Matrix Lawsuit
Say, this is pretty interesting... apparently the Matrix movies are the result of Wachowski brother plagiarism. The fact that the second and third movies were unmitigated crud[1] suggests an alternate genesis for the sublime original, and this would seem to explain it nicely.
You have to ask yourself tho'... yeah, it's a lot of money... but would you want your name associated with the second and third matrix films? It's like being paid a billion for orally servicing a syphilitic camel.[2]
[1] They didn't have to be... the second movie setup a potentially excellent third movie which explored the philosophical themes of knowledge and knowing. Alas, they went with a stupid Christ Reborn motif that any six-year old from could have shat out in an especially projectile bowel movement.
[2] Or Dick Cheney.
You have to ask yourself tho'... yeah, it's a lot of money... but would you want your name associated with the second and third matrix films? It's like being paid a billion for orally servicing a syphilitic camel.[2]
[1] They didn't have to be... the second movie setup a potentially excellent third movie which explored the philosophical themes of knowledge and knowing. Alas, they went with a stupid Christ Reborn motif that any six-year old from could have shat out in an especially projectile bowel movement.
[2] Or Dick Cheney.
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Apparently a black woman from Utah penned these manuscripts early in the 80's, and is even bringing suit (or has brought) against Gale Anne Hurd, for mer wife to Terminator director John Cameron and 50% holder of the rights do the movie, which she bought from Mr. Cameron for $1. Seems the Terminator was Sophia's story as well.
As for your comments regarding the "crudity" of the second and third movies, and it's messianic tone....may i remind you that the entire series is messianic. And Neo's "resurrection" occurred in the first movie, but yet you referred to it as "sublime"(which i agree to).
Secondly, the second and third movies are about knowledge and knowing,, and about bringing something uniquely human to the machine mind, which, it seems after the end of the last movie, was accomplished on its fifth try.(Five, by the way, being the number of sides of the pentacle-a symbol of divine femininity and love in pagan religions) Lastly, Neo's "abilities" at the end of the 2nd movie and through the third seem to stem from his tampering with the very fabric of the Matrix (i.e.:a planet sized machine consciousness) by resuscitating Trinity's life-touching the essence of the machine...I'm waxing philosophical here, but apparently the original manuscript was entitled "Third Eye".
But i digress, you'll probably never see any news about this because Warner Bros and 20th century Fox own the rights, and their parent companies, especially AOL TIme Warner, control a huge number of media sources.
Bing!
You are entirely correct that the news will be suppressed as far as is possible. I suspect though than the ten zillion dollars she'll get as a settlement will take the sting out of that, though.
As you probably gathered, I really didn't like the last two matrix films. They felt cheap, and emphasised bombastic special effects over the plot. I know the first was a masterwork of special effects too, but I always felt that they accentuated the story . With the last two, I always feel that the story is there to justify the special effects (which are indeed tremendous).
My main problem though was that the second film was a setup for a dramatically different conclusion than we received. I spent hours thinking through the various elements, trying to fit them into a cohesive whole.
There were two ways they could have gone with Neo's 'magic powers' at the end of the second film. The easy way (which is the way that was taken) is that he just has magic powers in the real world. I had hoped for more.
What I was expecting was that the whole escape to Zion had simply been another layer of the Matrix - a simulation within the simulation that serves to contain those elements that had broken out of the first layer. This has enormous potential for some real philosophical exploration, especially regarding the nature of reality, the fallibility of perception, and the illusion of freedom versus the certainty of slavery.
In the first movie, Morpheous discusses the nature of reality... 'What is real? How do you define real? If you are talking about what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain'Why do people believe in the Matrix? People accept the reality with which they are presented... this is a common theme in political philosophy, and an undercurrent of modern propaganda.
Why do people believe they have escaped the matrix? That's what their senses tell them. Hrm!
The ultimate conclusion to the third one, to my mind, would have been the ultimate realisation that the matrix could conceivably have an infinite number of layers, and nobody could ever be sure that they had escaped. There is an elegance (and consistency) to this that I feel was lacking in the canonical ending.
The ending as it stands is the cheap cop-out. It's the typical Hollywood 'jazz it up for the proles, they won't expect anything better' condescension that was conspicuously absent from the first. The Christ Reborn motif is dull and cliched, and deeply obvious... it's also one that's been flogged to death by Hollywood in a million different guises. The movies have all the veneer of insight, but none of the substance.
Woah... bit of a rant there, but I'm still disappointed that the apples that were dangled ended up disappearing as they were reached for.
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