Thursday, March 7, 2019

King of Kong

The King of Kong A fistful of Quarters. The King of Kong A fistful of Quarters provided many techniques and insights into interviewing contrastive people. This documentary profiled people and showed how they had become the people they were in there cursory lives. Many times it showed previous discoverments or failures and how they directly affected a persons will to succeed in the future. At the beginning of this film, billy goat Mitchell was introduced as the successful gamer of the 80s that everyone one liked and looked up to.He was the idol of the gaming existence that had begun to exist when he achieved his high scores in many of the sheer arcade games such as donkey kong. The directors clearly focused on Billy Mitchells self arrogance as he grew older and was engulfed into the use of being the best gamer in the world. By the end of the documentary, it is clear that Billy Mitchell is now viewed by some as living in his accept reality of the gaming world. The competitor in this film, Steve Wiebe, is portrayed as mortal who has never quite been able to reach his goals.He has not been as comfortable as Billy Mitchell and he assumes the underdog role. Throughout the film he is incessantly attempting to reach his goal of breaking the Donkey Kong record only to be shut down by unfair circumstances. Many quotes are interpreted from Steve and his wife about his reliance, and need of achieving the record for self justification. Throughout the stallion story, Steve is followed and shown the changes in his life do to this new gaming need.Steve does not achieve his goal when he wanted to but the interviewees choose to come linchpin and show that he did eventually persevere and obtain his goal. They chose to show that Steve was not a quitter, and could achieve what he wanted to with dedication. Overall, this documentary shows man techniques of providing unalike sides and views of a story. They used family members, friends, and the persons own account to ex press the different experiences that had occurred.

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