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by Mischief Maker 04/30/2014, 4:32pm PDT |
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Here's a snippet:
The Architect wrote:
I am the Architect. I created the matrix. I've been waiting for you. You have many questions, and although the process has altered your consciousness, you remain irrevocably human. Ergo, some of my answers you will understand, and some of them you will not. Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also irrelevant.
(emphasis added)
He's telling Neo, the audience surrogate, that we aren't smart enough to understand his monologue completely.
He's spitting out this speech in a barely-inflected fast-paced monotone that's difficult to follow.
He's using unnecessarily challenging language to make his speech seem smarter. "Concordantly" instead of "also." "Ergo" instead of "so." Etcetera.
All this is covering up the fact that the Architect's plan is as flawed as Palpatine and the Trade Federation's. Neo is causing the Matrix to break down and it needs to be reset with fresh humans. The Architect wants Neo to enter the source and pick out 23 people to repopulate the new matrix. The only reason the film gives for Neo not to comply is the fact that an Agent is killing Trinity. Neo refuses, thwarting the Architect's plan and dooming humanity, to save her life. Despite the informed attribute of being really smart, the Architect could have prevented this in several obvious ways:
1. Don't show Neo on the monitors that Trinity is being killed. Just show him pictures of crying babies who would die if he doesn't go to the source.
2. Call off the agent. We've already seen in the original movie that agents can relay orders to sentinels in the sewers, you're telling me that the damn architect can't relay a command to an agent?
3. Allow Neo to pick Trinity as one of the 23. The fact that Cypher believed it was possible to get back into a power plant in the original movie means this is a viable option.
4. Don't send sentinels to blow up the people helping Neo get to the source, which necessitated Trinity entering the matrix in the first place. This attack was fucking up his own plan, and once again the sentinels are in contact with the programs in the matrix.
So what we're left with is a scene bereft of action where the boringest character in the trilogy blathers at a blank-faced Keanu Reeves in a Cassock, telling him and us that the only reason his plan (and the script) seems flawed is because the audience is too stupid to understand it. That's not just bad moviemaking, that's insulting! |
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Pop-culture critique of Matrix seqs. will recenter trilogy as pivotal 00 event. by Gutsby 04/26/2014, 10:32am PDT 
Your syntax is as bad parts 2 & 3. Are you announcing or requesting a critique? NT by Mischief Maker 04/26/2014, 11:28am PDT
Just trying to get Caltrops a scoop. by Gutsby 04/26/2014, 7:02pm PDT
Re: Just trying to get Caltrops a scoop. by laudablepuss 04/28/2014, 12:35pm PDT
Sequels were mostly bad with a few neat scenes. by They're just movies, man. 04/26/2014, 12:08pm PDT
Wow! You must be really cool! by Mischief Maker 04/26/2014, 1:58pm PDT
Hey, I don't think this other clown was one of us. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/26/2014, 3:13pm PDT
I am! I am fucking amazing! NT by You should be more like me MM. 04/27/2014, 9:50am PDT
Passionless, Anonymous, and Cowardly? NT by Mischief Maker 04/27/2014, 5:25pm PDT
Awesome, Beautiful, and Fan-fucking-tabulous! NT by Like, duh as if it wasn't obvious:P 04/27/2014, 11:02pm PDT
We were just talking about you! by Roop 04/28/2014, 3:09pm PDT
Ya mon gameplay's gonna be just Clive Barker jerkin' me with one hand :) NT by Chokin' me with the other :D 04/29/2014, 12:08pm PDT
The sequels were bad. by blackwater 04/28/2014, 9:09pm PDT
Re: The sequels were bad. by Eurotrash 04/29/2014, 6:41am PDT
Re: The sequels were bad. by laudablepuss 04/30/2014, 1:46pm PDT
Irritatingly, I once did. by Mischief Maker 04/29/2014, 6:37am PDT
The best criticism is that the philosophy was INSUFFICIENTLY DEEP. by laudablepuss 04/29/2014, 9:37am PDT
"I'd buy that for a dollar!" *gut-busting laughter in response* by Mischief Maker 04/29/2014, 3:49pm PDT
http://www.caltrops.com/pointy.php?action=viewPost&pid=142974 by Jerry Whorebach 04/29/2014, 5:20pm PDT
Maybe that had something to do with the ending? by laudablepuss 04/30/2014, 1:38pm PDT
You're in stage 4, by the way... by Mischief Maker 04/30/2014, 9:27am PDT
Re: You're in stage 4, by the way... by laudablepuss 04/30/2014, 1:30pm PDT
Personal rankings by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 04/30/2014, 2:13pm PDT
Re: Personal rankings by laudablepuss 05/01/2014, 9:41am PDT
Please elaborate on "The Architect's intentionally impenetrable dialogue" NT by laudablepuss 04/30/2014, 2:14pm PDT
Re: Please elaborate on "The Architect's intentionally impenetrable dialogue" by Mischief Maker 04/30/2014, 4:32pm PDT
ARGH I WAS INSULTED by laudablepuss 04/30/2014, 5:06pm PDT
Now you're regressing to stage 3. by Mischief Maker 04/30/2014, 6:27pm PDT
Keep banging that drum by laudablepuss 05/01/2014, 8:25am PDT
Is this what you're looking for? by Mischief Maker 04/29/2014, 10:22pm PDT
Really wet mouth, but not smart/arrogant enough. But thanks! NT by Gutsby 04/30/2014, 10:25am PDT
I unironically love and will always love the first Matrix movie. by Jerry Whorebach 04/30/2014, 11:14pm PDT
Yeah, I thought it was about robbing a bank. by Gutsby 05/01/2014, 3:03pm PDT
I saw it with my little sister and her bff. Even they geeked out. NT by What a fun movie. - Last 05/01/2014, 4:55pm PDT
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