Tron Legacy
Daft Punk Tron
In the last decade, filmmakers have come to view electronic artists as the perfect go-to for unique soundtracks that punctuate and sonically explain their narratives in a way that straight orchestral and instrumental music could never touch. Electronic music in itself is an alternative expression that departs from the acoustic world that surrounds it and creates moods and metaphors that have always felt more akin to a modern urban reality. For a movie like TRON: Legacy, anything less would have been a violation of the film’s intention. Mixing the band’s robotic persona with the 85-piece London Orchestra and guided by music supervisor Jason Bentley (Los Angeles’ KCRW), the TRON score creates a digital soundscape that translates the film’s dynamics into pixelated emotions accented by taunt strings and cold brass. Notably, the film was actually cut to the French duo’s score — the complete opposite of the way soundtracks and films usually inform each other during production. After two whole years DP spent creating the sound of Legacy, there couldn’t have been a better nod to them. Perfect mood music for late nights spent intimately with machinery.
