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Tron Legacy teaser trailer now available

The only downside to all this? Seeing "Tron Guy" on every other talk show between now and December.
 
Here is a great article/interview about Tron and Tron Legacy - some quotes:
" There's almost a feeling that, when we made the first film, it was a wide-open frontier, and we could do anything. We didn't have to worry about making it 'real,' or what this tech really meant specifically in our lives. Now it's 25 years later, and it's a different time for a different generation that actually lives with this sort of technology every day and has to incorporate it. So it's a little like cyberspace is the same, but it's moved on from being a frontier to a place where civilization really exists."
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"Story wise, we all sat down and said, “let's make this a stand-alone sequel," meaning that you don't have to have seen the '82 film. We're going to accept that the events of the 1982 film happened -- that Flynn went in, battled the MCP, and came out and that ENCOM exists. So we've built all the intervening mythology between '82 and 2010. This movie takes place in 2010 and deals with Kevin Flynn's son, Sam Flynn, and events have really changed, both inside the System and in the world outside.

Another choice that we made collectively -- and that I really like -- is that this isn't a movie about the internet. We're going to say that this system of TRON -- this universe that Steven created -- existed in a world on its own, sort of like the Galapagos Islands. This is a universe unto itself. We're going into another world. This isn't about the World Wide Web at all."
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"I come from an era where there was a great deal of idealism. When we approached cyberspace, it was potentially a paradise. We felt that if we could overthrow the MCP, the mainframe computer if we could get everybody online. If we could get everybody in cyberspace, getting their programs and their identities out there, getting whatever they needed... the world would be Heaven. We didn't anticipate spam. We didn't anticipate internet porn and we didn't anticipate piracy."
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" I would say that, again, the tone of first film reflects a certain naïve idealism. This film reflects the temperament of Joe Kosinski, our director, our young writers and Sean Bailey, my fellow produce -- those who have a more realistic view of the upsides and downsides of technology and cyberspace. I think the story deals with the question -- where are Flynn's Allegiances? Are they with technology or are they with flesh and bone?"
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The thing about the original Tron is that it was an experimental film in every sense of the word. It doesn't matter so much that some of the performances are flat; the ideas behind the film carry it. In fact, some of the flat performances inadvertently ground the film; the scientists, geeks, nerds, and such come off as "realistic" rather than played up for film. The thing about Tron is that there is a quiet, creepy, cerebral tone in much of it. The real world scenes are all dark save the final scene. There are a lot of moments of stillness in which atmosphere builds, aided by the unique musical score. A genuine sense of realness is achieved (ironic considering the theme); it works to the movie's advantage that Jeff Bridges is probably the best actor in the cast, since he has the most colorful and extroverted role. Despite the fact that the title is "Tron", Flynn is the pin that holds the story's center together. If ever there was a movie that was far more than the sum of its parts, it is Tron.

What gratifies me in the new trailer for Tron Legacy is that I can see some hints of the old mood; the old experimental vibe. Some are going to fire off a kneejerk reaction, calling it a CG wankfest just because it has CG at all, and this is 2010, and that's the stereotypical thing people say. (There is massive irony in dismissing a Tron sequel as a computer graphics wankfest.)

But, I have to imagine that the producers of the film went to Disney and told them "Look. The original Tron was an experiment. Even you guys didn't know what to make of it. But the fact that it was strange, it was experimental, is what made it last. If we make a sequel, and that sequel is by the numbers, it won't work. It has to be experimental. It has to be weird. It has to do things that won't make sense to you at first glance, or that are uncomfortable."

For my money, I can see hints of that in the trailer; hints of it in the broken, electronic baseline in the music.
 
I personally have yet to see anyone, ever, dismiss Tron as a "CGI wankfest." The whole story revolves around it. Unlike movies such as Avatar that are CGI wankfests, where the story is a distant second to the oohs and ahhs of the visuals.
 
Hyperspace05 said:
Here is a great article/interview about Tron and Tron Legacy - some quotes:
" There's almost a feeling that, when we made the first film, it was a wide-open frontier, and we could do anything. We didn't have to worry about making it 'real,' or what this tech really meant specifically in our lives. Now it's 25 years later, and it's a different time for a different generation that actually lives with this sort of technology every day and has to incorporate it. So it's a little like cyberspace is the same, but it's moved on from being a frontier to a place where civilization really exists."
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"Story wise, we all sat down and said, “let's make this a stand-alone sequel," meaning that you don't have to have seen the '82 film. We're going to accept that the events of the 1982 film happened -- that Flynn went in, battled the MCP, and came out and that ENCOM exists. So we've built all the intervening mythology between '82 and 2010. This movie takes place in 2010 and deals with Kevin Flynn's son, Sam Flynn, and events have really changed, both inside the System and in the world outside.

Another choice that we made collectively -- and that I really like -- is that this isn't a movie about the internet. We're going to say that this system of TRON -- this universe that Steven created -- existed in a world on its own, sort of like the Galapagos Islands. This is a universe unto itself. We're going into another world. This isn't about the World Wide Web at all."
Click to expand...
"I come from an era where there was a great deal of idealism. When we approached cyberspace, it was potentially a paradise. We felt that if we could overthrow the MCP, the mainframe computer if we could get everybody online. If we could get everybody in cyberspace, getting their programs and their identities out there, getting whatever they needed... the world would be Heaven. We didn't anticipate spam. We didn't anticipate internet porn and we didn't anticipate piracy."
Click to expand...
" I would say that, again, the tone of first film reflects a certain naïve idealism. This film reflects the temperament of Joe Kosinski, our director, our young writers and Sean Bailey, my fellow produce -- those who have a more realistic view of the upsides and downsides of technology and cyberspace. I think the story deals with the question -- where are Flynn's Allegiances? Are they with technology or are they with flesh and bone?"
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Love the article, thanks!
 
I just thought of something. Since time passes in the computer world 50 times faster than in the real world, and Flynn has apparently been in there since soon after the first movie took plac, then he must have been inside for over a thousand years (from his POV).... :eek:
 
Mr. Laser Beam said:
I just thought of something. Since time passes in the computer world 50 times faster than in the real world, and Flynn has apparently been in there since soon after the first movie took plac, then he must have been inside for over a thousand years (from his POV).... :eek:
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Yes, it has been verified that he has been in there for 1000 years of subjective time.
 
This will be a different film for different people. The younger people I know who have seen the trailer have said to me "wow, looks cool". The only people who (like me) have been totally knocked on the floor by the trailer are people who (like me) saw the original as a teen back in '82. The filmmakers have a tough task hitting it out of the park for both types of viewers. I can't wait to see how they pull it off.
 
I've watched the original Tron for the first time (I'm 22, so not old enough to have seen it when it came out), today, mainly because the trailer for Legacy looked awesome, and of course for Bruce Broxtleiner!!!

Wow. I mean WOW. It was PERFECT! Fun and funny like hell, fantastic special effects,... I'm loving it. Thank god I'm a programmer! :)
 
I just saw the trailer in 3D IMAX (I went to see Alice in Wonderland) and it does look awesome!
 
StarTrek1701 said:
Would you guys believe I've never seen Tron?

But I will before watching Legacy, that's for sure. :)
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I just saw it for the first time last week, prompted to do so after seeing the trailer for Tron Legacy and thinking it looked amazingly cool.

I really, really enjoyed Tron, and now I'm even MORE excited about Tron Legacy!
 
Darth_Daver said:
I've watched the original Tron for the first time (I'm 22, so not old enough to have seen it when it came out), today, mainly because the trailer for Legacy looked awesome, and of course for Bruce Broxtleiner!!!

Wow. I mean WOW. It was PERFECT! Fun and funny like hell, fantastic special effects,... I'm loving it. Thank god I'm a programmer! :)
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It's good to see Tron ages well for a new generation!

But you know, I wonder if Tron hasn't become more relatable over time just because more younger people today are familiar with computer geeks, programmers, software development, and so on. Even given Tron's not entirely realistic use of computer technology in the real world (But then, one could always retcon that - everyone is just using a plain english parser to send commands to the MCP!).

Also, I am glad to see modern viewers appreciate how funny the film is. Jeff Bridges works great of Bruce's deadpan (both as Alan and Tron), and the character of Kevin Flynn just may be the Jesus Christ of technogeeks.
 
Kaijima said:
Jeff Bridges works great of Bruce's deadpan (both as Alan and Tron), and the character of Kevin Flynn just may be the Jesus Christ of technogeeks.
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Bruce was Bridges' Walter in that film. Although instead of being a veteran thinking back over his own memories, he's a warrior in someone else's memories ;)
 
There's a good set visit report at AICN now, and it confirms what I was hoping...the film will be 3D in the TRON world only. It will be 2D in the "real" world.
 
Maybe the whole trailer is. It would make it easier for them to make the print for distribution, and be less confusing for audiences who generally are idiots...or at least the studios think they are.
 
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