WarGames is a film of Science-fiction carried out by John Badham and left in 1983.

Synopsis

Into full Cold war, an Adolescent pirate without the knowledge the Data-processing system Military American: NORAD. This system is managed by a called facetious Artificial intelligence WOPR (for War Operation Planned Response ) and misses starting, while making pass the American security level to Defcon 1, a total thermonuclear war against the Eastern bloc.

Comment

This Film is a Pamphlet of the military climbing between the two superpuissances and of the automation to excess.

Data sheet

• Title: WarGames
• Realization: John Badham
• Scenario: Laurent Lasker and Walter F. Parkes
• Music: Arthur Rubinstein
• Coming out date: 1983
• American Film
• Kind: Science fiction
• Lasted: 114 minutes

Distribution

• Matthew Broderick : David Lightman
• Dabney Coleman: Dr. John McKittrick
• John Wood: Pr. Stephen W. Falken/Robert Hume
• Ale Sheedy: Jennifer Katherine Mack
• Barry Corbin: Gen. Jack Beringer

Around film

• the user Stephen Falken was present a long time in the Operating system NetBSD in homage to WarGames.
• the decoration of the command center of the NORAD built for film was the decoration expensive ever built at the time (1 million dollars). The production was not authorized to penetrate in the true command center of Cheyenne Mountain and it was thus necessary to show imagination. In the audio comment on the DVD, the realizer John Badham notices that the true center is not as elaborate as in film.
• In film, the host computer of the NORAD is called “WOPR”, a name inspired of the “Wooper”, a “hamburger” sails about it at that time. In the Years 1970, the true host computer of the NORAD was called “BURGR”.
• the people visiting the NORAD are supposed to come from Birmingham, Alabama, the birthplace of the realizer John Badham.
• For the character of professor Stephen Falken, the scenario writers took as a starting point the professor de Cambridge Stephen Hawking. John Lennon was initially planned to interpret this role.
• This film is 1st to refer to a data-processing Pare-feu.
• to make the voice of Joshua as synthetic as possible, James Ackerman lute his dialogs by holding script with back.
• Martin Brest was the first realizer of film, but it had to be replaced by John Badham following an argument with the producers on the film set. Some of its scenes appear in film.
• the material used is real and corresponds to that used at this period. The microcomputer IMSAI 8080 of the Fischer-Freitas company, a double flexible disk player FDC2-2 and a video monitor Zenith of 12 inches. The Modem is an acoustic coupler.
• the operation of WOPR is based on a Apprentissage by reinforcement where, such Joshua (the son of Professor Falken), the machine seeks with to optimize its Comportement with the experiment what explains the repetition of the scenarii of strategy games under consideration throughout film. With regard to the codes of launching, it is about a exhaustive Recherche but the progression by the indication of the number of found natures is not justified.

See too

Internal bonds

• Films on the same topic: Hackers , the trilogy Matrix , EXistenZ (1999, of David Cronenberg), Cybertraque , the Little geniuses , virtual Past , the experts ( Sneakers , 1992, of Phil Alden Robinson with Robert Redford), Bedwin hackers of Nadia El Fani, Tracking on Internet (1995, of Irwin Winkler, with Sandra Bullock), Final Entry, the series max Headroom.
• related Article of Computer security: Hidden door
• Geek

External bonds

• official Page of IMSAI + many documents on the film
• official Page on the site of the MGM
• Card IMDb
• Card Mr Cinéma

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