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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.
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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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.