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The Matrix is an icon of popular culture, with phrases referring to it permeating our day to day language. With idioms like “Glitch in the matrix” and ”take the red pill” many people make reference to this (at the time) groundbreaking work of fiction in their everyday lives. However, most are ignorant to some of the biggest influences on the franchise as a whole. India, and more specifically Buddhism have a large influence on the background and story of The Matrix trilogy. The inspiration for…

The robot takes over the world, people sleep in the program that they created and live in a virtual life. My eyes are kept focus on the screen. The love for The Matrix goes back when I was in middle school, the first time I watched the movie.The Matrix is a science fiction film. This movie is about Neo, a guy who sleeps on the Matrix for a long time and one day he gets hacked. A group of hackers promises that they will tell him the truth about the world that he is living in He follows his…

The hero cycle in The Matrix For Centuries, there has been a common pattern across all mediums of entertainment. From Blockbuster movies to ancient epics, there is a clearly identifiable cycle. A hero, a journey, some conflicts to cause a mess, a reward worthy of a hero, and said hero returning home and everybody celebrating his deeds and accomplishments or him taking his place in society as a more mature version of himself. When we are first introduced to Neo, he is fallen asleep on his…

Shmuli December 8th 2016 The Matrix: The Mind, Body, and Metaphysical/True Relation “The Matrix” was released on March 31st 1999, categorized as a science fiction film, written and directed by Laurence and Andrew Wachowski, known together as the “Wachowski Brothers”. The innovative film contributed to the mass success, as several sequels have been followed by the original 1999 creation, leading to the net worth of “The Matrix” series being over $1.5 Billion…

Corinth to avoid his prophecy, only to fulfill it. Neo from The Matrix attempts to leave his home to discover his true identity, only to discover he is trapped in a controlled computer world. Both characters attempt to leave home with intentions of changing their lives as well as their fate. Oedipus and Neo cannot rid their fate, and they cannot escape their…

Wachowski siblings film, The Matrix, and Campbell’s hero’s journey. While producing this film, the siblings used the hero’s journey as the backbone. It starts out with the call to adventure, then the road of trials, and later the apotheosis. The apotheosis is the point in which the character has gained further insight is attained. With having this greater knowledge, the hero is now able to go on to a more arduous adventure. In the Wachiowski’s Siblings film The Matrix, Neo’s pout of realization…

Another text with similar context is the film ‘The Matrix’, directed by the Wachowski Brothers. This text uses the setting itself as the main medium for representation. This film is seemingly set in the modern world, but this setting is actually an elaborate illusion designed by artificial intelligence to reduce humans to a resource. Bothe these texts use ideas inspired by modern technology, allowing for…

Allowing for the virtual world to become our reality, is also seen in the sci-fi thrilling movie, Tron: Legacy (2010). Tron: Legacy, is the remade version of Tron, originally released in 1982, just one year before Videodrome. Though Tron: Legacy carries a completely different plot than Videodrome, the cyberpunk themes seen in the film are repeated, though not all. Tron tells the story of a young man named Sam Flynn whose father, former CEO of ENCOM (a large and global video game corporation) who…

The Allegory of The Matrix Famous astronomer Galileo Galilei once said that “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them”. He is a renowned intellectual as well as an astronomer, he believed in always finding the truth. He believed that it is the most important aspect of life. This is very similar to the views of Plato and the Wachowskis’, they believe that even if the truth is hidden from us, we must strive to find it. In Plato's "Allegory of the…

same storyline was brought back up in 1999, hollywood decided to make The Matrix. The Matrix takes the main character, Neo, for a wild ride. The beginning, Neo lives out his life as a computer hacker, however he does not know it but, he is in the…