Tron Thoughts
In the frame for Tron Legacy — the bit that takes place in the “real world” — our hero is an anarchistic troublemaker that hacks into his own software company to release its flagship product for free across the internet. Our villains are the comically greedy board members that want to charge excessive and unfair prices for said flagship product.
So it’s safe to say that the framing narrative is organized as a battle for information freedom against the vicious, money-grubbing executives of the world.
Here’s my point: Walt Disney, like every other major motion picture house, opposes free online distribution of its intellectual property. They prosecute pirates and participate in legal attacks on bit-torrent sites.
Is the irony of producing a film that take such a strong political stance on information freedom completely lost on the executives that greenlit the project?
