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Film Discussion => News and Theory => Topic started by: NEON MERCURY on November 06, 2003, 01:10:54 PM

Title: ..The Prequel Thread...anything goes..
Post by: NEON MERCURY on November 06, 2003, 01:10:54 PM
think: Denzel=morpheous.........Crowe=agent Smith....... :silly:
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..justice needs a "new" program.....hence.....(neo)......

damns..i is genius......
Title: ..The Prequel Thread...anything goes..
Post by: MacGuffin on November 06, 2003, 01:15:26 PM
Actually, the Matrix Prequel would be:

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The Ultimate Hard Drive

The hottest data on earth. In the coolest head in town.

The danger is all in his head
Title: ..The Prequel Thread...anything goes..
Post by: NEON MERCURY on November 06, 2003, 01:19:30 PM
hahahaha!!! i thought abou tthat one also...


maybe BOTH of these films are "the early miss-adventures of morpheous and  neo"....
Title: ..The Prequel Thread...anything goes..
Post by: Sleuth on November 06, 2003, 04:07:43 PM
Before the Matrix came out, I was wondering if it'd be anything like Johnny Mnemonic
Title: ..The Prequel Thread...anything goes..
Post by: Raikus on November 06, 2003, 04:07:43 PM
I would think Blade Runner as the most accurate movie for a Matrix prequel. That is, if you apply the Animatrix shorts about the robot uprising and such.
Title: ..The Prequel Thread...anything goes..
Post by: RegularKarate on November 06, 2003, 05:04:46 PM
To extend this... the Matrix is a remake of Dark City.
Title: ..The Prequel Thread...anything goes..
Post by: NEON MERCURY on November 06, 2003, 09:46:34 PM
I have decided to turn this thread into what you believe could or is the prequel to a film or series of films......
Here is the prequel to MAGNOLIA>.... :wink:
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Title: ..The Prequel Thread...anything goes..
Post by: Raikus on November 07, 2003, 09:13:29 AM
Quote from: RegularKarateTo extend this... the Matrix is a remake of Dark City.
To once again debunk this theory... no it wasn't. The Matrix script has been in existence since the early 90's.
Title: ..The Prequel Thread...anything goes..
Post by: MacGuffin on November 07, 2003, 11:08:03 PM
Newtron reminded me of another Matrix prequel:

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A world inside the computer where man has never been. Never before now.

Trapped inside an electronic arena, where love, and escape, do not compute!
Title: ..The Prequel Thread...anything goes..
Post by: kotte on November 08, 2003, 04:28:33 AM
What's up with the Gladiator prequel?
Title: ..The Prequel Thread...anything goes..
Post by: RegularKarate on November 08, 2003, 10:49:16 AM
Quote from: RegularKarateTo extend this... the Matrix is a remake of Dark City.
Quote from: RaikusTo once again debunk this theory... no it wasn't. The Matrix script has been in existence since the early 90's.

Do you have a copy of that script?  How do you know that it was the same as it is now?  How do you know that the Dark City script hasn't been around for just as long?  

They were obviously impressed by Dark City, a lot of the look is the same... they even used some of the same set pieces.  

Also, the Dark City similarities continue through to the end of the third Matrix.

BTW, I didn't say "rip off"... just like these aren't really prequels, they're just similar and may have influenced later films.
Title: ..The Prequel Thread...anything goes..
Post by: Jeremy Blackman on November 08, 2003, 11:05:23 AM
Good point RK. I think the visual feeling of Dark City works better than anything in the Matrix... it's warm, creepy, and dark instead of Matrix's cold science fiction bluish-greenishness.
Title: ..The Prequel Thread...anything goes..
Post by: cine on November 08, 2003, 04:17:01 PM
I agree. I've always sort of classified Dark City as 'art house sci fi" and Matrix as 'mainstream sci fi".
Title: ..The Prequel Thread...anything goes..
Post by: Raikus on November 10, 2003, 09:48:39 AM
Quote from: RegularKarate
Quote from: RegularKarateTo extend this... the Matrix is a remake of Dark City.
Quote from: RaikusTo once again debunk this theory... no it wasn't. The Matrix script has been in existence since the early 90's.

Do you have a copy of that script?  How do you know that it was the same as it is now?  How do you know that the Dark City script hasn't been around for just as long?  

They were obviously impressed by Dark City, a lot of the look is the same... they even used some of the same set pieces.  

Also, the Dark City similarities continue through to the end of the third Matrix.

BTW, I didn't say "rip off"... just like these aren't really prequels, they're just similar and may have influenced later films.
The entire history of the Matrix script is documented in an issue of Creative Screenwriting from April or May of this year. The basic premise of the script (Neo, The One, the Prophecy, etc.) was there from the beginning, the only things that changed from the first to third and final draft was Neo's setting (originally supposed to be a teenage kid living with his family, some additional characters, and a few other points that escape me now). Dark City and Matrix are similiar in their story and most noticeably in their cinematography, but it is not a "remake." That was what I was trying to say.