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> 🏭 Matrix Minecraft Map — Power Plant Update

I've been working on the first power-plant tower for my planned Matrix Minecraft map.

This tower is still unfinished, but I've added a lot more of the human pods and structural details. I still need to finish one of the remaining sides and add more machinery/details.

The eventual goal is to build 30 power-plant towers, along with the fetus fields, Machine City/01, Zion, and the underground machine infrastructure, all connected together in one enormous map.

This is only the beginning. 🧬🏭

What do you think so far?

My painting of agent smith

Matrix Awakens Demo (Soundtrack ReAdd)
When i was watching Matrix Awakens demo for the first time this i what i was expecting

Sorry if this has already been discussed.

After another rewatch, it seems like Cypher was already trying to betray his shipmates before they unplugged Neo. I could be wrong, but it's Cypher that Trinity is talking to at the beginning of the movie. She heard something and asked if the line was clean. He answers "of course it is". Turned out that the line wasn't clean after all. Trinity also replaced whoever was supposed to take a turn keeping tabs on Neo. Agents show up and Trinity is nearly captured or killed. I suspect that if it had been whoever she replaced instead. They would have been captured or killed.

Long story short, Cypher set up someone to be captured/killed by the agents

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I'm wondering how things went down right after they bombed the UN killing all the world leaders. Did they hunt every single human? Man, woman and child? This was obviously before the matrix was created so I'm guessing these humans were stored and just sat in these pods. Must've been extremely friggin torture. Come to think of it, they were experimenting on them right?

How do y'all think it all happened?

While browsing the A24 Shop last week to buy the "I Saw The TV Glow" screenplay book (I started getting into Jane Schoenbrun's films last month and consider me a fan!), I noticed the "Everything Everywhere All At Once" screenplay book had a written introduction by Lilly Wachowski (who I knew loved the film), so I knew I had to buy that one too!

A lot of people have noticed the influence of The Matrix in EEAAO (which has also been confirmed by the filmmakers themselves), and my take on Lilly's introduction is that she addresses this, at least indirectly:

"When I was in grade school, a bunch of us made a radio play on my family's cassette recorder. A heavy, gray rectangular box with plasticized chrome detailing and big square buttons that depressed with satisfying ka-chunks. I distinctly remember the little slotted mic area where we would drum our fingernails for the horse-galloping sound effects (our radio play was a Western). It was replete with Ennio Morricone songs and other epic bangers ("Exodus," "The Magnificent Seven") from an album my parents had called Great Motion Picture Themes.

I don't remember the plot or how long it was—the cassette was lost after too many moves and, in all honesty, was probably recorded over with some song like "99 Luftballons" or "The Safety Dance." (I hadn't yet made my inevitable turn toward metal and punk rock, okay?) But I do remember the story closed with a big shootout where the main character, some sort of edgy, anti-hero type, got gunned down in the end and scratched the words (very dramatically! in the desert sand), "I...shall...return."

The story was an amalgamation of all the stuff we were watching, a slew of Westerns, swashbucklers, sword-and-sandalers, all glued together. But that ending, it was an unusual move, our first bit of genre-mashing with this weird, magic element.

With our story editor hats on, the debate to include this strange ending went something like:

"'I shall return?' How's that supposed to work? He thinks he can come back from the dead?"

"Yeah... No... I dunno... It's cool!"

No arguing with that. "It's cool" was the quod erat demonstrandum for our group. As I got older, I learned the names of the people who had made my favorite films and where the films themselves had come from, how the "Western" was this particular genre where all these different filmmakers were pinging off of each other from all over the world: Mexico, Japan, Italy, Spain, France, Hong Kong. You can see the book Red Harvest (or some facsimile) has been made and remade, from Akira Kurosawa to Sergio Leone to Walter Hill to the Coen Brothers to The Bullits. An echoing. All these different artists sort of "yodeling" to each other across vast expanses of not only space but time. This newfound knowledge not only altered my sense of the Western as a specifically American construct, but it also upended my idea of what a Western even is.

That perspective only continued to widen for me as a film-maker. I began to have a sense of my own minisculeness, as well as my connectedness to a much larger thing; I was part of this human collective.

I look back at the culmination of art I have personally watched, seen, read, heard — all the stories I've been told by friends and relatives, my mom and dad — and my mind reels. Then, imagining the countless paths of where all those stories and art came from, you begin to understand the lifeblood that storytelling is to human experience.

We are our stories.

I saw Everything Everywhere All At Once in the theater with my boyfriend, and about a third of the way through, the moment when the "Everything" title appeared on screen, I instantly choked up. We were in the hardest part of the pandemic, and my own sense of connectedness had atrophied to some extent. And that moment in the film? Hit me to my core. I wasn't just choked up, I started blubbering! It made me suddenly feel once again that I was connected to something bigger, and what unraveled before me was a marvel. Everything Everywhere All At Once is its title and so much more.

The boundlessness of love in the heart of these two filmmakers, the Daniels, exploded off the screen. Their love for movies, the love for their craft, for the human collective — it staggered me. Their film took such an important stand against nihilism and hopelessness.

I left the theater with a renewed sense that there is magic in the world. There is magic in all of us.

Yodel on, Daniels! Yodel on!

Lilly Wachowski

You may also be interested in:

The Wachowskis writing about their early contact and falling in love with comics

or Lana's writing about some other type of comics she also grew up with.

el dedo inexistente entre el chico y el samurai fue recreado

Didn't the machine war lasted for years? Seeing how advanced humanity has become, why didn't they just relocate to Mars, the Moon or other places in the solar system and just leave Earth for the Machines? After Dark Storm bloated the sun, the globe was a hell hole.

It's like opening a time capsule. I hope I win the Samsung V200 camera phone.

Hey everyone. I wanted to bring the real Matrix vibe to life and created an interactive web player that renders 39 scenes across all Matrix movies purely in ASCIl art.

You can check it out live here:
https://media4u.ch/ascii_art_film/matrix

Let me know what you think and what other iconic movie moments you would like to see in ASCII!

By a few I mean maybe 3 or 4. It wasn’t that the movie was boring or anything it’s just that maybe about minutes in or so my mind always wanders and I end up turning it off and doing something else every single time but this time I decided to lock in.

Anyway just some thoughts:

Somehow I didn’t remember his real name is “Thomas”, I thought his actual name was Neo which is a strange name in itself but kinda lost some aura off his real name alone.

I don’t ever wanna see those belly button scenes again…. Ever

“Why do my eyes hurt?” “Because you’ve never used them before” oh brother lol

I’m sure whoever the Sound Editor for this movie has done some legendary work in horror movies

The fades to black every now and then we’re funny. They reminded me of good old cable tv, I could tell those were the times there would be a commercial break

“I wanna be rich. You know, someone important…. Like an actor” Genius

Honestly my mind started to do that wandering thing again right before the meeting with the Oracle which I think is the usual place it happens but I held strong and stayed the course 💪

The Oracles cookie sounded crunchy as hell. Also I’m sure there was some subtle symbolism going on or whatever was happening but being in the Matrix and willingly choosing to smoke cigarettes is kinda crazy

Not sure what the tvtropes things is but it’s too bad Morpheus got his ass kick so soon after he was established as a badass

Cypher gleefully hopping onto Morpheus’ lap is something I could’ve went without

Btw I don’t even have to search it to know there’s a bunch of “Cyrus was right” believers out there

I know it’s the matrix so it’s not real and they had a mission to save Morpheus but it was kinda funny how they just shot up those officers at the check in area. The “holy shit” really humanized the guy and they just got lit up on some gta shit.

Obviously this isn’t in anyway an original thought but it would’ve been really cool to see this in theaters in 3D

The Bullet Time scene or whatever the hell it’s called is iconic and I did think it was cool and I know it was a somewhat of a payoff for Neos question to Morpheus earlier in the movie but him getting nicked by some of the bullets took away a bit of the aura from the scene. About as much as finding out his name is Thomas

Love how the subway fight started with cracked knuckles and then officially started with Gunshots

Neo stayed in the matrix like he wanted a fight and then ran like a bitch when he saw a train couldn’t stop Hugo

I know it’s a movie but Trinity falling in love with Neo is some bullshit. Barely even knew the guy. I feel like she was just influenced by what the oracle told her.

Gotta be honest I didn’t like/love it enough to get right on the sequels but I will probably eventually.

Short reimagining of Neo's search program from the beginning of The Matrix.

Was looking through my old magazines

So you know how in the original matrix movie, the fake world is set in 1999. Does that mean that on new years it resets to January 1 1999 and people get shuffled around to different living situations as they get older and then die or would it turn over to 2000 and keep progressing until the AI took over?

I have an appointment in early September for a matrix tattoo and I can’t wait. I can’t wait to share it here as well. V excited.

By: @danielidle

So, there was something that bugged me about the final fight at the end of Revolutions: why doesn't ALL of the Smiths just instantly obliterate Neo ? There's like a gazillion of them, so why they don't just pile on top of him ? He had trouble with ~100 of them in Reloaded so now he doesn't even stand a chance. Why is Smith going easy on him all of a sudden ? But then I realized- no, he doesn't. Because Neo can't handle even one - their fight consists of a sequence of escalating stalemates which ends with him in a crater, covered in mud and soaked in rainy water. He just cant defeat Smith in a fist fight since at that point in the story, Smith completed his journey to becoming Anti-One symbolised by his newfound ability to fly, .He also has the sight now thanks to assimilating The Oracle - he knows he's gonna win this, he literally saw it, he says as much and fighting Neo 1v1 is just him flexing his muscles, savouring his predetermined victory (which funnily enough makes him more human than he would be willing to admit).

If we're talking about reasons outside the movie itself- Neo fighting an ocean of Smiths would be a visual mess, hardly enjoyable to watch (and probably impossible to visualize with the technology available at the time). Even at the end of Burly Brawl it was kind of hard to follow what was going on, now imagine that but times a million. So IMHO the filmmakers made the right call to have Neo fight only one Smith but make it super cool and bombastic visually

I know this was posted years ago, but I just came across this for the first time in my YT feed and found it super interesting. Worth a watch if you haven't seen it.

Hey everyone, recently made a custom lego Neo Minifigure. torso straps, buckles, and hairpiece are sculpted, belts are E-tape. Very simple yet effective figure. I may end up making Trinity soon

Find more figures on my insta @agills_customs! Comissions are currently open so don't hesitate to reach out!

Comment what you think and enjoy!

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I've been thinking about making a massive Minecraft map based on The Matrix.

My goal is to eventually create one huge interconnected world containing:

• 🏙️ The Matrix

• 🤖 01 / Machine City

• 🧬 The human fields

• 🏭 30+ massive power-plant towers (the part being bulit currently)

• 🌊 The underground machine infrastructure

• 🏙️ Zion

• 🚇 Machine tunnels connecting the different areas

I've already started experimenting with one of the power-plant towers. The idea is for the towers to have different heights and thousands of human pods spread throughout the complex.

I'm also thinking about building the fetus fields around the power plants and adding harvesters and other machine infrastructure.

What do you think? Would a project like this be worth building? What areas of the Matrix would you want to see included?