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[flamingsword]

I think for Christmas I'm buying myself a musical coffee table.

I may not be this guy, but I like to hit things, too! :D

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[kohagal.livejournal.com]

Love the musical table! It probably costs a fortune with all the materials but very cool.

[sushi-slave.livejournal.com]

That gives me a great idea for a musical bed!

[sushi-slave.livejournal.com]

Hey, just something I thought you might find interesting:

Tron - a realization (or idea, at least) 26 years later
I just realized that Tron can be seen as a religious commentary.

I'm watching the movie this afternoon, and one line stuck out to me. Sark, while addressing the new program conscripts says:

"Those of you who continue to profess a belief in the Users will receive the standard substandard training. This will result in your eventual elimination. Those of you who renounce this superstitious and heretical belief will be eligible to join the Warrior Elite of the MCP."



The fact that the belief in a greater power which created their world is apparent and forms a basis for religion. Those who believe in the Users are, apparently, a polytheistic society, each Program believing in a different User (though it can be easily surmised that a given User can create multiple believers as Users). The forces of the MCP, including Sark, believe in a monotheistic religion ruled by the MCP.

The MCP demands that the denizen Programs of the Systems he infiltrates renounce their polytheistic beliefs and embrace the monotheistic belief of his society. Those who fail to do so are forced into a gladiatorial existence wherein they fight for the amusement of the societal rulers until such time as they are defeated. This defeat is presented as inevitable through substandard training and overwhelming odds (Tron's initial introduction while playing a game versus three opponents is an example of this). It's a bit of a reversal from the polytheistic Romans casting Christians into the gladiator's arena, but it still holds as oppression and intimidation through threat of death.

At the end of the movie, you see Sark, apparently a high priest of the MCP, taking a load of Programs who refuse to give up their beliefs (we assume; they may be Programs who have given up their beliefs and simply upset the MCP) to the MCP's tower. The tower serves as a kind of temple to the MCP. These programs are to be "derezzed" at this site. A kind of burnt offering to the MCP. Otherwise, they could have simply been derezzed anywhere without need to the pilgrimage to the MCP's tower.

And let's not forget the MCP raising Sark from the dead to fight against Tron and the other polytheists.

Tron's always been seen as a story about free will rebelling against oppression, but until I caught the bit about heresy, I never looked at it as a religious commentary before. I'm amused. :)

[flamingsword.livejournal.com]

sushi_slave, you are on the good crack and I approve. Thank you for sharing!

[xenoix-13.livejournal.com]

That table effing rocks!