QThere's a song on the soundtrack that I can't find in the movie, where is it?
AIn the 1990s it was fairly common for film soundtrack albums to include songs not in the film, often labeling them as "inspired by" the film instead. This film was no exception, particularly since at the time interest in the techno/electronica scene was just beginning to take hold in the mainstream, and releasing as much of it as they could under the banner of a popular film was easy money for the record labels."Phoebus Apollo" by Carl Cox is the only track on the first "Hackers" soundtrack which does not appear in the film. The other two volumes of the soundtrack have many more "inspired by" tracks than film tracks; nothing on "Hackers 2" apart from "Inspection (Check One)" by Leftfield appeared in the film, nor did anything on "Hackers 3" apart from the two Simon Boswell tracks.
ANo. The movie "Takedown" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159784/,) a fictionalized version of the story of real-life hacker Kevin Mitnick, has been erroneously called "Hackers 2" in bootleg labels and filenames, but the two films are completely unrelated. To further confuse people the film "Antitrust" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/) has been sighted in bootlegs labelled "Hackers 3," despite having nothing to do with "Hackers" OR "Takedown." (Who's labelling these things, anyway?)People also get confused because three soundtrack albums were released for "Hackers," and these albums were labelled "Hackers," "Hackers 2," and "Hackers 3." There were no movies called "Hackers 2" or "Hackers 3," just the three volumes of the "Hackers" soundtrack.
QWhat computers did the cast use in the film?
AKate's laptop is an Apple Powerbook Duo 2300c.Dade's laptop is an Apple Powerbook 540c.Cereal's laptop (which Joey uses in the phone booth) is a Compaq LTE 4/75Lord Nikon's laptop is a Toshiba Satellite Pro. (Which model?)Joey's computer "Lucy" is an Apple IIGS. (Yes, really; take a close look when Agent Bob is carrying it out of Joey's house.)The Plague and Hal's computer at Ellingson was an entirely fictional creation of the film's art department.The Plague's home computer and the school computers were generic PC desktops.Dade's "luggable" computer from the OTV scene/Richard Gill harassment scenes is a custom prop. The track ball is from an Apple PowerBook 1xx model computer, so if it is functional it might be made from the internals of a PowerBook 1xx series computer stuffed into a luggable type case.Still unknown:The transparent Apple PowerBook Duo Dade gets from the Plague. Theories include it being a prototype loaned from Apple, or a custom prop.Please note that the displays shown on the computers' screens were generally pre-rendered graphics and animation made by the film's art and FX crew, and not representative of what those computers were typically capable of generating or displaying in reality.
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