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Materials Letters Volume 201, In Progress Volume / Issue In ProgressA Volume/Issue that is "In Progress" contains final, fully citable articles that are published. The cinema of West Bengal (Bengali: Short Films: Media Resources Center UCBThe following videography includes fictional shorts and short documentary compilations and anthologies primarily. Eleven filmmakers from eleven countries reflect on the September 1. Samira Makhmalbaf presents a female teacher, at an Afghani refugee camp in Iran, organizing the children for a minute's silence; meanwhile the adults express fears of an American bombardment. Claude Lelouch presents the tale of a World Trade Center tour guide who is on the verge of a breakup with his deaf girlfriend when the terrorist attacks occur. Yusuf Shahin presents a young American soldier who comes to haunt a famous film producer and they engage in a highly conflicted dialogue. Danis Tanovic presents the women of Srebrenica (a town where thousands of Bosnian Muslim men and boys were massacred Serbs on July 1. September 1. 1th terrorist attacks. Idrissa Ouedraogo presents a young boy in Burkina Faso on the trail of a man he believes to be Osama Bin Laden. Ken Loach's presents a Chilean refugee who offers his condolences to the American victims; he then, in an open letter, describes the CIA- sponsored coup d'tat of September 1. General Pinochet. Alejandro Gonzlez Inarritu presents flashes of images. World Trade Center, accompanied by chanting. Amos Gitai presents a preening television news journalist enraged that her report about a Palestinian bombing in Tel Aviv will not be broadcast because of late breaking news about the attacks. Mira Nair presents a New York Muslim suspected of being a terrorist, but who is actually a heroic rescue worker. Sean Penn presents a lonely widower who lives in an apartment that is shaded by the World Trade Center. Shohei Imamura presents a Japanese soldier who returns home from fighting in World War II. He is convinced that he is a snake, and he refuses to eat anything other than live rats. DVD 3. 48. 8A is for Autism. Through a combination of live action and animation, this short film presents a glimpse into the condition of high functioning autism, with words, drawings, music and animation all contributed by people with autism. Originally released as an animated documentary in 1. Channel 4. DVD 6. A mi amor mi dulce (2. Director. Alanna Ubach. Cast: Alanna Ubach, Guillermo D. Included are the winning live action short and the winning animated short. Live action short films: Om Natten = In the night (At night) (2. New Danish Screen; Zentropa Entertainments. Louise Vesth; written and directed by Christian E. Christiansen (Denmark) - - Il supplente (The substitute) (2. Sky Cinema in collaborazione con Frame by Frame; scritto e diretto da Andrea Jublin; prodotto da Lorenzo Foschi, Davide Luchetti; producer, Francesca Sposini (Italy) - - Le Mozart des pickpockets = The Mozart of pickpockets (2. Kar. Includes the live action short winner and the animated short winner. Four television shorts produced in four different African countries to be shown on the African television series Africa Dreaming. In Sophia's. Homecoming (Namibia) a woman who has worked as a domestic returns home to a terrible discovery: the ruptures caused by apartheid can never be repaired. In Sabriya (Tunisia) a modern woman disrupts the patterned mosaic of male Maghrebi society. So Be It (Senegal), based on a play by Wole Soyinka, follows the destruction of a well intentioned foreign doctor confronting fear, rage and powerlessness in a remote Senegalese village. The Gaze of the Stars (Mozambique) is a story about machismo in Mozambique, so powerful that it drives away whatever it loves. Video/C 5. 40. 0Description from California Newsreel catalog. Afrocentricity (2. A compilation of seven short films, in- depth interviews and commentary by emerging African American film directors. DVD 2. 67. The Alloy Orchestra Plays Wild and Weird: 1. Fascinating and Innovating films 1. All boast new music composed and performed by the Alloy Orchestra, a three- man ensemble called . They represent many genres and styles, including . Contents: George Melies' A Trip to the Moon (1. Edwin S. Porter's Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1. Play House (1. 92. D. W. Griffith's Those Awful Hats (1. Segundo de Chomon's Red Spectre (1. F. Percy Smith's The Acrobatic Fly (1. J. Stuart Blackton's The Thieving Hand (1. Princess Nicotine, or The Smoke Fairy (1. Artheme Swallows His Clarinet (1. Ladislas Starewicz's The Cameraman's Revenge (1. Slavko Vorkapich and Robert Florey's The Life and Death of 9. A Hollywood Extra (1. Eliot Noyes, Jr.'s Clay, or The Origin of Species (1. The story is a monologue in which a Madrid Social Services Councillor (Carmen Machi) talks about sex and cannibalism. Cast: Oscar Rojas, Mireia Negre, Victor Viveros, Paula Tejeda. The film communicates its message through poetry, dance, songs and painting. Presented at the International Latino Film Festival held in the San Francisco Bay Area. Cast: Bridget Fonda, Elizabeth Hurley, Theresa Russell, John Hurt, Buck Henry, Beverly D'Angelo, Anita Morris. Ten of the world's best- known filmmakers contributed to this compilation film, each fashioning a short film inspired by an aria from a famous opera. The approaches vary broadly, from the playful abstraction of Jean- Luc Godard's segment, which illustrated Armide with exercising body- builders, to the more literal approach of Franc Roddam, who transports Tristan and Isolde's story to modern- day Las Vegas. A particular stand- out is Julian Temple's take on Rigoletto, which recasts Verdi as the accompaniment to a contemporary Southern California sex farce. Arias sung in Italian, French and German. DVD 3. 31. 0Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database. Art of the Short Film Contents: Inja / writer, director, Steve Pasvolsky; producer, Joe Weatherstone (1. Sangam / written, directed and edited by Prashant Bhargava; producer, Mark Mann (2. Mt. Head / script, Shoji Yonemura; direction, design & edit, Koji Yamamura (1. Das Rad / buch und regie, Chris Stenner, Heidi Wittlinger; producer, Georg Gruber (9 min.) - - The first three lives of Stuart Hornsley / produced by Sarah Shun- lien Bynum, Ross Martin, Daphne Mc. Williams; screenplay by Sarah Shun- lien Bynum & Leigh Dana Jackson; directed by Leigh Dana Jackson (2. Death dealer : a documentary / written & directed by Andy Watts (1. Makambi, Danny Keogh, Terry Thornton, Mantoa Mamputa, Nomasomi Fini, Kukule Salman; Sangam: Hesh Sarmalkar, Sanjay Chanai; Mt. Head: Takeharu Kunimoto; Das Rad: Ranier Basedow, Michael Hobek; The first three lives of Suart Hornsley: Tunde Adebimpe, Siho Ellsmore, Lora Goldman, Isaac Bloch; Deathdealer : a documentary: Henry Rollins, Jeanette Miller, Kevin Gibbons, Hattie Winston. Head: An animated fantasy about a man who eats some cherry seeds and ends up with a cherry tree growing out of his head. Das Rad: An animated film about two rocks who have stood atop the same hilltop for centuries, discussing the activities of the human beings below them. The first three lives of Stuart Hornsley: Tells the story of an abstracted physicist who, having missed out on a chance at true love because of his dedication to science, builds a time travel device to enable him to change the course of his life. Cast: Francisco Ernesto Garcia, Marco Antonio Muro Garcia, Risa Mara Machuca, Aldo Maclaren. A surf board, a pair of shorts and a back pack are all they carry as the journey ahead leads them off the main roads to the open ocean. Presented at the International Latino Film Festival held in the San Francisco Bay Area. They both know what the real deal is.. Cast: Thomas Baptiste, Cleo Sylvestre, John Wilson. In his fantasies, the paintings on the walls of his museums, including Francois Biard's Scene on the Coast of Africa, are transformed into very erotic images of men being bound and whipped. Chronicles porno director Arturo Domingo as he records the commentary track for DVD release, 'Requiem for a Wet Dream.' Filmed entirely in a Los Angeles sound studio, this is a behind- the- scenes glimpse into the mind and creative process of a director. When Rebecca, a little girl, is tripped by her older brother David (Bedhead) because she tried ramming him when her doll was vandalized, she lands on her skull and psychic powers are unleashed. She begins torturing David.. Included on DVD 3. The Berlin Wall. Directed by Paul Cotter A 7. Berlin Wall. DVD X4. Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database. Written by Charles Nastat, it features Jacques Marin, Viviane Bourdonneux and Martin Serre. Cast: Finn Atkins, John Langford, Ann Farrar, Luke Gell, Keiran Francis. The film contrasts ideas of perspective, both real and imagined, through the recurring motif of a diving board - - limiting and precarious. DVD 6. 32. 6Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database. Bill & Gaby (2. Directed by Robertson Tirado. Cast: Richard Marson, Nina Michael. DVD X7. 04. 2. Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database. Un bisou pour le monde(France, 2. Director, Cyril Paris. In this short film a primary school teacher shows her pupils some daily newspapers. As one of the students wants to look at the copy of Le Monde more carefully, he tears it into pieces. The teacher makes him tape the pieces back together, but the student's choices for where the pieces should go has a surprising effect on . Nemec's diploma film from the Prague Film Academy. The film is a hallucinatory moment, virtually without dialogue and handles one man's feverish attempt to steal a loaf of bread from a Nazi- guarded train. In Czech with German subtitles. The wurdalak: A returning patriarch to an Eastern European family may be a Wurdalak- -a vampire who thirsts for the blood of his loved ones. A drop of water: A nurse steals a diamond ring from the finger of a dead clairvoyant, and is haunted that night by the woman's ghost. DVD 7. 57. 5Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database. Mario Bava bibliography. Horror Films. David Cronenberg's Unique Brand of 'Body' Horror: Subversive. Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg, known for disturbing sexual and 'body'. Shivers (1. 97. 5, Can.) (aka They Came From Within/The Parasite Murders) about a group of Montreal high- rise apartment occupants at Starliner Island on a permissive sex and violence. AIDS virus. One of the occupants (scream queen Barbara Steele) passed on the parasite with a lesbian kiss. His next notable film, his fourth film, was Rabid. Rage) starring ex- porn film star Marilyn Chambers (the ex . Skin grafts produced an orifice in her armpit with a phallic needle- like stinger that needed to consume blood, causing her victims to become rabid and infected with plague. Scanners. (1. 98. Other exceptional films from Cronenberg in the 8. The Dead Zone (1. Stephen King's novel. Videodrome (1. 98. TV signal. The Fly (1. Jeff Goldblum. and Geena Davis - an effective re- make of the 1. Dead Ringers. (1. Cronenberg's. most successful film, featuring two Jeremy Irons and gynecological instruments. Naked Lunch (1. 99. William Burrough's surrealistic drug trip the slickly original Crash (1. Xisten. Z (1. 99. Recently, he directed A History of Violence (2. Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) - it featured William Hurt's frightening, unsettling Oscar- nominated 1. Richie Cusack. Wes Craven: Wes. Craven also began his career in violent horror films in the 7. The Last House on the. Left (1. 97. 2) (a re- tooling of Ingmar. Bergman's The Virgin Spring (1. The Hills Have Eyes. His. two most famous films were teens- in- terror slasher flicks that spurred. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1. Freddy. Krueger (Robert Englund), a re- incarnated, sadistic child molester and serial killer. The premise was that the children of his persecutors - - grown- up teens (Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, and Johnny Depp in his feature film debut, among others) who fell asleep would experience the nightmare of Freddy's returning presence, who had emerged from Hell to haunt them the surprising horror hit- spoof Scream (1. It rejuvenated. the slasher film in subsequent years by self- reflectively honoring. Grim Reaper. The film opened with the death of Casey Becker. Drew Barrymore) when she failed to correctly answer a trivia question. Friday the 1. 3th (1. A second terrorized teen. Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), a year after her mother's. Sidney's. psychotic boyfriend Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich) and his flunky. Stuart . The total domestic gross. Scream series (1. Scream 2 (1. 99. 7) - grossing $1. In the film, Sidney went away to Windsor. College in Cincinnati with long- time friend Randy (Jamie Kennedy). Mrs. Loomis, Billy's mother (Laurie Metcalf). Mickey (Timothy Olyphant). Loomis'. motive for attempting to kill Sidney and her friends was revenge. Sidney killing her son in the first film. Sidney survived. by the film's end, while both Mrs. Loomis and Mickey were shot. Scream 3 (2. 00. 0) - grossing $8. The traumatized Sidney was working in California as a hotline crisis intervention. She learned that she had a long- lost half- brother named Roman. Bridger (Scott Foley), her mother Maureen's (Lynn Mc. Ree) son from a previous. Maureen had met but abandoned. Roman was the director of the. Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro, being. Los Angeles, and characters were being murdered. Roman admitted. that he was ultimately responsible for all the murders in the previous films. Billy about his father's affair with Sidney's mother. Nightmare on Elm Street's (from 1. The films in the Nightmare on Elm Street series. In Red Eye (2. 00. Craven. added to his horror repertoire this psychological thriller set on. Miami, with Rachel Mc. Adams. as the terrified passenger Lisa Reisert taken 'hostage' by stranger/passenger. Jackson Rippner (Cillian Murphy). Blaxploitation Horror Films: The first of the so- called exploitative 'blaxploitation' films. African- American casts, music and themes) was Melvin Van. Peebles' controversial independent film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. It jump- started a whole series of similar films about black private. As the movement progressed, it merged with. William Crain's Blacula (1. William Marshall as the accursed African. LA as a vampire; and its sequel Scream, Blacula. Scream! Hyde (1. 97. Abar, the First Black Superman (1. The Six Thousand Dollar Nigger (1. Later blaxploitation films in the 9. Def by Temptation (1. Clive Barker's The Forbidden about a hook- handed murderer summoned by speaking . Most of these sequels or imitators were exploitative and featured. Many of these films told tales of. Friday. the 1. 3th (1. It ripped off more original films of the 7. Mario Bava's definitive R- rated slasher/gore film A. Bay of Blood (1. 97. It.)) with tales of terrorized. It also inspired a TV series and several. Jason Voorhees, like the psychopathic Freddy Krueger. Nightmare on Elm. Street series, became a landmark name, although the machete- wielding. Jason, but his vengeful mother. Pamela (Betsy Palmer). She was seeking revenge for the drowning of. Crystal Lake when sexually- promiscuous. Although Pamela was beheaded in the film's climax. Various locales for. Camp Crystal Lake, to. Manhattan, to outer space in Jason X (2. Child's Play (1. 98. It was followed by two generic horror sequels in. Bride of Chucky (1. Tiffany (voice of Jennifer Tilly) to. The fifth film in the series, Seed. Chucky (2. 00. 4), directed by series screenwriter Don Mancini. Scream. (1. 99. 6), featuring numerous in- jokes (the gender- confused child. Chucky and Tiffany was named Glen/Glenda, a reference. Ed Wood film; and Jennifer Tilly played herself, making references. Bound (1. 99. 6) (with co- star Gina Gershon. Fantasy Author H. P. Lovecraft and His Horror Tales: Stuart Gordon's gory, cult- classic comedy about re- animated. Re- Animator (1. 98. H. P. Lovecraft serial. Herbert West - Reanimator. The twisted film was shot in only a little over two weeks, and told the outrageous tale of a demented medical student named Dr. Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) who was experimenting on regenerating dead bodies. After experiments on a dead cat with a reanimating, luminous green serum, the research went awry as West's megalomaniac teacher Dr. Carl Hill (David Gale) was reduced to a severed head on a platter and he attempted to perform oral sex on a screaming and naked Megan Halsey (Barbara Crampton) amidst a scene of lobotomized zombies stumbling around in a morgue - the film's most controversial scene. The original film was followed by. Jeffrey Combs: The Bride of Animator (1. Brian Yuzna. Beyond Re- Animator (2. Brian Yuzna. Another Lovecraft short story, From Beyond, was the. Gordon/Yuzna collaboration, appropriately titled From. Beyond (1. 98. 6) - with the tagline . Many films have. either been based upon or inspired by H. P. Lovecraft tales, such as the following: The Haunted Palace (1. The Case of. Charles Dexter Ward, from director Roger Corman - one of his ! The low- budget, cult horror series was composed of the following trilogy of films: The Evil. Dead (1. 98. 1) - a gorefest about a remote Tennessee backwoods cabin possessed by evil spirits (after the discovery of the book of the dead, the Necronomicon), and haunting five college students by turning them into zombies. Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1. Army of Darkness (1. Raimi's more mainstream film Darkman (1. Invisible Man, the Wolf Man, and the. Phantom of the Opera) and featured Liam Neeson as the tortured, vengeful. Peyton . He also directed the major. Spider- Man (2. 00. Spider- Man/Peter. Parker (Tobey Maguire) battling his evil nemesis, the Green Goblin/Norman. Osborn (Willem Dafoe). Director Raimi's sequels were equally successful both. Spider- Man 2 (2. Dr. Octopus (Alfred Molina), and Spider- Man 3 (2. Tim Burton: Tim Burton contributed his unique and original vision to the. Beetlejuice (1. 98. Batman films (the blockbuster original Batman. Batman Returns (1. Edward Scissorhands (1. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1. Christmas. by Jack Skellington. Burton's biographical horror film Ed Wood (1. Bela Lugosi (played by Oscar- winning Martin. Landau), and his light- hearted, campy, escapist satire about Martian invaders. Mars Attacks! The famed director also retold and updated the. Washington Irving legendary fable of The Headless Horseman in his Sleepy. Hollow (1. 99. 9) with Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane. Remakes of Classic Vampire, Wolfman, and Frankenstein. Films in the 8. 0s and Beyond: Classic. Wolfman, Dracula/Vampire, and Frankenstein films were also resurrected and. A few of the. more accomplished but cliched horror films involving werewolves included John. Landis' An American Werewolf in London (1. An American. Werewolf in Paris (1. Paris), Joe Dante's horror/comedy The Howling (1. Mike Nichols' Wolf (1. Jack. Nicholson as the afflicted individual, and the R- rated The Wolf Man (2. Benicio del Toro as Lawrence Talbot/The Wolf Man and Anthony Hopkins as Sir John Talbot - these films featured stunning metamorphosis. Other recent werewolf films included: Michael Wadleigh's classic werewolf. Wolfen (1. 98. 1),Neil Jordan's fairy tale- monster film The. Company of Wolves (1. Silver Bullet (1. Stephen. King's Cycle of the Werewolf, the spoof Teen Wolf (1. Back to the Future's Michael J. Fox - and its sequel Teen Wolf Too. In the early 8. 0s, Tony Scott filmed the glossy. The Hunger (1. 98. Catherine Deneuve. Susan Sarandon. The campy teen/horror spoof Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Kristy Swanson as the improbable cheerleader and Valley Girl. LA vampires. The popular TV series of the same. Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar). Sunnydale, conveniently. Hellmouth. Writer/director Stephen Sommers resurrected The Mummy as a. Mummy films, starring Brendan Fraser as the character. Rick O'Connell - a take- off on Indiana Jones, with a pretty. Egyptologist archaeologist Evelyn Carnahan (Rachel Weisz), and the 3,0. Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo): The Mummy (1. The Mummy Returns (2. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2. Rob Cohen (but produced by franchise founder Stephen Sommers), focused on the resurrected terra cotta . The Matrix - Wikipedia. The Matrix is a 1. The Wachowskis, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie- Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano. It depicts a dystopian future in which reality as perceived by most humans is actually a simulated reality called . The film is an example of the cyberpunk science fiction genre. It was generally well- received by critics. Reviewers praised The Matrix for its innovative visual effects, cinematography and entertainment value. The film's premise was both criticized for being derivative of earlier science fiction works and praised for being intriguing. The action also polarized critics, some describing it as impressive, but others dismissing it as a trite distraction from an interesting premise. The film has since appeared in lists of the greatest science fiction films. The Matrix franchise was further expanded through the production of comic books, video games and animated short films, in which the Wachowskis were heavily involved. Trinity, an infamous hacker, is cornered by police in an abandoned hotel. She overpowers them with superhuman abilities, but a group of sinister superhuman black- suited Agents lead the police in a rooftop pursuit. She answers a ringing public telephone and vanishes. Thomas Anderson is a computer programmer living a double life under the hacker alias . He believes something is wrong with the world and is puzzled by repeated online encounters with the cryptic phrase . Trinity contacts him, saying that a man named Morpheus can explain its meaning; however, the Agents, led by Agent Smith, apprehend Neo at his office. Undeterred, Neo meets Morpheus, who offers him a choice between a red pill that will allow him to learn the truth about the Matrix, and a blue pill that will return him to his old life. Swallowing the red pill, Neo's reality disintegrates and he awakens, naked and weak, in a liquid- filled pod, one of countless people connected by cables to an elaborate electrical system. He is rescued and brought aboard Morpheus's hovercraft, the Nebuchadnezzar. Morpheus explains that, in the 2. When humans blocked the machines' access to solar energy, the machines began to harvest the humans' bioelectricity for power. The Matrix is a shared simulation of the world as it was in 1. Neo has lived in it since birth. Morpheus and his crew belong to a group of rebels who hack into the Matrix and . The rebels' understanding of the simulated reality allows them to bend its physical laws, granting them superhuman abilities. Morpheus warns Neo that fatal injuries within the Matrix also kill one's physical body, and that the Agents are powerful sentient programs that eliminate threats to the system. Neo's skill during virtual combat training lends credence to Morpheus's belief that Neo is . She implies that Neo is not the One and warns Neo that he will soon have to choose between his life and the life of Morpheus. Before they can leave the Matrix, the group is ambushed by Agents and tactical police. Morpheus allows himself to be captured so that Neo and the rest of the crew can escape. However, their getaway is hindered by Cypher, a crew member who betrayed Morpheus to Agent Smith in exchange for a comfortable life within the Matrix. Cypher disconnects from the Matrix and murders several crew members as they lie defenseless in the real world. He prepares to disconnect Neo and Trinity as well, but is killed by Tank, a crewman whom he had left for dead. In the Matrix, the Agents interrogate Morpheus in an attempt to learn his access codes to the mainframe computer in Zion, the rebel humans' last refuge in the real world. Tank proposes killing Morpheus to prevent this, but Neo, who believes that he is not the One, resolves to return to the Matrix to rescue Morpheus; Trinity insists on accompanying him. They succeed in rescuing Morpheus, and, in doing so, Neo gains confidence in his abilities, performing feats on par with those of the Agents. Morpheus and Trinity exit the Matrix, but Smith thwarts Neo's escape. Now more sure of himself, Neo fights Smith as a near equal and is able to defeat him, but Smith's nature as an Agent allows him to survive. Neo flees the converging Agents and locates an exit in an apartment but is fatally shot by Smith. In the real world, machines attack the Nebuchadnezzar, while Trinity whispers to Neo that the Oracle told her that she would fall in love with the One. She kisses Neo, and he revives, this time with the power to perceive and control the Matrix. He effortlessly defeats Smith and leaves the Matrix in time for the ship's electromagnetic pulse weapon to disable the attacking sentinels. Some time later, Neo makes a telephone call in the Matrix, promising the machines that he will show their prisoners . He hangs up and flies into the sky. Keanu Reeves as Thomas A. Anderson / Neo: A computer programmer in Metacortex corporation who moonlights as a hacker. Reeves described his character as someone who felt that something was wrong, and was searching for Morpheus and the truth to break free. When both declined, the studio pushed for Reeves, who won the role over Johnny Depp, the Wachowskis' first choice. Fishburne stated that once he read the script, he did not understand why other people found it confusing. However, he had a doubt if the movie would ever be made, because it was . Jackson, and Chow Yun- fat were also considered for the part. After reading the script, Moss stated that at first, she did not believe she had to do the extreme acrobatic actions as described in the script. She also doubted how the Wachowskis would get to direct a movie with a budget so large, but after spending an hour with them going through the storyboard, she understood why some people would trust them. Unlike other agents, he has ambitions to free himself from his duties. Weaving stated that the character was enjoyable to play because it amused him. He developed a neutral accent but with more specific character for the role. He wanted Smith to sound neither robotic nor human, and also said that the Wachowskis' deep voices had influenced his voice in the film. When filming began, Weaving mentioned that he was excited to be a part of something that would extend him. Pantoliano had worked with the Wachowskis prior to appearing in The Matrix, starring in their 1. Bound. Gloria Foster as the Oracle: A prophet who still resides in the Matrix, helping the freed humans with her foresight and wisdom and to figure out who is The One. Marcus Chong as Tank: The . He is Tank's brother, and like him was born outside the Matrix. Matt Doran as Mouse: A freed human and programmer on the Nebuchadnezzar. Ada Nicodemou as Du. Jour (The White Rabbit Girl), a reference to the White Rabbit in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Production. After Lorenzo di Bonaventura, the president of production of the company at the time, read the script, he decided to buy rights to it and included two more pictures, Bound and The Matrix, in the contract. The first movie the Wachowskis directed, Bound, then became a critical success. Using this momentum, the siblings later asked to direct The Matrix. Although the project had key supporters like Silver and Di Bonaventura to influence the company, The Matrix was still a huge investment for Warner Bros, which had to invest $6. To prepare for the wire fu, the actors had to train hard for several months. Yuen was optimistic but then began to worry when he realized how unfit the actors were. He built on Reeves' diligence, Fishburne's resilience, Weaving's precision, and Moss's feminine grace. He was still recovering by the time of pre- production, but he insisted on training, so Yuen let him practice punches and lighter moves. Reeves trained hard and even requested training on days off. However, the surgery still made him unable to kick for two out of four months of training. As a result, Reeves did not kick much in the film. This code uses a custom typeface designed by Simon Whiteley. The code received the Runner- up Award in the 1. Jesse Garson Award for In- film typography or opening credit sequence. The production design team generally placed a bias towards the Matrix code's distinctive green color in scenes set within the simulation, whereas there is an emphasis on the color blue during scenes set in the . In addition, the Matrix scenes' sets were slightly more decayed, monolithic, and grid- like, to convey the cold, logical and artificial nature of that environment. The wires were made visible to show the ship's working internals, and each composition was carefully designed to convey the ship as . During the testing of a breathing mechanism in the pod, the tester suffered hypothermia in under eight minutes, so the pod had to be heated. The actors needed to perform martial art actions in their costume, hang upside- down without people seeing up their clothing, and be able to work the wires while strapped into the harnesses. The filming helped establish New South Wales as a major film production center. As a result, the filming began with scenes that did not require much physical exertion. She stated that she was under a lot of pressure at the time and was devastated when she realized that she would be unable to do it. During the filming of these action sequences, there was significant physical contact between the actors, earning them bruises. Because of Reeves's injury and his insufficient training with wires prior to the filming, he was unable to perform the triple kicks satisfactorily and became frustrated with himself, causing the scene to be postponed. The scene was shot successfully a few days later, with Reeves using only three takes. Yuen altered the choreography and made the actors pull their punches in the last sequence of the scene, creating a training feel. The set was built around an existing train storage facility, which had real train tracks.
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