Hackers - On the FBI network
| Movie | |
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| German title | Hackers - On the FBI network |
| Original title | Hackers |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1995 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Iain Softley |
| script | Rafael Moreu |
| production |
Michael Peyser Ralph Winter |
| music | Simon Boswell |
| camera | Andrzej Sekuła |
| cut |
Christopher Blunden Martin Walsh |
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Hackers - On the web of the FBI (Original title: Hackers ) is an American feature film from 1995 . Directed by Iain Softley . The main roles are played by Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie .
action
Seattle 1988: At the age of 11, the computer freak Dade Murphy alias Zero-Cool paralyzed systems, including the Wall Street data center, with a self-programmed computer virus 1507 . His family is then fined $ 45,000 . He himself is not allowed to own or use a computer or a push-button telephone until he is 18 .
Seven years later, in 1995, Dade's mother had to take a job in New York and sell her old Seattle home . Shortly after arriving in the city that never sleeps, Dade reconnects his PC to the telephone network on the night of his 18th birthday and meets another hacker named Acid Burn in cyberspace . Dade now changes his alias to Crash Override .
After his arrival, Dade quickly made the acquaintance of like-minded people. First he gets to know Ramon alias Phantom Phreak , then Emmanuel alias Cereal Killer , Paul alias Lord Nikon and the young and inexperienced Joey . Dade later learns that his schoolmate Kate Libby is the already known hacker Acid Burn . At first he and Kate can't stand each other, but when Joey is arrested by the Secret Service because he is said to have hacked into the mainframe of the mineral oil company "Ellingson Mineral", Acid and Crash team up and begin a virtual test of strength at the Secret Service to avenge.
They soon realize, however, that the real danger comes from the adult hacker Eugene Belford, aka The Plague , who works as security chief for a large American oil company. Plague programmed a so-called worm that automatically transfers small amounts from this company's accounts to a numbered account until a certain amount is reached.
When Joey is released after his arrest, he tells Dade and his friends that he found the worm in a trash file on the petroleum company's mainframe and copied part of it to disk.
To divert attention from his machinations, Eugene Belford programs a computer virus that is supposed to capsize the tankers of the " Ellingson Mineral " fleet after a certain period has expired. He accuses Joey and his friends of implementing this virus. His plan is to get the hackers out of the way as they could use their expertise to uncover his fraud.
Kate and Dade work with Lord Nikon and Cereal Killer on a plan how to stop Belford and get the help of Razor and Blade, two other hackers from New York, who with their self-produced show "Hack the Planet" in are well known in the scene. The plan is to overload the central computer of "Ellingson Mineral" in order to render the worm and virus harmless.
From the Grand Central Terminal , Dade, Kate and the others connect to the network, while Razor and Blade provide support around the world. And so hackers from all over the world are helping to defeat the virus and avert suspicion from Dade and his friends.
When Plague realizes that his plan has failed, he fled to Asia , but was arrested by Secret Service officials on the plane.
Production, publication
The film was shot in Buckinghamshire in the United Kingdom , where there were other locations, in Battery Park in Manhattan , in Hackensack in New Jersey , in Bergen County Court House in Hackensack, in East Village in Manhattan, in Grand Central Station in Manhattan, in Iver Heath in Buckinghamshire, in London , on the Manhattan Bridge in New York , in Manhattan itself, in New Jersey, in New York and in Pinewood Studios near Iver Heath. Further recordings were made in Stuyvesant High School and other locations in the USA.
Premiere Hackers on 15 September 1995 in the United States. On June 13, 1996 the film produced by United Artists ran in the Federal Republic of Germany. In the same year it also started in Spain, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Brazil and Australia. In Sweden and Japan it was launched as a video in the same year, the video premiere followed in Hungary and Portugal in 1997. It was also marketed in Bulgaria, Canada, Finland, France, Greece, Croatia, Poland, Serbia, Russia and the Turkey.
On October 27, 1999, the film was first released on DVD via Warner Home Video. After a change in distribution, MGM Home Entertainment GmbH released the film again on DVD on February 1, 2000. Another release on DVD was on March 13, 2009 by Twentieth Century Fox. It was released on Blu-ray via Capelight Pictures on September 22, 2017.
Soundtrack
| No. | Title - composer / lyricist - speaker |
|---|---|
| 1. | Halcyon & On & On - Paul Hartnoll , Phil Hartnoll and Ed Barton - Orbital |
| 2. | It's a Fine Day - Opus III |
| 3. | Real Wild Child - Johnny O'Keefe , Johnny Greenan and Dave Owens - Johnny O'Keefe |
| 4th | Protection - Robert Del Naja , Grantley Marshall, Andrew "Mushroom" Vowles and Tracey Thorn - Massive Attack |
| 5. | Voodoo People - Liam Howlett - The Prodigy |
| 6th | One Love - Liam Howlett - The Prodigy |
| 7th | Open Up - Neil Barnes, Paul Daley, John Lydon - Leftfield and John Lydon |
| 8th. | Original Bedroom Rockers - Richard Dorfmeister and Peter Kruder - Kruder & Dorfmeister |
| 9. | Combination - Guy Pratt |
| 10. | Cowgirl - Rick Smith and Karl Hyde - Underworld |
| 11. | Good Grief - Patrick Tilon, RHJ Van Barneveld, MH Schoots, SC Matadin - Urban Dance Squad |
| 12. | Original - Neil Barnes, Paul Daley, Toni Halliday - Leftfield |
| 13. | Grand Central Station - Guy Pratt - Deep Cover |
| 14th | Inspection (Check One) - Neil Barnes, Paul Daley, Danny Clarke - Leftfield |
| 15th | Connected - Rob Birch - Nicholas Hallam, Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch - Stereo MCs |
| 16. | Let Me (Let Me Be Your Lover) - Jimmy "Bo" Horne |
| 17th | Heaven Knows - Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook - Squeeze |
| 18th | Phoebus Apollo - Carl Cox |
| 19th | The Joker - Josh G. Abrahams |
| 20th | Communicate (Headquake Hazy Cloud Mix) - Guzz and Boysen - Plastico |
| 21st | Eyes, Lips, Body (Mekon Vocal Mix) - Chapman, Somerset, Roberts - Ramshackle |
| 22nd | Richest Junkie Still Alive (Sank Remix) - Benzel, Fisher, Rieneau, Kupers - Machines of Loving Grace |
| 23. | Connection - Elastica |
Background information
One of the two officers, who observed Joey after his release, reads parts of the real hacker manifesto from Loyd "the Mentor" Blankenship to his colleague while waiting in the car . The manifesto is considered to be one of the most important texts in network hacker culture.
The virus in the film that infects the Ellingson computer bears the name of the Renaissance artist “ Leonardo da Vinci ”. The name parallels allow a connection to the MS-DOS virus " Michelangelo ", which actually exists .
The name of the film character Emmanuel Goldstein ("Cereal Killer") can also be found in George Orwell's 1984 novel . Orwell's novel character of the same name is the leader of the underground movement against Big Brother. At the same time, Emmanuel Goldstein is the pseudonym of the hacker Eric Corley , publisher of the hacker magazine 2600 .
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The nickname "Cereal Killer" could be an allusion to John T. Draper alias "Captain Crunch": The American hacker and phreaker had made it with a toy pipe that was included with the breakfast cereals of the Cap'n Crunch brand , generate a tone with a frequency of 2600 Hertz. If you whistled that tone into a telephone receiver, you were able to make free phone calls. The process was optimized by Draper and later known as blue boxing .
The principle is also taken up in a similar form in the film: In the edition of Hack the Planet , which Dade and his buddies at Lord Nikon are watching, it is explained how you can use a payphone and a micro-cassette recorder to make free calls by listening to the beeps of the Phone and then plays it into the handset. Ramon also tries out this method, which is referred to as red boxing , based on the blue boxing of phreakers .
The pseudonym Mr. Babbage, who uses "The Plague" on his flight to Asia on a plane, is based on the name of the mathematician Charles Babbage , who developed a predecessor of today's computer with his " Analytical Engine " calculating machine .
The nickname of the film character Paul Cook "Lord Nikon" could be an allusion to his self-praised photographic memory . Nikon is a Japanese manufacturer of cameras and precision optical equipment.
The fictional brand name Gibson , used in the film for a certain type of mainframe computer , could be a reference to the name of William Gibson . In his book Neuromancer, the American science fiction author popularized the term cyberspace , which is now often used as a synonym for the Internet .
In one scene Dade poses with two floppy disks in front of a mirror and satirizes the famous scene by Robert de Niro in Taxi Driver by pulling the floppy disks like a weapon and asking "You talkin 'to me ?!"
Towards the end, the guys from the hacker clique run the slogan “Crash and Burn” over a high-rise wall with an effect similar to the Blinkenlights project , while Crash (Override) and (Acid) Burn are on their first date. This is probably a reference to the science fiction film Crash and Burn , which appeared in the early 1990s and has a cyberpunk-like theme.
Angelina Jolie and Jonny Lee Miller were married on March 28, 1996 shortly after filming ended. The wedding attracted a lot of media attention because Jolie appeared in a T-shirt with Miller's name written on it with drops of her blood.
criticism
The film received mixed reviews.
"A film that sums up the zeitgeist: fun or boredom."
The lexicon of international film came to a positive result and found: "Not only is the film exciting and entertaining as entertainment for young people, the film is also highly aesthetic. The attempt to visualize the ambivalent concept of reality in cyberspace culture turns out to be a convincing view of the time current youth culture. "
Sequels
Due to the popularity of the film, a sequel was given the promotional title “Hackers 2”, but it has nothing to do with the original “Hackers”. Namely Hackers 2: Operation Takedown .
Furthermore, many fans consider the film Startup (original English title Antitrust ) , released in 2001, to be the third part of the series and incorrectly referred to as bootleg in the Internet , which led to the spread of this title.
Thematically similar, also very well-known films are The Net , WarGames - War Games , Sneakers - The Silent People , Who Am I - No System Is Safe and Password: Swordfish .
Web links
- Hackers - In the Network of the FBI in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hackers (1995) at TCM - Turner Classic Movies (English)
- Alexander Florin: The narrative function of computers in American cinema. Master's thesis at zanjero.de
- Movie poster on filmposter-archiv.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hackers DVD by Twentieth Century Fox
- ↑ The Hacker Manifesto at hacker-ethik.de. Retrieved November 16, 2016.
- ↑ My name is ... at nldslab.soe.ucsc.edu (English). Retrieved November 16, 2016.
- ↑ George Orwell: 1984 at dieterwunderlich.de
- ↑ Eric Corley: A quarter of all hackers work for the FBI at golem.de. Retrieved November 16, 2016.
- ^ A b William Sen: The hacker with the thriller pipe at digitalwelt.org, August 2001. Retrieved on November 16, 2016.
- ^ The Engines at computerhistory.org (English). Retrieved November 16, 2016.
- ↑ Jiré Emine Gözen: Cyberpunk Science Fiction: Literary Fictions and Media Theory , transcript, Culture and Media Theory, p. 96 ff.
- ↑ "You talkin 'to me?" Movie: Taxi Driver at ign.com (with movie scene). Retrieved November 16, 2016.
- ↑ Crash And Burn Trailer in the original language
- ↑ Angelina Jolie's 3 Weddings in Photos: This Week's TBT Iconic Bride at brides.com (English). Retrieved November 16, 2016.
- ↑ Hackers - On the FBI's network. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Startup Release Info in the IMDb (English)
