10 Movie Details You Definitely Missed The First Time
6. Quorra Can't Play Go - Tron: Legacy
Tron: Legacy is such an overpowering sensory assault - in a good way! - that it's easy to miss those subtler details.
When Sam (Garrett Hedlund) is rescued by program Quorra (Olivia Wilde) mid-film and brought back to his father Kevin Flynn's (Jeff Bridges) hideout, Quorra briefly shows Sam a board game before mentioning that Kevin's more patient style of play generally beats her aggressive tactics.
This might seem like any old random board game, but it's actually the abstract strategy game Go.
This is important because Go is famously difficult for software to play, the massive complexity of the game making it tough for even the most sophisticated programming to beat a skilled human player.
It tracks, then, that Quorra herself would generally get easily beaten by a genius intellect of Flynn's caliber. Only in 2013, three years after the release of the film, did a software program finally manage to defeat a human at a professional level.