"In the original movie, released in 1982, Jeff Bridges' Kevin Flynn is a hacker Spartacus, infiltrating the digital universe of the Grid, where anthropomorphized programs who stray from their assigned functions are sentenced to deletion in a virtual arena, and liberating both them and the company that created them, ENCOM. Twenty-eight years later, Tron: Legacy picked up the thread with Kevin Flynn's son, Sam (Garrett Hedlund), as its protagonist, and Kevin as both its hero and its villain."
"Its characters aren't coders but captains of industry: Eve Kim (Greta Lee), who has taken the reins of ENCOM, and her rival Julian Dillinger (Evan Peters), the grandson of the evil ENCOM executive whom Kevin Flynn deposed way back in the 1980s. Rather than the boundless universe of the Grid, most of the movie's story-or at least the digital part-takes place in the walled sandbox created by the defense contractor Dillinger Systems, whose internal world is a militaristic dystopia."
Every generation receives a different Tron. In the original 1982 film, Kevin Flynn is a hacker Spartacus who infiltrates the Grid, frees anthropomorphized programs, and liberates ENCOM. In Tron: Legacy, Sam Flynn becomes protagonist while Kevin exists as both hero and villain; Kevin's avatar CLU pursues a eugenicist "perfect" system, leading Kevin to merge with and destroy CLU, after which Sam releases ENCOM's new operating system to the open web to prevent centralized control. Tron: Ares shifts focus to tech CEOs, featuring Eve Kim and Julian Dillinger, and presents Dillinger Systems' walled, militaristic sandboxed Grid.
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