The King of Kong is documentary film tracing back to 2007 in America. Seth Gordon, the director of the film, presents an interesting documentation of how Steve Webe makes stupendous efforts to overtake the reigning champion in playing a video game.
Actually, this documentary brings into correct figure the virtue of self belief and selflessness that can propel an individual to always strive to lead not just being one eyed man among the blind but leading the leaders. Therefore, this article is an essay presenting the plot of the film, The King of Kong.
All happening begin in Ottumwa, Lowa were Billy Mitchell through odds and sods had managed to outdo everyone to becoming the best as far as accumulating scores on video game known as Centipede and Donkey Kong was concerned. Actually, for the past two years, he was considered a Legend thanks to Twin Galaxies which was the company under contract to track all the scores achieved within United States of America.
Nevertheless, in 2007, the organization had risen to be ranked among worldwide organizations. Mitchell being an outstanding winner was at the lifeline of breathing air of importance and unabashedly fond of announcing himself as King in Florida since gaining the highest arcade scores to him was a dream come true making him have sensations all the time. Actually, he become a great Enthusiast ever been in Florida.
A different side of this is Steve Wiebe in Redmond who passes his time teaching science having losing his Job in Boeing Company as an engineer. Many regard him to be so unfortunate in all his endeavors despite the fact he is superb and a profound performer in sports, music and also deducing solutions to technical mathematical problems having had a number of experiences but gashed out do to what anyone could term as bad luck or simply a bad omen.
Amazingly, on the verge of preparing to begin his classes for his Masters Degree program, a luck strikes and he manages to acquire a Donkey Kong machine. Wiebe being industrious, he invests all his pastime energies in finding all information about the game including the greatest score ever achieved by the record holder, Billy.
Out of unflinching determination, Wiebe had fully made up his mind to wash away the dogma in the minds of people about him achieving something out of everything and in the longrun; he was able to garner 1,006, 600 points thus beating the standing record of 874,300 thus beating an Everest of a legend for the past two years. In short span Wiebe had emerged to be a local celebrity reversing the negative perception of his friends and relatives about him by aligning everything to his expectations and opposite what many could anticipate to come out of him.
However, Wiebe could not be officially recognizes due to technicalities arising from complaints tabled by Mitchell. He had sent a protégé demanding investigation of Wiebe’s machine to determine whether he managed to achieve the scores dishonestly. To prove himself, he ventures to perfume live in New Hampshire where he does it again but Mitchell rubs everything off.
Because of this, Twin Galaxies later chooses Mitchell’s results thus continuing to hold the record simply because Wiebe submitted his score through a wrong channel. All in all Wiebe learnt to live with the menace and overtime, luck pounced on him again and he was verified as a credible player full of integrity.