The son of a computer programmer goes searching for his lost father in a new world. This premise is the base of Tron: Legacy, a remake of the 1982 film that became an instant science fiction classic. The original immersed it’s viewers in a new and uncommon digital world. While today this digital world may not be so new, does the film can it captivate its audience like the original did? With this being a remake of the original, is the story going to fall apart like so many predecessors attempting the dreaded remake? Also, being a science fiction film it is of course going to have a large amount of computer generated graphics, but can it truly pull it off? As I have never before seen the original I can give a fresh take on the new movie without my judgment being clouded by the original. Let’s jump into the grid together.
The grid is the digital world created by Kevin Flynn; he was a game developer and computer programmer. In this digital world the programs are represented by a human-like form that can interact just like ordinary people. In this world the creator, Kevin Flynn, did not have enough time to effectively manage it alone so he created a computerized replica of himself which he named CLU. This is an acronym for Codified Likeness Utility, and is a program in the likeness of Kevin Flynn with the purpose of perfecting the system. In his quest to perfect the system CLU turns against his creator becoming the antagonist of the movie and trapping Kevin Flynn in the grid. CLU’s ultimate goal is to take Kevin Flynn’s place on the outside world, and take his directives of perfecting the system to the real world.
The story truly beings when a series of events leads to the son of the grid creator getting pulled into the grid. Once ...
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... the actors only take a matter of 10 weeks and the computer graphics work taking over a year it certainly backs that fact.
While I found the overall movie quite enjoyable, especially the quips from actor Jeff Bridges reminiscent of his role in The Big Lebowski, the films plot could have used some additional polish. The computer graphics were out of this world, and fit the digital world the director was crafting. These computer graphics could go over the top at times however, but did smooth out the rough edges found in the plot. Jeff Bridges was by far the most gripping actor in the film. That is not to say that the other performance were poor, but they just were quite as captivating. If you like to be ‘wowed’ by amazing computer graphics, or enjoy the futuristic story line that Tron offers you will not be disappointed in your travels to the grid; I know I wasn’t.
The book had a lot of thought put into it by the author and it appeals to many audiences of different ages. The book put me on the edge of my seat throughout the whole book, and it was one of those books that you never want to put down. The way the author wrote it had quite a suspenseful, eerie, dramatic feel to it and that is what made the book so great, on top of the plot. The plot of the book was also very well thought out and put together, and I enjoyed reading it. Although the movie was great, I don’t think that it did the book enough justice. There were so many great aspects of the book that they left out, that would’ve made the movie just that much better. They should have put in some of the missing scenes and still portrayed the characters the same as they were in the book. However, I think that it would be hard to create the same feel as Ray Bradbury did in writing the book. It was the way that he connected with his audience that made the book appealing. Both the book and the movie were fantastic ways of portraying the story. If they had kept all of the scenes and properties of characters as they did in the book, the movie would have appealed to me more. But, the movie version of the story could appeal to others more than the book
The money brought in from the movie was massive for it’s time . When first proposed the plan for the budget was $350,000.This was later change the scheduled for a 24-day shoot and a budget of $454,864.In the first month it made a million in the U.S. before the end of the year it made an additional 2.5 million. Even though it wasn’t the top selling movie of the year it still made a good amount of money.
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, USA 1981) Harrison Ford stars in the film Raiders of the Lost Ark as a character called Indiana Jones. The opening sequence has left Indiana’s character mysterious to the audience but throughout this sequence we understand his character as bold, cool, calm and a collected leader, but as the sequence develops and the scene changes we see another side to Indiana, an intellectual man who dresses smartly and doesn’t seem cool anymore. From the opening sequence we know that this film is an action/adventure because it is packed with excitement, violence and close encounters with death. The mise en scene or what the audience see and hear plays an important role in an action/adventure because it influences what the audience’s reaction to what is happening.
... still funny look into our recent history. With important issues that apply not only to the time the movie was made but possibly to our present and our future it offers a warning against war controlled culture and nuclear proliferation. This and the other themes of the movies are still worth considering today. The levels of hidden imagery in the film make it worth watching multiple times to try to find more of the levels and then to try to integrate them into the overall story. Like a painting by Dali you feel that every new thing you uncover has another waiting below it. The camera angles and lighting are tied into the film to turn the whole story into a smooth flowing work that is more pleasing to watch in black and white than most movies are in color. The overacting makes a few scenes in to movie difficult to watch but the rest of the film picks up the slack.
The film conveys the feelings of the characters very well. Phillip Noyce uses lighting which always goes very well with the scenes even though he uses a lot of non-diegetic and contrapuntal sounds. The film?s shots are always correct and seem to have a purpose and the editing is wonderful.
The plot of the movie “Blade Runner” becomes unrevealed till the end of the movie. Many assumptions about the plot and the final of the movie appear in the spectator’s mind, but not one of these assumptions lasts long. Numerous deceptions in the plot grip the interest of the audience and contribute for the continuing interest to the movie eighteen years after its creation. The main character in the movie is Deckard- the Blade Runner. He is called for a special mission after his retirement, to “air up” four replicants who have shown flaws and have killed people. There are many arguments and deceptions in the plot that reveal the possibility Deckard to be a replicant. Roy is the other leading character of the movie. He appears to be the leader of the replicants- the strongest and the smartest. Roy kills his creator Tyrell. The effect of his actions fulfils the expectation of the spectator for a ruthless machine.
Good character animation costs $110,000 - $150,000 per minute, multiply that by 20 and you realize the money involved.
...tands the test of time, thanks only to its screenplay; the effects, score and sets can all be outdated, but a good script will never date until dealt with. Many of the influential screenplays, hence films, have risen from the sci-fi genre and they will undoubtedly continue to do so as long as the genre keeps re-inventing itself visually. This is something the Wachowski bros have done; they’ve started a new chapter in the history of cinema and sci-fi, one which has already spawned the likes of ‘Pitch Black’ ( Ian Thorburn and David N. Twohy , 2000), ‘Minority Report’ ( Steven Spielberg , 2002) and of course, the next two Matrix sequels.
Historically speaking the fate of world has always been called into the question. The same is true of commentaries on the state of mankind. T.S. Eliot’s "The Wasteland" is considered by many to be the greatest poem of all time. During Eliot’s time, the world was beginning to place more value on pop culture than high culture. Gone were the days where most were familiar with the works of the greats. The Wachowski Brothers’ film, The Matrix, deals with similar themes as "The Wasteland" . The science fiction film set in world that has been taken over by machines and centers around the plight of unsuspecting hero, Neo and other who have been freed from the computer simulated reality of The Matrix. Both worlds of “The Wasteland” and The Matrix center around the struggles the inner self faces when modern society no longer reliable for spiritual sustenance. It is the lack of spirituality in modern culture that leaves the masses starved intellectually and out of touch with historical and high culture.
Final thoughts, I really liked this film and really can't think of anything I had an issue with. The musics fitting, the cinematography is good and the ending is great. That said the whole time I was watching Re-Animator I kept thinking of how much this film feels like Return of the Living Dead and that made me just want to watch that instead. But that's just me and I still heavily recommend you watch this film should you find yourself with time to watch a true cult classic.
was a spectacular film there were some things that I did not enjoy like, the
In all, the directing and acting both had its good points and its bad points. Unfortunately, the one well directed scene and the one convincing actor would not have been enough to satisfy my friend, and it was not enough to satisfy me.
Imagine how hard it can be to combine six different stories in a movie based on a book like David Mitchell’s famous novel, Cloud Atlas. For many filmmakers, creating an adaptation of the hardly comprehensible book of the English novelist seemed as impossible as catching a star. But the creators of the renowned Matrix, siblings Andy and Lana Wachowski, with the co-authorship of Tom Tykwer, managed to create a movie that brings the ideas of the book to life by adding a spark of their directive creativity and a touch of emotional strength.
The props and CGI department really came through on this movie. The futuristic clothing, the game monitoring system, and in-game manipulations were top of the line. The forest fire scene seemed very realistic to me. I’m not sure how much, if any, of the movie was filmed on location, but the forest scenes came across as
...y conceivable scene can be computer generated if resources are committed to achieve the desired goal. Technology is set to continue to revolutionise the film industry for many years to come (Huang 2004).