“the characters in Tron do not act the way real people act”
excuse you. Real people act every possible dumbass incoherent way you can imagine and some that you can’t. Real life consists at least 78% of watching real people do things and then spending about 9 hours straining your imagination trying to think of a reason they could have done that thing which is EXACTLY the same experience as watching Tron
I think what you mean is characters in Tron don’t act the way people in movies act
Adding onto this thought, because I was thinking about a few other things:
- that one post by the painter whose art got only an honorable mention because of the “unrealistic” proportions of the feet, which were painted exactly as they looked on the real life person who’d modeled for the painting
- a short story I wrote in college, which was torn to pieces in the critique group for being unrealistic and not the way real people act, even though it was based almost exactly on an event from my own life
The lesson I remember taking away from that second experience was, “the rules for believability in art are very different from the rules of reality– and you often have to use unrealistic plot devices in order to create a fiction that readers can ‘believe’ enough to be immersed in”
Which annoyed me very much, but I accepted it as an unchangeable fact of humanity
However
Watching Tron, and joining Tron fandom, made me think a little more about what “facts of humanity” even are
And about how Audience Reaction to a work of art is never, ever universal
And how, even if the majority of people who see your art think it’s silly and unrealistic and maybe only appreciate one aspect of it at most–
–that same art can still get a cult following that LOVES IT BEYOND ALL REASON
so hey. Thank you all.
<3