Random classic TRON question

dropshipbob

dropshipbob

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The other day I decided to watch TRON and at the point where Flynn is being transfered to the ring game, Sark says, "Wait, let him fight one of his own kind."

What did he mean by this? CROM (the program he was pitted against) wasn't a user, so what was SARK on about?
 
He was in the holding cell along with Ram and Crom so it was more of an us against them comment.

He also hoped Flynn to get killed before he had to fight him since Sark seemed a bit scared of facing Flynn.

FB
 
dropshipbob said:
"He's not any kind of program Sark, he's a user."
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Sark: "a user? I mean, users... WROTE us. A user even wrote YOU!"

MCP: "No one user wrote me, I'm worth billions of their man hours."


Yep. MCP told Sark before Sark ever met Flynn.

But he wanted to treat him like any other program. Probably out of fear.
 
New conscript vs new conscript.

The other program was pressed into gaming at the same time Flynn was trying to break into the system so in USER world time the span between then and his playing Flynn was only a few hours.
 
Not to hijack, but another question:

Early in the original TRON film, when the random arcade guy is shown playing the light cycle game, it shows SARK racing and beating his opponent.

:confused ?? HOW ?? was Sark in a standalone, non-networked, no wifi enabled video game in an arcade, and the next minute, back at the ENCOM server being applauded by the MCP for his ruthless tactics on the light bike?
:confused
 
i figure its actually since it was a game produced by Encom, is was just a copy of Sark, nnot the same one Flynn meets in the Encom computers
 
Dr Talyn said:
i figure its actually since it was a game produced by Encom, is was just a copy of Sark, nnot the same one Flynn meets in the Encom computers
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I could buy that, BUT....

The next scene, we hear the MCP "congratulae" Sark for his ruthless light bike performance. Sark says he wants a real challenge, so the MCP tells him about the user, Flynn.

Even if this was a DIFFERENT Sark (i.e. the one on the ENCOM mainframe, not the one on the arcade machine) how would Sark #2, or the MCP, know that Sark #1 had just beat a guy on a light bike at the local arcade? :confused
 
blewis17 said:
Early in the original TRON film, when the random arcade guy is shown playing the light cycle game, it shows SARK racing and beating his opponent.
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This is the ONLY complaint about the film. I don't think we should have seen any of the 'Tron world' until Flynn goes into the computer.

Then it would have such a greater impact seeing everything through Flynn's eyes, like Charlie going through the door into the chocolate room or Dorothy stepping out of her house in the land of OZ.
 
I love the intro.

Gives us a bit more of the world. And establishes Sarks prowess.

Keep in mind that this isn't OUR world. Encom would be like if you took microsoft sony the U.N. mixed in some illuminatti and added the ability for teleportation...

"Wifi? I had that idea back in 84!"

Who's to say those games weren't "online" how we say it today. Just in a different way. Good thing is they never explain it so it doesn't contradict our real world in anyway other than the timing of when our online gaming was available.

Remember his touch screen computer? IF and that is a BIG IF, they could have made that back then it would have been billions of dollars. And remember guys it WAS ONLINE TO THE GRID. And about 5 feet from the old Tron arcade machine... So really the thing you can't grasp could be explained with a 5 foot cable.

Yet you aren't questioning his "ipad extreme edition" that can not only do more than any real world computer could for about 20 years... AND it can actually teleport you? LOL!!!

(I know we don't know WHEN he built the setup from legacy. But It leaves it open that he had something going on in that room. I Believe that is where we see him talking to CLU in the first movie, and HE IS on the grid at that point. Well, CLU is.)
 
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OldKen said:
Remember his touch screen computer? IF and that is a BIG IF, they could have made that back then it would have been billions of dollars. And remember guys it WAS ONLINE TO THE GRID.
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The first true touch screen was invented in 1974. The HP-150 Touchscreen desktop computer was on the market in 1984 for the "low" price of $2795.
 
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