That Film Script Though

[cntrlaltaction]

Hello EZ,


I am a university student currently working on a script for a short film that I will produce within the year for a course. I have little experience with this subject which has brought me here to you (EZ). I want to ask how you personally would enjoy a coder/cracker/hacker to be incorporated into a film? For instance would you prefer a character to be portrayed similarly to Kevin Mitnick, where he breaks into corporate buildings and is more psychically engaging or rather have the character set as a background piece? Background piece as in the person who stays shelled up in a room for days, wired off of amphetamines and fueled by junk food. I would also like to ask what, if any, films you have seen that have these types of characters that you enjoyed the most and why? Whether you would enjoy a realistically based character, a character that is way over the top or one just above realism, somewhere in the middle? Any comments are welcome. Please hijack this thread!


Sincerely,
cntrlaltaction

[m0rph]

For instance would you prefer a character to be portrayed similarly to Kevin Mitnick...blah blah blah?

GTFO. That is gay as all fuck dude.
 

Background piece as in the person who stays shelled up in a room for days, wired off of amphetamines and fueled by junk food?

You were on to something with the amphetamines, but no. This character is also overused and gay as fuck.

Here is my idea: a psycho-hacker that owns an ice-cream truck, and has a very odd condition whereby his hair is actually made of fire, and he has terrible scars on his face so he has to wear a clown mask. He also had a very traumatic childhood, so when he's not hacking computers from the secrecy of his ice-cream truck, he goes on rage-induced road rampages. He also has an eating disorder by which he cannot stop eating sweets, and thus he is nicknamed "Candied Molar"

Trust me man...if you can work that character into a story, it will be fucking gold.

[khofo]

Well, most people hear despise hacking reprenstation in movies, since most of the movies are smash the keyboard until it's 100%.
It actually also depends on your objective if your objective is to show a real hacker life, you'll be disappointed to know that it won't offer much "movie material". Put if u want a movie to attract audiences and which the focus is not on the hacker and his life u can go with anu of your characters no one really cares actually.

Also M0rph's idea is super awesome, I second it

[Kulverstukas]

I support m0rph's idea, it's awesome. We had this discussion some months ago, search around.
You could also make a movie out of Recon's tribute to Dr. m0rph, he basically wrote the whole damn story, you just need to make a kick-ass cinematic
https://evilzone.org/random/doctor-noire-%28a-tribute-to-the-uncertified-dr-m0rph%29/

[iTpHo3NiX]

I vote Recons story

[Darkvision]

recons story is bad ass, but i do think if we add m0rphs villain to it as the evil mastermind behind it all...then id pay to see that. Ok i wouldnt, id just stream it online for free. but i would watch it!

[nozzlechunks]

Hacker films and hackers in film are usually awful. Here's some things that annoy me:

- Typing speed is commensurate with one's ability to "penetrate the firewall."
- Victim, or hacker who is stuffed, has their screen taken over by a screen saver from 1993.
- Hacker is always savant type, as if knowing how to code and getting laid are mutually exclusive.
- Recon and research, 96% of hacking (whether it is offensive, or solving a stupid problem), are amazingly absent.

Here's some stuff I'd dig in a movie:

- Explain the "kill chain": lure, dropper, C2, traversal, attack on DB/mem, exfil. If fucking Jurassic Park can explain pulling dinosaur DNA from misquitos suck in amber, then sure the audience could sit through a quick cartoon explaining attack phases.

- Give the universe credit where its due. I'm confident of my skills, but honestly, I've been really, really lucky on some projects I've worked on. I tried something dumb, or something by accident, and it worked, and I become a spaz. I can't be the only one with this experience.

- Show all the work that happens away from the keyboard. I do my best thinking outside, with a coffee and a cigarette. One of my girlfriends does crochet. But we both have had those "oh shit" moments where a new approach comes to us and we run back to the keyboard.

[kenjoe41]

I second m0rph's idea. +1 you clever moron.