28 Dez Tron
Launched in 1982, Tron entered the history of cinema by becoming the first film to use widely computer-generated effects, either in virtually completely conceived scenes or in sequences that combined digital scenarios and real-life actors. His script could be better, but the spectators of the time were fascinated by the innovative visual of production. The film was able to spark people’s imagination with innovative special effects and a dose of social criticism embedded in the fight of programmer Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) against an oppressive system – all this was happening inside a computer.
Tron was a box office failure, without even getting to cover its costs during its stay in the theaters. What happened, however, was that over time Tron attained a certain cult status of limited scope and restricted to nostalgic and curious without ever actually enjoying a kind of universal veneration as happened, for example, with Blade Runner , of the same year and with the same degree of original receptivity.
The whole movie is a perfect guilty pleasure, but the main guilty pleasure is the sequences with light cycles, which leave traces that solidify, transforming the battlefield into a deadly maze.
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