The Matrix: The Shooting Script

For the first time, acclaimed Newmarket Shooting Script ® series format, the script of the most successful films in history.

A surprise box-office when it opened in theaters in spring 1999, The Matrix has proved to be nothing short of a phenomenon, setting records for DVD sales, winning four Oscars ® - Best Visual Effects, Best Editing, Best Sound, Best Editing sound effects - spawning two sequels and for the liberation in 2002 and 2003.

Extraordinary vision of the writers / directors Larry and Andy Wachowski have captured in its purest form with a film script. The story of Thomas Anderson, aka Neo (Keanu Reeves), a hacker forced to confront his special destiny of salvation of mankind challenges our notions of reality and to expand the expectations of what a film can be. 122 pages of script presented in the form of faxes. There is also a scene of handwritten notes by Phil Oosterhouse, Wachowski assistant during the making of the film, 20 b / w photos movies and full credits.

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1999: Larry and Andy Wachowski release The Matrix, the first puzzle game in what became a trilogy of science fiction influence. Cyberpunks quickly forget the techno cultural flops like Lawnmower Man and virtuosity never existed.

The film was cyberfiction staples such as those found in the trilogy of William Gibson's expansion - including his classic 1984 novel, Neuromancer, where we take the concept of interconnection "matrix" - and mash with wire-fu anime , postmodernism, metaphysics, Alice in Wonderland, Jean Baudrillard's simulacra and simulations, and a stream of other texts and films resulting contexts.The was a great success: The Matrix grossed $ 460 million (600 million inflation-adjusted dollars) in box office worldwide and became the first DVD to spend more than 3 million units in the United States alone.

Along the way, he also took an Oscar for his technical review and pioneering visual effects, which exploded in the use of "bullet time" technique, and upped the ante in every action movie to follow. Defeated a wildly anticipated Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, which was paralyzed by Jar Jar Binks unfortunate, to win the statuette effects.

Bound (1996, Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski)

Gender-Bender, unbelievably for the neo-noir is a style to burn and a trio of Great Performances (Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon and Joe Pantoliano), who have the privilege to watch. Gun Moll meets the handy-woman (and ex-con), and together they came up with a plan to steal money from the Mafia. Bound is an elegant touch of suspense homoerotic film that adds immeasurably to intelligent film's dramatic structure. The story is told in terms of only two female protagonists (It's about time!), Which is a rare thing in this period film.

In the world of film noir, men had the hard top, when Dames punished for their not-so-good attitudes. Here directors Andy Wachowski and Lana to put an anti-heroines of the driver's seat, so they can carve their own destiny. Of course, it can never forget that we are rooting for the lesser of two evils. Watched the unrated version, but at least a brief sex scene, there is nothing shameful about the film. Tilly is a dynamite, one of his best roles. Bound is a smart, funny movies, violent and fun, great graphics and good storyline.

Jupiter Rising: Andy Wachowski and Lana finally return to Sci-Fi

Directors Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski brothers (Cloud Atlas), which is best known for The Matrix Trilogy are returning to their roots in their original sci-fi project called Jupiter Rising. Wachowski will write the screenplay and the story must be kept tightly secret.

Reported that the deadline for the Wachowski brothers and Warner Bros. Pictures, which are currently discussing a list of actors at the height of the project and Ascendant Jupiter is aimed to begin production next spring.

Bound (1996)

The Wachowskis' remarkable stage debut is a revisionist take on the film noir of the 1940s. Share The Postman Always Rings Twice, Sin City (a gritty detective comic book that inspired the look of the film), and Thelma & Louise (certainly a decisive influence) related developer excellent atmosphere Moody black at first, but with a unique modern edge.

Jennifer Tilly plays Violet, a lover of a gangster who wants out of life crowd. Live action Betty Boop (all soft curves and a sweet voice and sighed), Violet may seem just another incarnation of the beautiful but weak brunette Tilly has played before (like his Oscar-nominated role in Bullets Over Broadway). But it seems that Violet is smarter and more difficult than it gives - and meets his match with Corky (Gina Gershon), a sexy, sapphic ex-prisoner next door. Joe Pantoliano rounds impeccable cast as Caesar, the boy destined to scapegoat brutal and Corky and Violet is finally a plan to steal mob money. It is the plan works, and if the two can trust each other enough to see through it, was so perfectly crisp, fill in the neo-noir, which respects the genre, but turning it upside down.

Larry And Andy Wachowski Interviewed

Larry and Andy Wachowski are notoriously difficult. Do not press any of the movies, in fact, speak to no one or nowhere to be seen, at least for the record. Do not make the images as well, and the outside of a couple of paparazzi shots floating around out there, the public has not seen or heard in person well, many, many years. Wachowski Brothers, the last real interview I could find after the race by Google in 1999.

They have emerged from the shadows for a while, however, and it happened on the watch of Roger Ebert. The brothers responsible for The Matrix, V for Vendetta, and ... Unfortunately, Speed ​​Racer came out of his cave (where it is) and talked to the American film critic more venerable. If only going to talk to someone ... I'm glad it was Roger Ebert.

It was not so much a formal meeting to meet with Roger accidentally when looking for a special screening of the new Paramount release Godfather, when he went below, they hung out at the bar talking, and Roger has published excerpts of their conversation here. Ebert describes it seemed "boys, who had spent too much time playing" Speed ​​Racer "before the movie," and argues that their reputation as a recluse does not fit into their real life person. He calls them "nice people. Friendly. No Hollywood attitude."

During their time with Ebert, spoke a few movies or Wachowski unlikely place in the past, present and the future of cinema. The closest they came was a concession by Larry in 2001, Kubrick was one of the inspirations for the look they were trying to create in the Matrix. Larry also spoke briefly about Ninja Assassin said: "Yes, we relive the" Ninja "craze".

For most, however, Roger Wachowski and talked about their mutual love of movies, classic movies Geeking more and different types of camera lenses. If this interview with someone else, may not even be worth mentioning. But this is Andy and Larry Wachowski, the directors of the most influential, perhaps, than anyone since Spielberg and Lucas, and even more available to any person and Howard Hughes himself locked in a room and wore Kleenex boxes for the shoes. If you like movies, make a point to click to place Ebert, where you can read everything.

Superman: the Movie:

I was torn between this and The Dark Knight, but I had to choose initiated a serious film comic book. Before Richard Donner gave likelihood is Superman comics were known for Batman, Adam East, and George Reeves' Superman. While amusing, they were treated as a joke that has never been taken more seriously than the comic book material. Donner's Superman and changed the rules to be put on an epic adventure the likes of Ben Hur and Lawrence of Arabia. We follow her from being a child, during his years in Smallville, his rise to the breathtaking cinematography by the late Geoffrey Unsworth of Superman (2001 FAME). cast is absolutely perfect. Christopher Reeve Superman embodies fully the extent that he never really broke out in the role. He was Superman. All these years later, when I hear the score by John Williams, I still believe that a man can fly.