WarGames (1983)

Voti degli utenti:

7.0/10   

Regista:

John Badham

Scrittori:

Lawrence Lasker (written by) &
Walter F. Parkes (written by)

Data di uscita:

3 giugno 1983 (USA)

Genere:

Drammatico | Thriller

Slogan:

The only winning move is not to play.

Plot:

A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.

Plot Keywords:

Computer | Military | Boyfriend Girlfriend Relationship | Backdoor | Computer Genius

Premi:

Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 11 nominations

Recensioni degli utenti:

A classic computer film

Cast

Matthew Broderick	...	David
Dabney Coleman	...	McKittrick
John Wood	...	Falken
Ally Sheedy	...	Jennifer
Barry Corbin	...	General Beringer
Juanin Clay	...	Pat Healy
Kent Williams	...	Cabot
Dennis Lipscomb	...	Watson
Joe Dorsey	...	Conley
Irving Metzman	...	Richter
Michael Ensign	...	Beringer's Aide
William Bogert	...	Mr. Lightman
Susan Davis	...	Mrs. Lightman
James Tolkan	...	Nigan
David Clover	...	Stockman

Alias:

War Games (USA) (alternative spelling)
Wargames - giochi di guerra (Italy) [it]

Durata:

114 min

Nazionalità:

USA

Lingua:

Inglese

Colore:

Colore (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sonoro:

70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Dolby (35 mm prints)

Divieti:

Canada:PG (Ontario) | Iceland:L | South Korea:Tutti | New Zealand:PG | Australia:PG | Finland:K-12 | France:U | Norway:12 (1984) | Sweden:11 | UK:PG | USA:PG | West Germany:12 | Singapore:PG

Luoghi riprese:

7-Eleven Convenience Store - 41440 Big Bear Boulevard, Big Bear Lake, Big Bear Valley, San Bernardino National Forest, California, USA

Compagnia:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Curiosità:

According to John Badham, the scene of the jeep trying to crash through the gate at NORAD and turning over was an actual accident. The jeep was supposed to continue through the gate. They added the scene of the characters running from the jeep and down the tunnel and used the botched jeep stunt.

Errori:

Continuità: When David is communicating with WOPR, the words appear on the screen before he types them.

Citazioni:

[first lines]
Guard Gainsburg: [into phone] Replacement team's here, sir.
Guard Gainsburg: [pause] Right.
Guard Gainsburg: [hangs up, buzzes in team] Come on through. Twenty minutes and we were gonna start looking for you guys.
Steve Phelps: Yeah. It's really something out there.
Guard Gainsburg: You look a mess, sir.
Jerry Lawson: Yeah? Your turn's next, Gainsburg.

Collegamenti:

include The Land That Time Forgot (1975)

Colonna sonora:

Video Fever

A classic computer film

_WarGames_ is a classic and remains one of the best of the hacker subgenre. Some technical inaccuracies (An IMSAI with a voice synthesizer? A 300 baud acoustic coupler that is as fast as a 28.8k modem? The main computer at NORAD covered with 1960's style blinking lights?) are there but they are few and far between enough to be excusable - this is a fun film that doesn't require complete technical accuracy to work. The nuclear war theme was certainly timely for the early 80's, and the film brought the previously obscure activities of crackers/hackers into the limelight. More than that, watching it nowadays brings a feeling of nostalgia for the early days of personal computers, when the Commodore PET, TRS-80, Sinclair ZX-81, Apple II, and of course Pac-Man, and the Atari and Odyssey2 home video games reigned supreme for a short time.

Matthew Broderick's nerdy yet clever, intelligent, and persistent anti-hero character is certainly the sort of role model we could use more of in the 1990's (and less, by comparison, of the one-dimensional grunge/slacker type). Broderick's wily use of technology know-how time and time again to get him out of various situations (using a metal pull tab to make an electrical connection on a pay phone and get a dial tone; using a miniature tape recorder to escape from a room at NORAD he has been locked into) is great, and turns up again a couple of years later in another film starring Broderick, _Ferris Bueller's Day Off_.

The adult characters, on the other hand, tend to be one-dimensional, with the exception of Professor Falken, the man who designed NORAD's computer system and then became disillusioned and turned his back on the arms race to live as a hermit on the Oregon coast. Some of the lines from the adults are hilarious in their stupidity ("he's a classic case for recruitment by the Soviets"; "I worry about that kid, sometimes I think we're all going to get electrocuted"; "Ah'll be damned if Ah'll turn over our national security to some...silly-cone di-ode"). This has the effect of making almost all the adults, including Broderick's parents but excluding Professor Falken, look set in their ways, clueless, and ultimately completely outwitted by the more intelligent Broderick and his girlfriend.