Movie-Tron-1982
A Sci-fi film created by Steven Lisberger. The film portrays Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn, a genius computer programmer & video game developer who becomes transported inside a digital virtual reality known as "The Grid" where he interacts with programs in his quest to escape.
Produced & released by Walt Disney Pictures, Tron became a cult film & was acclaimed for its groundbreaking visual effects & extensive use of early computer-generated imagery. It was followed by the 2010 sequel film Tron: Legacy which takes place 28 years after the events of the first film & depicts the attempts of Flynns son Sam in retrieving his lost father from within the Grid, now ruled by a corrupt program.
Kevin Flynn is a leading software engineer, formerly employed by the computer corporation ENCOM, who now runs a video game arcade & attempts to hack into ENCOM's mainframe system. However, ENCOM's Master Control Program (MCP) halts his progress. Within ENCOM, programmer Alan Bradley & his girlfriend, engineer Lora Baines, discover that the MCP has closed off their access to projects. When Alan confronts the senior executive vice president, Ed Dillinger, Dillinger claims that the security measures are an effort to stop outside hacking attempts. However, when Dillinger privately questions the MCP through his computerized desk, he realizes the MCP has expanded into a powerful virtual intelligence & has become power-hungry, illegally appropriating personal, business, & government programs to increase its own capabilities. Dillinger rose to the top of ENCOM by presenting Flynn's games as his own. The MCP blackmails Dillinger with information about his plagiarizing Flynn's games if he does not comply with its directives.
Lora deduces that Flynn is the hacker, & she & Alan go to his arcade to warn him. Flynn reveals that he has been trying to locate evidence proving Dillinger's plagiarism, which launched Dillinger's rise in the company. Together, the three form a plan to break into ENCOM & unlock Alan's "Tron" program, a self-governing security measure designed to protect the system & counter the functions of the MCP. Once inside ENCOM, the three split up & Flynn comes into direct conflict with the MCP, communicating with his terminal. Before Flynn can get the information he needs to reveal Dillinger's acts, the MCP uses an experimental laser to digitize & upload Flynn into the ENCOM mainframe cyberspace, where programs are living entities appearing in the likeness of the human "Users" (programmers) who created them.
Flynn learns that the MCP & its second-in-command, Sark, rule & coerce programs to renounce their belief in the Users. The MCP forces programs that resist to play in deadly games & begins putting Flynn in duels. Flynn meets other captured programs, Ram & Tron, between matches. Partnered, the three escape into the mainframe during a light cycle match (an arcade game Flynn wrote the program for & is skilled at), but Flynn & Ram become separated from Tron by an MCP pursuit party. While attempting to help Ram, who was wounded in the pursuit, Flynn learns that he can manipulate portions of the mainframe by accessing his programmer knowledge. Ram recognizes Flynn as a User & encourages him to find Tron & free the system before "derezzing" (dying). Using his new ability, Flynn partially rebuilds a Recognizer vehicle (a construct taken from another one of Flynn's games) & later disguises himself as one of Sark's soldiers.
Tron enlists help from Yori, a sympathetic program, & at an I/O tower receives information from Alan necessary to destroy the MCP. Flynn rejoins them, & the three board a hijacked solar sailer to reach the MCP's core. However, Sark's command ship destroys the sailer, capturing Flynn & Yori & presumably killing Tron. Sark leaves the command ship & orders its deresolution, but Flynn keeps it intact by again manipulating the mainframe, while Sark reaches the MCP's core on a shuttle carrying captured programs. While the MCP attempts to absorb captive programs, Tron, who turns out to have survived, confronts Sark & critically injures him, prompting the MCP to give him all its functions. Realizing that his ability to manipulate the mainframe might give Tron an opening, Flynn leaps into the beam of the MCP, distracting it. Seeing the break in the MCP's shield, Tron attacks through the gap & destroys the MCP & Sark, ending the MCP's control over the mainframe & allowing the captured programs to communicate with users again.
Flynn reappears in the real world, rematerialized at his terminal. Tron's victory in the mainframe has released all lockouts on computer access, & a nearby printer produces the evidence that Dillinger had plagiarized Flynn's creations. The next morning, Dillinger enters his office to find the MCP deactivated & the proof of his theft publicized. Flynn is subsequently promoted to CEO of ENCOM & is happily greeted by Alan & Lora as their new boss.
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