The producer spent approximately US$1.7 million in advertising for the film, and began to publicize some of the pictures and designs in the film three years ago. Before the film was officially announced, they released a trailer named "Tron 2.0" on Comic-Con. The film’s investment in patent rights is comparable to the investment of retired Russian political geniuses (who is this? Guess what) invested in the regime. Digital Domain visual effects company in Los Angeles uses the latest 3D camera and motion capture technology to vividly express the rebellious image of the young version of Jeff Bridges. The sound effects of this film were produced by the Daft Punk electronic band in France, and the two related games and cartoon animations have been produced before these. The screenwriter and director worked together on the script to ensure that the virtual scenes in the film can be perfectly integrated with the story itself. At the same time, they also completed the early editing of the film under the supervision and guidance of Pixar. A truly influential movie. The filmmakers spent years studying how to connect Tron: Legacy to its predecessor. In view of the fact that Tron: Legacy is a sequel, the producer must be able to show the audience the visual and audio shock that this great work has brought to them at the beginning of the film.
However, the force that made Tron: Legacy shine in this year's winter film market is a grotesque and bizarre science fiction movie that few people know about and returned in 1982. In the film, Jeff Bridges is wearing a pink-white armor that emits blue light, holding a rotating Frisbee, and a bubble-shaped locomotive drags out the wall-like light and shadow. But what about the plot? Are you telling the story of a hacker? He dived into the world of computer online games and fought a life-and-death battle with an omnipotent Clu-a computer program with a British accent. Bruce Boxleitner also participated in the film's performance.
In fact, there is no need to feel at a loss and disappointment about this, even the director of the film, Joseph Kosinski, admitted the ambiguity of the first step film in expression. In the mid-1980s, he was still an ignorant teenager, and he only learned about the film Tron through a video recorder. He is also one of the fans of "Indiana Jones".
However, why bother? Why does Disney want to make a sequel to an old movie with little popularity? The reason is that Tron has made brave attempts in sci-fi vision, which is rarely involved in other movies and has almost no effect-it is this that heralds its bright future. Very few movies can make their visual presentation the main line of the movie: the computer virtual world, a place where your life can survive and continue. It is undeniable that this concept did not have the expected effect at the time. It has a new and avant-garde concept, but its poor visual performance and the limitations of the technology at that time became a huge reason for its subsequent frustration. It is also the first computer-made movie with fantasy power and computer system functions as the main line, but unfortunately, the final expected "showing the magical and powerful functions of computers" did not get a good performance. In view of this, it is not surprising that it subsequently failed at the box office. However, its symbolism in the film industry has survived.
Although Tron’s film will never seem to win an Oscar, it doesn’t mean it’s useless. No one talks about virtual space anymore-Tron is almost on the market with the creation of science fiction writer William Gibson. However, it was the film that gave the shape-"the same illusion," as William Gibson wrote, "the shining logical framework extends and shuttles in the pale space." Although William Gibson expressed his completely different inner heart. view. "There was an issue of Omni magazine that mentioned the prospects of Tron, the story memory of my early virtual space," he said. "In my opinion, if Disney was interested in these at the time, I wouldn't even have the opportunity to make detours."
William Gibson's novels are undoubtedly on the cusp of the times, but Tron is the first to use this as a mainstream reagent to have the same insight into the inner nature and direction of virtual space. With the realization of the essence of the film, Tron's imaginary world and the metaphors created with its assistance have become echoes of the past decades. Everything that seemed absurd in 1982 may seem innocent or full of meaning today.
Tron: While Legacy successfully developed on the basis of the first part, it continued the original surrealism. Fortunately for Disney, in the production of the sequel, the tools and production techniques that the original production team of the first film tried hard to find but did not find, finally succeeded in the production of the sequel.
Tron's visual effects development started in the late 1970s, like a tiny figure glowing a neon light in a dark universe. It was Steven Lisberger, a director in his early twenties who created the effects of animated characters, who strongly advocated the use of computers to complete the character creation of the movie alone. Today, Steven Lisberger has become a thick-haired man with a goatee, and he speaks boldly about the problem of high fertility in the 1950s and 1960s due to misunderstanding the concepts of psychologist Jung and theologian Joseph Campbell (...Khan) . He is Obi-Wan (a mentor in Star Wars, played by Ewan McGregor) and the Dude (a character in Murder Green Toe, played by Jeff Bridges, and this role earned him an Oscar nomination) Convincing mix. "There is a common feeling in the Hollywood production community-CG technology has begun to be widely used," Steven Lisberger said, "It depends on who can take the initiative."
In 1978, Steven Lisberger met Bonnie MacBird, who was then the Intermediate Development Director at Universal Studios, and the two hit it off. Afterwards, Bonnie MacBird submitted his resignation to Universal and joined Lisberger's company. He concentrated on researching early computer animation tools, which made Tron's production effects look gorgeous and moving. However, because the storyline needs to be connected with video games beyond the scope of rationality, he did not integrate storytelling into it. "Before, our team knew nothing about how Hollywood works," Steven Lisberger said. "But when I met Bonnie MacBird, I began to realize that he is a wizard who knows how to work perfectly and realize a script."
It turns out that Bonnie MacBird is indeed brilliant. In the 1960s, when she was still in high school, she began to learn planning and design with the help of paper and pencil. While in Stanford's university, she designed and produced punch cards for the PDP-11. In order to be able to operate the machine, she had to work late at night, using the lights on the console to operate the primary version of Pong. At Universal, she tried (unsuccessfully) to convince the storyline management department to store their records in the database. "I'm not a programmer," Bonnie MacBird said. "But I prefer the way that computer science workers dream of."
In the only computer store in Los Angeles located on the side of Santa Monica Street, Bonnie MacBird found the author of the Whole Earth Catalog, Internet network the Well with far-reaching influence. A handwritten manuscript by Stewart Brand, co-founder of and creator of free wording and information. From Brand, she learned the professional skills of computer scientist Alan Kay.
This is a name that is enough to make you feel shocked. In 1968, Kay worked and studied at the institute of Douglas Engelbart, the famous "father of the mouse", where Engelbart invented the mouse, the Windows operating system, hypertext links and command operations... Just like boned pork, bacon and bone ribs come from A same creature (a year later, Engelbart's Institute became the second institution with its own independent network terminal in the nascent Internet at the time).
Kay's work is not limited to this. He has read the understanding of media by Marshall McLuhan (one of the greatest media theorists) and studied the relevant information theory of Jean Piaget and Seymour Papert. He was also inspired by this. In 1968, he first tried to use a flat-screen display computer to display images at Illinois State University. It is this that aroused Kay's expectations for the use of small chips to run computers in the future-to realize portable computers. He created a personal computer, studied at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and worked with his team members to combine Engelbart's innovation with his own work to create the first-generation graphical user interface. And this just inspired the young Steve Jobs company to create the Apple machine... and at the same time inspired the young Gates to become the king of Windows.
So in 1979, Bonnie MacBird and Kay had a meeting. "He talked with us for several hours," she said, "We happily exchanged questions about computers, learning, science, and children's psychology." For her, Xerox PARC's beanbag sofa and Posey The Miya style has its own unique charm. "This is the early nerd culture. It's cute. I'm fascinated by it," Bonnie MacBird said. So she persuaded Lisberger to hire Kay as an assistant.
"We have no spokesperson yet, but we have discussed the issue of agents," Bonnie MacBird said. "Alan once hired a clever and witty agency to help you deal with your chosen needs to ensure that you can operate freely in encyclopedic knowledge. "She loaded all these thoughts into the more interesting and deeper stage of the movie, which she thinks is more interesting and deeper. "The shiny locomotive and the like are not a big deal," she said. "But I think compared to the original , Is more meaningful. "Kay believes that the universe formed by the connection of computers is like the life organs in the human body. A huge network structure with infinite nodes and branches is presenting an artistic, utopian future of fraternity.
Those concepts have become. The source code of Tron. The giant Internet company Encom in the movie is based on Kay's Xerox PARC and the Stanford Institute of Artificial Intelligence. Bruce Boxleitner is an old-fashioned programmer role, and Alan is played by Kay. Bonnie MacBird is even connected by audio The author sent the script of the plot to Xerox PARC and edited it with Kay on Alto (Xerox’s leading PC). “I think that made me, and made me the first screenwriter to write a screenplay on a computer,” she said. Said. Kay showed us how to choose the font. She chose the font that was as close as Courier to make it look like a print. To this day
, film screenwriters still use the font Courier.
Tron is the first popular culture. Provides a detailed description of the digital field, while a large number of books, movies and games have also improved our understanding of human digital life.
1975
"The Shockwave Rider" || John Brunner's early cyberpunk novels, distributed network software An early manifestation of the provocative nature of the hacker revolution in the era.
1981
"True names" || Vernor Vinge's novel, for the first time put forward the term "other parallel worlds", and made the first environmental description of the digital world that programmed humans entered.
1984
"Neuromancer" (Neuromancer)||William Gibson's novel. He gave the cyber world a defined name: Cyberspace. This description sounds almost the same as Tron's cosmic space (which fans call Troniverse), with a surreal touch. Habitat || was produced by Lucasfilm Games in
1986.
This game is not an RPG in the full sense, but is considered to be the first real graphics game on the Internet.
1992
"The Lawnower Man" (Genius Weeder)|| A more Gibson-like virtual space, despite the same compliments and jumpsuits in Tron.
In 1995,
Hackers || A gleaming grid version of the virtual space, just like in Tron, interprets the backbone area of the city like Silicon Valley on the printed ring board.
1995
"Johnny Mnemonic" (very spy) || Gibson's short story is adapted to suit the plot of the movie. It depicts surreal and unlimited space through a pair of realistic goggles. Keanu Reeves sent it out after watching it. Excited again and again.
1999
"The Matrix" The Matrix|| The digital world looks like the real world. In fact, they are inherently difficult to distinguish.
2003
"Second Life" (Second Life, online game)|| A free and independent world. Just like in "The Sims", there are many types of sims.
Steven Lisberger plans to raise funds for Tron on his own. When this plan fell through, he brought the plan to Disney. The studio tried to seize the prime time to release blockbusters and sci-fi epic masterpieces. Fox launched "Star Wars" and Columbia Pictures launched "The Third Type of Contact." And Disney launched... "Black Hole". For Disney, Steven Lisberger and his studio felt like a good opportunity. "We have professional animators and are moving in the direction of animated film specifications," Steven Lisberger said. "When we came to Disney, we brought storyboards and conceptual design drawings." He also filmed several minutes of computer special effects and animation footage, giving the team a clear aesthetic.
With the evolution of Tron, plans and goals have become more and more weird. "For the animation production department, we are a threat; for the special effects department, we are a threat; for normal life, we are a threat," Steven Lisberger said. "Star Wars" conveys a kind of emotion through knights and princesses, but can the Tron's avant-garde design and production (various CG) and related programs be compared with the script that tries to communicate with the "users" in the real world? What about the combination? At that time, in the real world, few people could touch the computer. You will find the awkwardness of this story in the movie.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, it can be said to be an exciting moment in the history of science and technology-Apple 2 plus began to be sold in 1979. Industrial Light and Magic is located in Marin, California, and Pixar. Created CG special effects for "Star Trek 2: Khan's Fury" and helped George Lucas achieve new breakthroughs in video games. William Gibson writes science fiction, but the technology of electronic network in Hollywood is basically still at the level of 1970. Finally, Disney and Steven Lisberger urged the use of computer CG technology to complete the movie screens, but in fact, very few movies are completely completed using CG technology. Some of the images in the film are very impactful: the chase of the luminous locomotive, the climax stage of the battle against the evil centralized leader program... But the fashionable luminous costume changes to the dazzling background seems quite weird. Tron left a good response, but it was hard to remember. Rogers Ebert (the most famous film critic in the United States, won the Pulitzer Prize, famous for hurting others) liked it, but the film did not win the expected box office. More unfortunately, this film happens to compete with the great "ET", "Blade Runner", and "Star Trek 2: Khan's Wrath". For movie fans, it was a historic year-all the movies were carefully crafted and ambitious. “On the eve of the movie’s performance, the marketing director came up to me and told me that we will have a perfect closing. Our goal is to get 10 million box office sales this week, maybe more, Steven Lisberger said.” In the end, we only completed half of the planned plan. "
However, not everyone and things are so bad. The video game based on Tron has achieved a certain degree of success. Steven Lisberger took over and directed a comedy called "Hot Pursuit", which was named John Cusa The fourth place in the achievement of K Films. Bonnie MacBird finally ended her career as a screenwriter with only an ordinary storytelling, but in the end she got more things beyond the script-the collaboration between her and Alan Kay Hollywood screenwriters are seen as a match made in heaven-they entered the marriage palace in 1983.
Although Tron seems destined to be forgotten by the world-certainly not including a small number of teenagers, when their parents are still curious about the types of movies that Disney shoots, they are engrossed in watching this movie. Fortunately, some of the teenagers who had been engrossed in watching the movie later became directors, screenwriters, or animators and programmers. And it was they who brought Tron back to popular culture. In "South Park", two big satirists Matt Stone and Trey Parker want to parody "being paid by Facebook," to achieve the revival of Tron. In "I'm Crazy for Comedy", when Liz Lemon noticed her bright dress at the makeup party, she teased that she wanted to fight like Sark in Tron. "That's a generation of people who really love Tron from the bottom of my heart."
Sean Bailey is today the director of film and television production at Disney. When he was 12 years old, his father led him to watch Tron. What is certain is that Tron's wonderful images are instantly embedded and covering his subconscious; those luminous costumes and cold laser lines are completely different from other movies. Sean Bailey worked hard to become a producer, and finally was able to fight with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in the front line of film and television. In 2005, he was appointed by Disney to reshape the film Tron. "That was the first time I ever participated in such a large conference in the company. I said, here are three things I think we must do in the production process: 1. The picture effect of this film must be the same as what you have seen before. All of the films are completely different; 2. We need Jeff Bridges; 3. We need shiny motorcycles.”
Making a Tron sequel may seem to be less risky than making other brand-new attempts, but that doesn’t mean Our script copied the original. What Sean Bailey holds is actually just a resonating title and some familiar images. "People often talk about a lot of fairness and other issues within the brand, but in my opinion, Tron is a case in point," he said. Tron is a film full of avant-garde thoughts and thoughts, and it is a sign of film commercialization. "
What they thought of was shooting a sequel, a story about father and son—Kevin Flynn, the role played by Jeff Bridges, who mysteriously disappeared in the world of Tron. However, when his son Sam learned about it, he tried his best to enter the world of Tron and find his father. At the same time, a younger and more evil Kevin Flynn called Clu took over the Tron world. Apart from Sean Bailey, no one can clearly know whether this film is technically feasible.
This is exactly the embedding point of the film's director Joseph Kosinski. Having received professional training in architecture and aerospace engineering, he has attracted the attention of Hollywood because he has produced successful and effective CG on a series of TV commercial programs. During one of their early meetings, Bailey asked Kosinski: "In the post-Matrix ("The Matrix," not introduced) era, how can you make a sequel to Tron?" Kosinski suggested keeping the character's own characteristics. In 2010 and 1982 A fabulous connection was established between years. This is indeed a courageous way to incorporate what the author is already creating-Kosinski is hired.
So there is only one last thorny question left: persuading Steven Lisberger and Jeff Bridges. Steven Lisberger worked for Disney for decades and tried to find a remake or a sequel to the film. What about Jeff Bridges? He is walking on the road to win the Oscar actor with Crazy Heart. And Tron? It's just a B-rated movie of the year. So, in 2007, Bailey went to Montecito, California with ridges, Lisberger, and all the other production staff: co-producers Justin Springer, Kosinski, Kitsis, and Horowitz, and held a meeting at Jeff Bridges’ home. . Kitsis and Horowitz were excited-they couldn't wait to see the two heroes in their play right away. If Steven Lisberger and Jeff Bridges do not join in, this will be their first movie. So they emphasized: "In the world of Tron, there will be an old you and a young you, the young you are full of evil, and you have a son"-at this time Jeff Bridges suddenly stood up and said excitedly "Everyone, wait a minute," he said and walked into another room. Then he walked back wearing the helmet he had worn in the first movie. "Let's take a walk first," he said. He led everyone around his house and took a photo with a helmet for everyone present as a souvenir. ("Great meeting," Bailey said.)
Now, the entire team is operating to fulfill the promise they made at the beginning—just as Steven Lisberger did in the same situation 25 years ago: Kosinki will Most newcomer directors use the same strategy and method. First, shoot a test movie clip to show his favorite film shooting style and method. Immediately, Bailey and the team staff came up with a coup. In order to add some pictures taken outside the studio, they decided to work harder on location shooting. Bailey's plan made Disney pay for this development, and Jeff Bridges was also convinced.
They completed the filming of the test tape in March 2008, allowing them ample time to preview and promote it at Comic-Con in San Diego. "This is not an ideal place that can fully cater to our entire film vision," Bailey said. "One reason may be that this movie is not really released so far, but why should we put it on something that we are less sure of?" Bailey and Kosinski firmly believe that this movie can be released in Comics. -Con response to the voice of the masses (conversely, if it has little effect, then it is said that our production is not on track at all). Bailey said: "In my opinion, if the plot and performance of this movie are good enough, the performance will definitely be very popular."
When it comes to the technical performance of the film, Bailey explained that the film has been applied. Nearly every tool required for film recording. The production design of the film is relatively simple, and it seems to be no different from the first Tron.
Kosinski completed all the production of Tron: Legacy in June 2009, and immediately began to transfer to the post-production of the film. Since then, Disney has also released two trailers and many stills. At the same time, it has also developed a game based on the film, thereby increasing the popularity of the movie sequel to a certain extent, and mentioned at the Comic-Con press conference that the character construction and characters of this game are the first to adopt. Basic personnel roles in Tron. Some of the audiovisual elements in the film are taken from some fashion shows and live concerts. Even in the bottleneck stage of post-production, even if a large amount of work relies on computer technology to complete... But the original intention of striving for the true feeling of the film has not changed.
Digital Domain’s screening room looked a little bit rudimentary—concrete floor, tattered pale red carpet, four rows of obsolete audience seats. But the screen is large, the sound effects are also very good, and the slide projector is also equipped with 3D capabilities. Installed in the front seat is a console with small buttons in the middle. "We can watch my favorite images here anytime, anywhere, just by pressing the button," Kosinski said. He pressed the button, and a bell rang, like a break between classes. There was a flashing sign in the upper left corner of the screen to herald the screening and the end of the movie. In the other corner of the room, the visual effects supervisor Eric Barbara smiled slightly regretfully. With three months to go before the release, he used identification cards on the wall to represent the unfinished shots to keep an eye on the shooting progress. Perhaps recently, he is looking forward to seeing the progress of the shooting gradually become faster.
Kosinski still has 25 minutes of film plot to be recorded. A sexy and fashionable Jeff Bridges-youthful, energetic, with a ponytail hairstyle from the 80s, able to have sex in the Mayan ruins at any time, just like Against All Odds (a song by Phil Collins, which is also the theme of the movie of the same name) The song) is accompanied by powerful drums, like Phil Collins's persistent singing-his handsome affects the whole world. Today's Jeff Bridges, weather-beaten, tall and strong, can stand alone in the face of a series of threats. He needs more effort to restore the vitality of the version in order to complete the same amount of work. Wearing a black tights with orange tubes on the body is real, but the head is completely replaced by digital technology-almost like a copy of Jeff Bridges called "REV4" by animators in the 1980s The product is average. It took hundreds of digital designers nearly two years to create this analog. They design and produce in the darkroom day after day. Rows of rooms are hung with freeze-frame images of Jeff Bridges, just like a creepy horror film bedroom, twisting and adjusting the corners of his mouth and the reflections in his eyes—— Because this is a movie that reflects more light. In the finished scene, the perfection of Rev 4 makes it difficult to distinguish its authenticity even when you observe it at close range.
This film is undoubtedly a near-perfect work. Through the production of Harry Winston, the shiny motorcycle and colorful eight-square grid in the first part are converted into a crystal-like sexy track in the sequel. Now, five yellow locomotives and five blue locomotives traverse three-level transparent sloping roads, highways, and spirals along a curved and arc trajectory, leaving the icy and colorful trajectory behind. When the characters are eliminated, they will shatter into thousands of glowing cubes.
So Tron: Legacy is completely different from Tron. Frankly speaking, no one wants to see two similar plays, no matter what the level of technology today is, Tron: Legacy will bring you extraordinary feelings. Dating back to the 1970s, what Lisberger called an artistic film looks similar to the sketch produced by the Kosinski team today. "Our subject preview looks like the first movie," Kosinski said. "I want everything to look like we take you into the world of Tron with a camera, and then take pictures in it." This sense of substitution is also produced by Peter Jackson's statement about the Middle-earth world of "Lord of the Rings" resonance. However, no one has ever been to Shire (a village mentioned in "The Lord of the Rings"), but we have all been to a virtual space-whether by browsing Facebook or Azeroth, or experiencing "Call of Duty: Modern The real Afghan war scene in the game "War 2"-in fact, everyone has experienced the world of Tron.
All the art designers in Digital Domain are creating Tron: Legacy's realism with the same tacit understanding: Reality needs to come from real life. "We have reached the height predicted by the first movie," Kosinski said. Jeff Bridges had to perform a full-body laser scan during pre-production, which was a weird listening to the digitization of the data in the first film. When he played the role of Clu, the motion capture device he carried transformed his facial movements into Rev 4, which of course included mysterious armor similar to the safety helmet he wore in the first movie. In addition, Jeff Bridges has this unquestionable prospect and the realistic embodiment of the photo, and he has enough strength to shock the Screen Actors Guild. In fact, the return of the Tron sequel is no problem at all. CG technology has made the two character versions of Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner younger. The two famous heroes also made Kosinski laugh and laugh about it. Greatly inspired: "Oh! I know what my next plan is," he said. "A movie from the 1980s with young Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner as the main actors!"
However, in a practical sense, linking Tron with the new film Tron: Legacy is a great, well-thought-out and brilliant idea. The narrative link between the two is also very interesting-the sound effect of the turntable disc-combat in the new movie is derived from the arcade game plot part of the old Tron. In Tron: Legacy, Sam Flynn's first line into the Tron world is derived from the narrative text of Kevin Flynn at the same time in the first part. It is this theme that has greatly increased the popularity of the entire movie. Steven Lisberger still insists that virtual space is a mirror of the human mind; Kay believes that virtual space is our window to the world. Tron: What Legacy brings us not only to see Jeff Bridges returning to his youth, but also to let us ponder: "God, what have we done?" And neither did the producers. In vain our trust and expectations, this classic masterpiece was launched. "After a late-night chat with beer and pizza, we really felt a very interesting view," Bailey said. "We can no longer stick to that world that year. We can no longer have the idea of not hitting the south wall and not turning back. The future world will be ours." Even the most popular science fiction novels, like virtual spaces, will It has its beneficial aspects. Through these we can know what we need and the precise definition of ourselves.
However, even if this movie fails, it will give us hope.
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