TRON - Program Clu

Another extract from Tron

[@Allronix]

Flynn's words about "I wrote you. I taught you everything about the system. You're the best program that's ever been written. You're dogged and relentless" are downright creepy when you think about Legacy.

[@blackrosepty]

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[@OmeedNOuhadi]

NOPE JARED LETO GONNA LETO IT ALL UP@@blackrosepty

[@mikerinzler6969]

Haha so then does Clu 2.0 contain legacy code from the first one?

[@Allronix]

@@mikerinzler6969 Or got his mitts on the Legacy code from 2.0...

[@ElricWilliam]

What if its the same program? Lol

[@allykins1767]

When people hear the name "Clu", they do not think of the loyal program who gave his life for his user... they can only think of the monster whom Flynn could not control.

[@willywanker1906]

He was a true hero

[@jiryensaber6090]

He wasn't a monster; a tragic antagonist perhaps, but only followed his programming. Flynn created him, so he only knew what Flynn himself believed and knew at that particular time. After having a family and seeing the grid expand, Flynn changed but CLU was stuck. Forever bound to the grid, which is why he saw the ISO's as a perversion of the grid, an ugly and imperfect being that didn't do what the rest of the grid inhabitants did at the time, follow your directives and programs. I think of the ISO's as the first step towards Artificial Intelligence, "In the Real World", because remember this is what is happening inside. Programs becoming alive or thinking for themselves? A disaster in the real world. Clu just wanted to do what Fllynn made him to do. Perhaps the ISO angle wasn't explained as well, but that's how I think of it, the first steps of advanced AI's. What if the computer or program your using right now crashed because it didn't like what you were doing? That's an ISO. Its starting to think and have sentience. Clu was just trying to keep order. If programs can be re--purposed, maybe Flynn could have done the same to Clu. But it probably wouldn't have gone well. Maybe he couldn't, I don't know, as that part wasn't explained. But Clu did figure out a way. Remember, he's just a program designed by his creator to complete his directives. He doesn't have as much free will as an ISO or a User. In his mind, he was just trying to save the grid. Even if it meant turning against his creator. Maybe some saw him as a monster, but he didn't have the ability to think beyond his original , some creative deviant methods and either re-purposing the faulty programs or removing them in the games, which originally were not lethal and just for fun. I felt he was a tragic anti-hero. Imagine having all those directives and all that power and ability, but trapped and unable to go anywhere or do much where he was. Hence, the page to Alan in the Real World and his speech that mirrored Flynn's towards the end. He saw "out there" (the real world) for freedom. He wanted a system of ultimate perfection. Kevin Flynn's original dream and commands, imprinted onto Clu 2.0 That's how he saw it and how I interpreted things. (wow - this got long. sorry)

[@protoborg]

@@jiryensaber6090 The thing is the Flynn who created Clu 2.0 was NOT the real Flynn. He was a poor copy of Flynn. The real Flynn would never have created such a flawed program. Watch the original movie to see who Flynn really was; an idealistic programmer who believed that the system did not have to be the exclusive domain of the top level programmers. What we saw in Legacy was only a shadow of Flynn. The system could not handle his virtue and kindness. We see this in the fact that Clu turned on him. Clu IS the system. Clu is the MCP without any of the experience of the MCP. Clu is why Flynn changed. The real Flynn was still in the system somewhere. I think the ISOs were Flynn trying to reassemble himself after being scattered by Clu's attempt to live up to buggy code.

[@power2084]

people who think that have no clu.

[@jayalbert9849]

Wait he was a good guy in the original tron movie ?

[@turtleboy991]

This Clu was a lot nicer.

[@Shanethefilmmaker]

That's because he was only a hacker program. The other Clu had more on his plate.

[@turtleboy991]

Still though. One would think that some of the original Clu's memory would've survived in his predecessor.

[@zpezar8532]

This clu was just a hacker program the other mainly served to create the perfect system but went rogue when he thought Kevin left him

[@livinghistory9701]

turbokid991 to bad he derezzed

[@donmccullen1973]

@@livinghistory9701 HAIL THE MCP!!!

[@Ads-yw1wr]

how is "meanwhile in the real world" not a meme yet?

[@AgarthaFan]

Ads 1982 Just thought about the possibilities lmao

[@jeremybk54]

perhaps many people haven't seen this, or those who have have forgot it is a thing

[@stosh3]

I have been quoting that for years

[@houstonhelicoptertours1006]

It kinda is? Been saying that since the 80s whenever people tell me about their first world problems.

[@cobnut6662]

Christopher Cardona yes we must do something about this

[@DooMGuy117]

I just now noticed that when Kevin flipped a "DAMN IT!' and showed the tank crashing, it's because CLU crashed. CLU.exe has stopped responding. the application froze and crashed. i loled

[@bagelbramble7335]

You laugh out louded? TF?

[@justmatt.8010]

Lo- Answer.exe has crashed

[@nofacedgoldfish6216]

@@justmatt.8010 Laugh-laugh-laugh

[@allyourpie4323]

Would you like to send a report?

[@protoborg]

Nope. It said nothing of the sort. Clu was not an executable. Clu was most likely a .com as it would take a command level program to break into a high security memory. He didn't freeze and crash. If anything the stolen tank program crashed. There is one inconsistency here. Never once does Flynn have any sort of visual display on his screen. Yet somehow he knows exactly what Clu is doing. Unless Flynn somehow is able to read code like an Operator in the Matrix, there is no way in hell he knows what Clu is doing.

[@Charnutboy]

"You're the best program that's ever been written" is unintentionally awesome forshadowing

[@blackrosepty]

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[@mikebipping6166]

it's true. CLU and Tron were Flynn's best programs, but CLU was created by him and only him. he really is the best.

[@manlyman1393]

Is it just me or does this film do a great job showing the futuristic atmosphere of 1980s pop culture?

[@MarcusAsaro]

Agreed!

[@atlasprime6193]

2:30 Behold, the big bad villain of “Tron: Legacy”: CLU!!

[@LorenHelgeson]

You love it. You know you do.

[@Zoditron]

He is Clue 2, this is Clue 1.

[@justmatt.8010]

And he screams

[@Firefox13A]

Heatwave619 that made it more impactful

[@DarthVader-1701]

Tron legacy suffered from extremely lazy writing , they could have easily made it just as good as the original if not better but they failed miserably.

[@MegaBlackhawk12]

its not ironic. this is a completely different clu than in tron legacy. this clu was derezzed at the end of this video. kevin built a new clu, and that is the one in tron legacy.

[@tydshiin5783]

Yeap, it was the one like 9 years prior to Legacy that was like made with the mirror

[@mr_0n10n5]

That's why he was always called Clu 2

[@2004dale]

I like the original Tron and the Legacy. Both were stellar unique films. The whole concept was fun and interesting- being inside a computer and it being a whole world in there with characters and conflict.

[@protoborg]

Legacy sucked!

[@ehtresih9540]

@@protoborg not as hard as you're mom

[@swivelysark]

@@protoborg man probly enjoys anime

[@jonathancharron7360]

Here’s hoping the third one (which is still happening) is just as good

[@jonathancharron7360]

@@protoborg no it didn’t

[@aliensguy3840]

I love how clu screams like a woman when he crashes also I think recognizers represent lag

[@jedigrandmaster6471]

then why would he be shooting lag? also, im pretty sure they are security programs seeing as flynn is trying to hack into encoms "high clearance memory" and when the recognizer catches him he is taken to a place where he is questioned by the mcp, the heart of encom

[@ChildovGhad]

The recognizers are analogous to firewalls/antivirus, though there wasn't much at the time that we would consider to be a firewall or antivirus, and I'm not sure either term had ever been used in context of computing yet.

[@protoborg]

Recognizers are anti-intrusion programs repurposed by the MCP to guard the mainframe core. They are used to protect high security parts of Encom's internal memory sector.

[@ohmss069]

(2:30) Master Control Program: $1500 Bit: $0.01 Jeff Bridges screaming like a girl: Priceless

[@GeoDasher8]

Daniel Chapman lol

[@WestAero13]

Sorry, but I think its so CUTE when Clu said "Let me at them" in the begining. XD

[@scottcharney1091]

Don't apologize.

[@power2084]

not cute, but rather badass

[@syppy7416]

honestly... yeah! he's just be Written ans he's ready to do his job

[@allenharper2928]

He even saved his bit companion! "Get out of here!" "Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes"

[@turtleboy991]

@@power2084 That's what I was thinking

[@totoshampoin]

So I might have covered what happens computer-wise here! Flynn tries to send his program Clu to the system. This program has to get through the firewall, which he manages to 0:50 Unfortunately, Antivirus MCP's data analysers (known as Recognizers) has detected Clu as a virus 1:27 The recognizers are basically occurences of some recognizer.exe which would be a subprogram of MCP meant to read datas and report anomalies, which would mean Clu is trying to corrupt (destroy) each of them in the server's RAM (the Random Access Memory, not the program), which is obviously futile as the MCP has plenty of them. Clu's process ends up freezing after terminating another Recognizer (Clu.exe has stopped working) 2:25 Then MCP catches him and proceeds to analyze then terminate the virus 3:10 Through his analysis, he reads the code might be similar to Flynn's coding (MCP is most likely an AI program, since he's able to communicate with users) and decides to report Flynn's effraction to Dilinger (did I spell it correct?), just as any antivirus must alert the user when a threat has been caught. Of course, that's all my interpretations and I have no idea if that was the intention... But I like to think it was, as it would be very clever.

[@FedoraReshiramGaming]

that sounds pretty much exactly what a computer would do in real time, it detects a program or something is trying to enter it illegally, sees it as a virus, proceeds to capture/isolate and then deletes it, or even stores it in a safe/isolated area where it can't gain access to anything, and then either 'deletes it' after a period of time, or tells the User what it found, and asks them to delete it.

[@syppy7416]

It's honestly really neat to analyze Tron like actual Computer events I never even Realized that Recognizers were meant to be Anitviruses

[@ketas]

well, no wonder, as tron was written specifically to mimick the computer

[@isaned]

Well, of Alan had Tron online, you would have seen Tron find something the system shouldn't be doing and shut it down. That would have been interesting to see Tron encounter Flynn after derezing Clu, thinking it's just another program.

[@telperion4441]

Tech seems on point. One correction: The Master Control Program wasn't an anti-virus program. It may have had that capability but it was actually a general administration program meant to facilitate and enhance the day to day tasks of Encom employees. Dilinger, who was effectively the MCP's user (it was actually a chess program that he found and modified for his purposes) began giving it instructions to steal other programs and take on their functions in order to take credit off the ideas and profit from them. So possible the MCP took over an anti-virus program previoiusly and was doing as you say, but its primary purpose was not an anti-virus, quite the opposite actually.

[@yomart105]

3:27 I hear Toby Maguire’s scream

[@art-n-filmsam3844]

2:31 CLU crashed

[@aliensguy3840]

Super Super Hero clu.exe has stopped working

[@Gizaalkemy]

this deserves more likes.

[@protoborg]

No. The tank crashed.

[@KizaruB]

Clu is the only known program (besides Abraxas) to have yellow circuitry. Apparently, it’s because he is a foreign program created by Flynn, which makes him distinct from normal programs (Blue) and MCP programs (red).

[@adamwalker4709]

Actually, in the canon of TRON, the colored circuitry dictates a program's purpose. Programs that are default in nature, meant to do what they're designed for when it comes to businesses and corporations are all blue, which is also why users have the default blue, but are also capable of other colors as seen when Flynn absorbs the red circuitry of one of the MCP programs. Programs with yellow circuitry are programs designed specifically for hacking purposes, so they could be considered to be a hacking program like CLU or possibly a virus or even an inoperative data pushing program. Green circuitry is only ever seen on programs that were written by military personnel, hence why the kidnapped military programs were being used to operate the game tanks when Flynn, TRON, and RAM fled the light cycle grid. Red circuitry is for programs that were either corrupted or diverged sharply from their original programming (i.e. the MCP as it was originally just a Chess program), or are failing to operate/slowly derezzing.

[@RoadtoNowhere73]

Clu’s scream is pure gold! Jeff Bridges made this film. David Warner pretty darned great too.

[@blackrosepty]

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[@epcotman32]

​@blackrosepty is Stephen Lisberger still gonna be apart of it?

[@IIIJFRIII]

Nicest sounding keyboard ever. Love those old 1980's ivory alp switches.

[@ScorpioBornIn69]

IIIJFRIII Certainly old technology now. Indeed I remember the old computers when Apple I and II came out.

[@IIIJFRIII]

***** I heard the apple iii was a total bomb. Still want one just because it was in the movie lol.

[@IIIJFRIII]

lolol

[@KegPatcha]

Those fokin keybords caused me MC tunnel, those shitty keyboards. ⌨️

[@yukimaruzam]

Wendy Carlos. Great musician

[@MarksUselessChannel]

The design of the Game Tank and Recognizer were amazing. We need a simulator, and I'd love be to build large scale models of them. We need Space Paranoids! Why has that never happened...

[@floydjohnson7888]

Disney did, in fact, commission a "Space Paranoids" game as part of the marketing for the second film

[@blastradius9136]

Those designs was from the Late and Great Syd Mead.

[@TGSuburban]

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[@royhsieh4307]

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[@caddyjoint96]

You may like the Recognizers I made for my Light Cycle animation. It appears three times in it. It's called "Tron Light Cycle Doing Crazy Stunts." I made all the objects in Lightwave 3D and I'd give the "rigged" Recognizer model (or even the Light Cycle) to anyone who wants it but good luck with trying to convert them to some other object format. You may also notice that I've posted a comment on this YT page about my Light Cycle animation because I want to share it with other Tron fans. See it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJK2YolmaayUgq8

[@voltz15]

One very interesting easter egg is if you have the 20th anniversary edition on dvd, look around the extra's menu and you should see a shot of Clu staring right at you. Something about this feels as if he's truly the precursor to Clu 2.0. Keep in mind, this was before Legacy even had a script.

[@snowstorm7226]

Do you know if there's a clip on KZbin

[@rescuediver7187]

voltz15 Also on the DVD, they have test shots of some of the costumes worn by actors in the “data pusher” section of the domain - after Flynn crashes the stolen recognizer. One costume is a vacuum tube, and another is a cluster of transistors. These are seen briefly in the movie, if only for a few seconds. End of line.

[@billkeithchannel]

@@rescuediver7187 Kinda weird how the grid bugs was a major part of the video game but barely used in the movie and avoided by simply passing overhead.

[@harshadjoshi9154]

Way too cool for 1982!

[@ScorpioBornIn69]

1982 was the big year for such movies; Tron, E.T., Poltergeist and Star Trek II.

[@nickstevens8596]

Yeah, 1982 was big for sci fi movies. There was also Blade Runner and The Thing.

[@epcotman32]

@@ScorpioBornIn69 Don't forget, The Dark crystal also came out that year.

[@ryanstauffer119]

And Star Wars was way too cool for 1977. Movies like these were just ahead of its time.

[@drewharding]

Great movies in the 80s indeed especially Tron, Empire Strikes Back, and Who framed Roger Rabbit all the way indeed!

[@eilujTsuki]

bit is so brave.. "get outta here"...."yesyesyes..."-bit runs away- XDDD

[@MistressGlowWorm]

Julie p Yeeted himself outta there.

[@yukimaruzam]

"I never should have written all those tank programs..."

[@blackrosepty]

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[@goldenretriever6440]

2:31 all manliness was taken away that very second

[@myke420247]

maybe i'm old but i think the cgi in this is still amazing

[@beck1328]

it's not just you. It still looks great. Its simplicity is more beautiful than most action film cgi today. I as a young adult end up liking older films because they tried to be new rather than trying to recreate a nostalgic feeling

[@gc3k]

Call me crazy but I still think this looks better than Legacy

[@gc3k]

There's a retro synth video on YT called Miami Nights 1984 Accelerated, that's closer to what I expected from a Tron sequel. Legacy was boring to look at. Hell even the real world night scenes looked better than the Grid

[@AlexDraco]

I prefer it over the remake's CGI, personally. Not saying Tron Legacy was bad, but the electronic world in it looked too realistic, too "physical" in a sense. And yet, it is supposed to be essentially another dimension, and thus the simple, non-realistic CGI of the 1980's movie was giving it an otherworldly feeling that was perfect.

[@MrGreatDane2]

It's fucking awful, but it's stylish because of the simplicity

[@RRVCrinale]

Think about this: We never saw CLU 2 get inside, interact with, or even mention a tank in Legacy. He erased his one weakness the minute he ascended to power!

[@danielwilliamson6180]

Clu 1 is like Data whilst Clu 2 is like Lore (Star Trek: The Next Generation).

[@blackrosepty]

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[@RecklessEraProds]

3:26 should be a meme. "I was simp-" (gets tortured)

[@mechanix1228]

Jesus i didn't realize how traumatizing it is to watch clu get erased. Its only the computer world but it was a hardcore death then and its a hardcore death now👍

[@pacmantab]

Who would have ever thought good 'ol Clu would one day have a "bad" version? Nice tie-in between 1982 and 2010

[@Rick-Raven]

"DAMN IT!" Sounds like me with my crappy internet connection

[@IIIJFRIII]

Clu 1.0

[@cobnut6662]

Has really nobody noticed he starts sipping on some cyber coffee at 0:44

[@humbleradioTokyoAdventures]

Love the 'clue' that he's been 'fixing' his bank account and phone bills. ;)

[@Shanethefilmmaker]

Well he had to test his hacking program on something before sending him out against MCP.

[@squirrelmaster9490]

I noticed that, too :) It also has some deep implications with regard to truth, faith, and religion. This whole movie is filled with subtle things like that.

[@erickrodriguez2245]

I hadn't noticed before!

[@kinardak]

A little "TRON" personal backstory. I saw this at the theatre in 1982. When it was available on VHS, I used to play the scene back over and over. Part of this scene used to put me in a trance or very relaxed state. If you go to 0:37 you'll notice a slight hum or melodic sound (used throughout the film in other parts). Not sure if that was a part of Wendy Carlos' soundtrack or just an effect added to the computer world sounds...but it was sooo soothing when I was kid. Now, with youtube, I can have it repeat and use it for meditation. I would be interested in knowing if anyone else did this.

[@floydjohnson7888]

That experiene of yours may add weight to the "Zen thing" line Bridges got in the sequel.

[@velocitymg]

So Clu was absorbed by MCP and then once MCP was destroyed Clue was able to be retrieved by Flynn in Legacy, Makes sense seeing it again now, but what happened to ‘Bit’ ?

[@peppermillers8361]

2:30 that part never gets old.

[@mysteriousfleas]

Pepper Millers I found this clip just so I could listen to Jeff Bridges scream.

[@yukimaruzam]

I wonder how many times he rehearsed that scream because it was perfect.

[@Allronix]

"You're the best Program I've ever written. You're dogged and relentless" --- Uh, NO SHIT Flynn.

[@Ixao]

Oh the irony... Clu saying " Forget it, mr high and might Master Program!" and now he's the Master Program in Legacy...

[@blackrosepty]

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[@Tigerman1138]

02:31 --Program crash, ERROR 404

[@ib2849]

aAaAaAhHhHhH

[@DarthRushy]

I still don't get how Flynn and Clu can chat like that. Or how Alan literally talked with Tron at the end.

[@LorenHelgeson]

I always got the impression that the second half of the movie was perceived almost instaneously from the real world - Alan wasn't just sitting there at his terminal for hours while TRON played the games, broke out of 'jail,' rode across half the grid, dodged an army of tanks, climbed the IO tower, and finally interfaced to download the code that would end the MCP. Or, I could have been wrong all these years and the correct answer is just simple movie magic.

[@DarthRushy]

Loren Helgeson It's not the timing, it's the idea that they're actually chatting. You can hear Alan's voice as if it's on a radio.

[@LorenHelgeson]

DarthRushy Again, I chalk that up to movie magic. I mean, let's face it. Why does TRON look like Alan, or CLU look like Flynn. They're essentially avatars for the their users. The whole chatting brings something a bit more cinematic than watching text prompts back and forth, I guess.

[@Abu_Brandino]

The chatting is more like how the Program interprets the lines of commands inputted into the computer by the user. Just gives us something to listen to. As for the MCP talking to Dillinger, the words are there on the large screen, and on the computer terminal when he talks to Flynn. The voice dialogue is there so we as the audience don't get bored reading text on a computer.

[@LorenHelgeson]

Sgt. Doom Exactly. I got lost in a bit of a tangent, but that's what I was trying to say.

[@josephastier7421]

2:30 Clu loses his purse

[@masculinebuddha8762]

I don't mean to laugh but this scene always reminds me of some parody on U.S. army recruitment. Program "Cluless": "I am an army of one sir, let me at 'em......" Army Recruiter: "Alright son, just keep that tank rolling and I'll try to cover you from this end, go!...." Program "Cluless" (after his capture): "I was sent here by the U.S. Governnnnnn AAAAHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!" Christ, I can't stop laughing!

[@dalleneldredge6923]

RIP original Clu.

[@luminabalderson3315]

Personally, I headcanon Clu 1.0's scream was out of frustration that he was crashing and that his mission was going sour. He doesn't scream the same way when near the MCP, instead only yelling in pain.

[@livinghistory9701]

Lumina Balderson probably

[@LorenHelgeson]

Sure. I thought the same thing just before seeing your comment.

[@Sgt_Glory]

Kind of like Doc's high pitched scream of frustration in Back To The Future when the cable gets unplugged while he's up on the clock tower.

[@MegaBlackhawk12]

ha ha! the program "crashed"

[@kaelenhitsman7246]

I wish I made a digital copy of myself in TRON (1982), Chaine de lepiquer.

[@transrapide]

Jeff Bridges should have won an Oscar for the scream alone @ 2:30 :)

[@asstolfo9106]

Must say Clu is so fabulous

[@ryanstauffer119]

If this version of CLU wasn't killed, imagine what would happen if he somehow got to meet CLU 2 from TRON Legacy. I know that wouldn't be possible since Kevin can only copies stuff to the new grid he designed for Legacy. For example, he copied Tron to that grid, so he's not just the original. He's basically a clone of the original Tron. But the only way that an original program would be able to get one grid to another without being copied would be by coming to the real world with Kevin, like how Quorra comes to the real world with Sam. So if this version of CLU survived and went to the new grid with Kevin, imagine him meeting CLU 2. Of course, if CLU 1 did survive then Kevin wouldn't have created a new version of him. But if CLU 1 did meet CLU 2, I feel like this would be their interaction after CLU 1 finds out that CLU 2 wants to get rid of the ISOs... CLU 1: Don't do this. This is not what Flynn made you for. CLU 2: Not what he made me for? He created me to create the perfect system. CLU 1: This is not the way to do it! You can't create perfection by destroying everything! CLU 2: In order to build something, you need clear space. And I am making more space on the grid by getting rid of what is not needed. CLU 1: And you think the ISOs aren't needed? CLU 2: What good are they to us? CLU 1: Flynn wants to bring them to the real world! Cure disease, he said! He was going to change the world! CLU 2: And he promised we would change the world TOGETHER! He broke his promise! CLU 1: If you really wanted to do the right thing, you wouldn't want to derez programs and you wouldn't betray Flynn. CLU 2: I am doing this for us. And in order to get to the grid's maximum potential, we have to get rid of every single thing that is imperfect. CLU 1: Like you? (CLU 2 is now pissed. He walks up to CLU 1 slowly and gets close to his face.) CLU 2: Has it ever occurred to you why Flynn created me instead of just using you? Why made me to create the perfect system instead of asking you to do it? It's because he wanted that in my programing. For it to be what users call a "soul purpose". And what about you? He created you to hack the ENCOM computer system to search for proof that Dillinger stole Flynn's video games. And what happened when you tried searching for the proof? You were captured and sent to the Main Control Program. Flynn had to find the evidence himself in those memories. Now that Flynn found them, what good are you now? You are no longer needed to find that evidence. "Utility" in our name may mean being useful, but only I am useful now. You no longer have a purpose. And since you were caught back then, that makes me better than you. You're just a rough draft of what CLU is really meant to be. So, to sum up everything, you are imperfect too. And I have to make sure that this grid is perfect... by getting rid of everything that is imperfect. (CLU 2 uses his disk to derez CLU 1. CLU 1 screams in pain as this happens.)

[@brayanargandonaflorentino548]

This is my favorite Jeff Bridges performance

[@realar]

Brayan Argandona Florentino Iron Man and True Grit had some great ones as well.

[@stosh3]

Starman

[@LorenHelgeson]

Starman, but this is a close second for me.

[@Morn__]

The big lebowsky

[@floydjohnson7888]

@@Morn__ In "Legacy", Jeff Bridges' character is sort of "the BIT Lebowski"

[@school1917]

I like this clue than the newer one!

[@realar]

school1917 YES! That CLU sucked!

[@billkeithchannel]

Totally not the direction I would have went if I would have written a proper sequel.

[@80sLoverGirlLeo]

@WaddleBuff Cause this Clu 1.0 got derezzed then @ legacy, Kevin programmed a new Clu 2.0

[@epsilonsigmamu]

Can't wait to see Tron Legacy. Clu 2.0 is villan!

[@matgrill9085]

I'm so exited, when is it coming out?

[@gustavopereira4924]

@@matgrill9085 in 11 years negative to You... To me it will take about 12 years negative... Cant wait to see it

[@matgrill9085]

@@gustavopereira4924 hella hyped

[@Lord_Buckles]

@@matgrill9085 me too, I heard daft punk got back together to make the soundtrack which is cool!

[@blackrosepty]

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[@livinghistory9701]

Greetings programs!

[@krontlou8913]

1982 special effects were amazing for the time.

[@blackrosepty]

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[@ICET100]

MCP : YOUR IN TROUBLE PROGRAM MAKE IT EASY ON YOURSELF WHO'S YOUR USER? CLUE: FORGET IT HIGH MIGHTY MASTER CONTROL YOU ARNT MAKING ME TALK MCP : SUIT YOURSELF CLUE : OHHHHHHH AHHHHHHH FADES OUT

[@Shanethefilmmaker]

I just realized. Clu got Crucified.

[@ZuluRomeo]

CLUcified

[@FullMetalJackSquat]

amazing...! Loved the original TRON and was excellently surprised how well they pulled this off. the new TRON - only neg Comment.. I wished they used more referances to the old movie→ Like the 'no 'no 'no 'no 'yes 'yes 'yes 'yes "Bit" Greetings programs..etc etc Φ 'End of Line' was earily missing...

[@blackrosepty]

TRON: ARES (TRON 3) is coming with the Director Joachim Rønning ✨ Filming start in august of this year in Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦

[@humbleradioTokyoAdventures]

I know I sound silly and am in the minority, but I liked the world better when only a small percentage of people were involved with computing. The world was more more interesting when it wasn't filled to the brim with people calling themselves 'self proclaimed geeks' and whining about the shortcomings of the latest upgrade for the umpteenth time.

[@KrautGoesWild]

Star Wars IV, Logan's Run and TRON - the 3 movies that influenced me the most in my childhood years (

[@SaccoBelmonte]

No matter how old this movie is, the narrative is spot on, the movie doesn't get outdated.

[@billkeithchannel]

SCSI is so obsolete now. Scuzzy data!

[@Raikeran]

"Let me at 'em!" - CLU, 1982

[@hrrproductions553]

Man, "Tron" (1982) was, and still is, one of my all time favorite movies, due to the fact that it's special effects, settings AND imagery inside of The Grid looks really impressive in my opinion 😏😉👍

[@lewisner]

I saw it in 1983 and it blew my mind.

[@billkeithchannel]

Same here, all-time favorite. The irony is that computers were not fast enough to animate the scenes so it had to be rendered one frame at a time and shot onto film.

[@andykrone7760]

my life in I.T.

[@victorhugocarballo]

Poor Clu!

[@luthermcgee432]

Good 'ol Flynn( Jeff bridges) was hilarious. He brought humour to the movie.

[@blackrosepty]

TRON: ARES (TRON 3) is coming with the Director Joachim Rønning ✨ Filming start in august of this year in Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦

[@gck86]

greeting program!

[@gck86]

@Clymax01 when you watch tron legacy ,Clu 2 is a completely new version of Clu.The only relationship between Clu 1 and Clu 2 is that they have the same name and user: Kevin Flynn

[@mlpb]

I watched this before I watched Legacy as a 13-year-old, and I regret to say I didn't pay much attention to this film. I remember this scene now after all these years and I never realized Clu was in this movie, and he was a loyal program to Flynn to the bitter end.

[@Tigerman1138]

It just dawned on me that that his bit is likely the one who finds Flynn and claims he is his program.

[@OreadNYC]

Exactly. CLU looks like Flynn because Flynn wrote him...so when the MCP transports Flynn into the digital world, Bit thinks that Flynn is CLU. After all, Bit escaped when CLU told him to and so Bit never knew that CLU was de-rezzed.

[@squall600]

i love how CLU sounds robotic in the beginning

[@flynnsarcade.1982]

Not even Legacy can touch the aesthetic of this film. The whole thing just feels shrouded in mystery and magic. A lot of that is attributed to Wendy Carlos' fantastic score.

[@billkeithchannel]

Rex Reed at the time called it "random notes". Filthy film critic

[@DixieBanjo]

These CLU attacks fill in the gap spoken about in Tron legacy. The scene where Flynn explains to Sam that there was a coup, where he was supposed to create the perfect system. I think once Flynn defeated the master program with TRON and CLU (his mirror), he was able to enter the grid and create said perfect system....after a while CLU rebelled against him after lusting for that administrator power. Just imagine the timeline from Flynn's POV, this is what he make Legacy from, an 80s aesthetic into the sleek 2010 version.

[@blackrosepty]

TRON: ARES (TRON 3) is coming with the Director Joachim Rønning ✨ Filming start in august of this year in Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦

[@iGame3D]

Remaking this on my Amiga 500 in DeluxPaint IV was one of the coolest things I ever did. Shame 512K RAM wasn't enough to do more.

[@caddyjoint96]

"...my Amiga 500 in DeluxPaint IV..." The mention of these things is like music to my ears -- to hear someone else say the name of my first computer and my first paint program. What about Videoscape3D!, my first 3D app which developed into Lightwave3D. I've been a LW user ever since. Eventually I graduated to the A2000/w PAR board) and a few of those animations I made way back then are on my YT channel today. Anyway, please see my "Tron Light Cycle Doing Crazy Stunts" animation which I created a few weeks ago and posted on my channel -- here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJK2YolmaayUgq8

[@mudassirahmedi5617]

Clu in Tron is like me in school Clu in Tron Legacy is me in college

[@vk-shortvideos]

@buggles999 lol best scream ever

[@yukimaruzam]

Everyone and anyone who goes to see Tron Legacy should watch this 4 minutes and 8 second clip. Makes the villian so much more real.

[@jeffreyaguilar8028]

The cgi in this movie is actually quite fitting actually cause it fits the computers they had 40 years ago.

[@blackrosepty]

TRON: ARES (TRON 3) is coming with the Director Joachim Rønning ✨ Filming start in august of this year in Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦

[@greenious508]

Just imagine CLU2 as this CLU. Aww, so faithful!

[@MrKajithecat]

So 80's, I love it so much. I honestly couldn't grasp the concept till I was older since I knew little about computers as a kid.

[@realar]

MrKajithecat Actually Kingdom Chums helped me get to understanding TRON and then loving it. That and being raised on an Apple IIc didn't hurt either.

[@MarissaOfUnderground]

Clu has the funniest scream ever.

[@danielwilliamson6180]

Play it at 0.25.

[@queenmorganite2825]

Flynn forgot to gave him a disc to fight back like tron and now he dies🤔😲😲

[@eduardomagana3858]

Never would've thought that clu would be a good guy.

[@eze417]

When Tron comes up in conversation every guy wants to imagine he's so damn cool zipping along on a light cycle. And me, I was different. I wanted my own game tank.

[@Iluthra]

Flynn waiting for a response, not realizing all the crap poor Clu is going through.

[@UMADBRO312]

Clu was better in this movie not power hungry

[@Bulls3ye86]

I like to think that his death here contributed to his bitterness. As he probably has fragments of memory from his past versions.

[@Sand-Walker13]

@@Bulls3ye86. I agree

[@davidconway6874]

I always liked that little grin after "Suite yourself."

[@Theresa_LeeAnn1]

love clu's scream

[@brothersgt.grauwolff6716]

3:51-4:00 that looks painful well up until the last few seconds when he ceases functioning and CLU is just dismantled

[@synthonaplinth5980]

It most certainly is when you consider that he was being slowly derezzed prior to that.

[@markhorney7625]

You know this CLU program could in theory still exist somewhere on a old style 80s floppy disk somewhere ready to be put into old pc and converted onto an emulator program 😂

[@danielwilliamson6180]

I watched and enjoyed both TRON movies.

[@jeffzebert4982]

*Memory Guard:* Got a pirate program here. Says his name's Clu. *Master Control Program:* What did he pull? *Memory Guard:* He came into the system with a stolen password... and we caught him trying to raid our High-Clearance Memory. *Clu:* No! I must've gotten in there by mistake! I was simp-- *Master Control Program:* Who programmed you? *Clu:* I was simp-- (the MCP telekinetically throws Clu onto one of its Assimilation Devices, then Clu screams as he starts to de-rezz as a result of the MCP sucking out his functions and assimilating said functions into itself. Then, the MCP slows down the assimilation process to give Clu a chance to talk) *Master Control Program:* You're in trouble, Program. Make it easier on yourself. Who's your User? *Clu:* Forget it, Mr. High-and-Mighty Master Control! You're not making me talk! *Master Control Program:* Suit yourself. (Clu screams one last time as the MCP completes the process of absorbing Clu's functions; as a result, Clu completely de-rezzes.) *Master Control Program:* Get me Dillinger.

[@80sLoverGirlLeo]

I wish they kept the same suit concept for Legacy... I mean circuit-like, lighten by emotions, brighter colors... as well for the backgrounds more interaction with different color/moving circuits as this one... oh well... hail the 80s and their funky fun colors! haha

[@Shanethefilmmaker]

Say what you will about CLU, but he practically flipped off MCP before dying.

[@protoborg]

For all of you who keep saying Clu crashed, THE TANK CRASHED NOT CLU!!! Clu is IN a stolen tank program. He didn't crash. The tank crashed.

[@bettyleeist]

Tron was a great 👍 film!I didn’t see this film 🎥 till year’s later,though.It’s hard to believe,it was made in;1982?!

[@glennlittle5965]

438 must thank you Coulmbia university Afro American females are rolling recgnizers

[@Shanethefilmmaker]

Programs don't really die, they get reconfigured. Meaning they can come back but sometimes they end up singing a different tune. The best way to describe it would be Doctor Who. The first Clu was destroyed and then recreated to become the second Clu. The original was dogged and relentless, but was a good guy in the end, whilst the second was ruthless and cold.

[@blackrosepty]

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[@shafer2000]

I love the way Clu screams

[@blackrosepty]

TRON: ARES (TRON 3) is coming with the Director Joachim Rønning ✨ Filming start in august of this year in Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦

[@gregebert5544]

I vividly remember seeing "Tron" in 1982, and being an engineering student at that time I was blown-away by the graphics, knowing that the resolution and rendering required massive computational power that was very hard to come by back then, ie CRAY-1 supercomputer. Even to this day, more than 40 years later, the graphics are still impressive.

[@billkeithchannel]

They semi-cheated. The images were rendered hi-res one frame at a time and filmed frame by frame since computers at that time were incapable of animation. The images weren't even drawn like a paint program but was all number data.