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   Jan 6, 2021 · This article unpacks themes and story-telling in classic 80s movie WarGames – with spoilers. Is WarGames an anti-war movie? 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.

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   2 days ago · Dharmin Patel December 04 War Games and Cyber Attack The movie that I decided to watch was WarGames. In that movie, David Lightman, a high school kid who accidentally gets access to the powerful military computer (WOPR) and accidentally starts a dangerous game using US nuclear weapons. David and Jennifer are not sure of the possible outcome of ...

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   September 24th, 2012 War Games Review In War Games by John Badham (1983), a high school student by the name of David enters the world of hacking while computer technology remains in it’s infancy. At first what started as a ‘harmless’ infiltration into his school’s server turned into the pos...

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5. www.rogerebert.com › reviews › wargames-1983WarGames movie review & film summary (1983) - Roger Ebert

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   Sooner or later, one of these self-satisfied, sublimely confident thinking machines is going to blow us all off the face of the planet. That is the message of “WarGames,” a scary and intelligent new thriller that is one of the best films so far this year.

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   Aug 25, 2002 · WarGames is an interesting film to run alongside Colossus: The Forbin Project (1969). Both are films in which the US Department of Defense turns its nuclear weapons over to be run by a computer system.

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   Dec 26, 2013 · Director: John Badham. Plot Summary: David (Matthew Broderick), a young hacker, along with his friend, Jennifer (Ally Sheedy) unwittingly accesses WOPR, a United States military supercomputer programmed to predict possible outcomes of nuclear war.

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   Is wargames a good movie?

   • Placed up against some of the later films to deal with hacking such as Hackers (1995) and Swordfish (2001), despite more than a decade’s datedness, WarGames still remains one of the best films to show the pure thrill and excitement of what hacking involves. WarGames is an interesting film to run alongside Colossus: The Forbin Project (1969).

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   Is wargames a computer thriller?

   • Unlike a number of other computer thrillers, the technical conviction is less important than the ideas the film carries. WarGames was one of the first of the new generation of science-fiction films that embraced computer technology full on. Much of what takes place in the film was way ahead of its time.

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   What is wargames about?

   • 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.

   WarGames (1983): winning at death and destruction

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   Is wargames a nuclear war?

   • WarGames isn’t just fighting potential nuclear war; there’s a full stack of obstacles to overcome: Russia, often the enemy of choice before our present-day ‘war on terror’. 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).

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   What happens at the start of wargames?

   • 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 with their orders.

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   Is nuclear war a non-winnable game?

   • The end point about nuclear war being a non-winnable game is well delivered – a point that has been taken directly from the game theory of mathematician John Nash of A Beautiful Mind (2001) fame and its application to the idea of nuclear war as a ‘no constant sum game’.

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9. www.bartleby.com › essay › The-Movie-War-Games-F3The Movie ' War Games ' - 1556 Words - bartleby

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   In this essay I will analyze two Cold War American Films, War Games and Dr.Strangelove. Both of these films portray the cold war era, where it was uncertain when and if nuclear fallout would happen. I will start off by giving a brief summary of both films.