Every generation gets the Tron it deserves. In the original movie, released in 1982, Jeff Bridges’ Kevin Flynn is a hacker Spartacus, infiltrating the digital universe of the Grid, where anthropomorphized programs who stray from their assigned functions are sentenced to deletion in a virtual arena, and liberating both them and the company that created them, ENCOM. Twenty-eight years later, Tron: Legacy picked up the thread with Kevin Flynn’s son, Sam (Garrett Hedlund), as its protagonist, and Kevin as both its hero and its villain. Inside the world of the Grid, Kevin’s avatar, CLU, has turned his directive to create a “perfect” system into a eugenicist mandate, wiping out the Grid’s indigenous life forms in order to preserve the system’s unity of purpose. Kevin, whose physical self h
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