The mighty Sam DeWitt writes to send this one on:
I saw a link for Daft Punk’s music video “Derezzed“, which comes from the new version of Tron (“Tron Legacy”), and also looked at one of the new trailers and saw a few overtly Buddhist references.
Interesting (well, maybe…), in that Jeff Bridges maintains a practice and in a recent interview said that he talked with the producers about perhaps bringing some Buddhist ideas to the project. So here is a frame from the music video with someone in full lotus, then 2 frames of Jeff Bridges’ character, one in a kneeling meditation pose, then a close-up of him rising where they seem to have made certain that you can catch his mala beads.

You have the true Dharma/Eagle Eye, Sam. Thanks for sending!
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December 14th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
[...] And back in October, over at The Worst Horse, eagle-eyed longtime reader Sam DeWitt contributed one of the first looks at the Tron/Dharma connection, including some interesting screengrabs. See that here. [...]
December 15th, 2010 at 1:15 am
[...] And back in October, over at The Worst Horse, eagle-eyed longtime reader Sam DeWitt contributed one of the first looks at the Tron/Dharma connection, including some interesting screengrabs. See that here. [...]
November 25th, 2011 at 8:46 pm
Tron simply preaches Buddhism for the most part. Seems to have less to do with technological themes. Was the original Tron so Zen-laden?