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Anon (Tron)
This article covers notable characters of the ''Tron'' franchise, including its various cinematic, literary, and video game adaptations and sequels. Development For the first film, Richard Rickitt explained that to "produce the characters who inhabit the computer world, actors were dressed in costumes that were covered in black-and-white computer circuitry designs....With coloured light shining through the white areas of their costumes, the resulting characters appeared to glow as if lit from within....optical processes were used to create all of the film's computerized characters..." Frederick S. Clarke reported that '' Tron: Legacy'' would "combine live action with Computer-generated imagery (CGI)," adding that "several characters...will be completely digital..." ''Tron'' Kevin Flynn Kevin Flynn (portrayed by Jeff Bridges) is a former employee of the software company ENCOM and the protagonist of the first film. He is the owner of the arcade Flynn's, where he impresses hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tron (franchise)
''Tron'' (stylized in all caps) is an American science fiction media franchise created by Steven Lisberger and Bonnie MacBird. It began with the Tron, eponymous 1982 film produced by Walt Disney Pictures. The original film portrays Jeff Bridges as List of Tron characters, Kevin Flynn, a genius computer programmer and video game developer who becomes transported inside a digital virtual reality known as "The Grid", where he interacts with Computer program, programs in his quest to escape. ''Tron'' became a cult film and was acclaimed for its groundbreaking visual effects and extensive use of early computer-generated imagery. It was followed by the 2010 sequel film ''Tron: Legacy'', which takes place 28 years after the events of the first film and depicts the attempts of Flynn's son Sam in retrieving his lost father from within the Grid, now ruled by a corrupt program. The film series has spawned various tie-ins, including video games, a comic book miniseries, music recording al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Minnesota Press
The University of Minnesota Press is a university press that is part of the University of Minnesota. It had annual revenues of just over $8 million in fiscal year 2018. Founded in 1925, the University of Minnesota Press is best known for its books in social theory and cultural theory, critical theory, race and ethnic studies, urbanism, feminist criticism, and media studies. The University of Minnesota Press also publishes a significant number of translations of major works of European and Latin American thought and scholarship, as well as a diverse list of works on the cultural and natural heritage of the state and the upper Midwest region. Journals The University of Minnesota Press's catalog of academic journals totals thirteen publications: *''Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum'' *''Critical Ethnic Studies'' *'' Cultural Critique'' *''Environment, Space, Place'' *'' Future Anterior'' *''Journal of American Indian Education'' *'' Mechademia: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erin Cottrell
Erin Cottrell (born August 24, 1975) is an American actress who has appeared in the role of Missie LaHaye in five of the eight films in the '' Love Comes Softly'' series. She was born in Yardley, Pennsylvania. She acted in '' Love's Long Journey'', ''Love's Abiding Joy'', '' Love's Unending Legacy'', ''Love's Unfolding Dream'', and '' Love Takes Wing''. She acted with Logan Bartholomew in ''Love's Long Journey'' and ''Love's Abiding Joy''. In all of the films, she portrays the adult Missie Davis-LaHaye-Tyler except in the second film of the series. Erin had a major role in an episode of ''Cold Case'' season five, episode 11, where she plays an art teacher in one of America's internment camps for people of Japanese ancestry during the Second World War. Her character plays a small part in the destruction of a Japanese family, as she is seen kissing a married man, but he tells her that his wife is the only one he loves, and he goes on to be killed. The episode is based on finding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivia Wilde
Olivia Wilde (born Olivia Jane Cockburn, , March 10, 1984) is an American actress and director. She played Thirteen (House), Remy "Thirteen" Hadley on the medical-drama television series ''House (TV series), House'' (2007–2012), and appeared in the action films ''Tron: Legacy'' (2010) and ''Cowboys & Aliens'' (2011), the romantic drama film Her (2013 film), ''Her'' (2013), the comedy film ''The Incredible Burt Wonderstone'' (2013), and the horror film ''The Lazarus Effect (2015 film), The Lazarus Effect'' (2015). She made her Broadway theatre, Broadway debut playing Julia (Nineteen Eighty-Four), Julia in ''1984 (play), 1984'' (2017). Wilde made her directorial debut with the teen comedy film ''Booksmart'' (2019), which received critical acclaim and won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature. She directed the thriller film ''Don't Worry Darling'' (2022), which she also starred in. Early life Wilde was born Olivia Jane Cockburn in New York City on March 10, 1984. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Thomas (actor)
Ross Thomas (born August 21, 1981) is an American actor, filmmaker, philanthropist and adventurer. Early life Ross Thomas was born in Stockton, California and raised in both Stockton and Woodbridge, California. His mother Catherine Schuler is a computer science professor and author, and his father, Randy Thomas, is a trial attorney, poet and adventurer. He has three sisters and one brother. He attended St. Mary's High School and subsequently attended Arizona State University and The University of Southern California. He played left wing for the Arizona State University rugby team. He studied anthropology, broadcasting and theatre arts. He graduated from The University of Southern California in the winter of 2004. In 2005, Thomas played the title role in '' What's Bugging Seth'' as a deaf man determined to find love and career success despite his handicap. The film won awards at the DancesWithFilms Festival, the Santa Cruz Film Festival and the Empire Film Festival Other fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garrett Hedlund
Garrett John Hedlund (born September 3, 1984) is an American actor and musician. His films include ''Troy'' (2004), '' Friday Night Lights'' (2004), '' Four Brothers'' (2005), ''Eragon'' (2006), ''Death Sentence'' (2007), '' Tron: Legacy'' (2010), ''Country Strong'' (2010), ''On the Road'' (2012), ''Inside Llewyn Davis'' (2013), '' Unbroken'' (2014), '' Pan'' (2015), ''Mudbound'' (2017), ''Triple Frontier'' (2019), and '' The Marsh King's Daughter'' (2023). Early life Garrett John Hedlund was born on September 3, 1984, in Roseau, Minnesota, to Kristine Anne (''née'' Yanish) and Robert Martin Hedlund. His father is of Swedish descent and his mother is of Norwegian and German descent. He is the youngest of three children, with a brother, Nathaniel, and a sister, Amanda. Hedlund was raised on a remote beef cattle farm near the small town of Wannaska, Minnesota,in the Scandinavian diaspora. In the 9th grade, he moved to live with his mother in Arizona. From an early age, he ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evolution
Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes such as natural selection and genetic drift act on genetic variation, resulting in certain characteristics becoming more or less common within a population over successive generations. The process of evolution has given rise to biodiversity at every level of biological organisation. The scientific theory of evolution by natural selection was conceived independently by two British naturalists, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, in the mid-19th century as an explanation for why organisms are adapted to their physical and biological environments. The theory was first set out in detail in Darwin's book ''On the Origin of Species''. Evolution by natural selection is established by observable facts about living organisms: (1) more offspring are often produced than can possibly survive; (2) traits vary among individuals with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
