Tron: Legacy

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Movie
German title Tron: Legacy
Original title Tron: Legacy
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Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2010
length 127 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 10
Rod
Director Joseph Kosinski
script Adam Horowitz ,
Richard Jefferies ,
Edward Kitsis ,
Steven Lisberger
production Sean Bailey ,
Steven Lisberger,
Jeffrey Silver
music Daft punk
camera Claudio Miranda
cut James Haygood
occupation
synchronization
chronology

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Tron

Tron: Legacy [ trɒn ˈlɛgəsi ] is a science fiction film directed by Joseph Kosinski in 2010. It is the sequel to the 1982 film Tron . Steven Lisberger , the director of the first part , acted as producer . Jeff Bridges resumed his role as Kevin Flynn. Garrett Hedlund plays Flynn's adult son Sam. Other contributors include Bruce Boxleitner , who also appeared in Tron as Alan Bradley, Olivia Wilde and Beau Garrett . The film will be shown in Disney Digital 3-D and IMAX 3D .

action

In 1989 Kevin Flynn, an innovative programmer and the CEO of ENCOM International, disappears without a trace, leaving behind his son Sam. Twenty years later, in 2009, the now 27-year-old Sam owns the majority of the shares in ENCOM, but has little interest in the company. But when it was about to release a new operating system, he sabotaged the premiere and made the software available for free download on the Internet. Alan Bradley, an old friend of his father's and board member at ENCOM, visits him. He tells him about a strange pager message that was sent to him from Flynn's old arcade. When Sam examines the disused space, he discovers a laboratory with a still functional touchscreen computer behind a secret passage. He looks at the most recently executed commands and then inadvertently activates the laser behind him, which digitizes him and transports him to the "grid", a virtual world in the computer.

Sam is captured there by humanoid computer programs (that populate the grid) and equipped with a full body suit and an identity discus. Then they take him to a game arena, where he has to compete against champion Rinzler in gladiator games. During the duel it turns out that Sam is a "user", whereupon Rinzler brings him to Clu . This program is a digital image of Kevin Flynn, rules the grid and wants to destroy the programs' belief in users, that is, in people from outside their world. He wants to prove that, among other things, in a fight with the light runners . Sam must now compete with other, "user-believing" programs against Clus Team. Here Sam is almost killed and at the last moment saved by Quorra, where she destroys Clus Lichtrenner. She escapes from the grid with Sam and drives him in a light mobile to a remote hiding place in the "Outlands". There Sam meets his clearly aged father.

Over dinner, Kevin Flynn explains to his son why he once disappeared: He had worked on a new, perfect system and commissioned Clu to create this system. Flynn later discovered " isomorphic algorithms " (ISOs for short), programs created through spontaneous self-organization that had the potential to unravel the secrets of science , religion and medicine . However, Clu saw the ISOs as imperfect and therefore incompatible with his mission, which is why he wiped them out in a (according to Flynn) genocide . Furthermore, Clu turned against Flynn and manipulated his friend Tron so that he supports Clu. So Flynn had to hide from Clu outside the grid. In the meantime, the "portal", the interface to the real world, closed, as it only remains open for a short time. This made Flynn a prisoner of his own creation. Now Clu had sent the pager message to lure Sam into the grid so that the portal would open. Kevin fears that Clu wants to get into the real world in order to "perfect" it in a campaign. This requires Flynns identity discus, which serves as the key to the portal. That is why he denied his son the wish to return to the grid and go to the portal.

With Quorra's help, Sam looks for the Zuse program in its “End of Line Club”, which supposedly can lead him to the portal. But instead of helping Sam, Zuse betrays him to Clu's guardian. A fight breaks out between them and Sam. Kevin and Quorra arrive in time to help Sam, but Quorra's code is seriously damaged in the fight. In addition, Zuse succeeds in stealing Flynn's discus and finally handing it over to Clu, who shortly thereafter has the "End of Line Club" with Zuse in it destroyed. Kevin and Sam flee with the injured Quorra on a cargo ship. There Kevin repairs Quorra's code and tells Sam that she is the last surviving ISO.

The three reach a warship on the freighter, on which Clu commands an army of reprogrammed programs to conquer the real world with them. They meet Rinzler again, who turns out to be a reprogrammed Tron in the fight with Quorra (Flynn previously believed that Clu had deleted Tron during his rebellion). Sam saves Quorra from Rinzler and regains his father's disc. Quorra, Sam and Kevin escape in one of the light shuttles, but are followed by Clu, his guards and Rinzler. With Quorra at the helm and Sam in the turret, they manage to shoot down Clu's escort. When Rinzler attacks the shuttle, he looks Kevin in the eye and regains his old identity as Tron. He rams Clus Lichtjet and crashes with him. Clu shakes off Tron and generates a new light jet with which he flies to the portal. Tron falls into the "sea of ​​simulation", where his suit regains its original blue color.

Sam, Kevin and Quorra finally reach the portal, but Clu blocks their way for the last few meters. He fights with Kevin and steals his disc, but without knowing that Kevin had recently exchanged his disc for Quorras. Sam and Quorra enter the portal. Clu wants to follow them, but Kevin creates a wave that attracts Clu to him. Clu connects with Flynn and they become one. The connection triggers a huge explosion that destroys them and Clu's army.

Now Sam is back in reality and is in the basement of the arcade. It saves a backup virtual reality file on a memory card . Then he meets Alan, who is waiting for him in the arcade, and tells him that he wants to work at ENCOM after all and, in his role as majority owner, to appoint Alan as chairman of the board. Outside the arcade he meets Quorra and then drives off with her on his motorcycle to watch the sunrise, which Quorra only knew from Kevin's stories.

production

synchronization

role actor Voice actor
Kevin Flynn / Clu Jeff Bridges Frank Glaubrecht
Alan Bradley / Tron Bruce Boxleitner Lutz Riedel
Sam Flynn Garrett Hedlund Robin Kahnmeyer
Quorra Olivia Wilde Anja Stadlober
Castor / Zuse Michael Sheen Axel Malzacher
Richard Mackey Jeffrey Nordling Thomas Nero Wolff
Jarvis James Frain Torsten Michaelis

development

In the late 1990s, there was speculation that Disney would make a sequel as Tron became a cult film. On July 29, 1999, ZDnet News reported that Pixar was considering a Tron sequel or remake . During the following years, various websites spread rumors that a Tron sequel was in the works or was being developed. However, all of them turned out to be wrong.

On January 13, 2005, Variety reported that Disney had hired Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal to write a sequel for Tron .

At the San Diego Comic-Con 2008 the conference attendees were shown a concept clip (under the title TR2N and directed by Joseph Kosinski) as a surprise . It showed a light race between two programs, the blue program being followed by the yellow one. The yellow program, it is later revealed, bears the same facial features as Kevin Flynn, as does Flynn's earlier (and later disintegrated) program, Clu. The clip also featured Jeff Bridges in his role as Kevin Flynn from the first film. While the concept clip didn't confirm that the Tron sequel was actually being produced , it did show Disney was getting serious.

On September 24, 2008, Disney presented the upcoming films in a full day promotion for corporate partners and the media at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. One of the announced films was TR2N , which was advertised with the same clip that was shown at Comic-Con. Ain't It Cool News wrote: They showed the TRON 2 trailer, the same one that showed at Comic-Con 2008, visually updated, and Dick Cook, Chairman of Walt Disney Studios, said, 'It was of course one Attempt'.

On July 23, 2009, Disney revealed the current title at their Comic-Con 3D get-together. Jeff Bridges stated that the title relates to the theme of the story: it is essentially a story about a son's search for his father. A trailer similar to the one at Comic-Con 2008, but with an updated look, was also shown. At this point, production of the film had just been completed and it was about a year in post-production . Since no image material from the computer world had yet been completed, concept images from production were shown for the first time, including the deactivator (recognizer) known from the first film. The disc fights, which were developed from the original film into a tournament with 16 games, were also shown. The arena was set up so that the playing field develops organically and all 16 games take place at the same time. The boards merge in real time until the last two disc fighters connect.

The light races also returned, this time with a new design by Daniel Simon . At the press conference during Comic-Con 2009, it was announced that a new vehicle called "Light Runner" as a two-seat version of the already popular light Renner ( English light cycle are), which is very fast and the unique ability has its own Force to drive outside the grid. Kevin Flynn's own racer was also announced, the “second generation light racer,” designed by Flynn in 1989 and about which “it's rumored to be still the fastest thing on the net.” Its design reflects the characteristics of both films.

A life-size model of the light runner was on display at a booth at Fan Expo 2009 in Toronto, Canada from August 28-30, 2009, along with a special display of production material. In addition to the concept images already known from Comic-Con, test films with martial artists were shown , which give the disc fights a more athletic style. In a shown scene from the film, Flynn's son enters the now dilapidated arcade after receiving a message from the number of the switched off phone in the arcade. While trying to play a TRON arcade video game machine, he discovers a passage in the wall behind the machine and enters it, whereupon the passage closes behind him.

Filming

Filming began in Vancouver in April 2009. Studio shooting for the film took place at the Canadian Motion Picture Park Studio in Burnaby . Filming ended in July 2009.

Even if it was still spread in 2008 that the entire film, like the concept clip , would be shot in 3D , only the scenes in the digital world were shown in 3D in the cinema. In the opening credits it was also pointed out that some scenes will be shown in 2D. Digital Domain worked on the visual effects .

In April 2009, pictures appeared on the Internet showing the actors in blue, skin-tight suits. The design of the suits is reminiscent of the suits that the actors wore in the original film.

music

The French electro formation Daft Punk composed the score . The album of the same name with the soundtrack was released in December 2010 on Walt Disney Records. In the film, Daft Punk ( Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo ) have a cameo appearance as DJs in the End of Line Club. When asked why he chose Daft Punk for the film music, Kosinski replied, “How could you not at least try these guys?” The titles Separate Ways from Journey and Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) from Eurythmics are also included in the film.

marketing

On July 21, 2009, several cinema websites reported that they had received a few gold coins (“Flynn's Arcade”) in the mail, along with a USB stick. There was an animated GIF image on it that showed lines of CSS code. Four of these were put together and, through code interpretation, revealed the address Flynnlives.com, a fictional site run by activists who believe Kevin Flynn is alive even though he has been missing since 1989. Clicking on a small spider at the bottom of the main page took you to a countdown clock that counted down to July 23, 2009, 9:30 a.m. PDT . The Terms of Use found an address in San Diego , near the Convention Center, where Comic-Con 2009 was taking place and where material and information about the sequel was posted. Flynn's Arcade reopened in this location, equipped with arcade machines from Space Paranoids and a number of other video games from the 1980s. A life-size light racer from the new film was shown.

The same light fighter as in San Diego was shown at the Fan Expo 2009 in Toronto on August 20. There were also drawings of “Flynn's Arcade” around the light runner, and there were also screens in the exhibition on which the teaser and “graphics tests” could be seen in an endless loop.

A second viral website, homeoftron.com, was found. There you will find parts of the story of "Flynn's Arcade" as well as a fan thinking area.

A seven-minute exclusive clip and the new cinema trailer were shown at the 2010 Comic-Con in San Diego .

On October 28, 2010 the so-called TRON DAY took place worldwide. 23 minutes from the upcoming film were shown free of charge in selected cinemas in the original language (English). It was 23 minutes from different scenes in the film. At the beginning there was an introductory text to read. The end of the last shown scene merges into one of the recently released Tron Legacy trailers. Cell phones and cameras had to be switched off in the cinemas for security reasons. The cinema halls were also video-monitored with night vision devices.

publication

The film celebrated its world premiere on November 30, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan. It was released in theaters in the United States on December 17, 2010.

The German premiere of Tron: Legacy took place on January 21, 2011 as part of Stylenite , a cultural event by designer Michael Michalsky , during Berlin Fashion Week. It was shown in cinemas on January 27, 2011 in Germany , Austria and German-speaking Switzerland . It started running in Ticino on January 5, 2011 and in French-speaking Switzerland on February 9, 2011.

Reviews

“In terms of content, director Joseph Kosinski is less able to counter the breathtaking visual design than he had hoped. Of course, the first part was neither characterized by theatrical highlights nor by a coherent script, but was able to cover up these weaknesses not only through the unique implementation, but also through a naive charm, which the sequel now almost completely lacks. Instead, you get a banal message at the end that is diametrically opposed to both films: When Kevin Flynn declares the pursuit of (technical) perfection as a mistake, Sam Quorra teaches the beauty of nature and director Krasinski [sic!] Chooses sun-drenched landscape shots as the final shots , the film, which previously extensively celebrated its highly stylized cyber aesthetics at the highest level for two hours, finally torpedoes itself. "

- Filmstarts.de

“... If you reduce your demands on story and characters, the cinema ticket is definitely worth it, provided you have invested a few extra euros in the 3D performance. Visually you can't blame the flick and the action is also right, with the exception of the unfortunately unsuccessful showdown, from which I had expected a lot more. But would I watch the film again and especially in 2D? Probably not!"

- Gameradio.de

“Conclusion: Tron: Legacy is adventure cinema, which conceals the thin story with visually outstanding images. The references to the religions could safely have been saved, because the film is smarter than it actually is and takes a lot of its fun. Incidentally, you don't need to have seen part one to understand it, but there are some details that only connoisseurs will notice. It remains to be seen whether Disney's courage will pay off in this project in the end. The only thing that is clear is that Tron: Legacy - from a purely technical point of view - is the best 3D real-life film since Avatar . "

- Outnow.ch

Trivia

  • Zuse is named after the computer pioneer Konrad Zuse . Before Castor comes out as Zuse, he says to Sam: "Zuse has been here since the very first days of the game grid". This also applies to Konrad Zuse, based on the real history of the computer.
  • The cost of the film was around $ 170 million. By April 3, 2011, approximately $ 398 million had been earned worldwide; of which in the USA about $ 171 million and in Germany $ 14.2 million.
  • At the beginning of the film, Sam Flynn enters the ENCOM building through a huge reinforced door. When the door opens he says: “Really a murder door!” In a similar way and with exactly the same saying, his father gained access to the ENCOM building in the first Tron film.
  • A container with the label “Dumont”, the name of the tower control program from the first part, serves as the “roof” of Sam's container apartment. The font of the name "Dumont" corresponds to that of the title "Tron" from the first film.
  • The MCP module from the first part is barely visible as a pencil holder version in Kevin Flynn's office on a side table.
  • The director of the first Tron film, Steven Lisberger , makes a brief appearance as a barman in the end-of-line club.
  • The face of Clu, played by Jeff Bridges, has been digitally rejuvenated. For reference, Jeff Bridges' face from the film held Against All Odds ( Against All Odds ) from 1984 ago.
  • During a fight scene, Sam Flynn kills one of the hostile programs, which dies with Wilhelm's scream.
  • Unlike in the first film, the motorcycle fights are spread over different levels. Furthermore, the light walls are no longer exclusively straight; Curves can be driven as such and are no longer directly bent at right angles.

Awards

Academy Awards 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

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  10. ^ Robert Falconer: First Location Shot from 'Tron 2.0' . ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. cinemaspy, April 8, 2009, accessed August 11, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cinemaspy.com
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  14. ^ Disney unveils 'Tron' effects studio .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Variety, August 4, 2009, accessed August 14, 2009@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.variety.com  
  15. ↑ TR2N In 3D And With Jeff Bridges (English) - Movie-Trailer.com , October 9, 2008 (formerly on Blogspot , April 1, 2009; accessed May 18, 2016)
  16. ↑ Daft Punk To Score 'Tron 2' . Billboard, March 4, 2009, accessed April 27, 2009
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  19. ↑ Who Is The Most Amazing? ( Memento of May 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Flynnlives.com, June 1993 (English)
  20. ↑ Meredith Woerner: First Tron 2 Viral: Flynn Lives . io9, July 21, 2009 (English) Retrieved May 18, 2016
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  22. ↑ The daring combination of Fashion Week , Spiegel.de from January 22, 2011, accessed on September 29, 2011
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  24. ^ Review on Filmstarts.de, accessed on February 8, 2011
  25. ↑ criticism on gameradio.de, accessed 4 February 2010
  26. ^ Review on outnow.ch, accessed on January 6, 2010
  27. ↑ FAQ on film in the Internet Movie Database .
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