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Jan 3, 2019 · Plot Summary: “WarGames” High school student David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) unwittingly hacks into a military supercomputer while searching for new video games. After starting a game of Global Thermonuclear War, Lightman leads the supercomputer to activate the nation’s nuclear arsenal in response to his simulated threat as the Soviet ...
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Who do you trust to manage a nuclear war – people or computer programs? At the start of WarGames, two soldiers are ordered to launch a nuclear missile. One soldier hesitates because, naturally, you’d want to double-check before annihilating the planet. The other soldier (a very young Michael Madsen) demands at gun-point that they follow through wit...
WarGames offers an intriguiging snapshot of Western popular culture and social ambition in the 80s– just as home computing was getting interesting, but before it became ubiquitous. First there’s the nod to computing as many kids would have experienced it: pay-to-play video games in arcades outside the home. But there’s something new on the horizon:...
David’s ambiguity is interesting in light of modern tensions with digital devices and tech companies. The internet has become a vital part of creativity, knowledge, income, justice and freedom. Yet access can be uneven, expensive, or exploitative. We can book flights on our phones, but digital transactions are two-way and opaque: we don’t always kn...
WarGames isn’t just fighting potential nuclear war; there’s a full stack of obstacles to overcome: 1. Russia, often the enemy of choice before the ‘war on terror’ 2. Young Vs Old (i.e., coming of age), a common theme in 80s Brat Pack movies such as The Outsiders. Similarly, there’s innovation Vs tradition (i.e., analogue Vs digital) 3. War and peac...
Recent films and serials don’t hold back on real-life programming and hacking techniques. Chances are that, even without coding knowledge, most viewers follow along just fine. Many will even know some coding themselves. In WarGames, however, there’s no programming. Frankly, what would audiences have made of it, given so few even owned a personal co...
During one eventful sitting he hacks into a computer called Joshua and plays a game called Global Thermonuclear War, he harmlessly chooses to be The Soviet Union and proceeds to launch a nuclear attack on his own country, the U.S.A. Trouble is, is that the game is for real and the wheels are in motion for World War III!.
Feb 4, 2024 · Tags: 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, actors, actresses, air force, cold war, computers, movie trailer, movies, nuclear, posters, technology, video games, war. The hit Matthew Broderick WarGames movie showed such a realistic WW3 scenario that it led to the creation of a 1986 anti-hacking law.
- Dr. Strangelove. No other movie could top this list; Stanley Kubrick’sDr Stranglove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is the de facto film about nuclear war.
- The Hunt for Red October. John McTiernan’s submarine thriller The Hunt for Red October, adapted from Tom Clancy’s novel of the same name, stars Sean Connery as Marko Ramius, the Soviet Union’s most decorated submarine captain, and commander of Red October, a technologically-superior sub that is invisible to sonar.
- Thirteen Days. Roger Donaldson’s Thirteen Days is a historical political thriller that dramatizes the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, as seen from the perspective of the US political leadership in charge of defusing the situation.
- Watchmen. Alan Moore’s seminal graphic novel was long-considered unfilmable; ever since its publication in 1987, Watchmen had been stuck in production hell.
It belongs to the Defense Department, and its mission is to coordinate early warning systems and nuclear deterrents in the case of World War III. The kid challenges the computer to play a game called "Global Thermonuclear Warfare," and it cheerfully agrees.
Jun 3, 2023 · Thinking he's merely playing a game, David's actions trigger a real-world nuclear alert, with his formidable A.I. opponent, dubbed Joshua, unable to distinguish between fantasy and reality.
