Been a while since I did any blogging on here, but im back, and guess what,
Ive noticed these posts do need some upgrades and work due to some old links not working anymore and problems with videos that are uploaded on here displaying properly. Ive set those blogs with those problems to private till I fix it. Honestly I have alot going on so I must confess I haven’t been really in a hurry to fix anything. Call it hubris. While reading through these old blogs, many of the links no longer work, or the point I was making at the time appears to be lost. An example of this is where I point out on one blog where I saw an account is suspended vs closed and I use different examples for each. Checking out those links now, the links to youtube, you just get a 404 error. Alas, even on the internet, nothing lasts forever.
Also please no one use the form on the front page to contact me, I was alerted that it doesn’t work, something to do with the php. Again ive been slow to fix this so apologies, Ill come up with some other method to contact me.
What I did want to talk about though was the new Matrix movie arriving this december from warner bros:
So they are finally making a Matrix 4, and ive been thinking about making a new video about it, discussing what I hope they do in the movie. After Matrix Revolutions, I felt the Wachowskis dropped a number of seeds in the movies that could lead to a fourth movie. On my youtube channel I made a acouple videos back in the day, basically giving an idea what I would do with a Matrix 4, using clips from previous movies etc. Id like to think I was the first person to start using clips from Constantine to make it appear like its a fourth film, which later became quite common on youtube, people trying to fool viewers etc.
I was initially inspired to think about a Matrix 4 after the third film and when Matrix Online was released, a online game created by the wachowskis that is canon, I felt like the creators were kinda handing off the series to us the fans, asking, what will you do with it? Indeed if you watch this interview with the wachowskis they basically say exactly :that Now given the fact that the plot for Matrix 4 has been leaked there are some striking similarities to the version I would have done versus theirs:
1. Neo is back in the Matrix with apparently no explanation and no memory.
2. Morpheus returns as a bootleg copy which was created by Neo.
3. The Merovingian is back
4. The main thrust of the movie is about Neo remembering who he was and trying to get back to Trinity
Im not saying that anyone copied me or saw those trailers and got inspiration, but those similarities are odd, and certainly I found to be a strange coincidence, especially the whole theme of memory. Where Lana Wachowski goes with this though is in a completly different direction.
From looking at the trailers above, made by me back in 2009, that is essentially half the story. Half of the story deals with Neos memories, hes back, as a program, not as a flesh and blood human like the REAL Matrix 4 is. In the wachowskis version, hes a video game maker and he has to unite with Trinity who is back flesh and blood as well. In my version she exists in Neos mind, and since the Ones abilities permeate the Matrix, his subconcious peaks through in the form of Trinity and Morpheus reminding him of who he was. Its only when he does this he can move on with his new life.
In the wachowskis Matrix 4, hes actually trying to regain, and DOES get back his old ways to become the one again, and it would appear Trinity also has powers like Neo.
The version of Matrix 4 I imagined woud explain why Neo is back, which is that this process of recycling the one, is something all the previous ones go through. We would get to see and Neo would interact, with the previous ones, some would fight him, others would help him on his journey. The main female lead would end up becoming the seventh one, with Neo possibly getting back into the real world, given the machines were perserving his body, a fact we learned in matrix online.
The actualy direction the Wachowskis go in is very different then mine in the end. I was under the impression that Serpah and the Merovingian could in fact be previous ones but back in program form, like we would find Neo in Matrix 4. This I believe is NOT the direction they are going in. In fact the wachowskis have given hints as to who the previous ones were. In there mind, historical figures like Buddha and Jesus would have been previous ones, and like the garden of eden story, this would have been the heavenly Matrix, the first Matrix spoken about.
Oh course this is a very different interpretation that I had, but Im still excited to see what they end up doing with this movie. Ive been thinking about it for a long time, as I know alot of other people have as well. Curiously enough this movie almost comes out twenty years after the last Matrix movie, and that is the time frame I would initially have the movie set in, twenty years after Matrix Revolutions. Half way through the movie we would end up finding out that it is in fact at least a hundred years later since the events of the last film.
Update: looks like Warner Bros just released the trailer for the movie, looks very interesting, obviously they are going in a different direction then I had imagined…
