Is it 'Tron' or 'TRON'? - Tron (1982) Discussion

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[–] Baville 12 years ago

I'm collecting music of any kinds (especially film scores), and want my MP3 tags to be exactly accurate.

What would you put? "Tron: Legacy" or "TRON: Legacy"? Same thing with the original film...

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[–] Jan_El_Senor 11 years ago

TRON for the first movie. Tron: Legacy for the sequel....

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[–] Druff 11 years ago

TRON = TRace ON, while TROFF = TRace OFF.

Steven Lisberger says he was completely ignorant of this. Years before he even wrote the story for the movie, he and his studio came up with the back-lit animation technique, they created a little animated warrior character, and they named him "Tron" because he looked electronic.

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[–] sean_ohlson-1 12 years ago

IMDB and Disney itself lists both of them as all caps. I would assume that's correct.

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[–] Baville 12 years ago

It's strange Wikipedia doesn't do the same.

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[–] sean_ohlson-1 12 years ago

Well, Wikipedia is user created. I think if all three of them were different I would defer to whatever Disney had.

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[–] Leveticus 12 years ago

I always thought it was TRON.

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[–] mistersparkle 10 years ago

IMDB is user created too, just with a higher degree of moderation.

They still get stuff wrong though, like calling House "House MD" when the MD is just part of the stylized logo.

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[–] Druff 8 years ago

Wikipedia has an official policy that all proper names and titles are to be rendered with regular capitalization (i.e. only the first letter in caps,) regardless of official trademarks etc.

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[–] jasonpatrick72 12 years ago

Disney has always used "TRON". So that's what I always go with.

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[–] !!!deleted!!! (14789810) 10 years ago

If it isn't an acronym, I would say it should just be conventionally called Tron. The title card is all caps, but many films utilize all caps in title cards.

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[–] Michael71 8 years ago

If it isn't an acronym, I would say it should just be conventionally called Tron. The title card is all caps, but many films utilize all caps in title cards.

I kind of assumed it was an acronym.

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[–] Druff 8 years ago

It's derived from Electronic.

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[–] GreyHunter 8 years ago

I just take it as an acronym even if we're never told what it stands for in the movie. While the IRL backstory is fine -- it comes from elec-tron-ic -- the other programs like CLU, RAM, and MCP are acronyms. Yuri doesn't appear to be, and isn't capitalized anywhere, but who knows? It just seems odd that Alan would name it "Tron" for no reason, and given that he works in computers and the program has a specialized function, it seems unlikely he would just name it in honor of "elec-tron-ic" since that's really generic and has no special relevance to its function as a security program. All computer programs are "electronic" in that sense, so why name this particular one after a segment of the word? So "TRON" it is for me.

OTOH, the subtitles -- which are put on at the manufacturing level, unlike captions, so they are fully in Disney's purview -- clearly say "Tron." But I'm going to pretend I didn't see that.

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[–] Druff 9 years ago

Tron. Tron Legacy.

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