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Tron is a 1982 Walt Disney Productions science fiction movie starring Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn (and Clu), Bruce Boxleitner as Alan Bradley (and Tron), Cindy Morgan as Lora (and Yori)and Dan Shor as Ram. David Warner plays the villain, Dillinger (and Sark, as well as the voice of the 'Master Control Program'). It was directed by Steven Lisberger. One of the first films to use computer graphics extensively, Tron has a distinctive visual style. This image was downloaded from Amazon. ...
Steven Lisberger was the director of the movie Tron. ...
Steven Lisberger was the director of the movie Tron. ...
Jeffrey Leon Bridges (born December 4, 1949 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor. ...
Bruce Boxleitner as John Sheridan in Babylon 5 Bruce Boxleitner (born May 12, 1950 in Elgin, Illinois) is an American actor, best known for his leading roles in the television series Scarecrow and Mrs. ...
David Warner (born July 29, 1941) is a British actor, whose image might be described as sinister. ...
Actress noted among the geek community for Tron and Caddyshack. IMDB Entry ...
Dan Shor promotional photo Daniel Shor is a veteran actor, director, writer and teacher with a career spanning 28 years. ...
The Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group is a collection of affiliated motion picture studios, all subsidaries of The Walt Disney Company. ...
1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Walt Disney Company (most commonly known as Disney) (NYSE: DIS) is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. ...
Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...
Poster for The Day the Earth Stood Still, an archetypal science fiction film Science fiction as a genre of film making has been an element of the cinema experience since the earliest days of the motion picture industry. ...
Jeffrey Leon Bridges (born December 4, 1949 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor. ...
Bruce Boxleitner as John Sheridan in Babylon 5 Bruce Boxleitner (born May 12, 1950 in Elgin, Illinois) is an American actor, best known for his leading roles in the television series Scarecrow and Mrs. ...
Actress noted among the geek community for Tron and Caddyshack. IMDB Entry ...
Dan Shor promotional photo Daniel Shor is a veteran actor, director, writer and teacher with a career spanning 28 years. ...
David Warner David Warner (born July 29, 1941 in Manchester, England) is a British actor, whose image might be described as sinister. ...
Steven Lisberger was the director of the movie Tron. ...
Computer graphics (CG) is the field of visual computing, where one utilizes computers both to generate visual images synthetically and to integrate or alter visual and spatial information sampled from the real world. ...
Plot
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. Past: Flynn was a young and gifted programmer, who used to work for a software mega-corporation. One of the executives of this corporation is Dillinger (David Warner). Flynn, an up-and-coming programmer was cheated out of the profits and royalties for games that he created, by Dillinger. Dillinger, in fact, stole Flynn's games and passed them off as his own. Being unable to prove his authorship, and quitting the company, Flynn is reduced to running a video game arcade. Many of the games he created are featured in the arcade. In computing, a programmer is someone who does computer programming and develops computer software. ...
In computing, a programmer is someone who does computer programming and develops computer software. ...
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Royalty may refer to either: the royal family of a country with a monarchy royalties the payment made to the owner of a copyright, patent, or trademark, for the use thereof This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
A video arcade (known as an amusement arcade in the United Kingdom) is a place where people play arcade video games. ...
Present Day: After some freedom-of-information issues arise from the current employees (Boxleitner and Morgan), Dillinger increases the security of the Master Control Program (an artificial intelligence mainframe that runs the company). This effectively locks the programmers out of the company. They go to Flynn for help in bypassing the increased security of the MCP. Alan and Lora are looking to gain more freedom in their programming. Flynn is looking for evidence of his stolen creations. Artificial intelligence (also known as machine intelligence and often abbreviated as AI) is intelligence exhibited by any manufactured (i. ...
Mainframes (often colloquially referred to as big iron) are large and expensive computers used mainly by government institutions and large companies for legacy applications, typically bulk data processing (such as censuses, industry/consumer statistics, ERP, and bank transaction processing). ...
After the trio break into the building after-hours, Flynn confronts the MCP, and is absorbed ("digitized") into a digital world tyrannically ruled by the MCP. In the "real world", the MCP's interface resembles an exceptionally high-tech boardroom desk. From inside the computer system, the MCP resembles an enormously forboding face, glowing red with energy. Digitizing, or digitization, is the process of turning an analog signal into a digital representation of that signal. ...
In this world, programs are represented by characters who resemble their creators; Flynn is initially mistaken for a program, "Clu", that he had previously written. Flynn needs to find "Tron", a security program created by Alan. Tron can help Flynn fight against the despotic MCP to free his company's mainframe and escape to the real world. Along the way he has to participate in several gladiatorial action games including "Light Cycles" and a kind of Jai-Alai. CLU is a programming language created at MIT by Barbara Liskov and her students between 1974 and 1975. ...
Pollice Verso, an 1872 painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme, is a well known history painters researched conception of a gladiatorial combat. ...
Jai-Alai (prounced Hi Ah-Lie) means Merry Festival in the Basque language. ...
The "Light Cycles" game is similar to an old computer game sometimes known as Surround. The players are in constant motion on a playfield, creating a wall behind them as they move. If a player hits a wall either by accident or by having no more room to move, he is out of the game, and the last player wins. Tron depicts this game as being played by the humanoid programs in futuristic two-wheeled vehicles that resemble motorcycles which create walls of colored light. Countless versions of this game have been created since the release of the movie. A motorcycle (or motorbike) is a two-wheeled vehicle powered by an engine. ...
There are many not-so-subtle political and religious overtones in Tron. Inside the computer, the MCP rules by a Fascist-style oppression, with help from his main general, Sark (Warner), and an army of troops. Regular programs are herded into concentration camp-style detention cells, and forced to battle each other to the death. If they do not comply, they are derezzed (terminated, killed). Most programs believe, or want to believe, in a higher entity, referred to as "Users". They claim that these Users, who are their programmers in the Real World, are their Creators. Programs who believe in these Users are also subject to derezzing. Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ...
A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. ...
In Tron, the character Tron plays a martyr-type, who "battles for the Users." When a User himself (Flynn) is dropped in to the environment, and found to be a User, he assumes the role of a Messiah-type of character, who can perform what seems like miracles to other programs. In Judaism, the Meslolsiah (מָש×Ö´×™×—Ö· Anointed one, Standard Hebrew MaÅ¡Ãaḥ, Tiberian Hebrew MÄšîªḥ) initially meant any person who was annointed by God to do a job. ...
According to many religions, a miracle is an intervention by God in the universe. ...
Technical Tron was one of the first movies to use long computer-generated sequences. About thirty minutes of computer-generated animation (blended with the filmed characters) were used. Though the movie has been criticized for woodenness of acting and -- perhaps unjustly -- incoherence of plot, the movie is celebrated as a milestone of computer animation. Computer animation is the art of creating moving images via the use of computers. ...
To be able to create the film, Disney acquired the Super Foonly F-1, the fastest PDP-10 ever made (and the only one of its kind). Foonly was the PDP-10 successor that was to have been built by the Super Foonly project at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory along with a new operating system. ...
The PDP-10 was a computer manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from the late 1960s on; the name stands for Programmed Data Processor model 10. It was the machine that made time-sharing common; it looms large in hacker folklore because of its adoption in the 1970s by many...
The film, however, contains less computer-generated imagery than is generally supposed. Many of the effects that look like computer graphics were created using traditional optical effects. In a technique known as "backlit animation," the live-action scenes inside the computer world were filmed in black-and-white, printed on large-format high-contrast film, then colorized with traditional photographic and rotoscopic techniques to give them a "technological" feel. The process was immensely labor-intensive, and would never be repeated for another feature film; with multiple layers of high-contrast large-format positives and negatives, it required truckloads of sheet film, and a workload greater than even that of a conventional cel-animated feature. Black-and-white (or variations including Black and White) can refer to a general term used in photography, film, and other media (see black-and-white). ...
A rotoscope is a device that enables animators to trace live action movement, frame by frame, for use in animation. ...
Renowned French comic book artist, Jean Giraud (a.k.a. Moebius), was the main set and costume designer for the movie; most vehicles were created by industrial designer Syd Mead, of Blade Runner fame. Jean Giraud (born May 8, 1938) is a French comics artist. ...
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Legacy
 Tron's light-cycle race is one of the movie's best-remembered action sequences. In the game, players must race each other around a track, trying to force opponents to crash into walls or trails left by the cycles. Although the film was initially unsuccessful, it has retained a cult like status due to its use of CGI and its computer plot line. The movie also inspired several popular video games. The Tron arcade game earned more than the film's first release and made it a cult favorite. Disneyland featured the Tron SuperSpeed Tunnel in its PeopleMover attraction. Screenshot from the movie Tron showing the use of CGI to create CGI images in the light cycle sequence. ...
Screenshot from the movie Tron showing the use of CGI to create CGI images in the light cycle sequence. ...
A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ...
Tron was a arcade game manufactured and distributed by Bally Midway in 1982. ...
Centipede by Atari is a typical example of a 1980s era arcade game. ...
A cult film is a movie that attracts a small but devoted group of obsessive fans or one that has remained popular over successive years amongst a small group of followers. ...
Disneyland[1] is a theme park at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. ...
The PeopleMover was an attraction in Tomorrowland at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, and remains open at Walt Disney Worlds Magic Kingdom in Lake Buena Vista, Florida as Tomorrowland Transit Authority. ...
Tron 2.0, a computer game sequel, was released on August 25, 2003. In this first person shooter game, the player takes the part of Alan Bradley's son Jet, who is pulled into the computer world to fight a computer virus. Versions of this game were released for Windows, Macintosh, Xbox and Game Boy Advance. Tron 2. ...
A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ...
August 25 is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (238th in leap years), with 128 days remaining. ...
2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A first-person shooter (FPS) is a computer or video game where the players on-screen view of the game world simulates that of the character, and there is some element of shooting involved. ...
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The Xbox is Microsofts game console, released on November 15, 2001. ...
The Game Boy line is the best-selling handheld. ...
On January 13, 2005, Walt Disney Pictures announced a new Tron movie (possibly a remake), with more emphasis on the Internet. January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...
Walt Disney Pictures is a United States-based movie studio, and is a division of The Walt Disney Company. ...
Music The background music for Tron was written by Wendy Carlos, who is most well-known for her album, Switched-On Bach and for the soundtrack to The Shining. The music featured a mix of (then) state-of-the-art synthesizers and pipe organs. Additional music was provided by the band Journey. Wendy Carlos in 1980 Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos -- see Personal life section below -- November 14, 1939 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island) is an American composer and electronic musician. ...
Switched On Bach is a 1968 album by Wendy Carlos on CBS Records . ...
The Shining (1980) is a film by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. ...
Journey is an American rock band formed in 1973 in San Francisco. ...
See also Perlin noise is a function which uses an interpolation function to combine noise-generating functions, and has been used to produce natural textures on computer-generated objects for motion pictures special effects. ...
Armagetron running on Debian GNU/Linux in window mode. ...
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