blog.haraldkraft.de » high definition http://blog.haraldkraft.de Blog Project of Harald Kraft Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:46:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Computer gibberish in movie http://blog.haraldkraft.de/2010/06/computer-gibberish-in-movie/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=computer-gibberish-in-movie http://blog.haraldkraft.de/2010/06/computer-gibberish-in-movie/#comments Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:52:20 +0000 Harald Kraft http://blog.haraldkraft.de/?p=122 We all know those scenes from movies, where we see a computer screen while the NOC-list is being copied or when someone logs into a mainframe in order to disable the power of half a city (via SSH btw). Some are done well or very well (as the mentioned SSH one) others poorly researched or even plain lazy.
While watching such scenes, we usually immediately recognize whether it’s authentic or just crap. Nowadays modern high resolution+definiton movie formats make it even possible to pause the movie and verify all the text that we see on computer screens in such scenes.

Recently, when I watched the (quite brutal) movie “Unthinkable” I saw a real killer:

Computer screen with gibberish from "The Unthinkable"

We see some technician punching gibberish into a spreadsheet already filled with a lot more gibberish, haha.
And it gets even better if you consider what the guy typing is actually doing. See the following spoiler to find out:

Spoiler Inside Show

Well – so much for today and a real funny idea for a computer screen.
And as a side note: Carrie-Anne Moss also plays the main actress in The Unthinkable :) .

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