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Nmap usage considered but rejected for Tron: Legacy
From: Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 11:07:55 -0700
Hi folks. Perhaps last year's biggest geek film was Tron Legacy, and special effects artist Josh Nimoy has finally received clearance to talk about the work he did there. Interestingly, he considered using Nmap but decided that it didn't meet the needs of the character involved (killing a process). I suppose we can't complain, considering how lucky Nmap has been in this respect (http://nmap.org/movies.html). And at least he was able to get Emacs and Linux into the movie! Here is what he says: I take representing digital culture in film very seriously in lieu of having grown up in a world of very badly researched user interface greeble. I cringed during the part in Hackers (1995) when a screen saver with extruded "equations" is used to signify that the hacker has reached some sort of neural flow or ambiguous destination. I cringed for Swordfish and Jurassic Park as well. I cheered when Trinity in The Matrix used nmap and ssh (and so did you). Then I cringed again when I saw that inevitably, Hollywood had decided that nmap was the thing to use for all its hacker scenes (see Bourne Ultimatum, Die Hard 4, Girl with Dragon Tattoo, The Listening, 13: Game of Death, Battle Royale, Broken Saints, and on and on). In Tron, the hacker was not supposed to be snooping around on a network; he was supposed to kill a process. So we went with posix kill and also had him pipe ps into grep. I also ended up using emacs eshell to make the terminal more l33t. The team was delighted to see my emacs performance--splitting the editor into nested panes and running different modes. I was tickled that I got emacs into a block buster movie. I actually do use emacs irl, and although I do not subscribe to alt.religion.emacs, I think that's all incredibly relevant to the world of Tron. The article includes many beautiful special effects shots from the movie: http://jtnimoy.net/workviewer.php?q=178 Cheers, Fyodor _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/
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- Nmap usage considered but rejected for Tron: Legacy Fyodor (Apr 06)
- Re: Nmap usage considered but rejected for Tron: Legacy Shinnok (Apr 06)
- Re: Nmap usage considered but rejected for Tron: Legacy Shinnok (Apr 06)
- Re: Nmap usage considered but rejected for Tron: Legacy Ron (Apr 06)
- Re: Nmap usage considered but rejected for Tron: Legacy Shinnok (Apr 06)