Programming and Hacking According To Hollywood
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Over the years, Hollywood has taken some liberties with the abilities of a computer and the individuals that claim to know how to use them. Here is a quick look at some of our favorite ever-so-slight exaggerations the screenwriters, producers, and directors have given us.
Jurassic Park – It’s A Unix System
…and she knows it.
Hackers: The Whole Movie
An oddly dressed, rag tag bunch of hackers take on a evil skateboarding hacker. No really, they do…
CSI: “I’ll Create a GUI interface using Visual Basic”
Ok, so we’ll just have someone else solve the crime while you’re busy doing that.
CSI New York “VB GUI Interface
Swordfish: “I Need a Worm in 60 seconds”
…..and a decent haircut.
Live Free or Die Hard: “The entire network is down.”
Really. The ENTIRE network goes down when a bad guy tries to control everything via the internet.
The Italian Job
Playing video games at work.
So for those of you looking to work in the technology field, I’m sorry to tell you that computers don’t work like that. Please also note that the other programmers and coworkers in your office will rarely look like Charlize Theron or Angelina Jolie…
robb
June 25th, 2009 at 11:14 am
yea, as a computer science student myself,
i had to laugh at these.
hollywood sure didn’t have at least IT guy.
Tomas Estrada-Palma
June 25th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Hollywood uses an SHIT guy
Matthew Breuer
June 25th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
I couldn’t stop laughing. The CSI clip was amazing! Thanks.
VD
June 25th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
You forgot the epic hacking scene from transformers!
Frank
June 25th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
VD … I can’t even remember the scene from Transformers. That movie was so forgettable in some ways.
I did realize I forgot “Independence Day” and the hacking an alien computer with a mac.
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Erica
June 26th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Some folks on the oDesk Facebook fan page (https://url.odesk.com/~uu4ig ) called out that there were some “out there” tech references in “Antitrust”, too. There might be a whole follow-up list, too, once this summer’s blockbusters all come out!
raiel28
June 28th, 2009 at 6:30 am
you rock!!!
Myra
June 28th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Aren’t you forgetting 24? Just, wow.
Frank
June 28th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
I’ll have to do a more extensive follow-up post to this one.
Watch this space.
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g
July 27th, 2009 at 4:05 am
I thought hackers 2 was probably more accurate to the real thing: