Computers in Films (Film Guide) - Wargames, Hal 9000, Independence Day, Desk Set, You've Got Mail, Tron: Legacy, Summer Wars (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 67. Chapters: WarGames, HAL 9000, Independence Day, Desk Set, You've Got Mail, Tron: Legacy, Summer Wars, Live Free or Die Hard, Eagle Eye, Steal This Film, Superman III, Hackers, Antitrust, Pirates of Silicon Valley, The Lawnmower Man, Weird Science, Colossus: The Forbin Project, Sneakers, Untraceable, Firewall, Swordfish, Demon Seed, WarGames: The Dead Code, Echelon Conspiracy, Masterminds, The Net, Electric Dreams, Terminal Entry, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Track Down, Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace, Hot Millions, Babbage, The Net 2.0, Code Rush, Ignition, Max Knight: Ultra Spy. Excerpt: Connection Timeout Summer Wars Sam W zu) is a 2009 Japanese animated science fiction romance film directed by Mamoru Hosoda, animated by Madhouse and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film's voice cast includes Ryunosuke Kamiki, Nanami Sakuraba, Mitsuki Tanimura, Sumiko Fuji and Ayumu Sait . The film tells the story of Kenji Koiso, a timid eleventh-grade math genius who is taken to Ueda by twelfth-grade student Natsuki Shinohara to celebrate her great-grandmother's 90th birthday. However, he is falsely implicated in the hacking of a virtual world by an artificial intelligence. Kenji must repair the damage done to the virtual world and he must find a way to stop the artificial intelligence from causing any further damage. After producing The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Madhouse was asked to produce the next film. Hosoda and writer Satoko Okudera conceived a story about a social network and a stranger's connection with a family. The real-life city of Ueda was chosen as the setting for Summer Wars, as part of the territory was once governed by the Sanada clan and was close to Hosoda's birthplace in Toyama. Hosoda used the clan as the basis for the Jinnouchi family after visiting his then-fiance'...