Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!wxlvax!dwex From: dwex@wxlvax.UUCP (David Wexelblat) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: "Wargames" and "GOR" Message-ID: <159@wxlvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Aug-83 08:30:15 EDT Article-I.D.: wxlvax.159 Posted: Tue Aug 2 08:30:15 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Aug-83 14:05:54 EDT References: sri-arpa.3660 Lines: 22 Wake up, Lauren!!! Did you ever hear of "Jaws", "Towering Inferno", "The Amityville Horror", etc., etc....? All of these were movies that all of us "rational" people didn't believe as far as we could throw them. But then how do you explain the sudden rash of sharks scares on our nation's beaches, the haunted house flurry (that one even made "That's Incredible"), and all the other related tripe? Movies that are designed to be unbelievable always attract a lot of attention. That's what the producer had in mind. If he can keep enough people confused, then he has a hook for a sequel (you have heard of JAWS 3-D, haven't you). I think that WARGAMES was done the way it was so that it would have exactly the effect that it did. They wanted people to ask questions. If they had come out and said "Nuclear war is stupid" in so many words, it probably would have been ignored. The easiest way to convince someone of something is to get them interested enough to do a little research. WARGAMES certainly got a lot of people digging. 'Nuff already David Wexelblat ...decvax!ittvax!wxlvax!dwex P.S. Of course they were out to make money. With the amount they spent on it, they would have been stupid not to!