Hacker/arcade owner Kevin Flynn is desperate to prove that the hottest videogames from ENCOM were stolen from him by a former co-worker, who is now a senior executive there. Flynn's efforts, however, are made fruitless by ENCOM's "Big Brother," the megalomaniacal Master Control Program. One night, the MCP catches Flynn in an attempted hack and pulls him into the virtual world. Flynn finds that the MCP is making life in the virtual world just as, if not more, miserable as in the real world. Flynn's only hope is to find TRON, a heroic independent system security program, and help him destroy the MCP to bring order to both worlds. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084827/plotsummary)
Tron allows the audience to fully become immersed withing the film. By taking the human character and placing him into a computer the audience is also transported with him. The detail of the film allows for the audience to full understand the film. Also by using games of the time and also computers of the time it showed the audience that we are living in the future now. This goes a long with other films that we have already viewed. The idea that we are living in the future in the present is able to be seen within Tron just as it did in other films viewed thus far.
Looking at Tron a few different elements come to mind, the first being the large underling theme of ancient Greece. This only comes into play when looking into the computer. The outfits that the programs wear are very symbolic of ancient Greece. Also the idea of the games and having to fight within them also goes along with this concept. Epically that other programs are stolen and made into slaves to fight in the game just as slaves were forced to fight in the gladiator fights.
The idea of a quest that Tron must go on also cosponsoring with the notice of the Greek that often a mortal would have to go on a quest for the gods and in some instance the gods would help themselves. Tron is able to show the use of new digital technology within film, it creates a new digital Greece within the computer age.
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