Not at all. The ideas were developed subtly/incompletely/fuzzily (depends on one’s viewpoint) to keep the film within Disney parameters. Also, T:L was not like the original, which was Reaganesque in its anti-Communist/anti-Soviet sensibilities. Master Control Program bad!!!
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… unless Lisberger - not a conservative by any means, as far as I know - saw the MCP within the own country lines.
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Could be. TRON has always struck me as a quintessential 1980s movie.
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It will be interesting or disheartening to see how the studios movies will influence the way villains and their schemes are coded in the next four years. Right now, everybody is kissing the ring.
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Creepy isn’t it? EON/Amazon may have the most difficulty in settling on a villain, never mind an actor for Bond or a director.
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As a German my generation grew up with the question to the older generation: how could you allow these things to happen?
These days, we are witnessing how easy it is.
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I doubt we’ll have to worry about it. There probably won’t be a Bond film in the next 4 years.
Now, we may have to worry about how they’ll go about coming up with a villain for Q or Moneypenny to go up against when they take over the franchise with the next film.
A reminder people did not want, but needed. I tell younger friends and colleagues: “Do you see how quickly corporate allies changed sides?”
Visconti captired it beautifully in IL GATTOPARDO:
We were the leopards, the lions, those who take our place will be jackals and sheep, and the whole lot of us - leopards, lions, jackals and sheep - will continue to think ourselves the salt of the earth.
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