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Jan 6, 2021 · WarGames marries the era’s obsession with video games with its fears of nuclear war. But the film is also right on the nail about the coming digital age, accurately predicting our relationship with computers and AI. This article unpacks themes and story-telling in classic 80s movie WarGames – with spoilers. Is WarGames an anti-war movie?
Jul 21, 2008 · In the midst of all this came WarGames, a fizzy little thriller about looming Armageddon. It's a deceptively simple story: High schooler David Lightman (played by 21-year-old Matthew Broderick) is ...
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. The movie stars Matthew Broderick (the kid from “ Max Dugan Returns “) as a bright ...
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. David gets WOPR to run a nuclear war simulation, originally believing it to be a computer game.
Oct 3, 2021 · While Jon Peterson dismisses WarGames’ plot as an expression of anxieties that “the apparatus of war could and would be reduced to an interface of a game” (26), WarGames was released concurrently with the strategy games Stonkers (1983) and The Ancient Art of War (1984), both cited by Peterson as early examples of games that replaced the board and miniatures with screen simulation and ...
Mar 17, 2020 · Movies Brian VanHooker March 17, 2020. An Oral History of How the Movie ‘WarGames’ Inspired Ronald Reagan’s Cybersecurity Policies. From the movie’s writers to the people who were in the room with Reagan when he watched it, here’s why you can thank Matthew Broderick for the lack of accidental nuclear wars.
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Aug 11, 2020 · Invoking the “War Games” analogy this article started with, if you apply the same rote, quantitative analysis that assessed Global Thermonuclear War as a game you cannot win, you ultimately ...
