Tron Legacy is unintentionally queer
This is my aggressive queer reading of Tron Legacy, and a piece on how we find ourselves in media when we don't have representation. Tell me what you think of it in the comments.
Links to where else you can find me: https://linktr.ee/Aranock
Piano and vocals for Dreamer cover provided by Jake, / mitnerd36
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Quotes voiced by:
LadyKnightTheBrave:
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Zarrelle:
/ zarrelledarkley
and Charlie Keeling Over
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Editing and script consulting and joke contributor:
LadyKnightTheBrave
/ thebatyalewbel
Special thank you to LadyKnightTheBrave and my mom for listening to me ramble about this script for many hours over the last month.
Sections:
0:00 - Some stuff to go over
1:14 - Prologue
2:58 - Cast and production
5:49 - Recap
12:22 - Matrix Tangent
13:56 - The film made choices(problems)
17:13 - Alan and Kevin are gay dads
20:29 - Quorra and living outside the binary
21:41 - Verne tangent
23:17 - Quorra: TW suicide allegory
24:45 - Sam: Identity through reflection
27:49 - Rinzler: Reflection with Sam
29:35 - Castor, Zuse, Sirens and Gem: Assimilation and greek myth tangents
32:49 - Kevin: surviving vs living
41:20 - Sam and Quorra
42:23 - Why make this?
45:40 - Representation should be explicit
46:46 - A world I dreamed of
50:38 - Credits
Research paper mentioned:
https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/cetra/pa...
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This video was created on the stolen land of the treaty 6 first nations and the homeland of the Métis.