In 1981, Richard Pryor came to town to film parts of the movie Bustin ' Loose and Snohomish received additional attention from Hollywood in the 1983 movie WarGames as the name of the high school from which the character David Lightman, played by Matthew Broderick, hacks into a military computer system.

The term DEF CON comes from the movie WarGames, referencing the U. S. Armed Forces defense readiness condition ( DEFCON ).

WOPR ( pronounced " Whopper ") is a fictional military supercomputer featured in the movie WarGames and its sequel.

* The movie WarGames introduces the wider public to the phenomenon of hacking and creates a degree of mass paranoia of hackers and their supposed abilities to bring the world to a screeching halt by launching nuclear ICBMs.

An IMSAI 8080 and an acoustic coupler type modem were among the hacking tools used by the main character in the 1983 movie WarGames.

In 1982, shortly after Galaga was released in the United States, MGM sent a Galaga machine to Matthew Broderick for him to practice prior to shooting the movie WarGames.

War dialers take their name from a scene in the early-1980s movie WarGames in which a ' cracker ' programs a home computer to dial every number in an exchange, searching for lines with auto-answer data modems.

Portions of the 1983 Hollywood movie WarGames, starring Matthew Broderick, were filmed in Newhalem ( most notably the scenes of the " Cheyenne Mountain Complex ", filmed in an abandoned gravel pit northwest of the town ).

A Gravitar unit appears in the 1983 movie WarGames, in the 1983 movie James Bond 007-Never Say Never Again and in the 1987 movie Death Wish 4: The Crackdown.

He and director John Badham co-wrote the successful PC / PlayStation game WarGames, based on Badham's hit movie ).

Lawrence C. Lasker ( born October 7, 1949 in Los Angeles County, California ) is a screenwriter and producer who entered American film in 1983 as writer of the movie WarGames.

Her son Lawrence Lasker is a movie producer who has co-produced several films, including WarGames ( 1983 ) and Sneakers ( 1992 ).

He produced the Oscar-nominated movie WarGames.

Rutherford, who was 70 years old when the first film was made, insisted that she wear her own clothes during the filming of the movie, as well as having her real-life husband, Stringer Davis appear alongside her as the character ' Mr Stringer '.

), a movie based on a character from the Mexican comic Los Supermachos of Mexican cartoonist Rius, who co-wrote the screenplay.

* Lady Amalthea, a character in the fantasy novel and animated movie The Last Unicorn.

The use of two pistols simultaneously was even used in the movie adaptation of the Spider character ( a contemporary of the Shadow ), the Spider's Web.

In an interview, Brooks mentioned a conversation he'd had with Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader, in which Schrader said that Brooks's character was the only one in the movie that he could not " understand " – a remark that Brooks found amusing, as the movie's antihero was a psychotic loner.

In addition, Raimi needed $ 3 million to finish his movie, but Universal was not willing to give him the money and delayed its release because they were upset that De Laurentiis would not give them the rights to the Hannibal Lecter character so that they could film a sequel to Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs.

A character may return to Times Square in New York City several times throughout a movie, but as it is extraordinarily expensive to close off Times Square, those scenes will likely be filmed all at once to reduce permit costs.

In the movie Zombieland, Woody Harrelson's character, Tallahassee, draws a 3 on his car doors.

The year later he was the character Marmaduke in another Rankin / Bass movie titled The enchanted waorld of Danny Kaye: The Emporer's New Clothes.

The character later appears in the sequel story released first as a book, 2010: Odyssey Two and then as a movie, 2010: The Year We Make Contact.

* Long Duk Dong or " the Donger ," a character in the 1984 American movie Sixteen Candles

From 1959 until 1979, Truffaut followed Léaud's character Antoine Doinel, who falls in love with Christine Darbon ( Claude Jade from Hitchcock's Topaz ) in Stolen Kisses, marries her in Bed & Board and separates from her in the last post-New Wave movie Love on the Run.

* A fictional Lang appears as a main character in the Fullmetal Alchemist movie Conqueror of Shambala.

** Kamen Rider G4, the movie exclusive character

According to a Greg Johnson biographical note on Booker, the song title " Gonzo " comes from a character in a movie called The Pusher, which in turn may have been inspired by a 1956 Evan Hunter novel of the same title.

In the movie Into the Wild Green Yonder, a feature length special of the TV show Futurama, the character Nine states, " So dig this, Fry.

In the movie D. C. Cab, Busey portrayed the character Dell.

In the 1971 movie Harold and Maude the character Harold, played by Bud Cort, drives two hearses: originally a 1959 Cadillac Superior 3-way ; and then later a custom hearse he makes from a 1971 Jaguar XK-E 4. 2 Series II.

After the character's plastic surgery, the rest of the movie is shot normally with Bogart as the lead character.

Later, in Woody Allen's comic tribute to Bogart Play It Again, Sam ( 1972 ), Bogart's ghost comes to the aid of Allen's bumbling character, a movie critic with woman troubles and whose " sex life has turned into the ' Petrified Forest '".

* In the movie We're No Angels, Sean Penn's character says when asked to wear work clothes as a disguise, " Whaddya think I am, a hoosier or something?

The film used fight clips from Cagney's 1932 boxing movie Winner Take All, although Cagney plays a different character in the TV-movie.

In later years, Frankenheimer theorized that the audience may have developed an affinity over the course of the movie for the character played by Bruce Dern and thus felt conflicted when he was defeated at the end.

The movie Tron: Legacy, which revolves around a world inside a computer system, features a character named Zuse, presumably in honour of Konrad Zuse.

Grammer supplied the voices for " Stinky Pete the Prospector " in 1999 Disney / Pixar film Toy Story 2, Vladimir in the Fox animated movie Anastasia, Rothbart in Barbie of Swan Lake, Zozi the Bear in the subsequently produced prequel Bartok the Magnificent, and the title character in the short-lived animated series Gary the Rat.

This was developed into the language " E-Prime " by D. David Bourland, Jr. 15 years after his death ( E-Prime a form of the English language in which the verb " to be " does not appear in any of its forms ; for example, the sentence " the movie was good " could translate into E-Prime as " I liked the movie ", thereby distinguishing opinion from fact ).

The movie features the voices of Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, Cloris Leachman, Robert Stack, Eric Bogosian, Richard Linklater, Greg Kinnear ( in an uncredited role ), and David Letterman ( credited as Earl Hofert ).

The ending credits of the show start with thanks to the colorfully nicknamed actual staffers: producer Doug " the subway fugitive, not a slave to fashion, bongo boy frogman " Berman ; " John ' Bugsy ' Lawlor, just back from the ..." every week a different eating event with rhyming foodstuff names ; David " Calves of Belleville " Greene ; Catherine " Frau Blücher " Fenollosa, whose name causes a horse to neigh and gallop ( an allusion to a running gag in the movie Young Frankenstein ); and Carly " High Voltage " Nix, among others.

In both the book and movie 2001, astronaut and scientist David Bowman is on a mission to track the source of an alien artifact found on the moon, which leads to a moon around the planet Jupiter ( in the novel, Saturn ); the story takes place in the year 2001.

* to Athole Shearer ( 1928 – 1940 ), sister of movie actress Norma Shearer, mother of his daughter Barbara Hawks and son David Hawks ;

Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes ( 1977 ) and Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( 1974 ) recalled the Vietnam war ; George A. Romero satirized the consumer society in his zombie sequel, Dawn of the Dead ( 1978 ); Canadian director David Cronenberg featured the " mad scientist " movie sub-genre by exploring contemporary fears about technology and society, and reinventing " body horror ", starting with Shivers ( 1975 ).

* Dune ( designs for unproduced Alejandro Jodorowsky adaptation of the Frank Herbert novel ; the movie Dune was later made in an adaptation by David Lynch.

* 1982: Ivanhoe, a television movie starring Anthony Andrews as Ivanhoe, Michael Hordern as his Cedric, Sam Neill as Sir Brian de Bois-Gilbert, Olivia Hussey as Rebecca, James Mason as Isaac, Lysette Anthony as Rowena, Julian Glover as King Richard, and David Robb as Robin Hood.

Ashcroft composed a paean called " Let the Eagle Soar " which he sang at the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in February 2002, which was satirically featured in Michael Moore's 2004 movie Fahrenheit 9 / 11 and has been frequently mocked by comedians such as David Letterman, Stephen Colbert and David Cross, to name a few.

Also in 2001, Voight joined Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria and David Schwimmer in the made-for-television movie Uprising, which was based on the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto.

Dr. Richard David Kimble is a fictional character and the protagonist of the 1960s television series The Fugitive and the 1993 movie of the same name.

He was portrayed by actor David Janssen in the series and Harrison Ford in the movie.

' But later, when I was touring, we got the video out and I really got to appreciate what David gave to the song, and what the song gave to the movie — how it achieved this otherworldly quality that added a whole new dimension to ' In Dreams '.

Stop motion was also used for some shots of the final sequence of Terminator movie, also for the scenes of the small alien ships in Spielberg's Batteries Not Included in 1987, animated by David W. Allen.

Actor David Walliams reportedly entered talks with Gilliam to play a part in it, and was told that he'd have to " be willing to work with Johnny Depp and fly to Bucharest where the movie is to be filmed.

David Balme, the British Naval officer who led the boarding party aboard the U-110, called U-571, " a great film " and said that the movie would not have been financially viable without being Americanized.

" The British historian of the Arab Revolt, David Murphy wrote that though the film was flawed due to various inaccuaries and omissions, " it was a truly epic movie and is rightly seen as a classic ".

* Finch and other band members made cameo appearances in Talking Heads leader David Byrne's 1986 movie True Stories, set in fictional Virgil, Texas.

Other movie roles of the era include Lane Bellamy in Flamingo Road ( 1949 ); a role in the violent film noir The Damned Don't Cry ( 1950 ), and the title role of Harriet Craig ( 1950 ), a movie which she herself claimed during a David Frost interview, reflected her own brand of control freakery-a movie made at Columbia Pictures.

In this movie, the main focus was on David Niven's role as Sir Charles Lytton, the infamous jewel thief nicknamed " the Phantom ", and his plan to steal the Pink Panther diamond.

Italian actor Luigi Montefiori portrayed this nine-foot-tall giant in Paramount's 1985 live-action movie King David as part of a flashback.