Where to begin? I am not a technology guru and I’m sure some of what I have to say is going to be really obvious and there is a good chance that I’ll be wrong as well, but let me know what you think and steer me in the right direction. I’d appreciate it.
So let’s start with hardware. Really do you think all the graphics and coding will be move so quickly across a telephone line? I know that “movie magic” can create time lapse through editing, but I didn’t notice any, did you? Also, the death of the time lapse theory is destroyed near the end of the movie when each hacker add their talents to decrease the hacking time of the super computer from 8 to 7 to 6 to 5 minutes. Amazing. Together we can do anything! In addition, the mainframes of the super computers built on what looks like empty glass towers lit with coding and the little bolts of electricity running across the hardware when it is being “attacked.” AWESOME!!! And this might be possible, but can you tape cell phones to public phones and get a connection to a network? This movie was created in 1995! Pay phones people. But of course the school’s computers control the fire safety system. Not to mention a media companies video system fights with itself as two hackers try to see who rules the interwebs. Wow.
Ok so the software elements of this movie were equally amazing. Almost no coding is shown. The only coding I recall is the remnants of the copied worm. Everything else seems to work on a window based interface with some kind of IM application that takes up the whole screen to communicate between battling users. COOL. Psychedelic to amateurish graphics flashing across the screen during the hacker battles are inspiring. The visual manifestation of the viruses was another stroke of genius that is wildly inaccurate. From the complex of the DaVinci to the cheeky of the multiplying bunny rabbit to the cute of PacMan and Cookie monster viruses. This stroke of creative genius is forgivable because of its pure entertainment value.
Overall, the inaccuracies are wonderfully campy, but only one thing carries this baby me to the finish and that’s Angelina. No inaccuracies there. She can infect me anytime. ;)
1 comment:
The graphics shown were laughably innacurate, weren't they? Like the Vetruvian Man animation that appears when the DaVinci virus is executed... virus programs generally don't display anything so sophisticated when they are run. (Mostly because the person creating the virus doesn't WANT to let the victim know they've been infected--the better for the virus to spread.)
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