WarGames (2/11) Movie CLIP - Hacking the School (1983) HD

CLIP DESCRIPTION:
David (Matthew Broderick) hacks into the school computer and changes Jennifer's (Ally Sheedy) flunking grade.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
Once more, a wise-guy teenager tries to prove he's smarter than any adult-and nearly destroys the whole world in the process-in Wargames. Computer-game aficionado Matthew Broderick inadverently taps into a hush-hush Pentagon computer, then proceeds to inaugurate his favorite game, "Global Thermonuclear War". What we know, but Broderick doesn't, is that the Pentagon, hoping to eliminate the chancy "human element" in the event of an actual war, has given its computer total, irreversable control over the launching of nuclear weaponry. Broderick and government official Dabney Coleman race against time to reverse the computer's resolve to send bombers to Russia. Wargames scored a hit, especially with teenage filmgoers.

CREDITS:
TM & © MGM (1983)
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy
Director: John Badham
Producers: Richard Hashimoto, Harold Schneider, Bruce McNall, Leonard Goldberg
Screenwriters: Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes, Walon Green

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[addictedtonotsmoking]

"They change the password every couple of weeks, but I know where they write it down." That's why he made sure to get sent to detention on purpose.

[eltfell]

Ah - the sound of an 80s rock solid keyboard.

[frhuntrz]

Actually legit one of the most accurate scenes of hacking. Kudos

[michaelcole]

The school systems are still using these computers.

[MinecraftGuy]

How could I possibly go to school on a day like This?

[nonplayerzealot]

Lightman was the nerdy-but-cool version of Ferris

[pugapino]

The most unrealistic part of the whole move this that Ally Sheey’s character Jennifer would be interested in a computer geek hacker.

[willt]

This movie never seems to get old, amazing!

[chrisklecker]

Probably the most realistic movie about hacking and computer intelligence.

[Scrapla]

One of the very few movies that actually portrayed hacking legitimately.

[FalconFlyer]

David - "how can anyone get a D in Home Ec
Jennifer - "how can anyone smart enough to hack a school's network get a D in English?"

[ezrablock]

I think that Jennifer's emphatic demand for Lightman not to use the computer and cheat for her is reflective of the ultimate theme of the movie being that humanity should fight its own battles and not rely on technology to make tough decisions for it.

[spearPYN]

I always loved those scan lines on 15khz monitors of the 80's...

[scottm]

I love how it shows David getting an F in Biology but a B in Calculus and a B in Trig.

[TheBeresford]

It's times like this that I miss about security loopholes back in like 2011 my best mate Matt found a loophole using CMD and sent a pop up message box saying " do a barrel roll " to EVERY school computer, within 5mins there was a knock on our science class door and it was the deputy principal and 2 IT workers....😂😂😂

[Watcher]

Of course, check out David's grades.

He has a B for Trigonometry 2 and Calculus 1. The other classes, he's got two C grades, one D, and an F.

So, he's good at math, signs of his talents with a computer.

[diamonddog]

So THIS is how he lowered his absences from 9 to 2.

[erictaylor]

Aw the days when the internet was young.... Hacking was so easy!

[cdevidal]

The kathunk-kathunk of his mechanical keyboard is so ASMR

[joharrison]

0:14 her look of I'm nervous, then his look of I know.. I'm clever...