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On August 20 this year, Warner Chairman Toby Emmerich officially announced that the science fiction film landmark "The Matrix" series is in development for Episode 4.
Written and directed by Lana Wachowski, the sister of the Wachowski sisters, the male god Keanu Reeves and the heroine Kerry-Ann Moss will return.
As soon as this news came out, fans all over the world were very surprised, because after the launch of the "Matrix" series that year, the Wachowski brothers (Pigo was right, they were still brothers at the time) once said that the trilogy of the series was a whole, the story was finished, and they would not shoot episode 4 again, nor would they sell the copyright.
Later, they did not renege on their word, and only launched an animated film set containing 9 short stories.
In recent years, the Wachowski sisters have once again proved their strength with the TV series "Super Sense Hunting" series, and the reason for restarting the big IP of "The Matrix", Pigo estimates that they must have thought of some wonderful good story, let us wait and see.
What exactly is the "Matrix" trilogy about, In 1999, Pigo was still a college student, and to be honest, after watching it that year, he really praised those cool action scenes, but he didn't know anything about the whole story.
It contains elements such as philosophy, religion and computer applications, both scientific and metaphysical, and those who understand it suddenly realize, and those who do not understand it are also unaware.
Because Pico read computers professionally, after reading the trilogy several times, he finally understood eight or nine inseparable from ten.
The film takes place in a fictional 1999 film starring Keanu Levis as Thomas Lee. A. Anderson was a programmer at a software company during the day and a hacker under the pseudonym Neo at night, and had done almost everything that broke the law.
One night he was napping in front of his computer, only to find that his computer had been hacked in.
Following the prompts given to him by people on the internet, he followed a beautiful woman with a small white rabbit tattoo on her shoulder to a bar, where he met a woman named Trinity.
Here Pigo needs to reveal that alice in the novel "Alice in Wonderland" is following a small white rabbit to enter the wonderland of the dream, and Neo in the movie is also guided by the "little white rabbit" to open the door to another world.
Trinity is a hacker god on the Internet, and Neo has long been admired for her, so he listens to her. Later, at Trinity's recommendation, Neo meets another mysterious person, Morpheus.
Morpheus gives Neo a choice, eat the blue pill, forget all this, and go back to his original life; eat the red pill, and Morpheus reveals the truth for him.
Neo, of course, couldn't resist the temptation to eat the red pills, and then he woke up in a container with a tube all over his body.
He saw the terrible truth, surrounded by containers like his own, and inside lay people who were sleeping like him.
Soon Morpheus rescued him and took him to the hovercraft nebuganisa.
When Neo wakes up, Morpheus begins to tell him the truth about this real world.
The worldview constructed by the trilogy is large and complex, and Pico will explain it briefly here.
It turns out that the world of 1999 in which Neo lived was only virtual, and the real world was already 2199 years old.
As early as the end of the 20th century, artificial intelligence was born, and later robots entered human life and became a good helper for humans.
But with the awakening of robot self-awareness and the contradiction between robots and human social competition, the war between humans and robots finally broke out in 2139.
Later, because the robot was in full swing, the United Nations decided to launch "Operation Dark Storm" to block the sunlight from reaching the surface to cut off the energy supply of the robot with solar energy as the main energy source.
But as the world eventually came to be dominated by robots, they captured humans and used bioelectricity from humans as a source of energy, and later used cloning technology to create new humans.
In order to facilitate control, the robot has created a virtual world - a matrix, in which the human brain "lives", from birth to death forever sleeping and never waking up.
People like Morpheus are awakened human beings, and they formed a nation of Zion, hoping to awaken all human beings by their own strength.
An old woman named prophet guides Morpheus to their savior, and this man is Neo, who prophesied that he would lead humanity to this goal.
In order to make the movie look better, the Wachowski brothers spent a lot of money to create special effects scenes, and also invited director Yuan Heping to create a Hong Kong-style action scene.
Morpheus taught Neo Kung Fu in order to awaken the great potential in him. The martial arts of all the sects do not need to be learned little by little, they are hidden in the CD-ROM, and only need to be recorded into the brain.
Morpheus took Neo back to the matrix to see the Prophet, who said a lot of things that seemed to understand and understood, and the audience was confused when they saw it. She also prophesied that Morpheus and Neo would only live one, and that Neo would choose for himself.
Here Pigo has to explain some of the key points in the story, one is why Neo is the savior?
It turns out that the matrix, like our computer system, needs to be upgraded regularly to get better. And the premise of all this is that the virtual world of the matrix needs to have some "variables".
The savior is this "variable", and the person who is chosen to become the savior is the person who is randomly selected by the matrix to give special code, and they have their own supreme program that can modify the virtual world, which is the superman of this virtual world.
Second, what is Smith's gang? Smith is the matrix's antivirus program, capable of tracking down intruders that appear in the virtual world, so they can borrow other people's bodies.
Neo also encounters Smith in the Matrix and is killed by a single shot, confirming the Prophet's prophecy.
But Neo, after feeling dead, also truly cracks the matrix program and nirvana is reborn, gaining a "superpower" capable of controlling all virtual objects.
Eventually Neo entered Smith's body and scattered him, and the other two people with Smith fled when they saw that they were not heads.
But Smith didn't die, but also got some of Neo's programs, which were converted into viral programs in later sequels.
"The Matrix", as the beginning of the series, undertakes the heavy responsibility of building a huge world view, and on this basis, it takes only two hours to tell a story well, which is a great test of the screenwriter's skill.
The Wachowski brothers not only did it, but they did it very well, which is why The Matrix can become a classic.
Even the small white audience who knows nothing about computer knowledge will be deeply attracted to see those Hong Kong-style actions and gunfight explosion scenes.
The film also created a simulated shifting special effect called "Bullet Time", which allows the audience to have a full-scale three-dimensional experience of the action scene.
This kind of special effect was imitated by many Hollywood movies at that time, and later appeared in Zhang Yimou's "Hero", and now it has been one of the action special effects that have been used in our domestic martial arts dramas.
Not only that, but the black clothes with sunglasses that appeared in the movie have also become a fashion torrent for a while.
In 2000, Fox's "X-Men" changed the colorful suits of those superheroes in the original Marvel and became all black and black pants, and the "X-Men" trilogy movie also sold well at the box office and became a super British movie classic.
Up to now, in the "Matrix" Douban score, nearly 260,000 film fans have scored full marks, and in the 20 years since its release, it is like a science fiction mountain, standing there, and there is still no director to surpass.
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