Line #23 Trivia/Tron


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2	* AbilityOverAppearance: Creator/JeffBridges wasn't the original or intended choice for Flynn. According to Lisberger, Flynn was originally envisioned as a thinner, more stereotypical "nerdy" type of guy as one might imagine a computer programmer to look as opposed to Bridges, who is a large, athletic, classically handsome man, but he just brought so much energy to the role that they just had to cast him. Then the NerdsAreSexy trope was born.
3	* ActingForTwo:
4	** Creator/DavidWarner plays Dillinger, Sark and the MCP. The MCP is shown to interact with the other two on numerous separate occasions.
5	** All programs have the same actor as their Users: Flynn and Clu, Alan and Tron, Lora and Yori...[[note]] Three actors in the franchise have had three different roles in it. Warner, as noted above, played a trifecta of villains. Creator/JeffBridges played Flynn and both the good Clu 1.0 and the evil Clu 2.0. Morgan played Lora, Yori, and [=Ma3a=] in ''VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh'' [[/note]]
6	** Even the PA announcements in the laser bay were done by the same person voicing the announcements inside the Game Grid.
7	* BlackSheepHit: It was a product of the Disney Dark Age [[note]] Lasting from Walt's death in 1967 to the release of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid\|1989}}'' in 1989, a period where the company was in disarray due to a lack of clear leadership, cut-rate animation, Creator/DonBluth's defection to start his own studio in frustration with the way things were run, and losing their lock on the "family film" market due to Creator/GeorgeLucas and Creator/StevenSpielberg [[/note]] where the studio was throwing anything it could at the proverbial wall and hoping it stuck. A live-action soft sci-fi film with heavy-duty religious themes and an astonishing amount of graphic violence isn't a typical Disney flick (at least not until TheNewTens), and it's one of the only products of the Disney Dark Age that made a lasting impression on pop culture.
8	* CashCowFranchise: Even though it was [[AdoredByTheNetwork highly advertised]], using early advanced CGI and being non-successful in theaters at the time it has expanded uniquely into tie-ins, merchandise, video games, a comic miniseries, score albums, roller coaster attractions, it's animated series ''WesternAnimation/TronUprising'' and soon TRON: Ares sequel it still lives as a successful Science fiction Creator/{{Disney}} franchise.
9	* CompletelyDifferentTitle:
10	** Taiwan: ''Electronic World Contest''
11	* {{Defictionalization}}:
12	** The "Light Cycle" game became a popular arcade game pretty quickly, which is somewhat recursive considering that it itself was based on one of the first arcade games.
13	** Inverted with the ''VideoGame/{{TRON}}'' arcade game (whose cabinet is briefly seen) which was released just shortly before the movie (and spawned both a sequel and a few home games). The movie received not one, but ''two'' arcade games: ''TRON'' and ''Discs of TRON''. ''Discs'' was originally supposed to be part of the former, but was cut for time. Interestingly, the "Grid Bugs" appear in the game ''TRON'', but only receive a comment in the movie ''TRON''!
14	** Eventually played straight with ''Space Paranoids'', which was released as an online game in 2009.
15	* DeletedScene: The "love" scene between Tron and Yori, including Yori getting a new outfit before they head for the I/O Tower. Described in detail in the novel.
16	* DuelingDubs: There are two Japanese dubs for the film. The first dub premiered in 1987 as part of Creator/FujiTV's "Golden Screen Theater" programming block. Eighteen years later, a new dub was recorded by Disney for a home video release; it was eventually carried over to the Creator/DisneyPlus streaming service.
17	* EnforcedMethodActing: Tron's DeathGlare during the disc duel near the beginning. Lisberger was pissing Boxleitner off, challenging his acting, while Frisbees were being whipped at him. The final take had Tron catching the Frisbee ''behind his head'' and whipping it back - while glaring at his "opponent". He was actually ''glaring at Lisberger'' as a TakeThat.[[note]]Lisberger loved it, and grinned back.[[/note]]
18	* FandomLifeCycle: Was a Stage 2 (cult thing) for decades until in the mid-2000s, ''Videogame/KingdomHeartsII'' led to Stage X (NewbieBoom) and the momentum continued with even [[Film/TronLegacy the long-awaited sequel]]. Then one decade later, Disney's treatment of the franchise led to 6a (cooldown) by cancelling the third movie and overall neglecting ''TRON''.
19	* TheForeignSubtitle:
20	** Brazil: ''TRON: An Electronic Odyssey''
21	** Hungary: ''TRON, or the Rebellion of the Computer''
22	* InspirationForTheWork: The inspiration for Tron occurred in 1976 when Steven Lisberger, then an animator of drawings with his own studio, looked at a sample reel from a computer firm called MAGI (who would work on the film itself, handing the iconic Light Cycle scene, Clu's tank, the Recognizer chase and shots of the Master Control Program with Information International Inc.) and saw ''VideoGame/{{Pong}}'' for the first time. He was immediately fascinated by video games, and wanted to do a film incorporating them.
23	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: By the time of ''Film/TronLegacy'''s release in 2010, the film was hard to find on either DVD or Netflix. Seemed weird, as studios normally use sequels to put some films [[LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition back in the market]] - it was averted only when ''Legacy'' hit shelves in 2011, bringing ''TRON'' on both DVD and Blu-Ray. It also became available as a launch title on Creator/DisneyPlus.
24	* LoopingLines: In the scene where the MCP and Dillinger discuss Flynn looking for the file that would prove he was the creator of Space Paranoids and other video games, the dialogue was visibly re-dubbed from the original shoot. It's impossible to tell with the MCP because he doesn't have a mouth, but Dillinger's last line in the scene is "I think we should shut down all access until we find that Flynn, just to be safe." The original shooting script had the MCP say he hadn't located the file yet; this was changed for the final cut, so Dillinger's line had to be redubbed from "find that file" to "find that Flynn." Which doesn't make a lot of sense when you think that Flynn works in a building with his name above the door in huge neon lights; like, how hard did you guys look?
25	* ProductionPosse: A retroactive example: This film would be the first time Disney would partner up with Taiwanese company Creator/WangFilmProductions, then known as Cuckoo's Nest, who were responsible for most of the film's optical effects.
26	* ReferencedBy: The music video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCzFtdZpMu8 Abiura di me]]" from Italian singer Music/{{Caparezza}} takes place in a TRON-like world, complete with light cycles and a HugeHolographicHead of Caparezza himself as FinalBoss (just like the MCP).
27	* RoleReprise: In the second Japanese dub, Creator/HiroshiTsuchida (Tron), Tetsuo Kanao (Sark) and Creator/IkuyaSawaki (Master Control Program) reprise their roles from ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''.
28	* SequelGap: Twenty-one years between the film and SequelInAnotherMedium, ''VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh''. Another seven years between that and ''Film/TronLegacy''
29	* ShowAccuracyToyAccuracy: The original toyline and its 2002 re-release zig-zag it. On the one hand, the sculpts of Tron, Flynn, and Sark are spot on and the Light Cycles are outstandingly accurate with only a couple of minor inaccuracies. On the other hand, accessories are pure white plastic with no paint, and the TronLines are painted on as solid colors against translucent plastic, making them inverted compared to the characters they represent. Also, the circuit patterns and the sculpt of the "warrior" (one of Sark's guards) are only sort of ballparked.
30	* TechnologyMarchesOn: Sort of -- the film is based in an '80s supercomputer, and the angular look was a deliberate aesthetic choice to make ''TRON'' look like a 16-bit world.
31	* ThoseTwoActors:
32	** Boxleitner and Morgan would go on to do ''Series/BringEmBackAlive'', and a RoleReprise in ''VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh''.
33	** And of course, Jurssik and Boxleitner would be main cast in ''Series/BabylonFive''
34	* ThrowItIn: When the prints came back from Taiwan, there were often errors in the frames that looked like flashes of light, in part due to the cels being shipped back before the ink dried. Since it would cost ''way'' too much to have it done over, Lisberger had a EurekaMoment and realized, of ''course'' the computer world would have ''electric glitches''. So, basically, he added a sound effect and it became ''atmosphere''.
35	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
36	** The film was conceived as a fully animated movie but due to limited technology and financial reasons, the film became live-action with ground-breaking special effects...at the time. Although they tried to bring that idea back to Disney with an adaptation of ''Literature/WhereTheWildThingsAre'' only for that idea to be scrapped as well.
37	** Lisberger asked Creator/PeterOToole to play Dillinger... however, he ''really'' wanted to play Tron and went so far as to go jumping up and down on beds and furniture just to prove he was still nimble enough for such a physically demanding job.
38	** On the DVD's "Making of" documentary, they explain that O'Toole bowed out after finding out that the majority of the film would be shot in front of blue-screen (or black, whatever) instead of on sets and locations. Technically, any scenes in the electronic world that had actors in them were filmed on sets. They were just all black with backlit animation added in post-production.
39	** The first band offered to score rock songs for the movie's soundtrack was Music/{{Supertramp}}.
40	** Stephen Lisberger said he originally had the solar sailer's wings be opaque, since making them translucent would cost an arm and a leg. He was finally convinced, and was happy that he was, stating that the sailer was far more beautiful, delicate and butterfly-like with translucent wings.
41	** Debbie Harry of Music/{{Blondie\|Band}} was among the actresses who were screen-tested for the role of Lora/Yori.
42	* WordOfGod: All of the programs retain their User's personality. For example, Cindy Morgan was told that Yori retains some vague memory of her user (Lora) having a romance with Flynn at one time.

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