If I were to get on my high shit horse, apparently everything good about The Matrix was stolen from a comicbook by Grant Morrison called The invisibles, literally down to artwork and designs apparently there's email proof that the crew was directed to read the comic and base all their designs on it, but it's owned by DC who also is owned by WB, so there's nothing grant can do about it, and he's apparently chill about the whole thing anyway.
Wow! The Wachoskis concede they love comic books and I think they concede Miracle Man (earlier called Marvel Man... legal issues) inspired them. IRL, 1950s England came up with its own version of Shazam (formally Captain Marvel): Miracle Man (family that is mortal but with special word turn into g-ds). Maybe the greatest comic book writer of all time, Alan Moore, deconstructed the character in the 1980s: there never was a super hero named Miracle Man. He was an experiment in a lab kept in "the Matrix" where his crazy adventures existed in a virtual reality he believed. There was a Kid Miracle Man. Years later in MM's "real world" he meets up with him. The kid is now a man. And he isn't the kid grown up. The kid changed to KMM and never changed back and became evil. And he's essentially Agent Smith. So, now? I gotta find me some digital copies of Invisibles. Grant Morrison is one talented SOB too. Thanks for the tip.
Sorry for the double post. Errors from the website and I wanted to show off this: Kid MM looking like Agent Smith:
He doesn't need to "hit hard" he's filming a movie. A movie that I might add mostly relies on CGI and wire work. The stuff he does in John Wick is just as technically difficult if not moreso than slow-mo wire-fu.
I only know because Mr. Sunday movies did a little mini-doc on The Matrix recently and went into how if you do side by side comparisons theres artwork that literally traced out of invisibles.
He trained six months for The Matrix. Of course the physicality matters. You can see it in the fights. The actors weren't slow. Most of the fighting wasn't even with wires, it was on the ground. By the way, fighting with wires is very difficult and painful even. And they didn't use just wires; with the sequels they built more complicated machinery. Like these rotating machines that were so painful and difficult to use that the stunt doubles couldn't stay in them for too long. The younger you are, the easier you can manage it. You would want the actor to do as much of it as possible, so as to hopefully not give it away too easily.
That picture is inaccurate. At least five of them should be on their smartphones. Not even looking at or thinking about the others.
I'm not sure how that follows. Of all the shorts in The Animatrix, there's only two (IIRC) that actually tie-in with Reloaded, namely Final Flight of the Osiris, and Kid Story. Both of these plots points are adequately summized in Reloaded.
Neither of which are particuarly relevant to Reloaded. Second Renaissance is an origin story for the whole Matrix series, Detective Story deals with Trinity, but it doesn't tie-in with Reloaded, and it isn't clear when it occurs in relation to the films.
Maxilliam was one of those people. He said Reloaded and Revolution were not as bad as he remembers, but I hard disagree with him there. I find it funny that a lot of these people are coming out of the wood work with 4's announcement. Most of them would not dare to say it. So what the hell changed now? I'll give Max some credit as he held this stance in the mid 2010s at least.
Keep in mind, that picture was done before smartphones became widely popular and available.
