Amph END OF LINE: TRON, Uprising, Legacy & Ares

TRON: The Next Day, Part 1: Flynn Lives.

"Good to have you back, RAM."

 

Also, I only now just noticed that CROM was played by Peter Jurasik (aka Londo from B5).

 

Derezzed Official Music Video

Different than the pre-release one that had just footage from Legacy, this one is all original, in a style between the original film and Legacy.

 

So I'm working up a list ofreferences to the original film found in Legacy, as well as any other easter eggs.

I've gone through what I've seen mentioned online in various interviews with the director or articles dealing with this subject, but since there were others I was able to add beyond these, there certainly must be others, so if anyone remembers (or, after the video release next week, finds) any others, feel free to point them out (or confirm some of the hazier ones):


Homages to Original Film (and Easter Eggs Pertaining to it):

-The tilted, rotating perspective of the title logo simulates the rotating of the original film's title logo.

-Kevin hums the Wendy Carlos title theme to TRON when he plays with the action figures.

-The poster art to TRON is repurposed as a poster for the Encom game of the same name.

-"Now that is a big door." Both Sam and Kevin say this line as they break into Encom at night (using similar methods).

-Cillian Murphy's cameo character is the son of Edward Dillinger, David Warner's character.

-Sam lives in a garage that says "DUMONT" on it. Dumont was the name of the tower guardian program written by Barnard Hughes's character, Walter Gibbs, who mentioned the garage as being where he started Encom from.

-Sam changes his shirt upon entering his garage apartment upon having a vistor. Kevin does the same in his arcade apartment when he has vistors.

-The same Space Paranoids billboard is above Flynn's Arcade (although it now mentions Tron on there too).

-The street sign outside Flynn's Arcade says "Mead Street", refering to original Tron designer Syd Mead.

-Journey songs play in Flynn's Arcade in both movies.

-An actual TRON arcade game has been repurposed as an Encom arcade game.

-Flynn's secret lab has multiple easter eggs: Flynn's handheld game from the first film, the MCP, spec details and early versions of the Shiva laser, etc.

-"Oh man, this isn't happening". Spoken by both Sam and Flynn when they arrive on the Grid.

-A Tank makes a brief cameo as Sam looks below from within the Recognizer.

-Same sound effects from "TRON: Deadly Discs" is used for Sam and Rinzlr in the arena (unconfirmed).

-Models of Bit are on Flynn's mantle (interacted with by only Flynn and CLU ala the original film).

-Director of original TRON, Steve Lisberger cameos as the End of Line bartender.

-"Finish the game!" Ordered by both SARK and CLU.



Other Easter Eggs:

-Sam's bedroom has a poster for The Black Hole, the remake of which will be directed by Legacy's director. Also has a 1980s Mac.

-Sam has an "89" Flynn Lives logo patch on him, referencing the viral campaign.

-Hidden Mickey with the sabotaged security camera.

-After Sam is taken into custody, you can see a backlit "2" on the side of a building as the Recognizer is taking off. It is the same "2" used in the "TR2N" title font from the Comic-Con test footage.

-Hall H vocals from Comic-Con are used for arena chants.

-Rinzler is named after the author of The Making of Star Wars, J.W. Rinzler.

-The game Quorra rarely beats Flynn at is "Go"- a game in real life that, unlike Chess, is notoriously difficult for computer programs to play well against a human player.

-"The only winning move is not to play." A reference to the movie "War Games". Related: CLU has a chess board.

-Gem is named after the GEM graphical environment that ran on Atari ST & DOS machines.

-Zuse is named after Konrad Zuse, creator of the first computer.

-Daft Punk cameos as the End of Line DJs.

-A (digitized) Wilhelm scream can be heard as last Black Guard is killed by Sam in the command room.

-The LOST numbers are hidden in the film somewhere.

 

Epilogue/Sequel Teaser #2: The Dillingers' Chat

Not as in-depth as the first one, but, still,

 

During the TCW finale, they were airing promo BTS spots from Legacy on CTN during the commercial breaks- and they had a whole segment on how Rinzler is Tron. I guess they don't care about keeping that secret/avoiding that spoiler anymore...

 

Initial List of Legacy Blu-Ray Easter Eggs

After you watch Flynn Lives Revealed, you get a menu of a Space Paranoids High Score screen, where you can enter in your initials- using the list provided on the screen you can access different information expanding on segments of the viral campaign, as well as the Dillingers chat clip.

Presumably, if the Quorra scene exists, it'll be an unlisted hidden easter egg accessed through this menu...once someone figures out the code.

 

Sure, I'll be rewatching the movie a few times over the next week, and intend to do just that with the track list.

I thought I saw an commentary track on one of the menus, but it's not listed on the package, so I'm probably wrong.

 

Ok, I did the first half of the movie again for the soundtrack analysis- I'll do the second half tommorow. But here's what I have so far:

0) Flynn Remembers*
1) The Grid
X) PARTIAL: Father and Son (bedtime story scene)
X) MISSING: TV Report Exposition Atmosphere
2) The Son of Flynn
3) Encom Part I (bonus track)
4) Encom Part II (bonus track)
5) Overture (only first half is used in film)
5a) "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" by Journey
5b) "Sweet Dreams" by Eurythmics
X) MISSING?: Flynn's Secret Lab Atmospheric Music (can't tell if it's a piece of ambient music or sound effects)
6) Recognizer
7) Armory
8) Arena
9) Round One (bonus track)
10) Rinzler
XX) MISSING: CLU'S ARENA LANDING
11) The Game Has Changed
12) Outlands, Pt. I
13) Father and Son (bonus track)
XX) MISSING: YOUR MOVE, FLYNN


Also, I've been keeping my eye open for possible locations the Lost numbers might be hidden in, but since I don't have an HDTV or a player/TV with a zoom feature, this is a difficult prospect, but I'm gonna note them here for now until I (or anybody else) can discount any of them.

Possibilities So Far:
-Sam's hacked Big Door password
-Center City police department sign
-Sam's login attempts in the secret lab (the left "window" in particular)

 

I had thought about the Nikkei index but it didn't seem like any fields were appropriate in size.

As for the police station, I was thinking right under the main center sign above the doorway (it looked like some small numbers were along the bottom, but I couldn't tell at my TV's resolution). There was a plaque to the left of the screen too but it didn't right as an option.

I'm wondering if maybe they were worked into the Disc Wars scoreboard somehow, I'll have to take another look there. I think I was able to discount Jarvis's datapad too.

BTW, one of the documentary segments shows the MCP cameo: it's a cup holder/desk organizer styled after the MCP core, though it's hard to see in the finished film, it's there if you know where to look. (between the MCP cup holder and the Bit models, they really need to get rolling on the merchandising there, man).

I'm also curious what the significance is of one thing pinned to Flynn's board in the lab that says "March 1981", as that's my birthmonth .


Also, is anyone else kinda dissapointed by some missing extra features? The documentary is fine, and the Flynn Lives stuff is great, as is the Daft Punk music video.

But no commentary track? Ok, not every movie gets one and not every director wants to do one (but could you imagine a Bridges/Boxleitner/Steve commentary track?). No storyboards/deleted scenes? (we get a brief glimpse of the original MCP bedtime story in the documentary, but nothing else- like the unfilmed throne room disc battle).

No trailers? They include the Comic-Con test footage (though with a little audience cheers mixed in) in the documnetary but none of the regular trailers or TV spots. WTF? That's like the minimum special feature you need on a disc and they're not there. They had some great spots too.

I hope this isn't a trend with Disney or BD releases in terms of features. I mean, maybe some of that is being saved for the Disney Second Screen feature- but I want to watch the trailers and TV spots on my TV, not just a computer or ipad.

Yeah, the director said they're in there somewhere. Both screenwriters of Legacy wrote for Lost, thus their inclusion.

 

I don't know if I'd agree with that assessment- there's definitely parts to the original TRON that are very much like the Disney movies of that era- some of it is in the real world scenes, but a lot of the humor in particular in the Grid scenes (the wackier aspects to the rebuilt Recognizer, googly-eyed sentinel deaths, etc) or the goofiness/cuteness of the grid bugs definitely strikes a chord along those lines.

But, not the entire film- it was definitely a movie trying to bridge the pre-SW era with the post-SW era but not quite grabbing all the right lessons along the way.

It certainly made TRON much more experimental and audacious than most other Disney films.

 

and here's part two of my soundtrack analysis:

14) Adagio For TRON
15) Nocturne
XX) MISSING: Bedrooms & Flynn's Dreams
16) Outlands, Pt. II
17) End of Line
XX) PARTIAL: Castor (Electrify the boys and girls!)
18) Reflections (bonus track)
19) Castor (bonus track)
20) Derezzed
21) Fall
22) Sea of Simulation (launch of the sailer and Quorra's repair)
XX) MISSING: CLU's Arrival At the End of Line Club (almost sounds like a blend of an excerpt from Recognizer with the intro to C.L.U. used as an outro)
XX) REUSED: Nocturne (Sam and Kevin catch up- this might be an original piece)
XX) MISSING: Rinzler investigates the elevator
XX) PARTIAL: C.L.U. ("End of line, man."; this could also be a separate track using the same theme, I'm uncertain)
23) Sunrise Prelude (bonus track) (during Quorra's recounting of Flynn saving her and the discussion of the sun) (however, there's a small missing piece of ominous music played briefly over this track's middle when Rinzler's Recognizer is revealed to be trailing them)
XX) MISSING: Boarding the Rectifier
XX) PARTIAL: Disc Wars (Quorra removes herself from the equation)
XX) MISSING: Clu installs the Disc Atmosphere
XX) MISSING: Clu's Speech Intro (may just be an excerpt from C.L.U.)
24) Rectifier
25) Disc Wars
26) C.L.U.
XX) MISSING: Flynn's Request/Freefall/Tron 2.0
27) Arrival
28) Flynn Lives
XX) REUSED: Father and Son
XX) REUSED: Sunrise Prelude
29) TRON Legacy (End Titles)
30) Solar Sailer
31) Finale