From: utzoo!watmath!bstempleton Newsgroups: net.movies Title: Re: TRON flame Article-I.D.: watmath.3201 Posted: Wed Aug 4 16:34:43 1982 Received: Wed Aug 4 23:35:01 1982 References: houxn.227 Well, I thought that the 'Flynn as Christ' in TRON was fairly obvious as well. This suprised me, for when I recall my days in High School English classes, I remember how funny I thought it was that teachers like to link central characters in books to Christ. Here it was, right in the open. Allusions to Christianity are quite common in literature, perhaps more common than they should be. It's hard to deny the amount of influence those religions have had on western culture, of course, so it's not too surprising to find literature reflecting them. What is true is that most christ figures in books only bear a small resemblance to old Jesus. It is thus not too surprising to find differences between TRON and real Christianity. It is quite possible that the authors of TRON did not even do it on purpose - perhaps this myth is so engrained into society that they did it by accident. Even though I am not religious in any way, the symbolism did not bother me at all, unlike the flamer to whom I am responding. At any rate, I don't think there's a real big deal. TRON was just a fantasy, and a very enjoyable one at that.