The original script of the matrix. Screenplay for The Matrix
Remember, when the second and third "Matrix" began to come out, many said that it was no longer that everything had slipped into special effects and "Hollywood", the holistic plot and the philosophical beginning of the film, which could be traced back in the first part, disappeared. Did you have such thoughts? And I just discovered today that some original script of The Matrix is circulating on the net. Most likely, it appeared from the fan resource http://lozhki.net/, there are a lot of English-language scripts and film materials posted there.
But it cannot be ruled out that this is just a fan fantasy. If anyone has more accurate information on this, please share. And you and I will read what the real "Matrix" of the Wachowski brothers was supposed to be (well, or who did not know the sister and brother of the Wachowskis).
The Wachowski brothers wrote the script for the Matrix trilogy for five years, but the producers reworked their work. In the real "Matrix", the Architect tells Neo that both he and Zion are part of the Matrix in order to give people the appearance of freedom. A man cannot defeat a machine, and the end of the world cannot be corrected.
The script for The Matrix was written by the Wachowski brothers over the course of five years. He gave birth to a whole illusory world, densely permeated with several storylines at once, from time to time intricately intertwined with each other. Adapting their colossal work for film adaptation, the Wachowskis changed so much that, by their own admission, the embodiment of their plans turned out to be only a “fantasy based on” the story that was invented at the very beginning.
The harsh ending was removed from the script by producer Joel Silver. The fact is that from the very beginning, the Wachowskis conceived their trilogy as a film with the saddest and hopeless end.
So, the original script for The Matrix.
First of all, it is worth mentioning that the script sketches and different versions of the same film, being rejected, were not further developed, so much remained uncoordinated into a coherent system. So, in the "sad" version of the trilogy, the events of the second and third parts are pretty much curtailed. At the same time, in the third, final part, the deployment of such a severe intrigue begins that it practically turns all the events that took place earlier in the story upside down. In the same way, the ending of Shyamalan's "The Sixth Sense" completely shakes up all the events of the film from the very beginning. Only in The Matrix, the viewer had to look at almost the entire trilogy with new eyes. And it's a pity that Joel Silver insisted on a implemented version
Six months have passed since the end of the events of the first film. Neo, being in the real world, discovers in himself an incredible ability to influence the environment: first, he lifts into the air and bends a spoon lying on the table, then determines the position of the hunting machines outside of Zion, then, in a battle with the Octopuses, destroys one of them with the power of thought in front of the shocked crew of the ship.
Neo and everyone around him cannot find an explanation for this phenomenon. Neo is sure that there is a good reason for this, and that his gift is somehow connected with the war against machines, and is able to have a decisive impact on the fate of people (the film also has this ability, but it is not explained at all, and it is not even particularly focused on it - maybe that's all. Although, on common sense, Neo's ability to perform miracles in the real world makes absolutely no sense in the light of the whole concept of The Matrix, and looks just strange).
So, Neo goes to Pythia to get an answer to his question and find out what to do next. Pythia replies to Neo that she does not know why he has superpowers in the real world, and how they are related to Neo's Destiny. She says that only the Architect, the supreme program that created the Matrix, can reveal the secret of our hero's Destiny. Neo is looking for a way to meet the Architect, going through incredible difficulties (here, the already known Master of Keys in captivity at the Merovingian, the chase on the highway, etc. are involved).
And so Neo meets the Architect. He reveals to him that the human city of Zion has been destroyed five times already, and that the unique Neo was deliberately created by machines in order to personify the hope of liberation for people, and thus keep calm in the Matrix and serve its stability. But when Neo asks the Architect what role his superpowers manifest in the real world play in all this, the Architect says that the answer to this question can never be given, for it will lead to knowledge that will destroy everything that Neo's friends and himself fought for.
After a conversation with the Architect, Neo realizes that some secret is hidden here, the solution of which can bring the long-awaited end to the war between people and machines. His abilities are getting stronger. (There are several scenes in the script with Neo's impressive fights with machines in the real world, in which he developed into a superman, and can do almost the same as in the Matrix: fly, stop bullets, etc.).
In Zion, it becomes known that the machines began to move towards the city of people in order to kill all those who left the Matrix, and the entire population of the city sees hope for salvation in Neo alone, who does really grandiose things - in particular, he gets the ability to arrange powerful explosions where he wants.
Meanwhile, Agent Smith, who has gone out of control of the main computer, has become free and has gained the ability to endlessly copy himself, and begins to threaten the Matrix itself. Having settled in Bane, Smith also penetrates into the real world.
Neo seeks a new meeting with the Architect to offer him a deal: he destroys Agent Smith by destroying his code, and the Architect reveals to Neo the secret of his superpowers in the real world and stops the movement of machines on Zion. But the room in the skyscraper where Neo met with the Architect is empty: the creator of the Matrix has changed his address, and now no one knows how to find him.
Toward the middle of the film, a total collapse occurs: there are more Smith agents in the Matrix than people and the process of their self-copying grows like an avalanche, in the real world, machines penetrate Zion, and in a colossal battle they destroy all people except for a handful of survivors, led by Neo, who, despite his superpowers, cannot stop thousands of machines rushing into the city.
Morpheus and Trinity die next to Neo, heroically defending Zion. Neo, in terrible desperation, increases his strength to absolutely incredible proportions, breaks through to the only surviving ship (Morpheus's Nebuchadnezzar), and leaves Zion, getting to the surface. He heads to the main computer to destroy it, avenging the deaths of the inhabitants of Zeon, and especially the deaths of Morpheus and Trinity.
Bain-Smith is hiding aboard the Nebuchadnezzar, trying to stop Neo from destroying the Matrix, as he realizes that he himself will die in the process. In an epic fight with Neo, Bane also manifests superpowers, burning Neo's eyes out, but eventually dies. This is followed by a scene in which a blinded, but still seeing Neo through a myriad of enemies breaks through to the Center and causes a grandiose explosion there. It literally incinerates not only the Central Computer, but also itself. Millions of capsules with people turn off, the glow in them disappears, the cars freeze forever and the viewer is presented with a dead, deserted planet.
Bright light. Neo, completely uninjured, with no wounds and with whole eyes, wakes up sitting in the red chair of Morpheus from the first part of the Matrix in a completely white space. He sees the Architect in front of him. The architect tells Neo that he is amazed at what a person is capable of in the name of love. He says that he did not take into account the power that instills in a person when he is ready to sacrifice his life for the sake of other people. He says that machines are not capable of this, and therefore they can lose, even if it seems unthinkable. He says that Neo is the only Chosen One who "could get this far".
Neo asks where he is. In the Matrix, the Architect answers. The perfection of the Matrix lies, among other things, in the fact that it does not allow unforeseen events to cause even the slightest damage to it. The Architect informs Neo that they are now at "zero point" after the reboot of the Matrix, at the very beginning of its Seventh Version.
Neo doesn't understand. He says that he just destroyed the Central Computer, that the Matrix is no more, like all of humanity. The architect laughs and tells Neo something that shocks not only him, but the entire auditorium to the core.
Zion is part of the Matrix. In order to create for people the appearance of freedom, in order to give them the Choice, without which a person cannot exist, the Architect invented a reality within reality. And Zion, and the whole war with machines, and Agent Smith, and in general everything that happened from the very beginning of the trilogy, was planned in advance and is nothing more than a dream. The war was only a red herring, but in fact, everyone who died in Zion, fought against machines, and fought inside the Matrix, continues to lie in their capsules in pink syrup, they are alive and waiting for a new reboot of the system in order to start “living”, “fighting” and “freeing” in it again. And in this coherent system, Neo - after his "rebirth" - will be assigned the same role as in all previous versions of the Matrix: to inspire people to fight, which does not exist.
No human has ever left the Matrix since its inception. No man has ever died except according to the plan of the machines. All people are slaves and that will never change.
The camera shows the characters of the film lying in their capsules in different corners of the “nurseries”: here is Morpheus, here is Trinity, here is Captain Mifune, who died a heroic death in Zion, and many, many others. All of them are hairless, dystrophic and entangled in hoses. Neo is shown last, looking exactly like he did in the first movie when he was "liberated" by Morpheus. Neo's face is serene.
Here's how your superpower is explained in "reality," says the Architect. This also explains the existence of Zion, which people "could never build the way you see it" due to lack of resources. And, laughs the Architect, would we really allow people freed from the Matrix to hide in Zion, if we always had the opportunity to either kill them or reconnect them to the Matrix? And did we have to wait decades to destroy Zion, even if it existed? You underestimate us, Mr. Anderson, says the Architect.
Neo, looking straight ahead with a dead face, tries to comprehend what has happened, and takes one last look at the Architect, who says goodbye to him: "In the Seventh Version of the Matrix, Love will rule the world."
The alarm sounds. Neo wakes up and turns it off. The last frame of the film: Neo in a business suit leaves the house, and quickly goes to work, dissolving into the crowd. The end credits roll to heavy music.
Not only does this script look more coherent and understandable, not only does it really brilliantly explain the plot holes that were left unexplained in the film adaptation, it also fits much better into the dark style of cyberpunk than the “hopeful” end of the trilogy we saw. This is not just Dystopia, but Dystopia at its most brutal: the end of the world is behind us, and nothing can be fixed.
But the producers insisted on a happy ending, albeit not a particularly joyful one, and their condition was the mandatory inclusion in the picture of the epic confrontation between Neo and his antipode Smith as a kind of biblical analogue of the battle between Good and Evil. As a result, a rather sophisticated philosophical parable of the first part degenerated into a set of virtuoso special effects without a particularly deep thought.
May 11th, 2015Remember, when the second and third "Matrix" began to come out, many said that it was no longer that everything had slipped into special effects and "Hollywood", the holistic plot and the philosophical beginning of the film, which could be traced back in the first part, disappeared. Did you have such thoughts? And I just discovered today that some original script of The Matrix is circulating on the net. Most likely, it appeared from the fan resource http://lozhki.net/, there are a lot of English-language scripts and film materials posted there.
But it cannot be ruled out that this is just a fan fantasy. If anyone has more accurate information on this, please share. And you and I will read what the real "Matrix" of the Wachowski brothers was supposed to be (well, or who did not know the sister and brother of the Wachowskis).
The Wachowski brothers wrote the script for the Matrix trilogy for five years, but the producers reworked their work. In the real "Matrix", the Architect tells Neo that both he and Zion are part of the Matrix in order to give people the appearance of freedom. A man cannot defeat a machine, and the end of the world cannot be corrected.
The script for The Matrix was written by the Wachowski brothers over the course of five years. He gave birth to a whole illusory world, densely permeated with several storylines at once, from time to time intricately intertwined with each other. Adapting their colossal work for film adaptation, the Wachowskis changed so much that, by their own admission, the embodiment of their plans turned out to be only a “fantasy based on” the story that was invented at the very beginning.
The harsh ending was removed from the script by producer Joel Silver. The fact is that from the very beginning, the Wachowskis conceived their trilogy as a film with the saddest and hopeless end.
So, the original script for The Matrix.
First of all, it is worth mentioning that the script sketches and different versions of the same film, being rejected, were not further developed, so much remained uncoordinated into a coherent system. So, in the "sad" version of the trilogy, the events of the second and third parts are pretty much curtailed. At the same time, in the third, final part, the deployment of such a severe intrigue begins that it practically turns all the events that took place earlier in the story upside down. In the same way, the ending of Shyamalan's "The Sixth Sense" completely shakes up all the events of the film from the very beginning. Only in The Matrix, the viewer had to look at almost the entire trilogy with new eyes. And it's a pity that Joel Silver insisted on a implemented version
Six months have passed since the end of the events of the first film. Neo, being in the real world, discovers in himself an incredible ability to influence the environment: first, he lifts into the air and bends a spoon lying on the table, then determines the position of the hunting machines outside of Zion, then, in a battle with the Octopuses, destroys one of them with the power of thought in front of the shocked crew of the ship.
Neo and everyone around him cannot find an explanation for this phenomenon. Neo is sure that there is a good reason for this, and that his gift is somehow connected with the war against machines, and is able to have a decisive impact on the fate of people (in the film, this ability is also there, but it is not explained at all, and it is not even particularly focused on it - maybe that's all. Although, on common sense, Neo's ability to perform miracles in the real world makes absolutely no sense in the light of the whole concept of The Matrix, and looks just strange).
So, Neo goes to Pythia to get an answer to his question and find out what to do next. Pythia replies to Neo that she does not know why he has superpowers in the real world, and how they are related to Neo's Destiny. She says that only the Architect, the supreme program that created the Matrix, can reveal the secret of our hero's Destiny. Neo is looking for a way to meet the Architect, going through incredible difficulties (here, the already known Master of Keys in captivity at the Merovingian, the chase on the highway, etc. are involved).
And so Neo meets the Architect. He reveals to him that the human city of Zion has been destroyed five times already, and that the unique Neo was deliberately created by machines in order to personify the hope of liberation for people, and thus keep calm in the Matrix and serve its stability. But when Neo asks the Architect what role his superpowers manifest in the real world play in all this, the Architect says that the answer to this question can never be given, for it will lead to knowledge that will destroy everything that Neo's friends and himself fought for.
After a conversation with the Architect, Neo realizes that some secret is hidden here, the solution of which can bring the long-awaited end to the war between people and machines. His abilities are getting stronger. (There are several scenes in the script with Neo's impressive fights with machines in the real world, in which he developed into a superman, and can do almost the same as in the Matrix: fly, stop bullets, etc.).
In Zion, it becomes known that the machines began to move towards the city of people in order to kill all those who left the Matrix, and the entire population of the city sees hope for salvation in Neo alone, who does really grandiose things - in particular, he gets the ability to arrange powerful explosions where he wants.
Meanwhile, Agent Smith, who has gone out of control of the main computer, has become free and has gained the ability to endlessly copy himself, and begins to threaten the Matrix itself. Having settled in Bane, Smith also penetrates into the real world.
Neo seeks a new meeting with the Architect to offer him a deal: he destroys Agent Smith by destroying his code, and the Architect reveals to Neo the secret of his superpowers in the real world and stops the movement of machines on Zion. But the room in the skyscraper where Neo met with the Architect is empty: the creator of the Matrix has changed his address, and now no one knows how to find him.
Toward the middle of the film, a total collapse occurs: there are more Smith agents in the Matrix than people and the process of their self-copying grows like an avalanche, in the real world, machines penetrate Zion, and in a colossal battle they destroy all people except for a handful of survivors, led by Neo, who, despite his superpowers, cannot stop thousands of machines rushing into the city.
Morpheus and Trinity die next to Neo, heroically defending Zion. Neo, in terrible desperation, increases his strength to absolutely incredible proportions, breaks through to the only surviving ship (Morpheus's Nebuchadnezzar), and leaves Zion, getting to the surface. He goes to the main computer to destroy it, avenging the deaths of the inhabitants of Zeon, and especially the deaths of Morpheus and Trinity.
Bain-Smith is hiding aboard the Nebuchadnezzar, trying to stop Neo from destroying the Matrix, as he realizes that he himself will die in the process. In an epic fight with Neo, Bane also manifests superpowers, burning Neo's eyes out, but eventually dies. This is followed by a scene in which a blinded, but still seeing Neo through a myriad of enemies breaks through to the Center and causes a grandiose explosion there. It literally incinerates not only the Central Computer, but also itself. Millions of capsules with people turn off, the glow in them disappears, the cars freeze forever and the viewer is presented with a dead, deserted planet.
Bright light. Neo, completely uninjured, with no wounds and with whole eyes, wakes up sitting in the red chair of Morpheus from the first part of the Matrix in a completely white space. He sees the Architect in front of him. The architect tells Neo that he is amazed at what a person is capable of in the name of love. He says that he did not take into account the power that instills in a person when he is ready to sacrifice his life for the sake of other people. He says that machines are not capable of this, and therefore they can lose, even if it seems unthinkable. He says that Neo is the only Chosen One who "could get this far".
Neo asks where he is. In the Matrix, the Architect answers. The perfection of the Matrix lies, among other things, in the fact that it does not allow unforeseen events to cause even the slightest damage to it. The Architect informs Neo that they are now at "zero point" after the reboot of the Matrix, at the very beginning of its Seventh Version.
Neo doesn't understand. He says that he just destroyed the Central Computer, that the Matrix is no more, like all of humanity. The architect laughs and tells Neo something that shocks not only him, but the entire auditorium to the core.
Zion is part of the Matrix. In order to create for people the appearance of freedom, in order to give them the Choice, without which a person cannot exist, the Architect invented a reality within reality. And Zion, and the whole war with machines, and Agent Smith, and in general everything that happened from the very beginning of the trilogy, was planned in advance and is nothing more than a dream. The war was only a red herring, but in fact, everyone who died in Zion, fought against machines, and fought inside the Matrix, continues to lie in their capsules in pink syrup, they are alive and waiting for a new reboot of the system in order to start “living”, “fighting” and “freeing” in it again. And in this coherent system, Neo - after his "rebirth" - will be assigned the same role as in all previous versions of the Matrix: to inspire people to fight, which does not exist.
No human has ever left the Matrix since its inception. No man has ever died except according to the plan of the machines. All people are slaves and that will never change.
The camera shows the characters of the film lying in their capsules in different corners of the “nurseries”: here is Morpheus, here is Trinity, here is Captain Mifune, who died a heroic death in Zion, and many, many others. All of them are hairless, dystrophic and entangled in hoses. Neo is shown last, looking exactly like he did in the first movie when he was "liberated" by Morpheus. Neo's face is serene.
Here's how your superpower is explained in "reality," says the Architect. This also explains the existence of Zion, which people "could never build the way you see it" due to lack of resources. And, laughs the Architect, would we really allow people freed from the Matrix to hide in Zion, if we always had the opportunity to either kill them or reconnect them to the Matrix? And did we have to wait decades to destroy Zion, even if it existed? You underestimate us, Mr. Anderson, says the Architect.
Neo, looking straight ahead with a dead face, tries to comprehend what has happened, and takes one last look at the Architect, who says goodbye to him: "In the Seventh Version of the Matrix, Love will rule the world."
The alarm sounds. Neo wakes up and turns it off. The last frame of the film: Neo in a business suit leaves the house, and quickly goes to work, dissolving into the crowd. The end credits roll to heavy music.
Not only does this script look more coherent and understandable, not only does it really brilliantly explain the plot holes that were left unexplained in the film adaptation, it also fits much better into the dark style of cyberpunk than the “hopeful” end of the trilogy we saw. This is not just Dystopia, but Dystopia at its most brutal: the end of the world is behind us, and nothing can be fixed.
But the producers insisted on a happy ending, albeit not a particularly joyful one, and their condition was the mandatory inclusion in the picture of the epic confrontation between Neo and his antipode Smith as a kind of biblical analogue of the battle between Good and Evil. As a result, a rather sophisticated philosophical parable of the first part degenerated into a set of virtuoso special effects without a particularly deep thought.
Here you can download original script
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And a little more interesting for you about the cinema: for example, what happenedNow I've finally found answers to those stupid plot holes that plagued me in this trilogy. It's... It's just brilliant! If the film had been embodied on the screen as it was originally intended, the effect of watching The Matrix would have been 10 times stronger. And in terms of the cruelty of the final turn of events, this film would have bypassed even the magnificent Fight Club!
The script for The Matrix was written by the Wachowski brothers over the course of five years. He gave birth to a whole illusory world, densely permeated with several storylines at once, from time to time intricately intertwined with each other. Adapting their colossal work for film adaptation, and yielding to the requirements of producer Joel Silver, the Wachowskis changed so much that, by their own admission, the embodiment of their plans turned out to be only a “fantasy based on the motives” of the story that was invented at the very beginning.
So, the original script for The Matrix.
First of all, it is worth mentioning that the script sketches and different versions of the same film, being rejected, were not further developed, so much remained uncoordinated into a coherent system. So, in the "sad" version of the trilogy, the events of the second and third parts are pretty much curtailed. At the same time, in the third, final part, the deployment of such a severe intrigue begins that it practically turns all the events that took place earlier in the story upside down. In the same way, the ending of Shyamalan's "The Sixth Sense" completely shakes up all the events of the film from the very beginning. Only in The Matrix, the viewer had to look at almost the entire trilogy with new eyes. And it's a pity that Joel Silver insisted on a implemented version
Six months have passed since the end of the events of the first film. Neo, being in the real world, discovers in himself an incredible ability to influence the environment: first, he lifts into the air and bends a spoon lying on the table, then determines the position of the hunting machines outside of Zion, then, in a battle with the Octopuses, destroys one of them with the power of thought in front of the shocked crew of the ship.
Neo and everyone around him cannot find an explanation for this phenomenon. Neo is sure that there is a good reason for this, and that his gift is somehow connected with the war against machines, and is able to have a decisive impact on the fate of people (in the film, this ability is also there, but it is not explained at all, and it is not even particularly focused on it - maybe that's all. Although, on common sense, Neo's ability to perform miracles in the real world makes absolutely no sense in the light of the whole concept of The Matrix, and looks just strange).
So, Neo goes to Pythia to get an answer to his question and find out what to do next. Pythia replies to Neo that she does not know why he has superpowers in the real world, and how they are related to Neo's Destiny. She says that only the Architect, the supreme program that created the Matrix, can reveal the secret of our hero's Destiny. Neo is looking for a way to meet the Architect, going through incredible difficulties (here, the already known Master of Keys in captivity at the Merovingian, the chase on the highway, etc. are involved).
And so Neo meets the Architect. He reveals to him that the human city of Zion has been destroyed five times already, and that the unique Neo was deliberately created by machines in order to personify the hope of liberation for people, and thus keep calm in the Matrix and serve its stability. But when Neo asks the Architect what role his superpowers manifest in the real world play in all this, the Architect says that the answer to this question can never be given, for it will lead to knowledge that will destroy everything that Neo's friends and himself fought for.
After a conversation with the Architect, Neo realizes that some secret is hidden here, the solution of which can bring the long-awaited end to the war between people and machines. His abilities are getting stronger. (There are several scenes in the script with Neo's impressive fights with machines in the real world, in which he developed into a superman, and can do almost the same as in the Matrix: fly, stop bullets, etc.).
In Zion, it becomes known that the machines began to move towards the city of people in order to kill all those who left the Matrix, and the entire population of the city sees hope for salvation in Neo alone, who does really grandiose things - in particular, he gets the ability to arrange powerful explosions where he wants.
Meanwhile, Agent Smith, who has gone out of control of the main computer, has become free and has gained the ability to endlessly copy himself, and begins to threaten the Matrix itself. Having settled in Bane, Smith also penetrates into the real world.
Neo seeks a new meeting with the Architect to offer him a deal: he destroys Agent Smith by destroying his code, and the Architect reveals to Neo the secret of his superpowers in the real world and stops the movement of machines on Zion. But the room in the skyscraper where Neo met with the Architect is empty: the creator of the Matrix has changed his address, and now no one knows how to find him.
Toward the middle of the film, a total collapse occurs: there are more Smith agents in the Matrix than people and the process of their self-copying grows like an avalanche, in the real world, machines penetrate Zion, and in a colossal battle they destroy all people except for a handful of survivors, led by Neo, who, despite his superpowers, cannot stop thousands of machines rushing into the city.
Morpheus and Trinity die next to Neo, heroically defending Zion. Neo, in terrible desperation, increases his strength to absolutely incredible proportions, breaks through to the only surviving ship (Morpheus's Nebuchadnezzar), and leaves Zion, getting to the surface. He goes to the main computer to destroy it, avenging the deaths of the inhabitants of Zeon, and especially the deaths of Morpheus and Trinity.
Bain-Smith is hiding aboard the Nebuchadnezzar, trying to stop Neo from destroying the Matrix, as he realizes that he himself will die in the process. In an epic fight with Neo, Bane also manifests superpowers, burning Neo's eyes out, but eventually dies. This is followed by a scene in which a blinded, but still seeing Neo through billions of enemies breaks through to the Center and causes a grandiose explosion there. It literally incinerates not only the Central Computer, but also itself. Millions of capsules with people turn off, the glow in them disappears, the cars freeze forever and the viewer is presented with a dead, deserted planet.
Bright light. Neo, completely uninjured, with no wounds and with whole eyes, wakes up sitting in the red chair of Morpheus from the first part of the Matrix in a completely white space. He sees the Architect in front of him. The architect tells Neo that he is amazed at what a person is capable of in the name of love. He says that he did not take into account the power that instills in a person when he is ready to sacrifice his life for the sake of other people. He says that machines are not capable of this, and therefore they can lose, even if it seems unthinkable. He says that Neo is the only Chosen One who "could get this far".
Neo asks where he is. In the Matrix, the Architect answers. The perfection of the Matrix lies, among other things, in the fact that it does not allow unforeseen events to cause even the slightest damage to it. The Architect informs Neo that they are now at "zero point" after the reboot of the Matrix, at the very beginning of its Seventh Version.
Neo doesn't understand. He says that he just destroyed the Central Computer, that the Matrix is no more, like all of humanity. The architect laughs and tells Neo something that shocks not only him, but the entire auditorium to the core.
Zion is part of the Matrix. In order to create for people the appearance of freedom, in order to give them the Choice, without which a person cannot exist, the Architect invented a reality within reality. And Zion, and the whole war with machines, and Agent Smith, and in general everything that happened from the very beginning of the trilogy, was planned in advance and is nothing more than a dream. The war was only a red herring, but in fact, everyone who died in Zion, fought against machines, and fought inside the Matrix, continues to lie in their capsules in pink syrup, they are alive and waiting for a new reboot of the system in order to start “living”, “fighting” and “freeing” in it again. And in this coherent system, Neo - after his "rebirth" - will be assigned the same role as in all previous versions of the Matrix: to inspire people to fight, which does not exist.
No human has ever left the Matrix since its inception. No man has ever died except according to the plan of the machines. All people are slaves and that will never change.
The camera shows the characters of the film lying in their capsules in different corners of the “nurseries”: here is Morpheus, here is Trinity, here is Captain Mifune, who died a heroic death in Zion, and many, many others. All of them are hairless, dystrophic and entangled in hoses. Neo is shown last, looking exactly like he did in the first movie when he was "liberated" by Morpheus. Neo's face is serene.
Here's how your superpower is explained in "reality," says the Architect. This also explains the existence of Zion, which people "could never build the way you see it" due to lack of resources. And, laughs the Architect, would we really allow people freed from the Matrix to hide in Zion, if we always had the opportunity to either kill them or reconnect them to the Matrix? And did we have to wait decades to destroy Zion, even if it existed? You underestimate us, Mr. Anderson, says the Architect.
Neo, looking straight ahead with a dead face, tries to comprehend what has happened, and takes one last look at the Architect, who says goodbye to him: "In the Seventh Version of the Matrix, Love will rule the world."
The alarm sounds. Neo wakes up and turns it off. The last frame of the film: Neo in a business suit leaves the house, and quickly goes to work, dissolving into the crowd. The end credits roll to heavy music.
Not only does this script look more coherent and understandable, not only does it really brilliantly explain the plot holes that were left unexplained in the film adaptation, it also fits much better into the dark style of cyberpunk than the “hopeful” end of the trilogy we saw. This is not just Dystopia, but Dystopia at its most brutal: the end of the world is behind us, and nothing can be fixed.
But the producers insisted on a happy ending, albeit not a particularly joyful one, and their condition was the mandatory inclusion in the picture of the epic confrontation between Neo and his antipode Smith as a kind of biblical analogue of the battle between Good and Evil. As a result, a rather sophisticated philosophical parable of the first part degenerated into a set of virtuoso special effects without a particularly deep thought.
It will never be taken down. It remains only to imagine how it could be. And it could be very, very cool!
What is the result. The whole world is the Matrix and there is no way out. In this form, the trilogy would certainly be more complete and would most likely be one of the symbols of the “end of history” era, from which there is no way out, and the choice offered by the system between submission through ignorance and struggle is false, since the struggle with the system is already embedded in its basic parameters and is stopped at the software and hardware levels.
An architect in the form of a manager of a system is not only and not so much a reference to the Masons, but above all a symbol of manual programming of the established order of things, which is not natural and is based on ignorance, suppression and control. And Neo's rebellion, useless within the framework of the existing system that programs this rebellion, serves as a demonstration that the fight against this system without going beyond its framework is impossible, senseless and useless.
As a result, the initial, as it were, fateful choice of Neo with a red and blue pill is meaningless, because both paths turn out to be false within the framework of the system, are embedded in it and do not bring either him or humanity closer to liberation. With all his abilities and talents, the hero does not fully understand the real structure of the system in which he, both as a clerk and as a savior, is just a slave of a system that he does not know and does not understand.
If such ideas really visited the heads of the Wachowski brothers, then it is a pity that they did not make it to the big screen, although the matryoshka concept of the Matrix in the Matrix itself is not new. It could turn out to be an excellent example of the postmodern world of lost meanings and ideals tending to programmatic zero.
Remember, when the second and third "Matrix" began to come out, many said that it was no longer that everything had slipped into special effects and "Hollywood", the holistic plot and the philosophical beginning of the film, which could be traced back in the first part, disappeared. Did you have such thoughts? And I just discovered today that some original script of The Matrix is circulating on the net. Most likely, it appeared from the resource of fans http://lozhki.net/, there are a lot of English-language scripts and film materials posted there.
But it cannot be ruled out that this is just a fan fantasy. If anyone has more accurate information on this, please share. And you and I will read what the real "Matrix" of the Wachowski brothers was supposed to be (well, or who did not know the sister and brother of the Wachowskis).
The Wachowski brothers wrote the script for the Matrix trilogy for five years, but the producers reworked their work. In the real "Matrix", the Architect tells Neo that both he and Zion are part of the Matrix in order to give people the appearance of freedom. A man cannot defeat a machine, and the end of the world cannot be corrected.
The script for The Matrix was written by the Wachowski brothers over the course of five years. He gave birth to a whole illusory world, densely permeated with several storylines at once, from time to time intricately intertwined with each other. Adapting their colossal work for film adaptation, the Wachowskis changed so much that, by their own admission, the embodiment of their plans turned out to be only a “fantasy based on” the story that was invented at the very beginning.
The harsh ending was removed from the script by producer Joel Silver. The fact is that from the very beginning, the Wachowskis conceived their trilogy as a film with the saddest and hopeless end.
So, the original script for The Matrix.
First of all, it is worth mentioning that the script sketches and different versions of the same film, being rejected, were not further developed, so much remained uncoordinated into a coherent system. So, in the "sad" version of the trilogy, the events of the second and third parts are pretty much curtailed. At the same time, in the third, final part, the deployment of such a severe intrigue begins that it practically turns all the events that took place earlier in the story upside down. In the same way, the ending of Shyamalan's "The Sixth Sense" completely shakes up all the events of the film from the very beginning. Only in The Matrix, the viewer had to look at almost the entire trilogy with new eyes. And it's a pity that Joel Silver insisted on a implemented version
Six months have passed since the end of the events of the first film. Neo, being in the real world, discovers in himself an incredible ability to influence the environment: first, he lifts into the air and bends a spoon lying on the table, then determines the position of the hunting machines outside of Zion, then, in a battle with the Octopuses, destroys one of them with the power of thought in front of the shocked crew of the ship.
Neo and everyone around him cannot find an explanation for this phenomenon. Neo is sure that there is a good reason for this, and that his gift is somehow connected with the war against machines, and is able to have a decisive impact on the fate of people (in the film, this ability is also there, but it is not explained at all, and it is not even particularly focused on it - maybe that's all. Although, on common sense, Neo's ability to perform miracles in the real world makes absolutely no sense in the light of the whole concept of The Matrix, and looks just strange).
So, Neo goes to Pythia to get an answer to his question and find out what to do next. Pythia replies to Neo that she does not know why he has superpowers in the real world, and how they are related to Neo's Destiny. She says that only the Architect, the supreme program that created the Matrix, can reveal the secret of our hero's Destiny. Neo is looking for a way to meet the Architect, going through incredible difficulties (here, the already known Master of Keys in captivity at the Merovingian, the chase on the highway, etc. are involved).
And so Neo meets the Architect. He reveals to him that the human city of Zion has been destroyed five times already, and that the unique Neo was deliberately created by machines in order to personify the hope of liberation for people, and thus keep calm in the Matrix and serve its stability. But when Neo asks the Architect what role his superpowers manifest in the real world play in all this, the Architect says that the answer to this question can never be given, for it will lead to knowledge that will destroy everything that Neo's friends and himself fought for.
After a conversation with the Architect, Neo realizes that some secret is hidden here, the solution of which can bring the long-awaited end to the war between people and machines. His abilities are getting stronger. (There are several scenes in the script with Neo's impressive fights with machines in the real world, in which he developed into a superman, and can do almost the same as in the Matrix: fly, stop bullets, etc.).
In Zion, it becomes known that the machines began to move towards the city of people in order to kill all those who left the Matrix, and the entire population of the city sees hope for salvation in Neo alone, who does really grandiose things - in particular, he gets the ability to arrange powerful explosions where he wants.
Meanwhile, Agent Smith, who has gone out of control of the main computer, has become free and has gained the ability to endlessly copy himself, and begins to threaten the Matrix itself. Having settled in Bane, Smith also penetrates into the real world.
Neo seeks a new meeting with the Architect to offer him a deal: he destroys Agent Smith by destroying his code, and the Architect reveals to Neo the secret of his superpowers in the real world and stops the movement of machines on Zion. But the room in the skyscraper where Neo met with the Architect is empty: the creator of the Matrix has changed his address, and now no one knows how to find him.
Toward the middle of the film, a total collapse occurs: there are more Smith agents in the Matrix than people and the process of their self-copying grows like an avalanche, in the real world, machines penetrate Zion, and in a colossal battle they destroy all people except for a handful of survivors, led by Neo, who, despite his superpowers, cannot stop thousands of machines rushing into the city.
Morpheus and Trinity die next to Neo, heroically defending Zion. Neo, in terrible desperation, increases his strength to absolutely incredible proportions, breaks through to the only surviving ship (Morpheus's Nebuchadnezzar), and leaves Zion, getting to the surface. He goes to the main computer to destroy it, avenging the deaths of the inhabitants of Zeon, and especially the deaths of Morpheus and Trinity.
Bain-Smith is hiding aboard the Nebuchadnezzar, trying to stop Neo from destroying the Matrix, as he realizes that he himself will die in the process. In an epic fight with Neo, Bane also manifests superpowers, burning Neo's eyes out, but eventually dies. This is followed by a scene in which a blinded, but still seeing Neo through a myriad of enemies breaks through to the Center and causes a grandiose explosion there. It literally incinerates not only the Central Computer, but also itself. Millions of capsules with people turn off, the glow in them disappears, the cars freeze forever and the viewer is presented with a dead, deserted planet.
Bright light. Neo, completely uninjured, with no wounds and with whole eyes, wakes up sitting in the red chair of Morpheus from the first part of the Matrix in a completely white space. He sees the Architect in front of him. The architect tells Neo that he is amazed at what a person is capable of in the name of love. He says that he did not take into account the power that instills in a person when he is ready to sacrifice his life for the sake of other people. He says that machines are not capable of this, and therefore they can lose, even if it seems unthinkable. He says that Neo is the only Chosen One who "could get this far".
Neo asks where he is. In the Matrix, the Architect answers. The perfection of the Matrix lies, among other things, in the fact that it does not allow unforeseen events to cause even the slightest damage to it. The Architect informs Neo that they are now at "zero point" after the reboot of the Matrix, at the very beginning of its Seventh Version.
Neo doesn't understand. He says that he just destroyed the Central Computer, that the Matrix is no more, like all of humanity. The architect laughs and tells Neo something that shocks not only him, but the entire auditorium to the core.
Zion is part of the Matrix. In order to create for people the appearance of freedom, in order to give them the Choice, without which a person cannot exist, the Architect invented a reality within reality. And Zion, and the whole war with machines, and Agent Smith, and in general everything that happened from the very beginning of the trilogy, was planned in advance and is nothing more than a dream. The war was only a red herring, but in fact, everyone who died in Zion, fought against machines, and fought inside the Matrix, continues to lie in their capsules in pink syrup, they are alive and waiting for a new reboot of the system in order to start “living”, “fighting” and “freeing” in it again. And in this coherent system, Neo - after his "rebirth" - will be assigned the same role as in all previous versions of the Matrix: to inspire people to fight, which does not exist.
No human has ever left the Matrix since its inception. No man has ever died except according to the plan of the machines. All people are slaves and that will never change.
The camera shows the characters of the film lying in their capsules in different corners of the “nurseries”: here is Morpheus, here is Trinity, here is Captain Mifune, who died a heroic death in Zion, and many, many others. All of them are hairless, dystrophic and entangled in hoses. Neo is shown last, looking exactly like he did in the first movie when he was "liberated" by Morpheus. Neo's face is serene.
Here's how your superpower is explained in "reality," says the Architect. This also explains the existence of Zion, which people "could never build the way you see it" due to lack of resources. And, laughs the Architect, would we really allow people freed from the Matrix to hide in Zion, if we always had the opportunity to either kill them or reconnect them to the Matrix? And did we have to wait decades to destroy Zion, even if it existed? You underestimate us, Mr. Anderson, says the Architect.
Neo, looking straight ahead with a dead face, tries to comprehend what has happened, and takes one last look at the Architect, who says goodbye to him: "In the Seventh Version of the Matrix, Love will rule the world."
The alarm sounds. Neo wakes up and turns it off. The last frame of the film: Neo in a business suit leaves the house, and quickly goes to work, dissolving into the crowd. The end credits roll to heavy music.
Not only does this script look more coherent and understandable, not only does it really brilliantly explain the plot holes that were left unexplained in the film adaptation, it also fits much better into the dark style of cyberpunk than the “hopeful” end of the trilogy we saw. This is not just Dystopia, but Dystopia at its most brutal: the end of the world is behind us, and nothing can be fixed.
But the producers insisted on a happy ending, albeit not a particularly joyful one, and their condition was the mandatory inclusion in the picture of the epic confrontation between Neo and his antipode Smith as a kind of biblical analogue of the battle between Good and Evil. As a result, a rather sophisticated philosophical parable of the first part degenerated into a set of virtuoso special effects without a particularly deep thought.
March 19th, 2018
Remember, when the second and third "Matrix" began to come out, many said that it was no longer that everything had slipped into special effects and "Hollywood", the holistic plot and the philosophical beginning of the film, which could be traced back in the first part, disappeared. Did you have such thoughts? And I just discovered today that some original script of The Matrix is circulating on the net. Most likely, it appeared from the fan resource http://lozhki.net/, there are a lot of English-language scripts and film materials posted there.
But it cannot be ruled out that this is just a fan fantasy. If anyone has more accurate information on this, please share. And you and I will read what the real "Matrix" of the Wachowski brothers was supposed to be (well, or who did not know the sister and brother of the Wachowskis).
The Wachowski brothers wrote the script for the Matrix trilogy for five years, but the producers reworked their work. In the real "Matrix", the Architect tells Neo that both he and Zion are part of the Matrix in order to give people the appearance of freedom. A man cannot defeat a machine, and the end of the world cannot be corrected.
The script for The Matrix was written by the Wachowski brothers over the course of five years. He gave birth to a whole illusory world, densely permeated with several storylines at once, from time to time intricately intertwined with each other. Adapting their colossal work for film adaptation, the Wachowskis changed so much that, by their own admission, the embodiment of their plans turned out to be only a “fantasy based on” the story that was invented at the very beginning.
The harsh ending was removed from the script by producer Joel Silver. The fact is that from the very beginning, the Wachowskis conceived their trilogy as a film with the saddest and hopeless end.
So, the original script for The Matrix.
First of all, it is worth mentioning that the script sketches and different versions of the same film, being rejected, were not further developed, so much remained uncoordinated into a coherent system. So, in the "sad" version of the trilogy, the events of the second and third parts are pretty much curtailed. At the same time, in the third, final part, the deployment of such a severe intrigue begins that it practically turns all the events that took place earlier in the story upside down. In the same way, the ending of Shyamalan's "The Sixth Sense" completely shakes up all the events of the film from the very beginning. Only in The Matrix, the viewer had to look at almost the entire trilogy with new eyes. And it's a pity that Joel Silver insisted on a implemented version
Six months have passed since the end of the events of the first film. Neo, being in the real world, discovers in himself an incredible ability to influence the environment: first, he lifts into the air and bends a spoon lying on the table, then determines the position of the hunting machines outside of Zion, then, in a battle with the Octopuses, destroys one of them with the power of thought in front of the shocked crew of the ship.
Neo and everyone around him cannot find an explanation for this phenomenon. Neo is sure that there is a good reason for this, and that his gift is somehow connected with the war against machines, and is able to have a decisive impact on the fate of people (the film also has this ability, but it is not explained at all, and it is not even particularly focused on it - maybe that's all. Although, on common sense, Neo's ability to perform miracles in the real world makes absolutely no sense in the light of the whole concept of The Matrix, and looks just strange).
So, Neo goes to Pythia to get an answer to his question and find out what to do next. Pythia replies to Neo that she does not know why he has superpowers in the real world, and how they are related to Neo's Destiny. She says that only the Architect, the supreme program that created the Matrix, can reveal the secret of our hero's Destiny. Neo is looking for a way to meet the Architect, going through incredible difficulties (here, the already known Master of Keys in captivity at the Merovingian, the chase on the highway, etc. are involved).
And so Neo meets the Architect. He reveals to him that the human city of Zion has been destroyed five times already, and that the unique Neo was deliberately created by machines in order to personify the hope of liberation for people, and thus keep calm in the Matrix and serve its stability. But when Neo asks the Architect what role his superpowers manifest in the real world play in all this, the Architect says that the answer to this question can never be given, for it will lead to knowledge that will destroy everything that Neo's friends and himself fought for.
After a conversation with the Architect, Neo realizes that some secret is hidden here, the solution of which can bring the long-awaited end to the war between people and machines. His abilities are getting stronger. (There are several scenes in the script with Neo's impressive fights with machines in the real world, in which he developed into a superman, and can do almost the same as in the Matrix: fly, stop bullets, etc.).
In Zion, it becomes known that the machines began to move towards the city of people in order to kill all those who left the Matrix, and the entire population of the city sees hope for salvation in Neo alone, who does really grandiose things - in particular, he gets the ability to arrange powerful explosions where he wants.
Meanwhile, Agent Smith, who has gone out of control of the main computer, has become free and has gained the ability to endlessly copy himself, and begins to threaten the Matrix itself. Having settled in Bane, Smith also penetrates into the real world.
Neo seeks a new meeting with the Architect to offer him a deal: he destroys Agent Smith by destroying his code, and the Architect reveals to Neo the secret of his superpowers in the real world and stops the movement of machines on Zion. But the room in the skyscraper where Neo met with the Architect is empty: the creator of the Matrix has changed his address, and now no one knows how to find him.
Toward the middle of the film, a total collapse occurs: there are more Smith agents in the Matrix than people and the process of their self-copying grows like an avalanche, in the real world, machines penetrate Zion, and in a colossal battle they destroy all people except for a handful of survivors, led by Neo, who, despite his superpowers, cannot stop thousands of machines rushing into the city.
Morpheus and Trinity die next to Neo, heroically defending Zion. Neo, in terrible desperation, increases his strength to absolutely incredible proportions, breaks through to the only surviving ship (Morpheus's Nebuchadnezzar), and leaves Zion, getting to the surface. He heads to the main computer to destroy it, avenging the deaths of the inhabitants of Zeon, and especially the deaths of Morpheus and Trinity.
Bain-Smith is hiding aboard the Nebuchadnezzar, trying to stop Neo from destroying the Matrix, as he realizes that he himself will die in the process. In an epic fight with Neo, Bane also manifests superpowers, burning Neo's eyes out, but eventually dies. This is followed by a scene in which a blinded, but still seeing Neo through a myriad of enemies breaks through to the Center and causes a grandiose explosion there. It literally incinerates not only the Central Computer, but also itself. Millions of capsules with people turn off, the glow in them disappears, the cars freeze forever and the viewer is presented with a dead, deserted planet.
Bright light. Neo, completely uninjured, with no wounds and with whole eyes, wakes up sitting in the red chair of Morpheus from the first part of the Matrix in a completely white space. He sees the Architect in front of him. The architect tells Neo that he is amazed at what a person is capable of in the name of love. He says that he did not take into account the power that instills in a person when he is ready to sacrifice his life for the sake of other people. He says that machines are not capable of this, and therefore they can lose, even if it seems unthinkable. He says that Neo is the only Chosen One who "could get this far".
Neo asks where he is. In the Matrix, the Architect answers. The perfection of the Matrix lies, among other things, in the fact that it does not allow unforeseen events to cause even the slightest damage to it. The Architect informs Neo that they are now at "zero point" after the reboot of the Matrix, at the very beginning of its Seventh Version.
Neo doesn't understand. He says that he just destroyed the Central Computer, that the Matrix is no more, like all of humanity. The architect laughs and tells Neo something that shocks not only him, but the entire auditorium to the core.
Zion is part of the Matrix. In order to create for people the appearance of freedom, in order to give them the Choice, without which a person cannot exist, the Architect invented a reality within reality. And Zion, and the whole war with machines, and Agent Smith, and in general everything that happened from the very beginning of the trilogy, was planned in advance and is nothing more than a dream. The war was only a red herring, but in fact, everyone who died in Zion, fought against machines, and fought inside the Matrix, continues to lie in their capsules in pink syrup, they are alive and waiting for a new reboot of the system in order to start “living”, “fighting” and “freeing” in it again. And in this coherent system, Neo - after his "rebirth" - will be assigned the same role as in all previous versions of the Matrix: to inspire people to fight, which does not exist.
No human has ever left the Matrix since its inception. No man has ever died except according to the plan of the machines. All people are slaves and that will never change.
The camera shows the characters of the film lying in their capsules in different corners of the “nurseries”: here is Morpheus, here is Trinity, here is Captain Mifune, who died a heroic death in Zion, and many, many others. All of them are hairless, dystrophic and entangled in hoses. Neo is shown last, looking exactly like he did in the first movie when he was "liberated" by Morpheus. Neo's face is serene.
Here's how your superpower is explained in "reality," says the Architect. This also explains the existence of Zion, which people "could never build the way you see it" due to lack of resources. And, laughs the Architect, would we really allow people freed from the Matrix to hide in Zion, if we always had the opportunity to either kill them or reconnect them to the Matrix? And did we have to wait decades to destroy Zion, even if it existed? You underestimate us, Mr. Anderson, says the Architect.
Neo, looking straight ahead with a dead face, tries to comprehend what has happened, and takes one last look at the Architect, who says goodbye to him: "In the Seventh Version of the Matrix, Love will rule the world."
The alarm sounds. Neo wakes up and turns it off. The last frame of the film: Neo in a business suit leaves the house, and quickly goes to work, dissolving into the crowd. The end credits roll to heavy music.
Not only does this script look more coherent and understandable, not only does it really brilliantly explain the plot holes that were left unexplained in the film adaptation, it also fits much better into the dark style of cyberpunk than the “hopeful” end of the trilogy we saw. This is not just Dystopia, but Dystopia at its most brutal: the end of the world is behind us, and nothing can be fixed.
But the producers insisted on a happy ending, albeit not a particularly joyful one, and their condition was the mandatory inclusion in the picture of the epic confrontation between Neo and his antipode Smith as a kind of biblical analogue of the battle between Good and Evil. As a result, a rather sophisticated philosophical parable of the first part degenerated into a set of virtuoso special effects without a particularly deep thought.
