The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters Page #2

Synopsis: In the early 1980s, legendary Billy Mitchell set a Donkey Kong record that stood for almost 25 years. This documentary follows the assault on the record by Steve Wiebe, an earnest teacher from Washington who took up the game while unemployed. The top scores are monitored by a cadre of players and fans associated with Walter Day, an Iowan who runs Funspot, an annual tournament. Wiebe breaks Mitchell's record in public at Funspot, and Mitchell promptly mails a controversial video tape of himself setting a new record. So Wiebe travels to Florida hoping Mitchell will face him for the 2007 Guinness World Records. Will the mind-game-playing Mitchell engage; who will end up holding the record?
Director(s): Seth Gordon
Production: New Line Cinema
  9 wins & 10 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.1
Metacritic:
83
Rotten Tomatoes:
97%
PG-13
Year:
2007
79 min
$519,005
Website
477 Views


It made a burning passion never

to settle with what I have.

In my business, in my family.

That's what competitive gaming

has done for me.

He is a winner.

Billy Mitchell

is absolutely a winner.

It's sort of like being in a maze...

But everything you see is actually sauce.

The all-around most seasoned person

In the hot sauce chicken wings industry.

Yeah, for sure, me.

There is a production end of it.

There's the preparation.

When there is a sales end of it...

There is not somebody who accomplishes

all of those areas like me

that I've ever met.

He sells his hot sauce.

He sells himself.

Because he's so charming

And such a good ambassador...

For all gaming, because he is positive.

There is no reason in my opinion why Billy Mitchell

couldn't end up on a Weenies box someday.

The video arcade classic

has finally been conquered.

On July 4, at a

New Hampshire arcade...

became the first person...

To master Pac-Man

By recording the first ever perfect game.

Billy Mitchell

primo joystick dude

Amazing in the maze

he ain't gonna lose

To get through every board,

getting every dot

Every energizer,

Every ghost that's applicable...

To reach to the final

It's impressive, in its on right.

The success was not just because

someone got a perfect Pac man score,

But because Billy Mitchell

got a perfect Pac man score.

...Man in the corridor

singing the blues

A perfect game goes down

Billy's on the move...

If I have all this good fortune.

If everything's rolling my way.

If all these balls

have bounced in my favor...

There is some poor bastard out there

who is getting his screws put to him.

When I got laid off

and I had time on my hands

I was thinking:
"What can I do?...

To kind of feel that I have

control of something?"

I looked at Twin Galaxies.

Well, I typed in "Donkey Kong

world record"

Some spreadsheet came up

and saw what the score was.

It was held by Billy Mitchell

it was like 874000.

and I go:
"Yeah, I can beat that. "

Almost there.

I am not the kind of wife that's needy.

That I need him sitting on the couch with me every night.

I don't need that.

What I need is him in the house

helping me with the kids

or I need him being with the kids.

So he would want to come out here and play

And that would drive me crazy.

Cause he is definitely OCD

When he is obsessed on something...

He is so focused

and I have to be like "Hello!"

So then I just said:

"You will have to do it at night. "

Is level 2 easy?

Yeah, it's pretty easy.

I've dreamed of being

a musician for a living.

That what's my dream was.

It was brought back to me,

that he was smart...

...he was an athlete, he was talented...

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Seth Gordon

Seth Gordon (born July 15, 1976) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and film editor. He has produced and directed for film and television, including for PBS, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the United Nations Staff 1% for Development Fund. His films have screened at the Sundance Film Festival and Slamdance Film Festival. more…

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