Tag: The Matrix
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‘Good Night World’ Trailer Offers a Mind-Bending Escape From Reality
If there’s one genre of storytelling that has explored nuances of technology and its impact on society way before it was cool is the Japanese anime. From Akira to Ghost in the Shell, anime movies and TV series have influenced American directors and served as inspiration for modern classics like The Matrix. Netflix is well…
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The Design Rules of Barbie Land Included ‘No Black, No White, Nothing from the Real World’
[Editor’s note: The following interview contains spoilers.]Of all the movie references crammed into Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster “Barbie,” the most important is “The Matrix” because it serves as the foundational basis for Barbie’s (Margot Robbie) journey from the feminism of Barbie Land to the patriarchal “real world” of Century City and Venice.That’s the moment, of course,…
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Remember When Neil Gaiman Wrote a Matrix Universe Comic?
The Matrix is commonly remembered as one of the best sci-fi franchises around, but it’s also one of the few that has perfected the idea of delivering quality stories in multiple media formats. Let’s recap: there’s the main trilogy helmed by the Wachowski sisters, The Matrix Resurrections directed solely by Lana Wachowski, the Animatrix animation…
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Before ‘The Matrix,’ the Wachowskis Wrote This Star-Studded Thriller
The Wachowskis are known not only for creating one of the most important action and science fiction films of all time, The Matrix but also for the personal themes of queerness and otherness that run through almost all of their work. Ironically, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a straighter, more stereotypically-gendered film than their earliest…
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This ‘The Matrix’ Character That Was Inspired by Neil Gaiman
The Matrix has certainly influenced a lot of other movies and series since its release and is considered a timeless classic by now, but it’s also no secret that the Wachowski sisters’ magnum opus is a boiling cauldron full of influences itself. There are a lot of obvious ones, but Neil Gaiman’s seminal graphic novel…
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All the Ways ‘The Matrix’ Was Inspired By ’80s & ’90s Anime
From the beginning, The Matrix wanted us to ask a question: “What is the Matrix?” which was practically the tagline. Did the film’s creators, Lilly and Lana Wachowski, anticipate the deluge of questions to follow swiftly thereafter? “How does the Oracle know everything?” “Why are the pills red and blue?” “What does it all mean?”…
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Keanu Reeves Goes Bad in This Southern Gothic Supernatural Movie
Keanu Reeves has made his way through a stellar career playing nice guy, dog-loving heroes that we like to root for. From Neo in The Matrix to Jack Traven in Speed, and from John Wick to Johnny Utah in Point Break, the titular Constantine, and the legendary Ted “Theodore” Logan – one-half of the lovable…
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Is Apple TV+ the New Place for Prestige?
When Apple TV+ was first announced in 2017, many looked at it as yet another cash grab by a big tech company among the wave of similar services by Facebook and Amazon. However, a few years later, the streaming landscape is very different. Disney+ is dealing with MCU and Star Wars fatigue, with both properties…
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The Language in DGA’s A.I. Deal Is Stronger Than You Think, but Not as Strong as You’d Like
DGA members have until June 23 to vote on the tentative agreement with the studios that passed early this month. Ratifying the deal is no slam dunk, and one line about A.I. could crater the whole thing.“Employers may not use [generative AI] in connection with creative elements without consultation with the Director or other DGA-covered…
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Across The Spider-Verse Isn’t The Empire Strikes Back Of The Series – It’s The Matrix Reloaded
Spoilers for “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” follow.There was a brief trend in blockbuster filmmaking in the mid-’00s that produced some of the most overblown sequels ever. “The Matrix” and the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies were initially big and unexpected hits, each of them rattling the zeitgeist in their own way. Rather than merely make…