I've been thinking about this, and there are some lines in the movie that even hint about it, but while we all know Kevin created CLU, just how much of himself did he write into that program?

As a previous poster pointed out, the speech young Kevin Flynn and CLU gave are nearly identical and at the climax of the film, Kevin Flynn states:

"You wouldn't know that because I didn't when I created you."
and then at the beginning of the film, Kevin says:

Now, I couldn't be in there all the time, so I created a program in my own image that could think, like me and you.
This sort of suggests that CLU was not so much an independant program like Tron was of Alan, but instead was supposed to be an actual clone of Kevin Flynn - they even dressed alike early in the film.

Does that mean that all the horrible things CLU did, Kevin himself could have done when he was that age?

It sorts of adds a new dimension when watching it, seeing the conflict between Kevin and Clu - that we're not seeing two protagonists go at it, but rather different aspects of the same man. Makes one wonder: The fact that Kevin didn't leave the Grid may not have been because he couldn't (although it implicitly states he couldn't in the movie), but maybe because he felt guilty about what evil was done in his image; and that may have been the reason Kevin went from a hotshot programmer to wise old zen master.

Just a thought...

IluthraDanar Wrote:Just watched the Flynn/Sam scene. If Clu could think, why do people say he could only follow his directive and couldn't change?

Here's my take on it: A program's function determines their aptitudes and outlook. They have a fair bit of latitude in how they execute those functions, and can survive and adapt when forced into other roles (see: Ram on the Game Grid in the original movie), but they're always predisposed to do whatever they were made for, and are happiest when doing so.

Creating an ordered, efficient Grid where every program knows its place and the trains always run on time is what Clu was meant to do. He's literally incapable of seeing the Isos as anything other than a flaw, because his worldview is hardcoded into him. He can think and adapt in accordance with his core beliefs, but those beliefs are fixed and immutable - he's incapable of growth or change as a person, in stark contrast to Flynn.order abortion pill http://unclejohnsprojects.com/template/default.aspx?morning-after-pill-price where to buy abortion pill

Ying and yang. The polar opposites of one person. A mirror for both to see.

The "dark mirror" reflects the "shadow self", give it power and it becomes one's personal demon. Flynn's happened to be CLU....abortion pills online abortion questions cytotec abortion

Think perhaps Clu was the way he was because he had no one to teach him? Once Flynn seemed to lose interest in Clu, he became the rebel child. Flynn then had to go into hiding because of the his negligence of the rebel child, thus causing even more rebellion to a harsher degree. In hindsight, Flynn needed to be there for his own construct, and he wasn't.where to buy abortion pill http://blog.bitimpulse.com/template/default.aspx?abortion-types buy abortion pill online