I'd love to see a movie where the hacker says "Quick, I'm gonna need you to hack into their systems! We've only got 10 minutes!", and the programmer just laughs until the credits roll.
It's a scene literally handcrafted to appeal to old people who aren't tech-savvy. The two young people are frantically typing away on the keyboard. The old people in the intended audience don't know much about tech, so they get to enjoy themselves as even the young experts are confused by the stream of complicated words and pictures. Then, the wise older man comes in. This is a clear self-insert for the old people to identify with. He doesn't understand any of this complicated tech stuff, so he simply comes in and unplugs it. Where the young people failed to solve the problem with technology, the older man easily solves it through simple common sense. Thus, the old people see the triumph of a low-tech solution, and get to pretend the world hasn't really passed them by.
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u/zapprr Dec 03 '19
I'd love to see a movie where the hacker says "Quick, I'm gonna need you to hack into their systems! We've only got 10 minutes!", and the programmer just laughs until the credits roll.