Can someone explain the movie Wargames, to me Plz?

Question

Hi can someone explain the movie Wargames (1983) to me?
What Happened?
Where It Happened?
When It Happened?
Who It Happened To?
How It Happened?
Why It Happened?

What was the plot of the movie?
What was the message of the movie?

If anyone has any answers to these questions that will be very appreciated.

Answer 1

The movie War Games is set around 1984, during the Cold War.

The movie opens with two guys in a nuclear silo, told that it's war. They have to launch the missiles. One guy can't go through with it - he panics at the idea that he'll be responsible for detonating a nuclear bomb. That's when it turns out it was only a test, but the military commanders decide to take fallible humans out of the equation and turn over launching the missile to a computer, WOPR.

There's a kid, played by Matthew Broderick, who's very good with computers. To impress a girl, he hacks into the school computer and changes his grades. Then he hacks into what he thinks is a game - it invites him to play a nice game of chess - but he plays Globo Thermo Nuclear War.

What he really hacked into was the basic program inside WOPR that helped it decide to launch based on " war game" scenarios. His actions start the computer on a course towards starting a real nuclear war.

He's arrested by the FBI and taken to the NORAD command center in Colorado. Nobody will listen to him that they haven't stopped the computer - it's still trying to win the "game" and will really launch the missiles.

He escapes and finds the girl. They go to find the man who created the original program - he's been living under an assumed name, alone, on an island for years. The scientist doesn't care about nuclear war - he says it's okay for the world to destroy itself. He lost his young son in a car accident and is bitter. But the two teenagers change his mind, and he goes with them to stop WOPR from starting a horrific nuclear war.

They can't seem to stop the computer until the kid suggests they make the computer play Tic Tac Toe. The computer plays Tic Tac Toe against itself, losing every time. It then tries the same thing with the "war games" scenario - and it loses every time. Both sides - USA and USSR - wipe each other out completely with nuclear missiles. There's no winner.

That's when the computer learns that there is no way to win a nuclear war. It doesn't launch the missiles - and it suggests that instead they play a nice game of chess.

It's a good movie. I also remember it seeming so stunningly hi-tech at the time, but the computer hacker uses a rotary phone, so now it just makes me feel old.

Answer 2

Some computer geek screwed with a big electronic computer. How u say he got in a wrong place wrong time. Some other computer geek who was better. Got where he lived and that was it. The plot of the movie is ? Don't become a hacker. The goverment always has a hacker better than u. If not that have more on the side just waiting. Message is stop hackin with the goverment u can wind up gettin your computer took or land your butt in jail for a long time.

Answer 3

The movie was made during the Cold War. It was intending to scare us into not taking on the USSR. The whole thing is a left wing propaganda film. Liberals believed that Pres Reagan was going to anger the Soviets. He pushed Congress (run by Democrats) into building up our military and eventually, the Soviets collapsed because as communists, they had no sustainable economy next to us

Answer 4

Basically, a teenager hacked into what he thought was a video game company's computer, to play some games...
which turned out to be a military defense computer, which thought the game was real, and the nukes almost got launched...

Answer 5

To paraphrase the best quote in the movie--Do I want to do somebody's homework?

You will find the answers at imdb.com.

Answer 6

You'll have a better time watching it than reading this. It's really a good movie.