New Tron Legacy Trailer - OOOH!!!

[Ghoulish Delight]

Tron gets major props from me for doing a remarkably good job at carrying out the software-as-characters analogy. Not perfect mind you, but to do as good a job as they did at translating some real computing concepts into a story that played fairly well on screen, in the era that they did it, was no small feat.

[Gn2Dlnd]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Tron gets major props from me for doing a remarkably good job at carrying out the software-as-characters analogy. Not perfect mind you, but to do as good a job as they did at translating some real computing concepts into a story that played fairly well on screen, in the era that they did it, was no small feat.

That's because:

The character of Alan is based on Alan Kay, a genuine computer pioneer who thought up stuff like overlapping window interfaces and the laptop computer (he called it a Dynabook). The original Tron screenwriter, Bonnie MacBird, later married Kay. He was also a paid consultant on the film itself. So all that geeky stuff in Tron rings true for a reason.

From here.

Interesting note, Bonnie was a member of the Knightsbridge Theatre Company when I was, and I've been to her and Alan's home a few times. First time there I had to ask why they had a Tron poster in their hallway. He designed and hand built a wooden pipe organ in their music room/library. Amazing.