TRON LEGACY

Posted by Astro-nuts on December 29, 2010
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TRON LEGACY

This is a cool movie. I want to make a design about this movie. I mean based on this movie, with the characthers : Clu, Sam, Kevin and of course Tron

Just wait until I finished the design, okay don’t worry I’ll be fast like a Light Cycle, hehehe.

This is a little story about TRON movie.

TRON

Tron is a 1982 American science fiction film written and directed by Steven Lisberger. It stars Jeff Bridges as the protagonist hacker Kevin Flynn, Bruce Boxleitner as security program Tron (and Tron’s “User”, Alan Bradley), Cindy Morgan as program Yori (and her “User,” Dr. Lora Baines), Barnard Hughes as the tower guardian Dumont (and his User, Dr. Walter Gibbs) and Dan Shor as Ram. David Warner plays all three main antagonists: the program Sark, his “User,” Ed Dillinger, and the voice of the chess program artificial intelligence Master Control Program. The film tells the story of Flynn as he attempts to hack into the ENCOM mainframe to prove that Dillinger has appropriated his work, but ends up being transported into the Digital World itself as a unique program/User. There, he teams up with Tron to defeat the Master Control Program, who has been controlling the Digital World.

Development of Tron began in 1976 when Lisberger became fascinated with Pong. Along with producer Donald Kushner, he set up an animation studio to develop Tron with the intention of making it an animated film. However, after talks with Information International, Inc., Lisberger decided to include live-action elements with the computer animation. Various film studios rejected the storyboards for the film until the project was set up at Disney. There, backlit animation was combined with the computer animation and live-action. Tron was released on July 9, 1982 in 1,091 theaters in the United States.

The film received positive reviews from critics. Critics praised the visuals and acting, but criticized the storyline. The film also was a box office success, grossing $33 million in the United States. Tron received nominations for Best Costume Design and Best Sound at the 55th Academy Awards, and received the Academy Award for Technical Achievement 14 years later. Over time, Tron developed into a cult film and eventually spawned into a franchise, which consists of multiple video games, comic books and an animated television series.[1] A sequel titled Tron: Legacy was directed by Joseph Kosinski and was released on December 17, 2010; it also saw the return of Lisberger, Bridges, and Boxleitner to the franchise and received mixed reviews from critics

Plot

Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) is a young and gifted software engineer attempting to hack into the mainframe of software company ENCOM in order to find evidence that senior executive Ed Dillinger (David Warner) stole Flynn’s code and presented it as his own, earning him a rapid series of promotions. Flynn is blocked by the Master Control Program (MCP), an artificial intelligence that controls the ENCOM mainframe.

When ENCOM employees Alan Bradley (Bruce Boxleitner) and Lora Baines (Cindy Morgan) tell Flynn that Dillinger has tightened security clearances in response to Flynn’s hacking attempts, Flynn convinces them to let him into ENCOM so that he can forge a higher security clearance for Bradley’s security program “Tron,” which would monitor communications between the MCP and the outside world. They take him to the ENCOM laboratory. When Flynn attempts to hack his way into the system, the MCP takes control of a nearby laser and uses it to digitize Flynn into the ENCOM mainframe.

In the mainframe, programs appear in the likeness of the Users who programmed them. However, the MCP and its commander, Sark (Warner) have long intimidated most programs into renouncing a belief in Users. Programs that refuse to do so are forced to play in gladiatorial games in which losers are destroyed. In the process of playing such games, Flynn meets Tron (Boxleitner); the two escape into the mainframe during a Light Cycle match, and are later split up.

Upon receiving instructions from Bradley to destroy the MCP, Tron rejoins with Flynn and they board a solar sailer simulation with Yori (Morgan) to quickly get to the MCP. Flynn reveals to them that he is a User before Sark’s command ship destroys the sailer, capturing Yori and Flynn. Sark then leaves the command ship and attempts to destroy it, though Flynn manages to keep it intact while Sark battles with Tron, who had snuck aboard his shuttle. Tron gains the upper hand and severely damages Sark before attacking the MCP directly, attempting to break through its shield. The MCP transfers its functions and causes Sark to grow to immense size but Flynn reveals a gap in the MCP’s shield. Tron throws his disc through the gap, destroying both the MCP and Sark, and freeing the Digital World. Input/Output towers begin to light up all over the landscape as programs begin to communicate with their users.

Flynn is sent back to the real world, reconstructed by the digitization laser. A printer next to him is printing out the evidence that he had sought, showing that Dillinger had “annexed” his code. Dillinger arrives the next morning to find the MCP non-functional and the evidence of his wrongdoing displayed on his screen. Some time later, Flynn is shown to have become the CEO of ENCOM.