Wargames (1983) Part 1 HD Soviet Launch Detection HD Standby to Launch Missiles At My Command
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WarGames is a 1983 American Cold War science fiction techno-thriller film[2] written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes and directed by John Badham. The film, which stars Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, and Ally Sheedy, follows David Lightman (Broderick), a young hacker who unwittingly accesses a United States military supercomputer programmed to simulate, predict and execute nuclear war against the Soviet Union.
WarGames was a critical and box-office success, costing $12 million and grossing $125 million worldwide. The influential film was nominated for three Academy Awards. A sequel, WarGames: The Dead Code, was released direct-to-video in 2008.
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Development on WarGames began in 1979, when writers Walter F. Parkes and Lawrence Lasker developed an idea for a script called The Genius, about “a dying scientist and the only person in the world who understands him—a rebellious kid who’s too smart for his own good”. Lasker was inspired by a television special presented by Peter Ustinov on several geniuses including Stephen Hawking. Lasker said, “I found the predicament Hawking was in fascinating—that he might one day figure out the unified field theory and not be able to tell anyone, because of his progressive ALS. So there was this idea that he’d need a successor. And who would that be? Maybe this kid, a juvenile delinquent whose problem was that nobody realized he was too smart for his environment.” The concept of computers and hacking as part of the film was not yet present.
The Genius began its transformation into WarGames when Parkes and Lasker met Peter Schwartz from the Stanford Research Institute. “There was a new subculture of extremely bright kids developing into what would become known as hackers,” said Schwartz. Schwartz made the connection between youth, computers, gaming, and the military.[3] Parkes and Lasker also met with computer-security expert Willis Ware of RAND Corporation, who assured them that even a secure military computer might have remote access enabling remote work on weekends, encouraging the screenwriters to continue with the project.
Parkes and Lasker came up with several different military-themed plotlines prior to the final story. One version of the script had an early version of the WOPR named “Uncle Ollie”, or Omnipresent Laser Interceptor (OLI), a space-based defensive laser run by an intelligent program, but this idea was discarded because it was too speculative.[3] Director John Badham coined the name “WOPR”, feeling that the name of NORAD’s Single Integrated Operational Plan was “boring, and told you nothing”.[5] The name “WOPR” played off the Whopper hamburger, and a general sense of something going “whop”.[5]
The WOPR computer as seen in the film was a prop created in Culver City, California, by members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 44.[6] It was designed by production designer (credited as visual consultant) Geoffrey Kirkland based on some pictures he had of early tabulating machines, and metal furniture, consoles, and cabinets used particularly in the U.S. military in the 1940s and ’50s. They were adapted in drawings and concepts by art director Angelo P. Graham. The WOPR was operated by a crewmember sitting inside the computer, entering commands into an Apple II at the director’s instruction.[6] The prop was broken up for scrap after production was completed. A replica was built for a 2006 AT&T commercial.[7]
David Lightman was modeled on David Scott Lewis, a hacking enthusiast Parkes and Lasker met.[3][8] Falken was inspired by and named after Stephen Hawking, with the appearance of John Lennon, who was interested in the role, but was murdered in New York while the script was in development. General Beringer was based on General James V. Hartinger (USAF) the then-commander-in-chief of NORAD, whom Parkes and Lasker met while visiting the base, and who, like Beringer, favored keeping humans in the decision loop
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On Rotten Tomatoes, WarGames received an approval rating of 93% based on 44 reviews,
Pat Healy (John Mckittrick's assistant) – what a beautiful, sexy woman!!!!😍😍😍😍❤❤❤❤."Hold the goddamn door"!!!!😂😂😂😂
amazing movie
Pretty casual attitude for being in defcon 1.
Be sure…. No more warnings needed.
God I miss the old days of films that didn't treat the audience as children love this film
High and Kansas expressway 🕳️. Cv. Charles Valencia Valentine 41 truck burger king. There's a bomb 💣 in twin towers. And in your basement at 2101. U don't remember our game. Rubin and LeAnn smith
How is possible at the end of the movie "Wargames"(1983) that Prof. Steven Falken is not only not totally out-of-breath but also not sweating profusely after running the huge distance he ran to get inside the NORAD facility when he says to McKittrick, "John it's good to see you….I see the wife still picks your ties"😂😂
Can you believe this movie is now 40 years old?!?!?
Although "Wargames"(1983) is a wonderfully entertaining movie, it has the enormous flaw of making General Berringer (played superbly by actor Barry Corbin) – the commanding officer of NORAD – out to be a total nincompoop! General Berringer would know without John McKittrick's female assistant Pat Healy having to tell him that they can't disarm over 1000 ICBMs in 5.3 minutes! He would also not say to John McKittrick about the W.O.P.E.R defense computer, " Just unplug the goddamn thing" because he would know without McKittrick having to tell him that disconnecting the electrical power to the W.O.P.E.R computer system would be interpreted by the computer as the destruction of NORAD and that the computers in the missile silos would launch the missiles if the computers believed that NORAD was destroyed! Berringer would also know that the Soviets would not, as Prof. Steven Falken pointed out to him, attack without provication using so many missiles, bomber planes and submarines so that the U.S. would have no choice but to totally destroy the Soviet Union!
Falken: General, are you prepared to destroy the enemy?Gen. Barringer: You betcha'!😆 Barry Corbin was so great in this! That 'piss on a sparkplug' line was great too.
Best 3 lines of dialogue in the movie "Wargames"(1983): General Berringer: "Mr. Mckittrick after careful consideration sir, I've come to the conclusion that your new defense system sucks"! Mckittrick: "I don't have to take that from you you pig-eyed sack a s_ _ t"! And from moments later in the ending scene in the movie – General Berringer: "Goddammit I'd piss on a sparkplug if I thought it would do any good"!😂😂😂😂
I can’t be the only one who loves this scene and the generals heartfelt concern for the men and the soundtrack swell to go along with it
Fun-fact: Professor Falken was originally hoped to have been played by John Lennon.
Terrific editing, photography and music score. WarGames is a definitive 80's movie but its entertainment value will never become outdated.
No War Nuclear
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The Aliens Observate YOU 🧐
“General, you are listening to a machine. Do the world a favor and don’t act like one.” I’m pretty sure Mark Twain would love that line.
I don’t think these folks would be hootin’ and celebrating after this kind of scenario, I think they’d be dead silent, crying and hugging.
Best scene in any movie. Ever.
Try opening that damn door!!!!
We have a launch detection We have a Soviet launch detection
The black officer at 1:44 is the same guy who played Joe Cox on 1987's Robocop. He was one of Clarence Boddicker's henchmen
DAYUM, the black comms officer is HOT
I can see System Shock(1994 cyberpunk game) inspiration of this
BMEWs is a real phased aray radar system in the artic manned by American and Canadian personnel. It stands for Ballistic Missile Early Warning System. Realistically though it wouldnt detect the missiles till they were in the upper atmosphere due to the curvature of the Earth. Satellites would pick up the launches though. And give a 20 to 30 minute warning time. BMEWs would only give about 10 minutes.
26. September 1983, Stanislaw Petrow
Imagine being a private and listen to the other side of the line the #1 of the military hierarchy of the nation addressing to you…
First, s@@t my pants, then answer! 🙂
(Whoever has served in the army can confirm this)
I see this gem again and again through time.