The IMDB credits show David Warner as the MCP as well as Ed Dillinger and Sark, but at the movie's end we clearly see an old coot dethroned from his spinning MCP throne when TRON de-rezes MCP's hold on everything and he slowly pulls his face away from his control panel compartment. Who was that in the real world?
shareI thought Dillinger created the MCP, which would explain why it has Dillinger's voice, but the fact that the MCP was represented as an old man at the end just confuses things. I have no explanation. To me, the old man looked a little like Dumont.
shareYeah, I thought he resembled Dumont too, but that can't be right.
In the background you hear the sound of a teletyper/typewriter. Perhaps the 'person' is supposed to represent the person who wrote the oldest piece of what could be considered 'code' appropriated by the MCP?
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I could be mistaken or over analyzing this, but, I suspect that the person was Dillinger, but if you recall, the MCP says that "I've gotten 2,415 times smarter since then." That could well explain both the physical changes and the exhaustion/old age look.
Just my $0.02 worth.
No one user wrote me! I'm worth millions of their man-years!
^This explanation works..
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Each actor played themselves and their computer counterpart, like Bruce Boxleitner playing both Alan and Tron, and the same actor who played Sark also played Dillinger, clearly stating that Sark was Dillinger's program.
While at the same time, both Dillinger and Sark were under the control of the MCP, who was ALSO played the same actor. So you can make an argument that maybe the idea was:
Dillinger made the MCP, the MCP got uppity and made Dillinger a program to use, namely Sark, since the MCP was taking control of everything.
Yeah, thanks for the replies.
I've come to the conclusion that MCP's "human" counterpart isn't real and just an amalgamation of various people whose code MCP stole, integrated, duplicated, and even corrupted for its own purposes.
I guess this means that at work, there's tons of little digital me's running through the system doing various tasks.
Mind = blown
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Magis quam salutis,
Mortuus in anima,
Curam gero cutis.
The Old Man playing the MCP is not featured in the real world, only in the virtual one. So the mystery still stands as to who exactly the MCP is in real life.
shareMy understanding from the movie, was that the MCP program was a product of more than one user. The MCP even states so when he's scolding Sark about being afraid of putting a User in the games.
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