Most of us argued that technology is bad when it is too strong. In my movie, it said that human nature is to destroy themselves..or something like that. Do you think that technology is bad and should never be used to that extent? Or do you think it is the fact that humans are bad and technology is not the problem? I know your movie was really complex and hard to explain without the audience seeing it.
I was originally turned off by the movie Tron, since it was made in 1982, by its cheesy graphics and the far-fetched plot. Did you find the argument in Tron more difficult to solidify because its amateur cinematic language or do you feel it contributed to the clarity of the argument?
In response to Aubrey's question, I do not believe that Tron argues that technology is bad, and should never be used in that extent. There was negativity associated with Master Control, and I believe that might be considered 'bad technology' because it does not obey humans. However, the other programs in the computer world do have a good relationship with their users, and this was illustrated as good. People like Dilinger that let technology get out of hand because they want computers to think for them are portrayed as negative and something that should be stopped, but as a whole, the technology illustrated in Tron is positive.
As for Megan's question, I believe the argument in Tron is a bit more difficult to solidify because of those limitations. I don't believe the movie was meant to have a complex argument regarding this, so it wasn't as focused as I would have liked. The movie was probably for the entertainment of people like children, not a very intellectual demographic. However, Tron did manage to illustrate the great triumph of the human spirit through the film, and I believe they did so successfully.
Julia, great presentation! Do you think that Master Control was able to become so powerful with the help of humans or was the technology smart enough that it would do it on it's own?
Hey Julia. I think our two movies were very similar in their use of this weird virtual reality world. In my opinion things like death don't have the impact on the audience when they happen in this virtual reality world that they do in real world settings. In my movie people are killed by virtual bees and virtual fire and it's almost funny instead of dramatic. I was wondering if you felt the same way, why you feel the way you do, and for what reasons?
Great questions so far. I believe that a lot of people wrote the program for Master control, and people like Dilinger wrote the program to be able to take on the code of other programs it encounters. In this way, Master Control was given the freedom to grow and learn on it's own, by using other programs to incorporate into itself.
Drew, that's a very interesting question. Because there aren't things like blood and guts in the virtual world, at least in my case, it definitely makes it seem a lot tamer. The world is less familiar to the audience, and inherently less real. So, I agree, definitely has a big impact. If there was a death of a real person in Tron, I would think there would be a way different take on the entire argument, and the negative power technology has.
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Most of us argued that technology is bad when it is too strong. In my movie, it said that human nature is to destroy themselves..or something like that. Do you think that technology is bad and should never be used to that extent? Or do you think it is the fact that humans are bad and technology is not the problem? I know your movie was really complex and hard to explain without the audience seeing it.
I was originally turned off by the movie Tron, since it was made in 1982, by its cheesy graphics and the far-fetched plot. Did you find the argument in Tron more difficult to solidify because its amateur cinematic language or do you feel it contributed to the clarity of the argument?
In response to Aubrey's question, I do not believe that Tron argues that technology is bad, and should never be used in that extent. There was negativity associated with Master Control, and I believe that might be considered 'bad technology' because it does not obey humans. However, the other programs in the computer world do have a good relationship with their users, and this was illustrated as good. People like Dilinger that let technology get out of hand because they want computers to think for them are portrayed as negative and something that should be stopped, but as a whole, the technology illustrated in Tron is positive.
As for Megan's question, I believe the argument in Tron is a bit more difficult to solidify because of those limitations. I don't believe the movie was meant to have a complex argument regarding this, so it wasn't as focused as I would have liked. The movie was probably for the entertainment of people like children, not a very intellectual demographic. However, Tron did manage to illustrate the great triumph of the human spirit through the film, and I believe they did so successfully.
Julia, great presentation! Do you think that Master Control was able to become so powerful with the help of humans or was the technology smart enough that it would do it on it's own?
Hey Julia. I think our two movies were very similar in their use of this weird virtual reality world. In my opinion things like death don't have the impact on the audience when they happen in this virtual reality world that they do in real world settings. In my movie people are killed by virtual bees and virtual fire and it's almost funny instead of dramatic. I was wondering if you felt the same way, why you feel the way you do, and for what reasons?
Great questions so far. I believe that a lot of people wrote the program for Master control, and people like Dilinger wrote the program to be able to take on the code of other programs it encounters. In this way, Master Control was given the freedom to grow and learn on it's own, by using other programs to incorporate into itself.
Drew, that's a very interesting question. Because there aren't things like blood and guts in the virtual world, at least in my case, it definitely makes it seem a lot tamer. The world is less familiar to the audience, and inherently less real. So, I agree, definitely has a big impact. If there was a death of a real person in Tron, I would think there would be a way different take on the entire argument, and the negative power technology has.
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