A quick guide to the movie's gaming background: In this movie we see a small group of programers tweaking an online game where people create their avatars (called their skin) to play against other people's avatars. Also, in this shootout fest are NPCs (non-playable characters) that seem real to us, but they're just programmed to be robotic background characters. Our main character is a NPC bank teller (called blue shirt guy; BSG) who through special glasses gains access to the non-real world he lives in, but in doing so his code now becomes self aware (i.e. AI or artificial intelligence) & begins to alter the game's code. The avatars gain points (money) by killing or picking up items. After so much money you "level up" - you're more powerful or gain access to other areas to explore.
An aside: Jodie Comer shows her versatility in a role quite distant from her "Killing Eve" disturbing character.
Also, ball park 500 people were in visual effects & digital artistry for the film's CGI.
Sanshiro Sugata (1943) 1080p
Read More »Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, comes to the city to apprentice at a jujitsu school. His first night, he sees Yano in action, a master of judo, a more spiritual art, and he begs to be Yano's student. As the youth learns technique, he must also learn "satori," the calm acceptance of Nature's law. If he can balance strength and control, then judo may become the training regimen for the city's police, Sanshiro can gain respect from an old teacher in a jujitsu school, and he can win the hand of Sayo, that teacher's daughter, who is also sought by jujitsu's finest master, the implacable Higaki, who vows to kill Sanshiro in a midnight fight on a windswept mountainside.—