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- In making the Matrix trilogy, the Wachowski brothers drew on imagery and ideas from Greek mythology, Gnosticism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Nihilism, Taoism, comic books, the works of René Descartes, Homer’s Odyssey, Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation, Kevin Kelly’s Out of Control, and Dylan Evans’s Introducing Evolutionary Psychology.
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Mar 31, 2024 · The lasting influence on “The Matrix” though isn’t that the Wachowskis found a narrative justification to sneak martial arts choreography into their film, it’s that they executed it so well.
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The Wachowskis cited Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey as a major influence for Cloud Atlas. They first saw the film when they were ten and seven, respectively. [11]
Mar 26, 2019 · An eye-popping, mind-expanding fusion of cyberpunk fiction, comic books, computer games and Japanese animation, The Matrix was as heavily influenced by Lewis Carroll, William Gibson, Grant Morrison and Philip K. Dick as it was by the Bible, Greek mythology, philosophical texts and Eastern religion.
Creators the Wachowskis’ ideas weren’t new, but their delivery system was radical—Baudrillard by way of bullet time, a multiple cinematic fusion of philosophical, literary, and spiritual connectedness via cyberpunk fiction, Japanese anime and Hong Kong martial-arts influences.
Dec 22, 2021 · Over the past two decades, mainstream tastes and the Wachowskis’ work have seemingly been on two vectors moving in opposite directions, and The Matrix was just the point where they happily ...
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Mar 30, 2019 · The Matrix celebrated the idea that there were two worlds, separate but linked, and that what happened in the one influenced the other.
Feb 6, 2017 · John Wick: Chapter 2 director Chad Stahelski explains how his time working with the Wachowskis influenced his world building.