Interview with Tron Creator Steven Lisberger

NeoCode writes "AintItCool has posted an interesting interview with the Tron creator Steven Lisberger. He doesn't talk much about the sequel Tron 2.0 (because of a Disney gag order) but he reflects about the original movie with nostalgia. He talks about what influenced Tron and what Tron meant (and still does) to people. Have a read."

Tron 2?

[Lxy]

Why do we need a sequel?

Tron was awesome because it wowed the audience with its technical advances. In these days with the Matrix and Star Wars and the like, technology isn't as thrilling. Sure, we like to see Pixar's next film, as they continually create more stunning characters and produce each sequential film is less time. That's cool. But it's not the drop-everything-OH-MY-GOD-let's-go-see-this film that Tron was.

Of course I'll go see it. I think that's a requirement of being a registered linux user, right? my point is that there are some films that had their day, still have their day, and should just be left alone. Tron is one of them.

horrible interviewer.

[geekoid]

First he states the tron is the best, then later asks: "Remind me. What was the Bit? "
not really much of a tron fan.

then its?: I know you can't talk about tron 2, so here is a bunch of questions about tron 2...

blech.
Can /. do a 10 questions?

What's up with the gag order?

[jonman_d]

What's with this Disney gag order? I mean, come on! I, for one, would be more inclined to spend the $10 to see the movie if I had been able to read more about it from this interview.

Why must they do that?

Tron - blech

[Animats]

Tron was a box office bomb. Some people in the industry said it set the adoption of CG in Hollywood back ten years.

In fact, much of the "CG" in Tron was hand-animated by some outsourced firm in Asia. The first movie to have "realistic CGI" was The Last Starfighter, with 27 minutes of CGI. Tron, except for the "light cycle" scene, did not have significant CGI.

Read this history of the field. [siggraph.org]

Crypto biblical deal creeps me out

[sam_handelman]

Of course, as it turns out, it's very funny.

At the time, the whole millenialist rigamarole, with computers serving as the mark of the beast, had not permeated popular culture.

Then, in this silly movie there are computer programs which get died red in order to show their obsequious obedience to antichrist, I mean to the Master Control Program.

It's an amusing transposition - much more amusing than it was at the time (oh, the commie/atheist/roman computer programs are forcing the christian computer programs to fight in gladiatorial games,) since computers themselves have had a lot of PR as instruments of Satan since then.

Q: Moby's live show has a grand finale where he takes a beam of light to the head and arcs his arm in a similar fashion to the grand finale of Tron... A: ... Anytime a work like this can go from one generation to the next, it means something ...

Moby was born in 1965. He's 38 years old. Come on.

Thanks for the non-info

[GuyMannDude]

BTW, that DVD is great. The directors commentary is just flat spectacular.

Is it really too much to tell us why you think it is spectacular??? Then we could make up our own minds whether it's worth getting or not. "I own this product and I think it's just great. You should own it too. The end."

GMD

Re:Tron - blech

[rjung2k]

Hey, Tron directly inspired John Lasseter to get into computer animation, and without him, we wouldn't have Luxo Jr., Pixar Animation, the Toy Story movies, etc., etc.

For that reason alone, it's enough to give Tron a break.

Re:Tron - blech

[freeweed]

Tron was a box office bomb.

Most good movies are.