WarGames (1983)
Directed by John Badham · Cinematography by William A. Fraker
PG114 min83 frames
DramaScience FictionThriller
Is it a game, or is it real?
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What is WarGames about?
High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Department of Defense's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his friend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.
WarGames is a 1983 American techno-thriller film directed by John Badham, written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes, and starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood and Ally Sheedy. Broderick plays David Lightman, a young computer hacker who unwittingly accesses a United States military supercomputer programmed to simulate, predict and execute nuclear war against the Soviet Union, triggering a false alarm that threatens to start World War III. Martin Brest was originally the film's director, but was fired early into production.
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What does the cinematography of WarGames look like?
Sampled across 83 frames, the coverage of WarGames leans on medium shots (57% of the sample) and close-ups (23%). Cinematographer William A. Fraker keeps 52% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Night and dusk account for 48% of the frames. Focus stays shallow in 73% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1980s.
What is the color palette of WarGames?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of WarGames (1983) are #302f30, #0a0a0b, #50504e, #d0cfcd, #f7f8f8, #90908b — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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