WarGames (3/11) Movie CLIP - Shall We Play a Game? (1983) HD

CLIP DESCRIPTION:
David (Matthew Broderick) and Jennifer (Ally Sheedy) hack into the computer and initiate a game of "Global Thermonuclear War."

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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[trbd]

This is why game pirating is outlawed. The government doesnt want you to accidentally nuke Las Vegas

[ok-rhvp]

“Shall we play a game? ...It’s from a mov-“

“I know....I seen it.”

[nealwhaley]

For a teenager to have that much equipment in his bedroom in 1983 was insane. If you had your own television, you were riding high.

[HPro]

This is the movie that changed my life and made me hooked on computers, I was 7 then now i'm a Director of an IT department, thank you War Games

[ryanb]

"FINE" ... Joshua's disappointment at not being able to play a good game of chess is palpable.

[PureVacuousSmh]

Natasha: It was from a movie-Steve: I know. I saw it.

[DouggieDinosaur]

The lines *"People sometimes make mistakes." "Yes, they do."* glosses over Professor Falcon's long absence but they also serve to unconsciously bring us back to the story's main idea. A screenwriting master stroke.

[Contemplativeman]

And Siri still can't figure out to answer my questions 30 years later

[forever_golfer]

Dave already scored an A when he got Ally Sheedy to come in his room.

[lizscottamero]

Grew up with this movie. Kids born in the 70s, you remember. We grew up with this and it was great :)

[mengutimur]

Las Vegas would be my first choice too.

[simongee]

This film was so good - in 1983. Seeing the state of the art IT equipment then and now is a real eye opener as to how it's progressed.

[declanolivetti]

"How about... Las Vegas!"


Fallout - New Vegas: "..."

[criskity]

The original hacker movie. The Internet before it was big.

[jbelden]

This movie was about 30 years ahead of it's time

[joeyquillen]

1:44 I love Arthur Rubenstein's orchestral leitmotif here. With just a couple of bars, you're instantly put into a sense of brooding about a new war with an old adversary. The symbolism of seeing such a simple choice on the screen and then choosing which side you want to destroy with a few keystrokes is also being described, I think.

[Lord_Alzorn]

I remember being a kid and wondering who voiced Joshua. My family said it was a computer, but I didn't buy it. If that's the case, why didn't we hear more systems use that style of TTS?

After doing more research, I learned that Joshua was actually voiced by Prof. Falken, John Wood. To get the inflection correct, he recorded every line backward. Then, they edited the lines into the correct order and added the filter.

"Shall we play a game" was recorded as "Game a play we shall"

The more you know.

[ZacharyEvansStarTrekfan]

To regular people, this was a movie. To computer programmers, this was a nightmare scenario

[SpellboundWolf]

I watched this movie for computer class in middle school, around 2002. It's still so good!

[rossdiamondthief]

I’ve always thought Matthew Broderick would’ve made a pretty good Peter Parker in an 80s Spider-Man movie