4.28.2010
Hackers & The Wizard
As the iconic portrayal of the gamer hero emerges throughout the decades new characteristics are being applied that pertain to newer technological advances. In the film Hackers the hero can be described as trustworthy, intelligent, owning expert video game and hacking abilities, and as always irresistible to the female protagonist. At the start of the film a Seattle youth named Dade "Zero Cool" Murphy is arrested and charged, at the age of 11, with crashing 1,507 systems in one day and causing a single-day 7-point drop in the Stock Market. As a result he is banned from owning or operating computers or touch-tone telephones until his 18th birthday. As Dade enters high school he is introduced to a woman named Kate who seems to strike his interest most sexually. As Dade slowly unravels the puzzle of a mysterious hacker named Acid Burn he soon finds out it is actually Kate and the two team up along with friends( including Shaggy from Scooby Doo, who apperently plays the 90's version of Shaggy in this film, Scooby is played by Angelina Jolie she is definetly no Laura Croft in this film). As the team unravels the plan of the evil foe called "The Plaugue" (which is the lead security official of an oil corporation). Dade's friends are in danger of The Plauge and it is up to him to save the day. After pulling off some impressive hacking tricks Dade is able to expose The Plauge of his evil plan and justify his surpremacy as an apha hacker. The hero in this movie does not beat anyone up or kill anyone, it is his up to date exquiste technological skills that seperate him fro the norm of the average computer nerd/hacker. This hero's characteristics have evolved with the new wave of technology that was the e-hype of the 90's. The internet was relativly new then and someone possesing superior abilities in hacking were veiwed as "godlike".
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The Wizard was released in 1989 which was around the time of the big Nintendo Bang. I always remembered this movie because it had that kid from from The Wonder Years in it(Fred Savage). The Hero in this movie goes by the Name of Jimmy. Jimmy posseses the ability to defeat anyone in a video game competion. At the start of thi film Jimmy is placed into a mental institution during his very early childhood. Corey(Savage) is Jimmy's older brother who breaks Jimmy out of the instiution and heads on a long journey to California(Which Jimmy annoyingly blurts out frequently). The goal of the hero's journey in this film is to reach the Video Armageddon Tournement Held in L.A. The main hero is played by Jimmy in thi film, his abilities to defeat all those in competion gain him money and status along the way. Jimmy was the key to this whole film, Without Jimmy there wiuld be no tournement no quest to California, and no dead sister that fell in the river( I diddnt even make that up).
ReplyDeleteTurns out the whole reason why Jimmy wanted to go to California in the first place was because he wanted to place his dead sister's memorabilia inside a Tourist attraction that Jimmy and his sister visited when there family was together. To sum things up Jimmy was the Wizard. He wiz'd on all those that oppposed him in nintendo combat( although he did puss out on Rad Racer what a chode). Personally my favorite character in this film was Lucas. Lucas played a very good example of the protagonistic a-holes that are common today in gaming. Jimmy proves that new emergent heros of this age dont have to be big and strong they just have to show off thier madd Nintendo Skills.
as far as god like skills go, does anyone else notice that hackers in movies never EVER have to use the shift key when they're coding viruses or hacking through databases? every keystroke is a one touch. if you've ever even seen programming there's >'s, }'s, :'s, #'s and shit everywhere.
ReplyDeleteTheir so damn good, they have pre-programmed programs that program the counter-program of the targeted program.
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