The film begins when the character, an ordinary high school student named David Lightman (Broderick), accidentally contacts a military computer system, WOPR (Communications Review and Routing for the Prevention of Global Thermonuclear War), causing a result that could trigger nuclear war.
When David enters the games section of WOPR, he chooses a game called "Global Thermonuclear War" and starts working to stop the war, thinking it is a real war. However, in fact, WOPR thinks it is in a real war situation and is preparing to fire all weapons. While David tries to understand that the war is not real, at the same time the director of WOPR, Dr. Together with Falken (Wood), he fights to prevent nuclear war.
WarGames is considered to be a pioneering film on computer games and technological developments that were very popular in its era. The film also offers a critical perspective on the dangers of nuclear war and man-made errors. WarGames was nominated for an Oscar for Best Screenplay in 1984.
The film begins when a young hacker, David Lightman (Matthew Broderick), hooks himself up to the Pentagon's military computer system and accidentally mixes a simulation program designed as a war game with real war strategies. David discovers that the computer is being managed by an artificial intelligence named "Joshua". Joshua is designed to simulate real nuclear war, and the system accidentally starts a real war.
While trying to stop Joshua, with the help of a young military officer (Ally Sheedy), David faces his struggle to survive in real life and in the computer world, as military officials perceive David as hacking.
The film became one of the cultural icons of the 1980s and continues to be the inspiration for many hacking movies and series even today.
- In the original script of the movie, the character David was designed as a darker character, causing a nuclear war to start in the movie. However, the producers decided to make the character more likeable and turn him into a hero who could avoid nuclear war.
- The director of the movie, John Badham, went to the computer lab at MIT and did research to make the computer used in the movie realistic.
- WarGames was nominated for an Oscar for best original screenplay in 1984.
- The movie sparked many people's interest in computer programming and inspired computer games as well.
- In 1983, the year WarGames was published, the US Department of Defense realized that using computers to control nuclear weapons could lead to false results and published a report called "Human Error in the Decision Process".
- The computer in the movie was a modified version of a real computer and was created using the most advanced computer graphics at the time.
- The film's lead actor, Matthew Broderick, was 21 at the time of filming and had only acted in a few films before. However, WarGames was an important turning point in his career and made him more known in Hollywood.
Director : John Badham
Writers : Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes, Walon Green
Director of Photography : William A. Fraker
Writers : Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes, Walon Green
Director of Photography : William A. Fraker
Music : Arthur B. Rubinstein
Production : 1983 - USA - 116 m.
Genre : Action / Drama / Science Fiction
Production : 1983 - USA - 116 m.
Genre : Action / Drama / Science Fiction
CAST :
Matthew Broderick
Ally Sheedy
John Wood
Dabney Coleman
Barry Corbin
Juanin Clay
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