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Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'

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Re: Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'

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Post by klez »

rmunn wrote: post #68
s_dev wrote: post #6

As an aside the Daft Punk soundtrack that accompanies this film is an absolute masterpiece. I think it's their best work. It's such a shame the film doesn't live up to it's own soundtrack.

Tron Legacy was, I think, only the second film soundtrack I ever purchased (first one being Lord of the Rings). It's still among my favorite music to listen to while coding; something about it just puts me in the "flow" frame of mind right away.

>It's still among my favorite music to listen to while coding

In that case you may want to try the Dark Ambient genre in general. Lots of similar vibes.

Re: Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'

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Post by jgrahamc »

sneak wrote: post #61
jgrahamc wrote: post #2

Wonderful! At the bottom he notes: "I’m sitting in the UK as I write this. Under UK law, I believe this should constitute fair dealing: the purpose is quotation for criticism and review, and this single screen capture is in no way an alternative to paying to see the original film. The film comes from the USA, and under USA law I think it similarly constitutes fair use: it’s for non-profit educational purposes, the am…

Would you be interested in collaborating on a selfhosted CMS to aid in publishing a video series on one’s own site with syndication to rss and other platforms like youtube? I have been close to scratching this itch for most of a year.

That's not a project that excites me but good luck with it.

Re: Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'

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Post by abulman »

celsius1414 wrote: post #56
copypaper wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tron 1 for the plot, Tron 2 for daft punk, Tron 3... we don't talk about.

Tron 2 for Daft Punk and Michael Sheen chewing scenery.

Michael Sheen is apparently such a fan of TRON, that he might have been lucky to not negotiated himself down to a $0 pay packet - just in case someone else might have gotten the role :D

Re: Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'

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Post by abulman »

Timwi wrote: post #19
agloe_dreams wrote: post #8

The funny thing about all of this to me is that, compared to most 'hacking' scenes in movies, this bit is wildly realistic, almost too good. If they were like "run upload_me" we wouldn't even be talking about it.

I’ll quickly create a GUI interface using Visual Basic to track the killer’s IP address.

you'd first have to program it to take the picture, and look back at the photographer's eye to get the reflection of the screen with the IP address on!

Re: Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'

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Post by abulman »

OhMeadhbh wrote: post #77

lol. I remember seeing LLLSDL go by when I originally saw the movie. The funny but is I had just written the internet draft for LLSD, so I was wondering g if someone on the writing staff had been following our work at Linden Lab. More likely it was a coincidence and all the L's meant "Laser."

As I pointed out to the OP on Mastodon, I very much believe that it was a reference to Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, where they filmed a big door, and the original laser sequence from the first TRON movie.

LLL also made an in-house video when they were filming the original movie - https://www.spyculture.com/dept-energy-invent-making-video/

Re: Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'

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Post by croon »

copypaper wrote: post #38
s_dev wrote: post #6

As an aside the Daft Punk soundtrack that accompanies this film is an absolute masterpiece. I think it's their best work. It's such a shame the film doesn't live up to it's own soundtrack.

Tron 1 for the plot, Tron 2 for daft punk, Tron 3... we don't talk about.

Tron 3 would be fine if not for the main character. Every other character/performance is great IMO, and the Trent Reznor soundtrack. The main performance was just incredibly bad, which sinks the whole movie.

Re: Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'

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Post by Tepix »

tardedmeme wrote: post #71
jgrahamc wrote: post #2

Wonderful! At the bottom he notes: "I’m sitting in the UK as I write this. Under UK law, I believe this should constitute fair dealing: the purpose is quotation for criticism and review, and this single screen capture is in no way an alternative to paying to see the original film. The film comes from the USA, and under USA law I think it similarly constitutes fair use: it’s for non-profit educational purposes, the am…

You should post on YouTube but blank out all the falsely strikable content and replace it with a pointer to your website. YouTube is necessary for discoverability.

> YouTube is necessary for discoverability.

It will remain necessary only as long as people do this.

Re: Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'

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Post by yawpitch »

samgranieri wrote: post #45
yawpitch wrote: post #28

I worked on this movie, mainly from a CentOS shell, and I approve this nitpick.

don't stop there....

It’s not as interesting as it sounds, I wrote a lot of code and moved a lot of assets around for the compositing of all the glow on the suits on to the live action and CG elements… basically I was doing a lot of logistics work making sure outsourced work from around the world was arriving in the right places at the right times and with some amount of QC having been done ahead of time.

So I got to look at Tron: Legacy mainly from within a tcsh session, but could look over the shoulder of the artists and leads doing the actually pretty stuff.

Re: Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'

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Post by conartist6 »

mikae1 wrote: post #75
jgrahamc wrote: post #2

Wonderful! At the bottom he notes: "I’m sitting in the UK as I write this. Under UK law, I believe this should constitute fair dealing: the purpose is quotation for criticism and review, and this single screen capture is in no way an alternative to paying to see the original film. The film comes from the USA, and under USA law I think it similarly constitutes fair use: it’s for non-profit educational purposes, the am…

You're lucky if that's right. In Sweden there's no fair use of imagery at all. "Citaträtten" (the right to quote) only covers words. https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citatr%C3%A4tt

As a hardened criminal then, I should probably avoid visiting Sweden
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