Tron:Legacy
Dec. 15th, 2010 01:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
growler_southDaft Punk love the original Tron movie, so much so that their latest
music video is an all-out 127min homage to it, complete with their
trademark stunning visuals, intricately choreographed action
sequences, and the barest bones of a plot to justify the 2-hour
duration.
And what a pinched, mean, scrawny narrative it is: SonOfFlynn must
find Flynn, rescue Flynn, and escape the Grid, while evading the
clutches of a rubber Jeff Bridges. Inexplicably there is also a plan
to take over the world, a one-dimensional love interest, and a cute
puppy, none of which have any material bearing on the story.
It's not the plot we're here for, though, is it.
The Grid environment is unrelentingly gorgeous. Dark glossy surfaces
and pristine whites, slashed with neon blue and fanta orange create a
sugar-rush visual for the soaring orchestral score, cascading synth
and gritty beats.
Too much of the epileptic eye candy would rot your brain, but
Tron:Legacy is niceley damped by moments of wholesome acting and
kludgy narrative. From the beginning when an awkward voiceover takes
the edge off the heady overture, to the end where the character who
has never seen the sun rides outside *with her eyes closed*, the nasty
reality of making a Hollywood film keeps the audience from getting too
carried away in the shiny fantasy and hypnotic beats.
As a film, then, Tron:Legacy falls disappointingly flat. But as a
masterful, absurd, 2-hour Daft Punk music video, it is nothing short
of awesome.
music video is an all-out 127min homage to it, complete with their
trademark stunning visuals, intricately choreographed action
sequences, and the barest bones of a plot to justify the 2-hour
duration.
And what a pinched, mean, scrawny narrative it is: SonOfFlynn must
find Flynn, rescue Flynn, and escape the Grid, while evading the
clutches of a rubber Jeff Bridges. Inexplicably there is also a plan
to take over the world, a one-dimensional love interest, and a cute
puppy, none of which have any material bearing on the story.
It's not the plot we're here for, though, is it.
The Grid environment is unrelentingly gorgeous. Dark glossy surfaces
and pristine whites, slashed with neon blue and fanta orange create a
sugar-rush visual for the soaring orchestral score, cascading synth
and gritty beats.
Too much of the epileptic eye candy would rot your brain, but
Tron:Legacy is niceley damped by moments of wholesome acting and
kludgy narrative. From the beginning when an awkward voiceover takes
the edge off the heady overture, to the end where the character who
has never seen the sun rides outside *with her eyes closed*, the nasty
reality of making a Hollywood film keeps the audience from getting too
carried away in the shiny fantasy and hypnotic beats.
As a film, then, Tron:Legacy falls disappointingly flat. But as a
masterful, absurd, 2-hour Daft Punk music video, it is nothing short
of awesome.
