Tron

See also: Tron (homonymy)

Tron is an American film carried out by Steven Lisberger, left in 1982.

Synopsis

Kevin Flynn is a genious programmer, but its programs were plundered by one of his/her colleagues, ED Dillinger, which draws the benefit from it and succeeds in making it lay off. Kevin then tries to penetrate in the computing system in the search of evidence using its program CLU. But the system passed under the control of one of the programs of ED, the Master controls principal (MCP), an old program of failures which evolved/moved. CLU having been neutralized by the MCP, Kevin (with the assistance of former colleagues, Lora and Alan) is introduced into the company to try to have access, of the interior, with information which would return the paternity of its creations to him. The MCP then takes the control of a Laser and succeeds in dematerializing Kevin to transform it into program. Inside the computer, the programs have the appearance of their originator.

Kevin is captured by the programs with the pay of the MCP which tries to eliminate it by making it take part in plays (of which the famous race of motor bike). Being the creator the latter, Kevin succeeds in escaping and then tries to save the system of the hands of the MCP…

Data sheet

Distribution

  • Jeff Bridges: Kevin Flynn/Clu
  • Bruce Boxleitner: Alan Bradley/Tron
  • David Warner: ED Dillinger/Sark/Voix of the Master Control Principal (MCP)
  • Cindy Morgan: Lora/Yori
  • Barnard Hughes: Dr. Walter Gibbs/Dumont
  • daN Shor: RAM
  • Peter Jurasik: Crom
  • Tony Stephano: Peter/Lieutenant de Sark
  • Craig Chudy: Warrior #1
  • Vince Deadrick Jr.: Warrior #2
  • Sam Schatz: Expert warrior of the disc
  • Jackson Bostwick: Keep principal
  • David S. Cass Sr.: Keep factory
  • Gerald Berns: Keep #1
  • Bob Neill: Keep #2

Around film

  • On one of the luminous walls of the room of monitoring where Sark gives its orders and is insulated to dialog with the MCP, small a CAP-Man flickers on the line of the screen.

  • the landscape which the vessel flies over presents a great profile of Mickey on the ground.
  • On a small poster in the office of Alan Bradley, one can read the words “Klaatu barada nikto”, in reference to the formula which Klaatu uses, the alien film the Day when the Earth stopped (Robert Wise, 1951) to direct its robot, Gort.
  • the name of film (and the character interpreted by Bruce Boxleitner) could be inspired of an order BASIC (an old data-processing language). TRON indeed means “Trace One” and requires of the computer to post with the screen the number of the line of program which it is carrying out. One puts an end to it with order TROFF.
  • the clip of the song From Paris to Infernal Berlin of , left in 2005, takes as a starting point the purified universe of Tron , in particular its races of motor bike.

Special effects

Tron is the first film to use sequences worked over again or conceived by computer. It should however be remembered that in 1980, the mouse (with its buttons and its ball) was not yet widespread. The invention of the mouse with ball goes back to 1979 and was conceived for the personal computers, products emerging at the time. And as Disney has to use large computers and not personal computers, the data processing specialists engaged by Disney worked of long hours only with one keyboard.

Made smoothed and artificial that one obtained with the images of the time is not a defect, since it makes it possible to give an artificial character to the world of the computer compared to reality. This returned by John Carpenter in 1996 for the submarine in Los Angeles was in addition used later 2013 , fakings having been made by Buena Vista Visual Effects, which is a branch of Disney…

Rewards

  • Nomination with the Oscar of the best costumes (Eloise Jensson and Rosanna Norton) and of the best sound in 1983.
  • Price of the best costumes and nomination at the price of best cartoon film and better science fiction film at the time of the Academy of science fiction films, fantastic and horror 1983.
  • Nomination at the price of the best special effects (Richard Taylor and Harrison Ellenshaw), at the time of BAFTA Awards 1983.

Derivative products

Video game

  • Tron . Play of arcade.
  • Discs Off Tron (1983). Another play of arcade on Tron.
  • Armagetron . Another play of free arcade on compatible Tron Linux Mac and Windows.
  • Tron . Play on Tron for the Atari 2600.
  • Tron: Deadly Discs , Tron: Refine-HAVe-Tron and Tron: Solar Sailor. Three Tron plays on Intellivision by Mattel.
  • Tron . A liquid play with crystals on Tron by Tomy.
  • 2003 : Tron 2.0 or Tron 2.0: Killer App on Windows, XBox (2004) and Game Boy Advance (2004). FPS/Aventure of Monolith Productions for the version Windows, Climax for the version Xbox, and DIGITAL Eclipses for the version Game Boy Advance.
  • Kingdom Hearts 2 . RPG where the universe of Tron is not majority but is visited like a " monde" by the heroes Sora, Donald and Nutcase, which meets Tron and will face the MCP and its Sark right-hand man to save the world of the Users.

Board game

  • TRON "Assault one MCP" Range (1981?). Published by Ideal. From 2 to 4 players for one duration of set of 30 minutes.

Music

External bonds

  • Tron on Internet Movie Database
  • Tron on AlloCiné
  • the costume of Tron, by a fan

Simple: Tron

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