"Turn your key sir!" with a gun pointed at his head, we learn later that the guys in the silos wet their pants when it came time to perform, are we to assume the guy pulled the trigger and blew his boss' head to bits?
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Think you see them both some scenes later when the automated system is being installed. . . . or at least the guy who wouldn't turn his key. . .
shareYou do see both of them.
And the guy who would not turn his key is shaking his head like he objects to being replaced just because he could not do his job.
That's right, I forgot about that scene. So the guy wimped out when it came time to turn the key and his subordinate wimped out when it came time to blow his brains out and turn his key. I agree with McKittrick, time to turn it over to the WOPR.
shareI would like to point out that "blowing his brains out" wouldn't have solved anything. The keys must be turned at the same time and to assure that one man can't do it himself, the keys are situated far enough apart to guarantee that one man can't do it himself.
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No, the point was that the other guy was trying to force him to turn the key and he refused. Wet their pants, I have no idea.
That opening scene would pop into my brain at various times and it was the guy pointing the gun that kept tormenting me...until I watched it again tonight and realized he looked/sounded like Michael Madsen. The looks kind of yes/no he looked so much younger than films like SPECIES and RESERVOIR DOGS. But the voice? Had to be. A quick check here any yes...that was Mr. Blonde.
shareYeah it was a simulation to actually see if they had the wits to launch WMD's. But was the gun loaded or not?
"Sailors fighting in the dance hall."
Yeah it was a simulation to actually see if they had the wits to launch WMD's. But was the gun loaded or not?
When Mr. Blonde points a gun at you, it's over.
shareIf it's any consolation, i would have shot the traitorous pinko, commie-sympathizing sonofabitch.
My "#3" key is broken so I'm putting one here so i can cut & paste with it.
I just hope (in a real case like that) that anyone doing that would be stripped of their rank. Either dishonorably discharged or demoted to something like janitor.
shareNo, because it turned out to be a drill. And we see the guy later shaking his head about being replaced by a machine (there was a bit of that sort of thing going on in those days [and other days], but that's another story). Maybe he also might have been shaking his head because he grasped certain implications about lending responsibility of entire *beep*ing ICBMs to a computer instead of a person. Computers were made for people, not the other way around, ya know hehehe
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And to think that computers used to be about precision! Bah! Precision! Who needs it!
They could have been given blanks for the test since it was unknown how they would react.
shareThey could have been given blanks for the test since it was unknown how they would react.
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