TRON (TRX) strives to build the future of a truly decentralized internet and global free content entertainment system that utilizes blockchain technology. The TRON Protocol represents the architecture of an operating system based on the blockchain which could enable developers to create smart contracts and decentralized applications, freely. Tron was a movie in 1982 by Disney that was moderately successful at the box office it was about a programmer that gets sucked into his computer and it's electronic world. The film was centered on a game where the players had to cut each other off using motor bikes that left a line behind them.
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Contents PersonalityTron's personality is that of a determined warrior, willing to do anything for the users and for the freedom of his fellow programs. He is usually serious and task-focused and has a deep reverence towards users, especially his own user, Alan-One.
Tron displays a particularly high loyalty to, who is both his friend and a user. Tron bravely stood his ground against a superior number of soldiers, including, to protect.AppearancesA prototype of 'Tron' was completed in January by programmer Alan Bradley as a self-monitoring security program. The full name of this program was 'TRON-JA-307020'.
Work continued on Tron until, when the program was complete. During a meeting with ENCOM's then Senior Executive, Alan explained how Tron worked.
“ Well, it's called Tron. It's a security program itself, actually. It monitors all contacts between our system and other systems.
It finds anything going on that's not scheduled, it shuts it down.” ―Alan BradleyAfter Dillinger asked if Tron was part of the, Alan said no and added that it could 'watchdog the MCP as well.' This meeting took place shortly after Alan found out that his access to Tron and the ENCOM computers was suspended after tried to hack his way into ENCOM to get his video game copyright data that Dillinger stole from him. It was during this time that Tron was held captive under Commander Program and the MCP and forced to play gladiator video games on the Game Grid.After Flynn explained to Alan why he tried to hack into ENCOM to rightfully get back his data, Alan and his girlfriend, decided to help him by using Tron to shut the MCP down and let him get the evidence that Dillinger stole Flynn's data. Shortly after this, was digitized by the MCP to fight the same gladiator video games that Tron was playing.When Flynn finally met up with Tron, Flynn thought he was Alan, to which Tron responded, 'Where did you hear that name?' Flynn replied, 'Well, that's your name, isn't it?'
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Tron said, 'The name of my User!' Shortly after this, Tron, Flynn, and another conscript, Ram were forced to play a gladiator game of light cycles against three programs from Sark's army. As Flynn wrote the ' game, he had complete knowledge of the game's AI and routines and caused one of the programs to crash into a wall of the game grid, leaving a crack in the wall. Flynn knew this was the way out and drove his light cycle through the hole and escaped out of the game grid. Tron and Ram escaped as well. As Flynn looked behind to see Tron and behind him, he yelled out, 'Greetings, Programs!' In order for Tron to destroy the MCP and change the system, he needed data from, his user, to be encoded on his '.
To do this, he would have to communicate with Alan-One via the, which was strictly forbidden by the MCP. While on the way to the I/O Tower, the three conscripts were spotted by one of the tanks of Sark's Army. The tank fired and hit Flynn and Ram's light cycles, mortally wounding Ram. When Tron looked back to see if Flynn and Ram were still alive, there was no trace of life and no response. Upset with the loss of his friends, Tron drove off to the tower and an armada of were firing at him.With the help of his 'girlfriend', and the Tower Guardian, Tron communicated to Alan-One and escaped with Yori by stealing a simulation and flying it towards the heart of the ENCOM system, where the MCP was located.While traveling towards the MCP, Tron was reunited with Flynn.
Flynn had survived the attack, but Ram didn't.After several attempts by the MCP and Sark to stop the from reaching its destination, Sark finally succeeded by ramming his carrier into the Solar Sailer in an ambush. As the Solar Sailer started to derez from the damage, Tron fell off to what seemed to be his death. Yori and Flynn hung onto the remaining wreckage as the remains of the sailer floated in a landing bay of the.While Yori and Flynn were held captive (along with Dumont who was taken away for helping Tron) Sark removed all of their energy and revealed that the carrier was going to derez after he disembarked in his escape pod. With their very low energy levels, that would mean Flynn and Yori would derez as well. He was also going to take Dumont away and have the MCP derez him and take away his functions.As Sark left the carrier, little did he know that Tron had survived the ambush and hung onto the outside of the carrier.
He made his way to the escape pod and hung on as the pod flew out of the carrier and onto the vast mesa that the MCP sits on.Due to the fact that he was a User, Flynn secretly had enough energy to survive while the carrier derezzed around them. Yori did not and began to derez along with the carrier, until Flynn grabbed hold of her and transferred his energy to her, thus saving her life. The walls of the prison they were in disappeared and they escaped as the carrier turned into a wireframe.Meanwhile, Dumont was slowing being absorbed by the MCP. The MCP 'felt a presence' and realized that 'another warrior' was on the mesa. Sark immediately turned around and saw Tron on the mesa. The two of them fought with their identity discs as they jumped to avoid the crevasses in the mesa.
With one mighty swing, Tron threw his disk so hard that Sark's disc broke in two and sliced Sark's scalp, killing him.The MCP noticed that his ally died and gave all of his functions to him, successfully reviving him. As Tron threw his disk at the base of the MCP, the MCP's shields went online and protected him from the lethal disc.
When a hole in the shields finally appeared, Sark appeared from behind. With the MCP's functions, Sark grew 15 feet tall and was invulnerable to disc attacks.Flynn, while watching the battle from the remains of Sark's carrier realized, that he had to 'distract' the MCP so Tron can get his disc in. In order to distract the MCP, Flynn decided that jumping into the 'beam' of the MCP would confuse him greatly and would make him vulnerable to attacks. However, Yori said to Flynn that he would derez by doing this, to which Flynn replied, 'Don't worry.' Flynn then shared a passionate kiss with Yori - something that programs had never experienced before - and jumped off of the carrier.With Flynn 'inside' of the MCP, Tron threw his disc and derezzed the MCP.
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Dumont and the other Tower Guardians were saved and escaped from the mesa just in time before the MCP blew up in a great explosion. Yori and Tron reunited and shared a kiss, as Dumont remarked that all of the I/O Towers were lighting up again.Flynn, as a User, really didn't die but was kicked out of the computer world and returned to his original analog format in the real world. With the MCP deleted, he finally obtained the evidence that proved that Dillinger stole his video games.
Dillinger was then fired and Flynn was rehired at ENCOM as Senior Executive V.P. As he was reunited with Alan and Lora, he greeted them with the same saying he said to Tron and Ram; 'Greetings, Programs!' Between Tron and Tron: Legacy -During this time, Tron was upgraded and moved over to Flynn's personal server in order to help protect the Grid and had a cyberspace city named in his honor. He was also present when the ISOs began emerging. When gradually started to effect his rule over the Grid, Tron became suspicious of his friend's actions and - on at least one occasion - managed to save a program that had been defeated in the games from being derezzed on CLU's orders.1989Tron assisted a prototype system monitor program named Anon to prevent system-wide infection by the viral program Abraxas. He and Flynn were later attacked by CLU 2.0, and Tron was assumed to have been derezzed while helping Flynn escape.Somehow, despite being severely damaged, Tron was able to escape Clu's grasp, resorting to disguising himself as a mysterious program called 'Rinzler', changing his circuitry color and donning a jet black helmet to avoid detection and capture. Tron's sudden disappearance led most programs on the Grid to believe that he was derezzed and Clu encouraged this rumor.
Disgraced that he had failed to properly carry out his role as protector of the Tron system, Tron went to hiding, ultimately allowing Clu to begin taking over the Grid.' S actions in rebelling against Clu drew Tron's attention, and disguised as Rinzler, Tron tracked down the young program and took him under his wing. He wanted Beck to become his successor as protector of the Grid, emphasizing that a war was raging.
Initially skeptical, Beck agreed and began the training that would set him on a path to 'become the next Tron'.2010had long presumed that derezzed Tron. However, it turns out that Tron was actually reprogrammed to serve him as, with the familiar 'T' insignia on his suit hinting at his true identity. While engaging the heroes in a Light Jet dogfight, he begins to overcome his reprogramming and makes an unsuccessful attempt to derez CLU 2 that sends him plummeting into the Sea of Simulation. As he sinks deeper and deeper into the ocean, he is gradually restored to normal as his system reboots and his circuitry returns to its natural white color.His current status is unknown.TRON is Mentioned (but not seen) in the sequel. Tron meets, and while trapped in a Pit Cell with them in the mainframe of 's computer. After escaping the cell and enabling access back to the real world, the four companions proceed to find a way to unlock the DTD (Door to Darkness).
After activating a power core, Tron sends Sora and the others back to Hollow Bastion to locate the password required to access the DTD. They locate the password behind a large painting of Xehanort (thanks to Tifa moving it aside), the password being the seven names of the Princesses of Heart.
Tron hacks into the DTD and changes the password to Sora, Donald, and Goofy, to bide himself time before the MCP attacks again. Sora, Tron, and the others reach the I/O Tower where they fight a Hostile Program, which they defeat.Tron reveals to the three that Ansem is his user (although which Ansem it remains a mystery).
He also explains Ansem rebooted the MCP, suggesting ' to be.During the group's return visit to the mainframe, Tron has been forced onto the Game Grid to fight for his life, while Hollow Bastion is being overrun by digitized Heartless by the corrupted town defense mechanism. Sora and the others save Tron and he learns all the Hollow Bastion residents are supporting him. Cid creates an Eradicator Program to stop the MCP's threat for good, which Aerith later passes on to Tron at the I/O Tower. Using the Solar Sailer vehicle to reach the core of the mainframe, Tron, Sora, Donald, and Goofy battle an upgraded Sark and the MCP. The MCP is eventually deleted and Sark dies with him. Tron is overjoyed and shows off his 'funny side' to his friends, who he hugs in a term of goodbye, before jumping into the core to take over the MCP's programming.
He locates old footage of Hollow Bastion when it was first built and reminded everyone of its former name: Radiant Garden.It is never shown if Tron learns the truth about 'Xehanort' having been the actual person to activate the MCP but under the stolen name Ansem, especially since Sora learned this by the time of his return trip to Space Paranoids.Tron is last seen in the credits, where he apparently downloaded other software and happily 'danced' back to the data space.He is voiced by (English) and Hiroshi Tsuchida (Japanese).Gallery.
Running time96 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget17 millionBox officeUS$50 millionTron (stylized as TRON) is a 1982 American - written and directed by from a story by Lisberger. The film stars as a computer programmer who is transported inside the software world of a mainframe computer where he interacts with programs in his attempt to escape., and star in supporting roles.The development of Tron began in 1976, when Lisberger became intrigued with the early video game.
He and producer set up an animation studio to develop Tron with the intention of making it an animated film. Indeed, to promote the studio itself, Lisberger and his team created a 30-second animation featuring the first appearance of the title character. Eventually, Lisberger decided to include live-action elements with both backlit and computer animation for the actual feature-length film. Various film studios had rejected the storyboards for the film before agreed to finance and distribute Tron. There, was finally combined with the computer animation and live action.Tron was released on July 9, 1982. The film was a moderate success at the box office, and it received positive reviews from critics who praised the groundbreaking visuals and acting.
However, the storyline was criticized at the time for being incoherent. Tron received nominations for and at the and received the fourteen years later. Tron was not nominated in the category of visual effects because the academy saw it as cheating to use computers to generate environments and effects. Over time, Tron developed into a and eventually spawned a, which consists of multiple video games, comic books and an animated television series. A sequel titled directed by was released on December 17, 2010, with Bridges and Boxleitner reprising their roles, and Lisberger acting as producer, followed by the animated series set between the two films.
Contents.Plot Kevin Flynn is a leading formerly employed by the computer corporation ENCOM, who now runs a and attempts to into ENCOM's system. However, ENCOM's (MCP) halts his progress. Within ENCOM, programmer Alan Bradley and his girlfriend, engineer Lora Baines, discover that the MCP has closed off their access to projects. When Alan confronts the senior executive vice president, Ed Dillinger, Dillinger claims that the security measures are an effort to stop outside hacking attempts. However, when Dillinger privately questions the MCP, he discovers the MCP has expanded into a powerful and has become power-hungry, illegally appropriating personal, business, and government programs to increase its own capabilities.
The MCP blackmails Dillinger with information about his plagiarizing Flynn's games if he does not comply with its directives.Lora deduces that Flynn is the hacker, and she and Alan go to his arcade to warn him. Flynn reveals that he has been trying to locate evidence proving Dillinger's plagiarism, which launched Dillinger's rise in the company. Together, the three form a plan to break into ENCOM and unlock Alan's 'Tron' program, a self-governing security measure designed to protect the system and counter the functions of the MCP. Once inside ENCOM, the three split up and Flynn comes into direct conflict with the MCP, communicating with his terminal. Before Flynn can get the information he needs to reveal Dillinger's acts, the MCP uses an experimental to digitize and download Flynn into the ENCOM mainframe cyberspace, where programs are living entities appearing in the likeness of the human 'Users' (programmers) who created them.Flynn learns that the MCP and its second-in-command, Sark, rule and coerce programs to renounce their belief in the Users. The MCP forces programs that resist to play in deadly and begins pitting Flynn in duels.
Flynn meets other captured programs, Ram and Tron, between matches. Partnered, the three escape into the mainframe during a match, but Flynn and Ram become separated from Tron by an MCP pursuit party. While attempting to help Ram, who was wounded in the pursuit, Flynn learns that he can manipulate portions of the mainframe by accessing his programmer knowledge. Ram recognizes Flynn as a User and encourages him to find Tron and free the system before 'derezzing' (dying). Using his new ability, Flynn rebuilds a vehicle and disguises himself as one of Sark's soldiers.Tron enlists help from Yori, a sympathetic program, and at an I/O tower receives from Alan information necessary to destroy the MCP. Flynn rejoins them, and the three board a hijacked solar sailer to reach the MCP's core. However, Sark's command ship destroys the sailer, capturing Flynn and Yori and presumably killing Tron.
Sark leaves the command ship and orders its deresolution, but Flynn keeps it intact by again manipulating the mainframe, while Sark reaches the MCP's core on a shuttle carrying captured programs. While the MCP attempts to absorb captive programs, Tron, who turns out to have survived, confronts Sark and critically injures him, prompting the MCP to give him all its functions.
Realizing that his ability to manipulate the mainframe might give Tron an opening, Flynn leaps into the beam of the MCP, distracting it. Seeing the break in the MCP's shield, Tron attacks through the gap and destroys the MCP and Sark, ending the MCP's control over the mainframe and allowing the captured programs to communicate with users again.Flynn reappears in the real world, rematerialized at his terminal. Tron's victory in the mainframe has released all lockouts on computer access, and a nearby printer produces the evidence that Dillinger had plagiarized Flynn's creations. The next morning, Dillinger enters his office to find the MCP deactivated and the proof of his theft publicized. Flynn is subsequently promoted to CEO of ENCOM and is happily greeted by Alan and Lora as their new boss.Cast. Main article:The soundtrack for Tron was written by pioneer electronic musician, who is best known for her album and for the soundtracks to many films, including. The music, which was the first collaboration between Carlos and her partner Annemarie Franklin, featured a mix of an analog and 's GDS digital synthesizer (complex and ), along with non-electronic pieces performed by the (hired at the insistence of Disney, which was concerned that Carlos might not be able to complete her score on time).
Two additional musical tracks ('1990's Theme' and 'Only Solutions') were provided by the American band after British band pulled out of the project. An album featuring dialogue, music and sound effects from the film was also released on LP by Disneyland Records in 1982.Reception Box office Tron was released on July 9, 1982, in 1,091 theaters in the United States and Canada grossing $4 million on its opening weekend. It went on to gross $33 million in the United States and Canada and $17 million overseas, for a worldwide gross of approximately $50 million, which was Disney's highest-grossing live action film for 5 years.In addition, the film had $70 million in wholesale merchandise sales.Despite the gross and merchandise sales, it was seen as a financial disappointment, and the studio wrote off some of its $17 million budget. Critical response The film was well received by critics. Of the gave the film four out of four stars and described it as 'a dazzling movie from Disney in which computers have been used to make themselves romantic and glamorous.
Here's a technological sound-and-light show that is sensational and brainy, stylish and fun'. However, near the end of his review, he noted (in a positive tone), 'This is an almost wholly technological movie. Although it's populated by actors who are engaging (Bridges, Cindy Morgan) or sinister (Warner), it's not really a movie about human nature. Like or but much more so, this movie is a machine to dazzle and delight us'.
Ebert closed his first annual Overlooked Film Festival with a showing of Tron. Of the also awarded four out of four stars, calling it 'a trip, and a terrifically entertaining one at that.It's a dazzler that opens up our minds to our new tools, all in a traditional film narrative.'
Tron was also featured in Siskel and Ebert's video pick of the week in 1993.InfoWorld's Deborah Wise was impressed, writing that 'it's hard to believe the characters acted out the scenes on a darkened soundstage. We see characters throwing illuminated, driving 'lightcycles' on a video-game grid, playing a dangerous version of and zapping numerous fluorescent tanks in arcade-game-type mazes. It's exciting, it's fun, and it's just what video-game fans and anyone with a spirit of adventure will love—despite plot weaknesses.' On the other hand, disliked the film and said in its review, ' Tron is loaded with visual delights but falls way short of the mark in story and viewer involvement.
Screenwriter-director Steven Lisberger has adequately marshalled a huge force of technicians to deliver the dazzle, but even kids (and specifically computer game geeks) will have a difficult time getting hooked on the situations'. In her review for, criticized the film's visual effects: 'They're loud, bright and empty, and they're all this movie has to offer'. The 's Gary Arnold wrote, 'Fascinating as they are as discrete sequences, the computer-animated episodes don't build dramatically. They remain a miscellaneous form of abstract spectacle'.
In his review for, wrote, 'It's got momentum and it's got marvels, but it's without heart; it's a visionary technological achievement without vision'.On review aggregation website rated the film at 73% based on the reviews of 60 critics, with an average rating of 6.41/10. The website's consensus states: 'Though perhaps not as strong dramatically as it is technologically, TRON is an original and visually stunning piece of science fiction that represents a landmark work in the history of computer animation.' Gave the film a score of 58 based on 13 reviews, indicating 'mixed or average reviews'.In the year it was released, the Motion Picture Academy refused to nominate Tron for a special-effects award because, as director Steven Lisberger puts it, 'The Academy thought we cheated by using computers'. The film did, however, earn Oscar nominations in the categories of and (, and ). Cultural effect In 1997, of the won an for his invention of for Tron.The film, considered groundbreaking, has inspired several individuals in numerous ways., head of and 's animation group, described how the film helped him see the potential of computer-generated imagery in the production of animated films, stating 'without Tron, there would be no.' The music video of the song ' of the Italian rapper is based on Tron. The two members of the French group, who scored the, have held a joint, lifelong fascination with the film.
Also, in ' music video for the song '.' Main article:'Tron: Uprising takes place during the time period between the story lines of the two movies Tron (1982) and (2010). In the series, young program Beck becomes the leader of a revolution inside the computer world of The Grid, tasked with the mission of freeing his home and friends from the reign of Clu and his henchman, Gen. To prepare for the challenge, Beck is trained by Tron – the greatest warrior The Grid has ever known – who mentors Beck as he grows beyond his youthful nature into a courageous and powerful leader. Destined to become the system's new protector, Beck adopts Tron's persona to battle the forces of evil.Tron: Legacy.
Main article:On January 12, 2005, Disney announced it had hired screenwriters Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal to write a sequel to Tron. In 2008, director negotiated to develop and direct TRON, described as 'the next chapter' of the 1982 film and based on a preliminary teaser trailer shown at that year's, with Lisberger co-producing. Filming began in, British Columbia in April 2009. During the 2009 Comic-Con, the title of the sequel was revealed to be changed to. The second trailer (also with the Tron: Legacy logo) was released in 3D with.
A third trailer premiered at Comic-Con 2010 on July 22. At Disney's D23 Expo on September 10–13, 2009, they also debuted teaser trailers for Tron: Legacy as well as having light cycle and other props from the film there. The film was released on December 17, 2010, with composing the score. See also. ^ 'Disney Sets 'Tron' B.O.
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