![]() A Wiki page has an insight into why Lilly’s character didn’t quite play out with the residual self-image she might have wanted. Reflecting on the Matrix, she ponders on possible Trans influences and the character ‘Switch’. Lilly speaks of ‘genre bending’ in her 2020 Netflix interview. Lana tells us the goal of The Matrix is to be a framework of meaning and the audience is meant to decipher this meaning. The Directors continue to talk of how important aesthetics are in their movies. The popularity of movies such as The Terminator (1984) and Robocop (1987) attest to the post Blade Runner shift in Sci-Fi aesthetics. However, it went on to change the happy and family-friendly narrative of Science Fiction movies in the 1980’s. The Wachowskis tell us Blade Runner was initially criticised due to having a completely different aesthetic to what was currently popular. Blade Runner was a darker, more niche adult movie. ET was the hugely popular family-friendly movie of the time. Gibson’s Neuromancer (1984) is widely regarded as a pioneering book in the CyberPunk genre.īlade Runner (1982) vs ET (1982) was an interesting talking point at DePaul. In a 2013 discussion at DePaul University, The Wachowskis mentioned books by William Gibson had a huge influence on them. Amazon’s #1 best seller in Academic Philosophy even appears in the movie. Actors were instructed to read Simulacra and Simulation (1994) by Jean Baudrillard. Alice in Wonderland is an obvious one that likens Neo to Alice – someone going down a rabbit hole to a whole new world. The Filmmakers are very open about their numerous influences. Check out the following link for a glimpse at the official licensed book which includes incredible storyboards that formed the basis of the mythology: The Art of The Matrix. That backstory alone made the Animatrix my personal favourite non-movie Matrix media. The Animatrix gave us the backstory before the movies started – The story of how the war between Humans and machines began. All the forms of media added something new to The Matrix mythology. So much rich subject matter to explore that the story could be told over various forms of media: A trilogy of movies, video games and a web-based comic series (later condensed into two physical volumes). This virtual world is known as The Matrix – The place where the story begins and where we encounter the main characters Neo, Trinity and Morpheus. ![]() Captured humans had their minds thrust into a simulation of the real world. The machines became desperate for a power source and decided to capture humans to harvest them as a source of bioenergy. By the time the first movie starts, the war had gotten so bad, mankind had been forced underground due to inhospitable conditions on the surface. One is the real world and the other is a virtual world. Unlike the war we saw in The Terminator movies released prior to The Matrix, this war is being waged on 2 planes. The Matrix is a story set in a distant future where mankind is at war with machines. Their second movie turned out to be a movie that won them the Saturn Award for best Director, picked up 4 Academy Awards and made over $450 million in the Box Office – The Matrix. ![]() Their first movie was Bound (1996), a Mafia inspired crime thriller. By the mid 1990s their first movie script had been purchased and the writers became Directors. In 1993 the Wachowskis became writers for the Ectokid comic. ![]() The siblings grew up in Chicago, went to separate Colleges in New York and Boston, but both of them dropped out and returned home to run a business together. 2 Americans of Polish descent born in 19. The story was written and directed by The Wachowskis. Building on concepts shown in movies such as The Lawnmower Man (1992) and Johnny Mnemonic (1995), The Wachowskis told a surreal story that was different to anything the world had seen before. The Matrix (1999) established itself as the definitive movie of the 1990’s CyberPunk culture.
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