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Interview with Tron Creator Steven Lisberger
NeoCode writes "AintItCool has posted an interesting interview with the Tron creator Steven Lisberger. He doesn't talk much about the sequel Tron 2.0 (because of a Disney gag order) but he reflects about the original movie with nostalgia. He talks about what influenced Tron and what Tron meant (and still does) to people. Have a read."
They really should call the sequel TROFF... or perhaps I need to get back on the medications.
Why do we need a sequel?
Tron was awesome because it wowed the audience with its technical advances. In these days with the Matrix and Star Wars and the like, technology isn't as thrilling. Sure, we like to see Pixar's next film, as they continually create more stunning characters and produce each sequential film is less time. That's cool. But it's not the drop-everything-OH-MY-GOD-let's-go-see-this film that Tron was.
Of course I'll go see it. I think that's a requirement of being a registered linux user, right? my point is that there are some films that had their day, still have their day, and should just be left alone. Tron is one of them.
There is no reasonable defense against an idiot with an agenda
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"Remind me. What was the Bit? "
The author sure did his research didn't he?
Did he even watch the movie?
Sure, the bit was a minor element in the movie, but come on.
First he states the tron is the best, then later asks: "Remind me. What was the Bit? "
/. do a 10 questions?
not really much of a tron fan.
then its?: I know you can't talk about tron 2, so here is a bunch of questions about tron 2...
blech.
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Eisner: What kind of consumer is he?
Ghost of Disney: He's not any kind of consumer, Eisner. He's a geek.
Eisner: A geek?!
GoD: What's the matter, Eisner? You look nervous.
Eisner: Geeks... well, I mean... geeks wrote us. A geek even wrote you!
GoD: No one geek wrote me! I'm worth millions of their geek-years!
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
I thought Bill Gates created tron and troff ... OH... sorry, I'm thinking of GWBASIC again.
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I could be wrong but I believe it's called Tron Killer App
What's with this Disney gag order? I mean, come on! I, for one, would be more inclined to spend the $10 to see the movie if I had been able to read more about it from this interview.
Why must they do that?
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My life in the land of the rising sun.
Since the interview was a bit sucky, here is the official site for Tron 2.0, its got a pretty neat flash intro....worth a peek
In fact, much of the "CG" in Tron was hand-animated by some outsourced firm in Asia. The first movie to have "realistic CGI" was The Last Starfighter, with 27 minutes of CGI. Tron, except for the "light cycle" scene, did not have significant CGI.
Read this history of the field.
It was just a bit - the increment that we could get out of computers at the time.
The computer's equivalent to an atom?
Exactly. A zero and a one. A positive or a negative.
NO! The bit in Tron wasn't a bit at all! It didn't have two states, on and off, yes and no, zero and 1... it had three states: 'yes', 'no', and 'stateless'. It would sit there until Flynn asked it a question and then it would answer yes or no. That's not two states. I don't mean to be a stick-in-the-mud, but it isn't.
Now, if they would have had the bit only say 'yes' when the answer to a question was yes (or vice versa: say nothing until the answer is no), then it would have been a bit. Nothing or yes, nothing or no: they should have picked one of those.
This is just something that's been bugging me since I was like 15 or so is all. Nothing to see, move along...
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The MCP controlled access to the I/O system, or tried to. It died when a program got direct access to I/O. While it seemed to have the potential for much more, it spent a lot of its time on games. It obliterated other programs by absorbing their functionality. At its core, when everything else was stripped away, it had a teletype interface. Without it, the system had a lot more power (think CPU cycles). What it feared most was a debugging tool and it was destroyed by source code. (This last bit is clearly prophetic =)
Of course, as it turns out, it's very funny.
... Anytime a work like this can go from one generation to the next, it means something ...
At the time, the whole millenialist rigamarole, with computers serving as the mark of the beast, had not permeated popular culture.
Then, in this silly movie there are computer programs which get died red in order to show their obsequious obedience to antichrist, I mean to the Master Control Program.
It's an amusing transposition - much more amusing than it was at the time (oh, the commie/atheist/roman computer programs are forcing the christian computer programs to fight in gladiatorial games,) since computers themselves have had a lot of PR as instruments of Satan since then.
Q: Moby's live show has a grand finale where he takes a beam of light to the head and arcs his arm in a similar fashion to the grand finale of Tron... A:
Moby was born in 1965. He's 38 years old. Come on.
The good and new comes from no quarter where it is looked for, and is always something different from what is expected.
This interview just bares this out. No interviewing skills demonstrated, meandering thought processes and the general kiss-ass attitude is just overbearing. This is hardly an endorsement for Filter Magazine. Sheesh, if this is what they call content, then I'm moving my mouse over to the X button in a hurry.