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Warner Brothers has just announced plans to make a fourth installment in the iconic world of The Matrix.
Lana Wachowski—the co-creator of the record-breaking and genre-defining world of "The Matrix"—is set to write, direct and produce an all-new film, returning audiences to the reality-bending universe. Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss will star in the film, reprising their roles as Neo and Trinity, respectively. Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures will produce and globally distribute the film. The announcement was made today by Toby Emmerich, Chairman, Warner Bros. Pictures Group.
There are almost no details yet on the film which will follow nearly twenty years after the first three films "The Matrix", "The Matrix Reloaded" and "The Matrix Revolutions" beyond the fact that filming is set to begin in early 2020.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by RamiK on Wednesday August 21 2019, @09:21AM (7 children)
No. The Matrix films are heavily inspired by the Ghost in the Shell manga that expressed its magical thinking through Nanorobotics. It was canonical that humanity used Nanites to block the sun to starve the machines. From there it's trivial to assume the bots were designed to allocate some power for humans to wirelessly power their IoT crap and Neo has a mutation letting him sense and manipulate those fields via the bots in the usual magic bullshit story line. It explains how humans can be used as viable batteries: They don't supply the power. but only conduct it from the bots which draw it from the sun. It also explains how Neo can manipulate the environment in the matrix while only being able to destroy machines outside of it: In the matrix he's using his EM magic nonsense to overwrite the code while outside he's using the bots to zap the machines.
It's a consistent world building in line with the period's trends. In fact, Lucas was planning on following the same nano crap trope with the midi-chlorians and Whills microorganisms for manipulation the Force that very same year (1999): https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/george-lucas-star-wars-episode-7-8-9-microorganisms-disney-whills-midchlorians-a8398606.html [independent.co.uk]
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by aristarchus on Wednesday August 21 2019, @09:48AM (4 children)
Oh, shit, no! Not that you are incorrect, but the realization that this is the refuge of time-travel for failed science fiction! Oh My Jesus on a Neo Cracker! And he comes back from that? After three days, no doubt.
This is why I am a sci-fi buddhist. Causation, karma, the inexorable law of being, such as it is.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 21 2019, @10:11AM
I wish the robots would have used the humans to augment "themselves", make themselves living, so to speak...
It would have made more sense...
Reverse Cybernetics... Biebernetics... hmm... i feel a disturbance in the force, but never mind...
-zug
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Wednesday August 21 2019, @05:35PM (2 children)
Well, the matrix humans are conceived via artificial insemination in synthetic wombs while the self-replicating Agent Smith has a mother... Can't get much more original sin then that.
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday August 21 2019, @07:43PM (1 child)
Whaaaat...I even looked this up on the Matrix wiki (apparently there is one), and the string "mother" appears nowhere in the entire page.
https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/41128/why-does-agent-smith-call-the-oracle-mom [stackexchange.com]
It sounds like characters are calling the Oracle "mother" in a metaphorical way. Like about 83% of the lines uttered in the entire transcript of the movie(s).
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Thursday August 22 2019, @08:04AM
The whole discussion is about allegorizing the story à la Pilgrim's Progress to Wizard of Oz to the Bible so of course it's metaphorical. Besides, one of the films specifically introduced the machine "children" plot element into the story so it's too forced: https://matrix.fandom.com/wiki/Sati [fandom.com]
Admittedly though, it's been a few years since I've seen a rerun of the films and I honestly only liked the computer game for the excellent fight mechanics and the animation so anything I say on the subject should be taken with a sizeable grain of salt.
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday August 21 2019, @02:42PM (1 child)
Did the people who made the movie actually state this somewhere, or is this just a fan theory that explains it better than they did? Because I remember the "scorched the sky" line or whatever it was being a throwaway, and they definitely never explained Neo's "I'm Jesus inside the Matrix...and also outside LOL" in the movies themselves. Which seemed like half the point since the plot was so metaphorical and whatnot
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Wednesday August 21 2019, @05:17PM
It's obviously a theory and I wouldn't call myself a fan but the nanites being used to block out the sun thing was explicitly mentioned in the Animatrix's The Second Renaissance Part II [wikipedia.org] which remains canon unless they'll retcon it away.
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