Expo, 32, freelance film and video editor and professional nerd living in the Pacific northwest.
This is my favorite piece of Clu + Rinzler art to turn up in a while now. Seconding what Grey said, too: I adore Rinzler’s eyes here. And the fact that he gets to have a turn in The Swagchair, looking smug after doubtless murdering the hell out of some insurgents.
(via pushthequorumbutton)
…baww ;_;
How to reconcile this with Rinzler’s epic dick move getting Jarvis killed in Legacy, though…
I love this movie. Really, I do. And I love this scene, too, if for no other reason than we actually get to see Tron being the BAMF he is and taking out four Black Guards in thirty seconds like they were chumps. But something about the editing/blocking in this scene has bugged the shit out of me since my first viewing, and now I have a nifty public forum in which to rant about it.
Hokay, so. The setup for this scene is blocked out something like this (apologies to all for my lolarious MSPaint fail):
But then…
How in the blessed, gracious fuck did Clu get all the way over to the other side of the screen in order to cut Flynn off so fast? Can he teleport? Do his super-duper Admin powers give him the ability to walk through walls like Kitty Pryde? And then when he grabs Flynn’s throat and throws him to the ground, he switches sides of the screen AGAIN! That’s called “breaking the 180”, after the 180 Degree Rule: essentially there is an axis in any given scene along which the characters are arranged to keep a sense of visual continuity between shots. Jumping over this axis can be really really jarring to the flow of a scene, and it is a first-year-of-film-school no-no. RRAGH! ::tableflip::
TL;DR: film school ruins everything.
THIS STILL DRIVES ME BONKERS.
Dear Tron: Uprising:
I would like a Mummy Returns moment in which Dyson is being menaced by Rinzler, resulting in something to the effect of the following exchange:
<Dyson> FFS Clu call off your murderkitty before he murders me!
<Clu> ::smirk:: Why?
Thank you for your consideration.
- Expo
BUT WAIT
Really, because they’ve completely ignored the events of Evolution. Clu still has his first warship which is destroyed at the end of the game. So that gives us a rough time table for Tron’s escape being within the time frame of the game which doesn’t give Clu time to create this elaborate plan.
Seeing that Clu had no clue that Anon was coming or that he would do the damage that he ended up doing. There’s noway he could possibly foresee or plan around what happened because of that new element being introduced.
Lastly, a large part of this argument revolves around the idea that Clu likes to play games which he doesn’t. Yes, Clu is a plotter but his plans revolve around being seen as a great leader and/or god not because he likes messing with people.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
no seriously what series have you been following
For luppihara because of this post, because it’s a seriously wonderful post and an idea that I really wanted to draw as well.
Originally I was just gonna leave who Clu’s talking to open to interpretation but then…
Quorra brings home the bacon.
And then Clu puts all of it in pancakes. ._.
Everything I draw becomes a comic…
I lost it at “Kiss Me, I’m Perfect!”
Still learnin’ to draw (or trying to!) Thanks to stalkingbit & winzler for the advice. <3 This one also comes with a minific:
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Clu panned the recoder over the bike’s open engine, his eyes narrowing as it smoothed away imperfection. Red code gave way to orange, and then to a pure, bright gold. He laid his hand against the seat and fed the cycle a little energy, smirking at the eager growl of the engine. Whole once more, despite what Sam Flynn’s trickery had done to it.
Sam Flynn. Clu finally had a face to go with the name… a face he could almost see himself in, as though his own features had been run through a filter or two. Family resemblance, he thought bitterly. He’d wondered at those words for a thousand cycles, but he’d never once considered they might be so literal, nor so inexact. He’d scanned the boy’s Disc, searching for answers, but all he’d found was nothing: Sam had done nothing, been nothing, created nothing. He was no Leader, no Liberator, no builder of cities.
And yet…
Clu shook off the thought with a huff, saving the changes he’d made to the bike’s code. It rumbled anew, perfectly in tune, and he gave the seat a possessive pat. The Corrector was almost as tough as he was — no User was ever going to break it, son of the Creator or not. Of all the things he’d made it was his personal favorite: better than the Throne Ship or his army, and perhaps even Rinzler. The bike was fast and beautiful, and it never, ever failed him.
Rinzler only scored two out of three.
He stretched, sighed, and leaned against the seat, folding his arms over his chest. Waiting was the hardest part, but he knew it would be over soon. The boy was on the Grid, and his father would follow. Endgame at last, just like in the Arena.
Victory or death… and either way its own triumph.
Eee omg the cute little smirk on his face! This turned out great, and I LOVE the ficlet. Clu lurves his lightcycle <3
Ahh, Tron: Uprising. I’ll be the first to admit, I was snarking about it months before it ever came out, calling it Tron: The Clone Wars and grousing about how its entire premise made NONE OF THE SENSE. My attitude was not helped when the show finally came out and the first several episodes were…let’s call it uneven, at best. Lazy writing, continuity derp, shoddy worldbuilding and problematic character issues…that first half of the season was a mess, and I sat at my computer jadedly muttering to myself about wasted potential.
I wasn’t ready to give up altogether, though, because there WERE good moments, gems in the rough shining through the ballast, and in an effort to make myself feel better about the direction the show seemed to be weaving drunkenly in, I concocted a theory in which I posited the whole plot was a long Xanatos (Gambit? Roulette? Game of Speed Chess?) orchestrated by Clu, and that Tronzler has been compromised all along. How else to explain his utter fail at training Beck and actually organizing an effective Uprising?
Imagine my surprise and utter delight when the second half of the season happened and not only did the show take an enormous quality leap in just about every direction, but every episode my half-baked theory increasingly appeared to be 100% correct.
Don’t believe me? As they say on CSI, let’s follow the evidence.
(RATED S FOR SPOILERS up to and including the most recent episodes below the cut. BE YE WARNED)
…would be that if Alan WERE to ever end up on the Grid with him, this inevitable situation would occur…
Alan: “Kevin!” >:(
Tron: “Flynn!” >:(
Kevin: “Oh man, now there’s two of them…”
Perfect. System.
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oh my god Pix
Well this only turned out twenty times creepier than I’d meant it to.
Yes but I like creepy.
Thank you,Tron Wiki
AWESOME \m/
…backing away slowly…
dw-t:
My (not so) secret Santa fic for userkaydee!
I’m very sorry it’s a day (and a half) late. :( Work and real life has been insane lately. But hopefully the fact that it’s been delivered by Christmas eve will help. \o/ Hope you enjoy, and happy holidays!
Summary:
“Unc’an?”
The blubbery sound was the only preface to the trespasser launching itself at Tron. This time, though, he did not attempt an attack, aborted or not - in fact, he was lucky his disc had not simply slipped from his fingers. As fresh sobs began to rise from the leg it had attached itself to, Tron stared down in mute horror and croaked, “SamFlynn?”
Oh god Tron you poor thing. Also bitty!Sam sdfjhfks. Also also GIBSON you troll. Perfect system.
This scene makes me laugh every time I watch the movie because I never understood what Sam thought he was going to accomplish here.
Like, seriously, bro, you’re gonna play Disc Chicken on foot with a guy who is gunning toward you on a moving vehicle, and who has already proven he cheats? BEST LIFE CHOICES.
(Source: sagittariusmaybe, via orphanervamp)
I went to see the Hobbit, thought Thorin was hot as fuck, looked Mr Armitage up in other roles, and concluded I wanted him to play Clu should the character appear in the third film with a new actor.
…I’d buy it for the price of a movie ticket. But then I’ve liked Richard Armitage for a while now. >_>
