Saturday and Tuesday and Tuesday

[jack]

Last Saturday, I cooked dinner and had sonic, mobbsy, martin, owen, mcg, alex and rob over and to watch Tron. Thank you for coming, it was fun! I was pleasantly surprised everyone got on well. Though I think a couple of people were a bit annoyed at a sudden Poohsoc critical mass :( And Alex was reading from a different page from everyone else as to why anyone would want to watch Tron at all, but I think we all enjoyed that. I lent him a stack of books to turn him into a proper scifi geek.

Tron is good. No, it doesn't make sense factually, but most of it feel right, and looks good.

For the record, apparently red/blue used to be blue/yellow, which is why the lightcycles and a few other other things are confusingly coloured.

For the record, no you *can't* digitise someone like that. Nor do the trials and tribulations exactly make sense from a programmatic perspective.

However, can anyone explain why Flynn goes red when he attacks that guard? Do you think it's just representative of stealing his uniform?

When I first saw it I was very puzzled why this happened (No, not not as a programmer, but just as Joe Average). Does it mean something? Is it just a random effect of the physics?

Comments

[simont]

I was given the novelisation of Tron as a present a couple of years ago. Like most film novelisations, it won't be winning any literature prizes, but like quite a few of them it has some interesting insights into what was actually going on which couldn't conveniently be expressed through the medium of film. (It is of course possible that those insights were made up by the novelising author, but since the novelisation also includes some deleted scenes which I recently discovered really were filmed, I'm inclined to assume for the moment that it does bear some relation to the original author's intent.)

According to that, Flynn does deliberately steal the guard's "uniform", and IIRC he's unpleasantly surprised when the guard de-rezzes as a result. When he changes back later, on the solar sailer, that's deliberate as well.

The thing that always amuses me about Tron is that its central message is so anti-corporate. Not what you'd expect from a Disney offering!

[simont]

(I don't quite RC, as it turns out: in the book he isn't surprised when the guard de-rezzes as a result of his uniform-theft, and doesn't waste any sympathy on him. It's only in the film that he looks a bit perturbed. But everything else I said here was accurate.)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I had presumed he looked perturbed because he was turning red. Either way, thank you, that makes as much sense as I suppose I'll get.