Anyone know why for Legacy the primary circuit color became white?
In the original it’s explained (implied in film, explicit in novelization and other materials) blue is user believer and red is the elite, it’s controlled by the MCP except for the occasional free programs.
It makes sense for on the grid the main bad guy colors to go from Red to Orange as orange has always been Clu’s coloring.
But white is unexplained? It also adds to my “bland Sci fi” criticism on the aesthetics and legacy as a whole. You look my in the eyes and tell me Kevin Flynn would design something so generic. This is the man who made space paranoids and a lot of the games that shaped the original. I’m just saying
The white circuits even expand to Tron, I don’t think he ever had blue on the grid? Maybe at first but I don’t think so (at least movie wise)
I agree the white is so bland.
I’m not sure how original the “red=bad, blue=good” was, exactly (I mean it’s pretty much a cliche nowadays, and that may be largely because of Tron but idk) Still, I prefer it over the white.
The thing that fascinates me is: in the original movie, that color code seems to be reversed for lightcycles!
At least, Sark has a blue cycle in the opening scene, and so do the opponents that our heroes fight in the scene where they break out of the game grid.
Based on both those scenes, it appears that orange is the standard User-believer color for lightcycles. Tron has it; so does Sark’s opponent in the opening scene. (Ram and Flynn have red and yellow, and they may both be weird exceptions… I have read a fic that gave a very clever headcanon for why, but I don’t think the movie ever explained it, and the novel doesn’t even give them the same colors as the movie.)
But I seem to recall I saw something in the LaserDisc extras about how an earlier draft of the script was going to color-code the bad and good sides the opposite way, so… maybe the CGI team that did the lightcycles was working from that earlier script?
From my own experience, I’ve generally found it much easier to replicate the Legacy aesthetic as opposed to the original 1982 film.
Yeah, I imagine it would be easier for most people to do such a simple design. And would explain why Kevin Flynn (in-universe) and Disney (out-of-universe) might’ve picked that road.