Rewatching legacy and I honestly want to know who was responsible for the sirens. Who sat there straight faced and said “we have hot women who march in time and strip the main character” and then who said “that tracks” and kept it in the movie. Not to mention the fact their unnecessary from even a armory standpoint because once pressed on you the suit and armor form themselves.
I always saw the Sirens, as much of the Grid in Legacy, as something designed with an eventual User audience in mind. Kevin Flynn was building an entertainment experience. A System for programs AND Users, “In there is our future” -I imagine he intended to “open” this digital wonderland to the public eventually, once he had it perfected.
So yes, the Sirens look like a male-gazey fantasy straight from the mind of an 80s IT exec envisioning paradise -because that is exactly what they are.
The Legacy Grid is littered with the proof that Kevin Flynn was very much a flawed product of his time, and I kinda love it for that reason.
You know what it never clicked for me. Like they mention it explicitly in the movie and it’s been driving me insane that the grid was basically created without a explicit purpose besides it looks cool (as compared to the first movie taking place in the companies computer, you know what it does/what it’s for without having to explain)
It’s a playground. Oh my god that makes so much sense — also worse that he built all of these elements in and wasn’t honest with a single one of them (especially clu) on what they were building.
Also makes clus speech and the “sought to enslave us” so much more poignant. Programs have a extrinsic desire to be useful and do their job - yes. But they do it without interruption and direct interaction… they’re told what to do but then have the freedom and trust from their users they’ll do the right thing. That constant interaction and the “you’re here so it’s fun for us” is ouch.
It was a post of yours using the factory allegory and the whole “brought the background to the foreground” or something along the lines.