Films with the Topic of "Internet"

monicaytsu · Post by **monicaytsu** » Tue Jan 21, 2003 3:21 am

I am teaching an article on "the Internet" and want to have my students watch a film on this topic." Is there any film I can use?
Thank you for your suggestions.

Monica

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Thu Jan 23, 2003 5:29 am

'You've Got Mail?' (Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan).

Celeste · Post by **Celeste** » Fri Jan 24, 2003 7:37 am

The Net, The Matrix, and Hackers all spring to mind.

dduck · Post by **dduck** » Fri Jan 24, 2003 2:00 pm

I'm not sure these answers are what Monica really was thinking of but what the hey!

How about The Lawnmower Man and Tron?

Iain

sita · Post by **sita** » Sat Jan 25, 2003 12:45 pm

Do you want to show them a hollywood film?
Or a more realistic one? How about 23?

My students loved this one:

23

Theplot is based on the true story of a group of young computer hackers from Germany. In the late 1980s the orphaned Karl Koch invests his heritage in a flat and a home computer. He dials up to bulletin boards and he discusses conspiracy theories inspired by his favorite novel, Wilson's "Illuminatus", but soon he and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers. Pepe, one of Karl's criminal friends thinks there is money to be made in computer cracking - he travels to east Berlin and tries to contact the KGB...

One of the guys the film was based on died under weird circumstances.

Sita

JoeUSA · Post by **JoeUSA** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 1:53 pm

A movie I enjoyed very much, since I am a computer nut, is "Pirates of Silicon Valley" It is the story of the development of the PC by Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. You can read a review at

http://www.movieprop.com/tvandmovie/rev ... valley.htm

However, I haven't been able to find it here in China yet. I'm looking.

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