalists from invading the Soviet Union, then what are '''you''' doing here?
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* ReadTheFinePrint: Robert Stein fails to notice until it's too late that the new contract he has signed with ELORG has a more clear definition of what a "Home Computer" -meaning he can't sell Console rights due to a LoopholeAbuse anymore. To be fair to Stain this is mostly due to the fact that Belikov [[BatmanGambit focused his attention on the increased Royalties and the Arcade rights]].
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* ReadTheFinePrint: Robert Stein fails to notice until it's too late that the new contract he has signed with ELORG has a more clear definition of what a "Home Computer" -meaning he can't sell Console rights due to a LoopholeAbuse anymore. To be fair to Stain Stein this is mostly due to the fact that Belikov [[BatmanGambit focused his attention on the increased Royalties and the Arcade rights]].
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Robert Stein screwing Henk Rogers over the handheld rights is what prompts the latter to go to Russia to get them directly. [[spoiler: Which allows the Russians to discover that Stein sold the Arcade rights to Atari illegally and that there was a [[LoopholeAbuse loophole in the original contract which allowed him to legally sell the Tetris Video Game rights to Nintendo]]. The loophole is fixed in the LeonineContract Stein is forced to sign for the Home-Computer '''and''' Arcade rights. Being blind-sided by being called out by Belikov for illegally selling Arcade rights moments before, who [[BatmanGambit also focuses Stein's attention on the increased royalty rates]], Stein doesn't notice the loophole got patched [[VillainousBreakdown and he is not happy when he eventually finds out]]]].
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Robert Stein screwing Henk Rogers over the handheld rights is what prompts the latter to go to Russia to get them directly. [[spoiler: Which allows leads to Henk pointing out to the Russians to discover that Stein sold the Arcade rights to Atari illegally and that there was a [[LoopholeAbuse loophole in the original contract which allowed him to legally sell the Tetris Video Game rights to Nintendo]]. The loophole is fixed in the LeonineContract Stein is forced to sign for the Home-Computer '''and''' Arcade rights. Being blind-sided by being called out by Belikov for illegally selling Arcade rights moments before, who [[BatmanGambit also focuses Stein's attention on the increased royalty rates]], Stein doesn't notice the loophole got patched [[VillainousBreakdown and he is not happy when he eventually finds out]]]].
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* ConsolationPrize: Robert Stein might have lost the Console and Handheld rights, but he still has the "Home Computer" and "Arcade" rights by the end of the movie. [[spoiler: Too bad he is not getting any more money out of the Arcades and his current computer publishers, Mirrorsoft, aren't going to give him anything because they are about to go bankrupt. The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue in the [[https://youtu.be/_fQtxKmgJC8 Gaming Historian's Video on Tetris]], states that he eventually lost those rights due to not being able to pay, ''right before the PC-Boom of the [=mid-90s=]''. Even though he had already made more than 250K from Tetris [[MyGreatestFailure he never got over losing it.]]]].
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* ConsolationPrize: Robert Stein might have lost the Console and Handheld rights, but he still has the "Home Computer" and "Arcade" rights by the end of the movie. [[spoiler: Too bad he is not getting any more money out of the Arcades and his current computer publishers, Mirrorsoft, aren't going to give him anything because they are about to go bankrupt.bankrupt[[note]]. The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue in the [[https://youtu.be/_fQtxKmgJC8 Gaming Historian's Video on Tetris]], states that he eventually lost those rights due to not being able to pay, ''right before the PC-Boom of the [=mid-90s=]''. Even though he had already made more than 250K from Tetris [[MyGreatestFailure he never got over losing it.]]]].]][[/note]]]].
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* ClosetShuffle: Alexey hides Henk in his storage room when he hears a loud bang on his door, since it's illegal for a foreigner to visit a Russian's home without the goverment's permission and supervision. [[spoiler: Thankfully, it's not the KGB but Alexey asks Henk to leave his house regardless]].
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* ConsolationPrize: Robert Stein might have lost the Console and Handheld rights, but he still has the "Home Computer" and "Arcade" rights by the end of the movie. [[spoiler: Too bad he is not getting any more money out of the Arcades and his current computer publishers, Mirrorsoft, aren't going to give him anything because they are about to go bankrupt. The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue in the [[https://youtu.be/_fQtxKmgJC8 Gaming Historian's Video on Tetris]], states that he eventually lost the rights due to not being able to pay, ''right before the PC-Boom of the [=mid-90s=]''. Even though he had already made more than 250K from Tetris [[MyGreatestFailure he never got over losing it.]]]].
* CorruptBureaucrat: Robert Stein, the head of Andromeda software, essentially an IP leeching company, who makes his living "scouting the USSR for software" (i.e. exploiting the work of talented programmers who are on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain) and selling the rights to the highest bidder. He is the one who supposedly handles the worldwide rights to Tetris, and is only able to do so via doing a LoopholeAbuse of his original contract. He is loyal to nobody and has the [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder bad habit of going behind the back of anyone he interacts with]] including his employers.
* CorruptBureaucrat: Robert Stein, the head of Andromeda software, essentially an IP leeching company, who makes his living "scouting the USSR for software" (i.e. exploiting the work of talented programmers who are on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain) and selling the rights to the highest bidder. He is the one who supposedly handles the worldwide rights to Tetris, and is only able to do so via doing a LoopholeAbuse of his original contract. He is loyal to nobody and has the [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder bad habit of going behind the back of anyone he interacts with]] including his employers.
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* ConsolationPrize: Robert Stein might have lost the Console and Handheld rights, but he still has the "Home Computer" and "Arcade" rights by the end of the movie. [[spoiler: Too bad he is not getting any more money out of the Arcades and his current computer publishers, Mirrorsoft, aren't going to give him anything because they are about to go bankrupt. The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue in the [[https://youtu.be/_fQtxKmgJC8 Gaming Historian's Video on Tetris]], states that he eventually lost the those rights due to not being able to pay, ''right before the PC-Boom of the [=mid-90s=]''. Even though he had already made more than 250K from Tetris [[MyGreatestFailure he never got over losing it.]]]].
* CorruptBureaucrat: Robert Stein, the head of Andromeda software, essentially an IP leeching company, who makes his living "scoutingthe USSR for software" (i.e. exploiting the work of talented programmers who are on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain) and selling the rights to the highest bidder. He is the one who supposedly handles the worldwide rights to Tetris, and is only able to do so via doing a LoopholeAbuse of his original contract. He is loyal to nobody and has the [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder bad habit of going behind the back of anyone he interacts with]] including his employers.
* CorruptBureaucrat: Robert Stein, the head of Andromeda software, essentially an IP leeching company, who makes his living "scouting
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* ConsolationPrize: Robert Stein might have lost the Console and Handheld rights, but he still has the "Home Computer" rights by the end of the movie. [[spoiler: Too bad he is not getting any more money out of the Arcades and his current computer publishers, Mirrorsoft, aren't going to give him anything because they are about to go bankrupt. The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue in the [[https://youtu.be/_fQtxKmgJC8 Gaming Historian's Video on Tetris]], states that he eventually lost the rights due to not being able to pay, ''right before the PC-Boom of the [=mid-90s=]''. Even though he had already made more than 250K from Tetris [[MyGreatestFailure he never got over losing it.]]]].
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* ConsolationPrize: Robert Stein might have lost the Console and Handheld rights, but he still has the "Home Computer" and "Arcade" rights by the end of the movie. [[spoiler: Too bad he is not getting any more money out of the Arcades and his current computer publishers, Mirrorsoft, aren't going to give him anything because they are about to go bankrupt. The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue in the [[https://youtu.be/_fQtxKmgJC8 Gaming Historian's Video on Tetris]], states that he eventually lost the rights due to not being able to pay, ''right before the PC-Boom of the [=mid-90s=]''. Even though he had already made more than 250K from Tetris [[MyGreatestFailure he never got over losing it.]]]].
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* BrokenPedestal: Kevin Maxwell starts the movie proud of being Robert Maxwell's son, InsistentTerminology even insisting on being called "Mr Maxwell", by anyone besides his father]]. By the end of it he is [[EvenEvilHasStandards so completely disgusted by his father's immoral (not to mention illegal) actions]], that he wants nothing more to do with him.
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* BrokenPedestal: Kevin Maxwell starts the movie proud of being Robert Maxwell's son, InsistentTerminology [[InsistentTerminology even insisting on being called "Mr Maxwell", by anyone besides his father]]. By the end of it he is [[EvenEvilHasStandards so completely disgusted by his father's immoral (not to mention illegal) actions]], that he wants nothing more to do with him.
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** As the [[https://youtu.be/_fQtxKmgJC8 Gaming Historian shows]], the real Robert Stein was more direct in his dealings and was, in fact, already negotiating handheld rights with Atari when Henk Rogers contacted him[[note]] In reality, the Gameboy had already been out in Japan for some time by then[[/note]]. Also, the movie severely underplays the fact that ''he was the man who discovered Tetris, recognised its huge potential and first bought it to a wider audience''. In general, he was a more sympathetic person than the CorruptBureaucrat with a ChronicBackstabbingDisorder portrayed in the movie.
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** As the [[https://youtu.be/_fQtxKmgJC8 Gaming Historian shows]], the real Robert Stein was more direct in his dealings and was, in fact, already negotiating handheld rights with Atari when Henk Rogers contacted him[[note]] In reality, the Gameboy had already been out in Japan Japan, bundled with Mario, for some time by then[[/note]].then[[/note]], meaning he didn't go behind his back to screw him. Also, the movie severely underplays the fact that ''he was the man who discovered Tetris, recognised its huge potential and first bought it to a wider audience''. In general, he was a more sympathetic person than the CorruptBureaucrat with a ChronicBackstabbingDisorder portrayed in the movie.
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* BrokenPedestal: Kevin Maxwell starts the movie proud of being Robert Maxwell's son. By the end of it he is [[EvenEvilHasStandards completely disgusted by his father's immoral (not to mention illegal) actions]] and wants nothing to do with him.
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* BrokenPedestal: Kevin Maxwell starts the movie proud of being Robert Maxwell's son. son, InsistentTerminology even insisting on being called "Mr Maxwell", by anyone besides his father]]. By the end of it he is [[EvenEvilHasStandards so completely disgusted by his father's immoral (not to mention illegal) actions]] and actions]], that he wants nothing more to do with him.
* ConsolationPrize: Robert Stein might have lost the Console and Handheld rights, but he still has the "Home Computer" rights by the end of the movie. [[spoiler: Too bad he is not getting any more money out of the Arcades and his current computer publishers, Mirrorsoft, aren't going to give him anything because they are about to go bankrupt. The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue in the [[https://youtu.be/_fQtxKmgJC8 Gaming Historian's Video on Tetris]], states that he eventually lost the rights due to not being able to pay, ''right before the PC-Boom of the [=mid-90s=]''. Even though he had already made more than 250K from Tetris [[MyGreatestFailure he never got over losing it.]]]].
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** Even though he doesn't receive any direct comeuppance for his back-handed dealings throughout the movie, the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue reveals that [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Robert Maxwell]] dies while being ''over 5 billion pounds in debt''. His Media-Empire collapsed and he is not-so-fondly remembered in the UK as one of its most notorious fraudsters.
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** Even though he doesn't receive any direct comeuppance for his back-handed dealings throughout the movie, the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue reveals that [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Robert Maxwell]] dies while being ''over 5 billion pounds in debt''. His Media-Empire collapsed and he is not-so-fondly remembered in the UK as one of its Britain's most notorious fraudsters.
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Sasha the translator is shown as a cooky and naive girl that follows Henk's crazy ideas no matter how much danger they're both in, and even kisses him near the climax [[spoiler: in reality it's all a front and she's a KGB agent sent to spy on him and the kiss was only meant to give them blackmail material against him, something that [[TruthInTelevision the KGB did do in real life]].]]
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Sasha the translator is shown as a cooky and naive girl [[AntiquatedLinguistics who uses obscure and unusual English vocabulary]] that follows catches Henk's attention and follows him around during his crazy ideas no matter how much danger they're both in, she becomes his confidante and even kisses him near the climax climax. [[spoiler: in In reality it's all a front front, and she's a KGB agent sent to spy on him and the kiss was only meant to give them blackmail material against him, something that [[TruthInTelevision the KGB did do do]] in [[https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-cia-and-kgb-tried-to-blackmail-this-world-leader-with-sex-tapes-927fc7ddbd48 real life]].]]
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* FreakierThanFiction: One part of the film's tagline is a NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer ("the story you couldn't make up" says the trailer). Understandable, considering one of the toughest, nastiest obstacles to get the game released (as showcased also on the trailer) was [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar the Communist government of the USSR]]. That said, many of the action scenes such as the car chase, the rush to the airport, and the kiss and blackmail are all ArtisticLicense and RuleOfCool.
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* FreakierThanFiction: One part of the film's tagline is a NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer ("the story you couldn't make up" says the trailer). Understandable, considering one of the toughest, nastiest obstacles to get the game released (as showcased also on the trailer) was [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar the Communist government of the USSR]]. Even more freaky, interviews with some of the real-life people portrayed in this film make clear that, if anything, the film's events are LighterAndSofter than what really happened or would have happened. That said, many of the action scenes such as the car chase, the rush to the airport, and the kiss and blackmail are all ArtisticLicense and RuleOfCool.
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* BasedOnATrueStory: The trailer confirms this is based on the unusual attempt by Rogers to obtain the rights for the game.
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* BasedOnATrueStory: The trailer confirms this film is based on the unusual attempt by Rogers a dramatized account of Henk Rogers' attempts to obtain the rights for Tetris licenses. While a number of details have been changed, the game.overall timeline of events has been compressed, and a character or two has been added, the broad strokes of the film are accurate, along with a number of the smaller details.
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* ShownTheirWork: While the climactic chase scene by the KGB didn't happen in real life, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20230401041224/https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/tetris-movie/ a lot of the details around the movie are actually true]]. In fact the [[https://web.archive.org/web/20230330223439/https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/1752480/Robert-Maxwell-Tetris-movie-KGB-Kevin-Maxwell-Taron-Egerton-John-S-Baird-interview real Kevin Maxwell commented that]] his father and his backdoor dealings with the KGB where ''way worse'' than what is portrayed in the movie.
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* ShownTheirWork: While a number of portrayed events are not correct, such as the climactic chase scene by with the KGB didn't happen in real life, KGB, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20230401041224/https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/tetris-movie/ a lot of the details around the movie are actually true]]. In fact the [[https://web.archive.org/web/20230330223439/https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/1752480/Robert-Maxwell-Tetris-movie-KGB-Kevin-Maxwell-Taron-Egerton-John-S-Baird-interview real Kevin Maxwell commented that]] his father and his backdoor dealings with the KGB where ''way worse'' than what is portrayed in the movie.
