Visiting Tron

Tron is a 1982 American action science fiction film by Walt Disney Pictures. It stars Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn (and his program counterpart inside the electronic world, Clu), Bruce Boxleitner as Tron and his User Alan Bradley, Cindy Morgan as Yori and Dr. Lora Baines, and Dan Shor as Ram. David Warner plays all three main antagonists: the program Sark, his User Ed Dillinger, and the voice of the Master Control Program. It was written and directed by Steven Lisberger. Tron has a distinctive visual style, as it was one of the first films from a major studio to use computer graphics extensively. It spawned a long running franchise consisting of films, video games, comics and a planned television series. In the year it was released, the Motion Picture Academy refused to nominate Tron for special effects because "they said we 'cheated' when we used computers which, in the light of what happened, is just mind-boggling". The film did, however, earn Oscar nominations in the categories of Best Costume Design and Best Sound. Most of the scenes, backgrounds and visual effects in the film were created using more traditional techniques and a unique process known as "backlit animation". In this process, live-action scenes inside the computer world were filmed in black-and-white on an entirely black set, printed on large format high-contrast film, then colorized with photographic and rotoscopic techniques to give them a "technological" feel. With multiple layers of high-contrast, large format positives and negatives, this process required truckloads of sheet film and a workload even greater than that of a conventional cel-animated feature. In addition, the varying quality and age of the film layers caused differing brightness levels for the backlit effects from frame to frame, explaining why glowing outlines and circuit traces tended to flicker in the original film. Due to its difficulty and cost, this process would never be repeated for another feature film. Today, the film has a major cult following, and is recognized by many as the landmark sci-fi film that it truly is.

On January 12, 2005, it was announced that Disney hired screenwriters Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal to write a sequel to Tron. In 2008, director Joseph Kosinski negotiated to develop and direct "TR2N", described as "the next chapter" of the 1982 film and based on a preliminary teaser trailer shown at that year's San Diego Comic-Con, with Lisberger co-producing. Filming began in Vancouver, British Columbia in April 2009.[28] During the 2009 Comic-Con, the title of the sequel was revealed to be changed to "Tron Legacy". A newer "secret" trailer for Tron Legacy was attached to Alice In Wonderland in 3D. A tie-in video game, entitled Tron Evolution, is set for release in winter 2010

"The Visitors", originally "Den första" (meaning "The First"), was the final single release from Swedish pop group ABBA's studio album of the same name, released in the United States in 1981. The lead vocal was sung by Anni-Frid Lyngstad. The official stated theme is a protest against the mistreatment of political dissidents in the Soviet Union at the time, as ABBA seemed to input political issues into their lyrics in the final days of the group.

In 1982, the album The Visitors was banned from the Soviet Union, though it is likely due to the band's participation on the US Department of Information television special, Let Poland Be Poland, broadcast via satellite around the world on January 31, 1982. The show, which also featured Frank Sinatra, Paul McCartney, Orson Welles, Henry Fonda and U.S. President Ronald Reagan, was a public protest against the then-recent imposition of martial law in Poland.

In 1999, ABBA's music was adapted into the successful musical Mamma Mia! that toured worldwide and had a movie version released in 2008, becoming the highest grossing film in the UK ever. The group will be inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 15 March 2010.

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[matt234pm]

they did not have that computer trchnology in 82

[SwimCharSwim]

@matt234pm can you please clarify your comment? obviously, they did have the technology in 1982, because that's when TRON came out. the process by which the film was made is described in the info section to the video.

[BLAZE45]

IS IT JUST ME OR WAS THIS MOVIE A LIL A HEAD OF ITS TIME? LOL

[Iluthra]

@BLAZE45 haters look at it as cheesy now but yes, back then it was ahead of its time. Now we're used to CGI in many films.

[thesuperBIGCHEEZ]

@SwimCharSwim sorry i ment to thumbs up

[DJKickstarter]

@RetroVGamer In The Matrix when he stops the bullits

[dapenguin2]

@RetroVGamer

Watch the 1982 tron,then the first matrix.they completely copied tron.

[paintballer3377]

Absolutely. It was an awesome advancement in computer graphics in movies for teh time, but it was ahead of it's time. I think it was the story that fell flat, at least to audiences in the early 80's... much like Avatar today lol, visually pleasing, bad story

[lowercase18]

@SwimCharSwim i think he was being sarcastic. probably couldnt believe it haha. i find it more incredible when i say"it was three years after the 70's". its to goob, but true.

[bakerandbaker1]

Not to mention the computer graphics and other methods used to make this movie were ahead of their time. I don't know if Cameron meant to do it, but Avatar shows visible similarities in plot and filmaking.

[baoghal]

@RetroVGamer Avatar is every "privileged outsider saves the oppressed" movie. Avatar is a formula that people keep watching.

[RetroVGamer]

This movie was Avatar before Avatar. Think about it. Flynn enters another world as an Avatar. In this case as a Program. He rallies a few Programs together and they over through evil. The same thing that happens in Avatar. There's always that point in these movies too, where the main character shows the people of the world. That he's more than they are, he's something special, like a chosen one. In Tron's case when Flynn brings Yori back to life. In Avatar when he rides that giant Dragon.