Hyperlexia

I’d like to take this moment to point out that the Sirens are fingering Sam’s circuits.

Feel free to color ‘em purple, folks.

winzler:

I often joke that I am a muse, going by how many people I bullied into writing stuff (so basically the Oglaf kind of muse), but I also learned that my derpy fics inspired a fellow Tron fan from ff.net to venture into her first fic! Here it is, an Alan-centric and so far largely Alan-POV take on the fight club thing going on in a story I wrote. ♥ Man, look at all those ideas… I just want to welcome everyone to fandom and creativity and give out fruit orange baskets and chocolates and glowing drinks with glowing li’l umbrellas in them.

Bawwww you had a fandom babby!  ::breaks out the It’s a Girl cigars::  Now grab her by the scruff of the neck and carry her over to AO3 like a good mama.

dw-t:

expositionfairy:

dw-t:

mochisquish:

…Games?

lol nope

lol Sam’s expression

Also, I just realized why I’d always had the impression that Sam was … well, if not SHORT, at least a little vertically challenged. I was honestly surprised by the web’s estimates of him being at about the 6’ mark, and only believed it when I saw later photos of him next to Bruce and Jeff. Looking at this now, I realized that the first good look I get of him side by side with others is right here, where he’s ringed by FOUR WOMEN, and they’re ALL either of a height with him or even slightly taller with the hairdos.

Of course, in retrospect, it’s half them being models and half being on Stilts Of Death, but it’s kinda hilarious that they set my impression of his stature for the rest of the ENTIRE movie.

I think my favorite thing about this scene, besides Sam’s hilarious reaction shots, was the way the Sirens moved.  There’s something alien and ever-so-slightly Uncanny Valley about them, which I really loved.  I think it’s something Legacy really did manage to improve on over the original film: the Programs in the second film may look human, but there’re all sorts of little stylistic details—their movements, their voices, the hexagonal pupils, etc.—that help hammer home, sometimes in an almost subliminal fashion, the fact that they’re not.

I’m sometimes of mixed mind about how they made the Sirens seem more mechanical here, but everybody else so INSANELY human (witness Zuse’s antics), which I think mainly depends on my writing mood and not based on any concrete principles. I do like how Gem’s movements were more or less consistent across her appearances - even at the club, her posture wasn’t quite “human natural”. (Also, I wonder if movie costume designers in general use different proportions in making certain types of costumes, because I tend to push my shoulders back a bit like the sirens do here and man, I don’t know what it is about shirts/bodices for mainstream American female styles, but 95% of the time the front is way too tight for how I hold my shoulders, which I thought was simply a casually “erect” rather than slouching posture :| )

Btw, am I the only person who has not noticed the hexagonal pupils until someone pointed it out? :(

Nah, don’t feel too bad.  I noticed there was something odd about their eyes in the bit where the one Siren talks to Gem, but I figured it was just the pale contacts.  It took a closeup screencap for me to be able to notice the corners on their pupils.  (As a related aside, there’s a hilarious bit in one of the making-of videos where Garrett Hedlund keeps getting distracted by the hexagons in Michael Sheen’s eyes.)

dw-t:

mochisquish:

…Games?

lol nope

lol Sam’s expression

Also, I just realized why I’d always had the impression that Sam was … well, if not SHORT, at least a little vertically challenged. I was honestly surprised by the web’s estimates of him being at about the 6’ mark, and only believed it when I saw later photos of him next to Bruce and Jeff. Looking at this now, I realized that the first good look I get of him side by side with others is right here, where he’s ringed by FOUR WOMEN, and they’re ALL either of a height with him or even slightly taller with the hairdos.

Of course, in retrospect, it’s half them being models and half being on Stilts Of Death, but it’s kinda hilarious that they set my impression of his stature for the rest of the ENTIRE movie.

I think my favorite thing about this scene, besides Sam’s hilarious reaction shots, was the way the Sirens moved.  There’s something alien and ever-so-slightly Uncanny Valley about them, which I really loved.  I think it’s something Legacy really did manage to improve on over the original film: the Programs in the second film may look human, but there’re all sorts of little stylistic details—their movements, their voices, the hexagonal pupils, etc.—that help hammer home, sometimes in an almost subliminal fashion, the fact that they’re not.