Michael Madsen in Wargames

Michael Madsen in movie Wargames.(1983)

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[cuseter]

one of my favorite lines of all time. i use it daily, regardless of the situation:

friend: if we leave now we can make the 7:45.

me: TURN YOUR KEY!

friend: jeez, again with that?

[stableshadow]

This is a case study in good screenplay writing, too -- listen to John Spencer's dialogue as they settle into the silo--he's talking about smoking pot, sensemilla vs. Thai stick, and he's the one who turns out to have pacifist tendencies. Smart. And the way he slips that 20 million ppl line in there. In just a couple of minutes, this scene absolutely grips the audience with suspense of the highest order.

[sweavo]

@Celeon999A 1 isn't logical but 2 is true and funny. I thought that when I first saw this movie aged 11.

[sweavo]

@stableshadow yes. I'm here because I'm looking for scene-by-scene comparisons to WarGames: The Dead Code but frankly there's no point, as indeed there wasn't to The Dead Code.

[peterp21]

@usafvet100 Labors to make soldiers look like stoners or dimwits? It's a 5 minute scene. Sure, Spencer mentions smoking grass, but so what. Maybe it was a ham handed attempt by the writer to make it clear to us dummies in the theater that he might be less likely to push the button. I get the idea that any portrayal of servicemen less than as shining sun gods would be "contempt".

[peterp21]

@MagicAlDF I think the gun bit just adds to the suspense and drama. But I guess in a high-pressure situation, people are liable to do anything out of desperation. Remember, the one guy totally broke with procedure and the other's job was to make sure he turned the key. Only thing he could do was pressure him.

[peterp21]

@Celeon999A Come on man, it's a film. There's got to be a little dramatic license for the purposes of narrative and drama. Plus it's not like 99.7% of Americans know what the proper silo launch procedure is like its second nature. Regarding pulling a gun, the purpose is to threaten the guy into turning the key. Of course he wasn't gonna shoot him (and doesn't, as a later scene shows). It's a desperation tactic.

[RedJoe10]

I absolutely love the bunker entrance disguised as house concept. There's a bunker near me thats a tourist attraction now like that.

[sr71ablackbird]

@usafvet100 earlier Solomonov mentioned six to ten, it stayed about eight Topol-M missiles on average in the last few years. Solomonov suggested that serial production of Bulava has been going for four years. Given that the each submarine requires 16 missiles, Votkinsk would have to produce at least 16 in 2012 & again in 2013, which is already about twice the current production rate. To this we should add seven or so ICBMs (the 2011 plan in to deploy three RS-24 & four silo-based Topol-Ms),

[sr71ablackbird]

@Celeon999A it had a few more flaws than that and you may want to re-think that about the timeframe there, those ICBMs have 2 what are called dry batteries, & when the keys are inserted 2 seconds of each other, switched & held in the on position for 5 seconds, those dry batteries are being charged with electrolyte, it takes 28 seconds for them to charge which sends an electrical impluse to indicator light to the missileers that the missle no longer depends on them for power.