Bring Back The Coliseum III
By: Charz
Tags: Allegory, American Fundamentalism, Anti-Europeanism, Anti-Romanism, Artificial intelligence, CLU, Daft Punk, Disney, ENCOM, Futurism, Gladiatorial Games, Hollywood Propaganda, Houkago Tea Time, Isomorphic Algorithms, K-ON!, Kevin Flynn, Light Cycle, MCP, Propaganda, Religious Allegory, Robots, Sark, Supremacism, Technophobia, Users
K-ON’s Houkago Tea Time band cosplaying TRON’s Daft Punk
Tron (1982)
In the ENCOM mainframe, programs appear in the likeness of the Users who programmed them. However, the MCP and its commander, Sark have long intimidated most programs into renouncing a belief in Users. Programs that refuse to do so are forced to play in gladiatorial games in which losers are destroyed.
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Tron: Legacy (2010)
After much work, Flynn discovered a new series of sentient “isomorphic algorithms” (ISOs), self-produced Programs that carried the potential to unlock mysteries in science, religion, and medicine. Clu considered these Programs to be an imperfection and, in keeping with his directive to “create the perfect system”, betrayed Flynn and had the ISOs wiped out.
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A Religious Allegory ?
….the religious legacy of Tron is an ecumenical mix of various faiths which dispenses with the notion of an all-powerful God.
And this is the religious legacy of who, exactly? Alex Murphy, 12/19/2010
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Daft Punk – Derezzed ~ NTEIBINT Remix
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