Matrix architect who. There is no way out of the real Matrix

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 Zeon are part of the Matrix in order to create the appearance of freedom for people. Man cannot defeat the machine, and the end of the world cannot be corrected.

The script for The Matrix was created by the Wachowski brothers over the course of five years. He gave birth to a whole illusory world, densely penetrated by several storylines, 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.

Producer Joel Silver removed the harsh ending from the script. The fact is that from the very beginning, the Wachowskis conceived their trilogy as a film with the saddest and most hopeless ending.

So, the original script for The Matrix:

Six months have passed since the end of the events of the first film. Neo, being in real world, discovers an incredible ability to influence his surroundings: 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, he destroys one of them with the power of thought in front of the shocked ship’s crew.

Neo and everyone around him can't find an explanation 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 can have a decisive impact on the fate of people (in filmed this ability also exists, but it is not explained at all, and they do not even particularly focus on it - maybe that’s all. Although, based on common sense, Neo’s ability to perform miracles in the real world makes absolutely no sense in light of the entire concept of “The Matrix”, and just looks strange).

So Neo goes to Pythia to get an answer to his question and find out what to do next. Pythia tells Neo that she doesn't know why he has superpowers in the real world, and how they relate to Neo's Purpose. She says that the secret of our hero’s Destination can only be revealed by the Architect - the supreme program that created the Matrix. Neo is looking for a way to meet the Architect, going through incredible difficulties (this involves the already familiar Master of Keys being captured by the Merovingian, a chase on the highway, etc.).

And so Neo meets the Architect. He reveals to him that the human city of Zeon has been destroyed five times already, and that the unique Neo was deliberately created by machines in order to personify hope for liberation for people, and thus maintain calm in the Matrix and serve its stability. But when Neo asks the Architect what role his superpowers manifesting 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 Neo's friends fought for and himself.

After talking with Architect Neo understands that some secret is hidden here, the solution to which could bring the long-awaited end to the war between people and machines. His abilities are becoming stronger. (The script contains several scenes of Neo's impressive fights with machines in the real world, in which he has evolved into Superman, and can do almost everything he could in The Matrix: fly, stop bullets, etc.).

In Zion, it becomes known that cars have begun moving towards the city of people with the goal of killing all those who have left the Matrix, and the entire population of the city sees hope for salvation in Neo alone, who does truly grandiose things - in particular, he gains the ability to arrange powerful explosions there where he wants.

Meanwhile, Agent Smith, who has escaped the control of the main computer, has become free and has acquired the ability to endlessly copy himself, and begins to threaten the Matrix itself. Having inhabited Bane, Smith also penetrates the real world.

Neo is looking 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 cars to Zeon. 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.

Towards 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 cars rushing into the city.

Morpheus and Trinity die next to Neo, heroically defending Zeon. Neo, in terrible despair, increases his strength to absolutely incredible proportions, breaks through to the only surviving ship (Morpheus' Nebuchadnezzar), and leaves Zion, climbing 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.

Bane-Smith is hiding aboard the Nebuchadnezzar, trying to stop Neo from destroying the Matrix, as he realizes that doing so will kill himself. In an epic fight with Neo, Bane also displays superpowers, burning out Neo's eyes, but ultimately dies. What follows is a scene in which Neo, blinded but still seeing everything, breaks through myriads of enemies to the Center and causes a grand explosion there. He literally incinerates not only the Central Computer, but also himself. Millions of capsules with people turn off, the glow in them disappears, the cars freeze forever and the viewer sees a dead, deserted planet.

Bright light. Neo, completely intact, without wounds and with intact eyes, comes to his senses 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 shocked at what a person is capable of in the name of love. He says that he did not take into account the power that is infused into 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 one of all the Chosen Ones who "was able to come 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 it even the slightest damage. The Architect informs Neo that they are now at the "zero point" after the reboot of the Matrix, at the very beginning of its Seventh Version.

Neo doesn't understand anything. He says that he has just destroyed the Central Computer, that the Matrix is no more, along with all of humanity. The architect laughs and tells Neo something that shocks to the core not only him, but the entire audience.

Zion is part of the Matrix. In order to create for people the appearance of freedom, in order to give them Choice, without which a person cannot exist, the Architect came up with a reality within a reality. And Zeon, and the whole war with the 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 diversionary maneuver, but in fact, everyone who died in Zion, fought with the machines, and fought inside the Matrix, continues to lie in their capsules in pink syrup, they are alive and are waiting for a new reboot of the system so that they can start “living” in it again ", "fight" and "free yourself". And in this harmonious 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 creation. 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 film's characters lying in their capsules in different corners“nurseries”: here is Morpheus, here is Trinity, here is Captain Mifune, who died the death of the brave in Zeon, and many, many others. They are all hairless, dystrophic and entangled in hoses. Neo is shown last, looking exactly the same as he did in the first film when he was "liberated" by Morpheus. Neo's face is serene.

This is how your superpower is explained in “reality,” says the Architect. This also explains the existence of Zeon, which people “could never build the way you saw it” due to lack of resources. And would we really, laughs the Architect, allow people freed from the Matrix to hide in Zeon if we always had the opportunity to either kill them or connect them to the Matrix again? And would we really have to wait decades to destroy Zeon even if it existed? Still, you underestimate us, Mr. Anderson, says the Architect.

Neo, looking straight ahead with a dead face, tries to comprehend what has happened, and casts his last glance 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. Last shot of the film: Neo in business suit leaves the house and quickly heads to work, disappearing into the crowd. The end credits begin to heavy music.

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 of Good and Evil. In the end it's quite sophisticated philosophical parable The first part sadly degenerated into a set of virtuoso special effects without particularly deep thought.

Let's talk about the Matrix.

What is it this time?

Two large consistent theories about the Matrix, each divided into several small ones. As always, Easter eggs and small theories are hidden in the spoiler so as not to overload the article.

Is this about the Matrix within the Matrix?

Nope. I don't like this theory, although it is so popular that it is already on the verge of canon. As for me, this theory is terrible, because with the help of such a trick you can explain anything (it’s just a dream). In addition, do not forget about Occam's razor, this theory introduces new entities that are not necessary for explanation.

Why should I read this

The Matrix is a dystopian cyberpunk. Speaking about it, we have to delve into everything that is discussed on the resource: robotics, AI, programming, energy, etc.

Spoilers?

Of course, and a lot. Everything is relative to the trilogy and the Animatrix. Other works like "Goliath" or The Matrix Online in in this case irrelevant. The first, because it describes very strange events (like the collision of cars with aliens), the second, because it is pathetic from a plot point of view, IMHO. There is also a small spoiler from the game Mass Effect(actually big).

The Matrix is full of various symbols and references. This is to put it mildly. There are too many reasons for speculation here and, therefore, I decided to concentrate on only two topics.

1. Cypher

A villain in a movie is a rather conventional concept. Only the Sith think in absolutes. Good drama does not recognize absolutes. It's much more interesting when the antagonist is motivated by something other than the desire to thwart the protagonist. There is such a character in The Matrix. Cypher. The first part of the theories will be about him.

By the way, about the villains in the first matrix

In the first film, there is such a funny division of characters. All the “Good” guys wear round or oval glasses.

While the “villains” prefer rectangular ones.

If you know about this at the beginning, you might notice a spoiler:

1.1. Cypher should have been the chosen one

Remember how Neo is sitting in his cabin and Morpheus comes to him. He says that he must apologize to Neo, that there is a rule according to which it is impossible to release a person who has reached a certain age. The brain does not accept the truth and Morpheus saw this. He goes on to tell the story of the chosen one and says that he had no choice. So, there is a strict rule according to which adults cannot be released, and this rule can only be violated in exceptional cases.

From the file that Agent Smith shows Neo, we can learn that Thomas Anderson is either 37 or 28.

According to the passport, date of birth is September 71st

According to the database entry - March 1962

I, personally, am inclined to the first option (Although if you take the age of the actor, the second one is closer). But let’s say Neo is still 37. Then we can say that 35-37 years old is too late to be awakened.

From Cypher's conversation with Smith in the restaurant, we learn when Cypher was awakened:

“Do you know what I learned in 9 years? Ignorance is bliss"

9 years. Actor Joe Pantoliano is 13 years older than Keanu Reeves. The film also gives the impression that Cypher is older than Neo.

Be that as it may, it is obvious that Cypher was released at a conscious age and it is not clear why, because the rule prohibits this.

Let's look further. Cypher was in love with Trinity and, judging by some of their awkward dialogues, it can be assumed that for a short time, Trinity showed him signs of attention. It turns out that according to the Pythia's forecast, Cypher could be the chosen one.

Now imagine the story: Morpheus brings Cypher and tells him how very soon he (Cypher) will defeat all the agents and save humanity. Trinity sympathizes with him, the team looks at him as a hero. Based on the same conversation between Smith and Cypher, the latter definitely likes the attention. He probably respected Morpheus as a leader and believed him when he said Cypher would save the world. But it soon turned out that Cypher would not be the chosen one.

Perhaps Morpheus also brought him to Pythia, she also told Cypher that he was not the one, and this killed Cypher. Neo reacted quite calmly to the news that he was not the chosen one, he was even glad. But for Cypher it was a tragedy. He was disappointed in the leader who lied to him, he lost his beloved who was interested in this new type, he will not be able to do anything significant, but he is forced to live in this cold world and eat the same porridge every day. No wonder all he can think about is “why didn’t I take another pill!”

1.2.Morpheus knew about the impending betrayal

At the beginning of the first film, we hear Cypher talking to Trinity:
- you heard?
-heard what?
-Are you sure the line is clear?
- Of course I'm sure.

At this moment the police burst in. Immediately after Trinity is done with them, she calls Morpheus:

- Morpheus, the line is being tracked, I don’t know how.
-I know they cut the cable.

After this, we hear a conversation between agents who say that the informant did not fail and now they know the name of the target.

Morpheus is smart enough to at least suspect that something was wrong after the attack on Trinity, but he does not investigate the incident and is not surprised by the fact that the agents identified Neo right after Trinity's conversation with Cypher.

It is likely that the Pythia told Morpheus about Cypher’s betrayal, and even convinced him that it was impossible to interfere, since it was this betrayal that would set off a chain of events through which Neo would become the chosen one.

If you doubt Morpheus' resolve, remember the scene where he tells Neo about the agents.

The whole scene is magnificent, both the music and the woman in red. But this is what Morfus told Neo:

"... The Matrix is a system, Neo. The system is our enemy. But when you're inside, look around. What do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The minds of the very people we are trying to save. But until then, these people are still part of the system and therefore they are our enemies. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to wake up. Many of them are so inert, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it.

Now imagine that the conversation is between a recruiter for a terrorist organization and a newcomer. In fact, Morpheus says: our goal is the highest, and the end justifies the means.

lazy programmers

Speaking of this scene. The Wachowskis specifically cast twins as extras to make it seem as if a lazy programmer, when constructing the world, was too lazy to write each person individually and simply copied and pasted half.

I have highlighted a few, you can look for the rest yourself.

Morpheus' settings work perfectly. Remember the iconic scene when Neo and Trinity break into the building where Morpheus is being held. Now look at this scene from the perspective of ordinary security guards who work in this building. One of them didn’t even have time to finish his coffee when Neo unloaded the clip into him. Basically, Neo and Trinity could just knock them out or distract them. At least somehow try to avoid casualties, but instead, they carried out a real massacre.

And if you still doubt how the Wachowskis themselves felt about Morpheus, here's a clear illustration:

Morpheus offers Neo a fruit from the tree of knowledge. Having tasted it, Neo will leave Eden forever.

1.3. Who helped Cypher try steak

Let's go back to the scene where Cypher is at the restaurant table with Agent Smith. It is at this meeting that Cypher surrenders Morpheus. But who connected him to the matrix, and even if he connected himself, we know for sure that without an operator, it is impossible to get out of the matrix. Even if it was possible, it was risky, since anyone could see him in the chair and read what was happening on the monitor.

Here we need to remember two points.

1) Mouse invites Neo to have fun with a woman in red, this causes grins, but not surprise.

2) when Neo approaches Cypher, he gets scared, and then says, looking at the monitor: I see a blonde, a brunette, a redhead...

Cypher could have asked Mouse to arrange a date with the girl in red and stand watch until he was finished. Moreover, he could have asked Mouse not to look at the screen. To be sure, he could do this several times and make sure Mouse wasn't looking. Even if he looked at the screen, only he would have to be killed, and this is better than the entire crew.

It can be assumed that Mouse would not arrange a date in the matrix (too dangerous), but he could very well use the boot program. Cypher, at the same time, could write his own program that would allow him to move from the constructor to the matrix (we know this is possible from the “we need weapons, lots of weapons” scene). Perhaps it was Neo who caught Cypher writing this program. If you agree that Morpheus knew about the impending betrayal, then you can even assume that he did everything to ensure that Cypher’s plan succeeded.

Ironically, right before his death, Mouse looks at the poster with the red woman who killed him.

And more about Cypher

During a meeting with Smith, Cypher makes his demands. He says:

- I don’t want to remember anything, nothing, you know? And I want to be rich, somebody important, for example an actor

It's funny because the actors, while they may be rich, are hardly "important." There were a few exceptions though. And, for clarity, Smith calls Cypher by his last name at the beginning of the dialogue:

2. Let's move on to another big topic: cars

From the animatrix we learn how the conflict developed. AIs were becoming more and more widespread in the world, but people treated them like slaves. All this lasted until one of the robots killed a man. This fueled hatred of cars and a wave of violence spread throughout the world. Then the machines left and built their own city called 0.1 (one can appreciate the modesty of the machines). Further - the shares of 0.1 companies grew sharply and their economy flourished, strong production destroyed the production of people, caused unemployment, which led to armed conflict. Machines were greatly superior to people and then they (people) decided to desperate step: hide the sun forever behind the clouds. Machines captured people and began to use them as a source of energy. After some time, people began to be raised.

2.1. The machines clearly did not hate humans at any stage

1) having created their city, they continued to supply goods to people, although there was no need for this
2) the killing of a person by a car caused a whole storm. This was the first case and it was self-defense
3) after the final victory, the machines not only enslaved people, they placed them in a virtual environment where everyone can be happy (the first iteration of the matrix). What enemy did this to a defeated enemy? And not just an enemy, let's call a spade a spade, close the sky - it was an attempt at genocide.

2.2. Power supply?

The human body, no matter what Morpheus says, cannot be a source of nutrition. Firstly, no matter how much energy the body produces, this energy must power not only the machines, but also the matrix itself (how many servers are these), and if we add to this the energy spent on growing the body and maintaining life in it, then this we need to figure out who owes whom. This is essentially a violation of the 1st law of thermodynamics, but who cares.

Rendering issues

Remember this scene?

Some people hate her, some people love her. But as a fact, at some point, it begins to seem like you are watching a Pixar cartoon. On the forums, people explain it this way: the “program” of the chosen one should be quite heavy, since it constantly causes glitches in the program (like waves before takeoff), Smith, as the opposite of the chosen one, should also weigh a lot. Because the more Smiths, the worse it gets. At the moment when the agents pounce on Neo, we again see a decent picture. Apparently because the objects stopped moving.

We can assume that machines have finally found some way to efficiently obtain energy from human body, but why? The first generation ran on solar panels, but what's stopping the machines from changing their power source? For example on nuclear reactors? Or windmills (they are fine with wind) or whatever. With no economic barriers, free labor, high intelligence, and the desire to survive, the machines had to master the closed fuel cycle within a dozen years, maximum.

For a highly developed AI, machines behave somehow very stupidly

Besides everything else, we know for sure that people were not used as a power source by the end of the third film, otherwise the machines would not have let them go under any circumstances.

2.3. Machines created Zion and all the technology for people

We know that they recreated the matrix at least 6 times and destroyed Zeon. For what? According to the architect, this was necessary in order to identify people who would not accept the program. Now imagine these two dozen people with atrophied muscles who somehow got out of the city of cars and got to safe place, and then built a city, etc. It's quite difficult to imagine this. Zeon, like the ships and all the technology, was not created by people who escaped from the first matrix.

On the ships that we saw in the film, the stamping was made in the USA. (Plate on the ship: MARK III No. 11 / Nebuchadnezzar / Made in the USA / Year 2069. Mark 3:11 - “And the unclean spirits, when they saw Him, fell down before Him and cried out: You are the Son of God.”) Now we count . The Matrix was created six times, each time the Chosen One brought out two dozen people. By the third film, Zion is home to approximately 250,000 people. How much would it take for such growth? 100 years? In total, about 600 years. With all due respect to American industry, like any other, there is no way technology of this level of complexity can survive 600 years, let alone paint.

It turns out that the machines not only allowed the freed people to escape from the matrix, but also provided them with everything they needed (including machines running on geothermal energy (and what prevented them from using it themselves?))

But if so, then why do they end up destroying the entire human population? What should they be afraid of? let's look at the people in zion:

And then let's look at the city of cars.

What harm could people do to cars?? At the end of the first matrix, Neo says menacingly into the phone: I’m coming for you, but in the second part we see that the maximum he is capable of is to kill all the agents. And to hell with them, the matrix seems to work as it is, and nothing threatens the city.

And more about glamorous people in Zion

Why are they all dark? They have never seen the rays of the sun in their lives, but for some reason they are all dark.

Answer: absence sunlight, would cause a vitamin D deficiency, which would lead to serious consequences. In order to avoid this, apparently, people in Zion had to spend some time in the solarium.

2.4. Machines follow the Zeroth Law

And here main question: What have the machines been doing all this time? They have no religion, they have no one to serve, all they need is a source of food, but what is the point? They did not begin space expansion, although they could have, and did not even begin to spread across the earth. What do they do in the evenings? How do you spend your weekend? And what are the weekends from? I mean, what other job do they have besides defense, attack, and maintaining the matrix?

Now my theory. If you played mass effect, you remember the key question that the reapers had to answer (if you haven’t played it, it doesn’t matter, the question was how to resolve inevitable conflict between the living and the AI) It seems to me that the machines were working on the same question, but they found the answer.

What are cars afraid of? People cannot do any harm in any way, even if they free everyone in the matrix. And we know that vindictiveness is not inherent in machines. Let's note something else. Let's say all the people were freed, but the status quo in relations with the machines remained. How will billions of people live without the sun? What will they eat? How to develop technology? This is certain death. Within a year, all over the earth, people would begin to destroy each other for the sake of resources. It seems to me that in this case, the machines play the same role as the reapers in Mass Effect, they strictly control people in order to avoid their complete destruction. When Zion reaches a certain population level, the city is destroyed to avoid painful death from starvation. Essentially, this is the same idea about the Zeroth Law of robotics, which conflicts with the first.

2.5. The chosen one is truly Jesus

We already know from the second film that the appearance of the chosen one was the architect’s idea, but what if he lied about the reasons or did not know them?

Machines were created to serve. They had to save humanity. I think that's exactly what they were doing.

Let’s say the machines initially sought peace, but from bitter experience they knew that people prone to xenophobia are intolerant of machines, especially after losing the war. But keeping people in slavery is also unacceptable for machines, because this is no salvation. It was necessary to figure out how to help people see the possibility of peaceful coexistence. At the same time, the idea of peace had to come from people (the machines themselves more than once offered peace to people). Besides everything else, people are their creators; what child doesn’t want love from a parent. Being Tyrants over people would be unbearable for machines. But how to bring people to the idea of peace? How to make them understand?
Solution: Simulate a world in which machines can inspire the right thought to all people. The first matrix was a utopia in which everyone was happy. Painting a world where people and machines help each other live was a pretty obvious idea, but as we know, people didn't embrace the simulation. I had to look for another way out.

It was necessary to instill the right thought within the framework of the world familiar to people. One of the people, the one whom all of humanity would follow, had to offer them a truce himself. And who is better suited for this role than the prophet and savior? At the same time, everything needs to be done so that people do not feel the fraud (and machines already know that people are susceptible to deception), the slightest hint of manipulation and people will hate them even more.

Then a cycle was invented (almost the same as in the mass effect) and only the one who breaks this cycle can be considered the bearer of free will. The one who will be followed, because he did everything in defiance.

Next, people were needed outside the matrix who were aware of the situation, since people in the matrix would not follow the prophet simply because they were told so. If the Chosen One did not break the cycle, all traces of the previous experiment had to be destroyed.

Remember, when Neo comes to the city of machines and talks to their boss about Smith, he argues with Neo. When the latter offers peace, the evil machine god immediately connects him to the matrix. Later, if you watch the scene right before all the Smiths are destroyed, you will notice that the impulse (or whatever it was) that started the chain reaction was traveling through the wires to Neo, and not from him. If Neo somehow destroyed Smith, the signal should have gone from Neo to the server, and not vice versa. It turns out that it was the machines that ultimately destroyed Smith and Neo, by and large, was not needed for this.

After the end of the film, centuries will pass and the legend about Neo will be passed down from generation to generation, acquiring mystical details. 300 years will pass and it will become a full-fledged religion. It fits very well into the idea of the end of the world and the second coming. And the main testament of this new messiah will be peace with machines!

This explains the overcrowding of Christian symbols. The name of the ship, the nicknames of the heroes, the name of the city, general plot, all this could be in one way or another, inspired by machines, so that people subconsciously feel the similarity.

To promote peace, machines will help people restore the earth

It seems to me that in 600 years they have developed all the technology to disperse the clouds and terraform the earth. Why didn't they do this earlier? Two reasons:

1) People will value help rather than given.

2) People, having disconnected from the matrix, must see the result of the actions of their ancestors, for them this must become a reality. Then, like Cypher, they realize that all this time the machines were protecting them from the truth, and not keeping them locked up.

conclusions

Thus the machines did exactly what they were created to do, they saved humanity from itself. At the same time, they implemented an ingenious multi-step approach (600 years in advance!), which, in principle, only supercomputers are capable of.

There are many stories about how machines will destroy humanity, moreover, we are already beginning to fear AI. News constantly flashes about either Musk or Hawking. But we must take into account that it is people and not machines who are full of chauvinistic ideas about racial superiority, etc. It is we, in the 21st century, who are still waging religious wars and believing in horoscopes. So you should be more afraid behind AI.

Small bonus

In this article, xmeoff asks the question of why 1999 is simulated in the Matrix?

Here's my version. First, you need to understand that in the matrix, if there is a concept of time, it must be very different from time in our world, otherwise machines could not keep everything at the same level for hundreds of years, even taking into account reboots. This could also explain the ending of the first part (the attack on the ship), when events in the matrix and events in real time are not synchronous. We know that the action takes place at the end of the sixth cycle and that 1999 falls precisely at the end. It seems to me there are two reasons for this. At the end of the 20th century, there were two topics that worried the whole world in one form or another.

1) general religious sentiments, fear of the apocalypse.

2) it was the year of Y2K problems. Although by that time many experts were sure that nothing threatened the world, the media inflated the problem. It was this year that real awareness came of how dependent we are on machines, and this awareness came to people who might not even have their own PC.

Taking advantage of these sentiments, the machines achieved two goals:
1) people disconnected from the matrix, for the most part, are ready to accept the apocalyptic reality
2) these people tend to understand their dependence on machines and will more easily accept new orders

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Now I finally found the answers to those stupid plot holes that plagued me in this trilogy. This... This is simply brilliant! If the film had been brought to the screen as 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 surpassed even the magnificent “Fight Club”!
The script for The Matrix was created by the Wachowski brothers over the course of five years. It gave birth to an entire illusory world, densely permeated with several storylines, which from time to time intricately intertwined with each other. Adapting their colossal work for film adaptation, and yielding to the demands 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 story that was invented at the very beginning.

So, the original script for The Matrix.

First of all, it is worth mentioning that script sketches and different variants of the same film, having been rejected, were not further developed, so much remained not integrated into a coherent system. Thus, in the “sad” version of the trilogy, the events of the second and third parts are quite severely curtailed. At the same time, in the third, final part, the unfolding of such a severe intrigue begins that it practically turns on its head all the events that occurred earlier in the plot. Likewise, the ending of Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense completely shakes up all the events of the film from its very beginning. Only in “The Matrix” the viewer had to look at almost the entire trilogy with new eyes. And it’s a shame that Joel Silver insisted on the implemented version

Six months have passed since the end of the events of the first film. Neo, being in the real world, discovers an incredible ability to influence his surroundings: 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 Octopuses, destroys one of them with the power of thought in front of the ship's shocked crew.

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 capable of having a decisive impact on the fate of people (in the filmed film this ability is also there, but it is not explained at all, and it is not even shown on it). especially draw attention - 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 entire concept of “The Matrix”, and just looks strange).

After a conversation with the Architect, Neo realizes that there is some secret hidden here, the solution of which could bring the long-awaited end to the war between people and machines. His abilities are becoming stronger. (The script contains several scenes of Neo's impressive fights with machines in the real world, in which he has evolved into Superman, and can do almost everything he could in The Matrix: fly, stop bullets, etc.).

Bane-Smith is hiding aboard the Nebuchadnezzar, trying to stop Neo from destroying the Matrix, as he realizes that doing so will kill himself. In an epic fight with Neo, Bane also displays superpowers, burning out Neo's eyes, but ultimately dies. What follows is a scene in which Neo, blinded but still seeing everything, breaks through billions of enemies to the Center and causes a grand explosion there. He literally incinerates not only the Central Computer, but also himself. Millions of capsules with people turn off, the glow in them disappears, the cars freeze forever and the viewer sees a dead, deserted planet.

No human has ever left the Matrix since its creation. 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 film's heroes lying in their capsules in different corners of the "nurseries": here is Morpheus, here is Trinity, here is Captain Mifune, who died a brave death in Zeon, and many, many others. They are all hairless, dystrophic and entangled in hoses. Neo is shown last, looking exactly the same as he did in the first film when he was "liberated" by Morpheus. Neo's face is serene.

The alarm sounds. Neo wakes up and turns it off. The last shot of the film: Neo in a business suit leaves the house and quickly heads to work, disappearing into the crowd. The end credits begin to heavy music.

Not only does this script look more coherent and understandable, not only does it really brilliantly explain plot holes that were left unexplained in the film adaptation - it also fits much better into the gloomy style of cyberpunk than the "hopeful" ending of what was seen us trilogy. This is not just Dystopia, but Dystopia in its most brutal manifestation: the end of the world is long behind us, and nothing can be fixed.
The architect in the form of a control system is not only and not so much a reference to the Freemasons, but first of 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 existing system, which programs this rebellion, serves as a demonstration that the fight against this system without going beyond its framework is impossible, meaningless and useless.

As a result, Neo’s initial, seemingly fateful choice with the red and blue pills becomes meaningless, because both paths turn out to be false within 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 still 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 to a system that he does not know and does not understand.

If such ideas really crossed the minds of the Wachowski brothers, then it’s a shame that they didn’t make it to big screen, although the matryoshka concept of the Matrix within the Matrix itself is not new. It could be an excellent example of a postmodern world of lost meanings and ideals striving for program zero.

Many film critics note that after the conceptual “Matrix Number One,” its sequels smacked too much of the desire to make as much money as possible more money on the success of the previous film in order to be considered worthy of the predecessor film. Perhaps things could look completely different...

Many believe that the (then) Wachowski brothers, in fact, created one and only film, on the glory of which they built their entire subsequent career. The first “Matrix” is brilliant. The second and third parts of the trilogy went far towards pure commerce, and this slightly spoiled the aftertaste, but what original painting turned out to be above all and any praise - that's for sure.

Unfortunately, having filled the sequels with stunning special effects, filling them to capacity with characters and minor events, the authors of “The Matrix” lost the scorching simplicity of the original, which the peculiar happy ending with the sunrise only contributed to.
But what would you say if you found out what the Wachowskis' original idea was? If it had been properly embodied on the screen, the effect of “The Matrix” would have been tripled, because the film would have surpassed even “Fight Club” in terms of the cruelty of the final turn of events!

The script for The Matrix was created by the Wachowskis over more than five years. Years of continuous work gave birth to an entire illusory world, densely permeated with several storylines, which 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. Although, of course, the basic idea has always remained the same.

The most interesting thing is this: at a certain stage, an extremely entertaining component was ultimately removed from the script - the harsh final twist. The fact is that from the very beginning, the Wachowskis conceived their trilogy as a film with perhaps the saddest and most hopeless ending imaginable. Judging by the extensive portion of the script, which was rejected in its entirety at the stage of coordinating the production of the film with producer Joel Silver, we were deprived of an extremely stunning finale, which would certainly have looked better than that“happy ending”, which eventually made it to the screens.

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 not linked into a coherent system. Thus, in the “sad” version of the trilogy, the events of the second and third parts are quite severely curtailed. At the same time, in the third, final part, the unfolding of such a severe intrigue begins that it practically turns on its head all the events that occurred earlier in the plot. Likewise, the ending of Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense completely shakes up all the events of the film from its very beginning. Only in “The Matrix” the viewer had to look at almost the entire trilogy with new eyes. And it’s a shame that Joel Silver insisted on the implemented version - this one is clearly better.

So, original story script:

Six months have passed since the end of the events of the first film. Neo, being in the real world, discovers an incredible ability to influence his surroundings: first, he lifts into the air and bends a spoon lying on the table, then determines the position of the Hunter machines outside of Zion, then, in a battle with the Octopuses, destroys one of them with the power of thought in front of the ship's shocked crew.

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 capable of having a decisive impact on the fate of people (it is interesting to note that in the filmed this ability is also present, but it is not explained at all, and they don’t even pay much attention to it - maybe that’s all there is to it. Although, on common sense, Neo’s ability to perform miracles in the real world makes absolutely no sense in the light of the entire concept of “The Matrix”, and just looks strange) .

So Neo goes to Pythia to get an answer to his question and find out what to do next. Pythia tells Neo that she doesn't know why he has superpowers in the real world, and how they relate to Neo's Purpose. She says that the secret of our hero's Destination can only be revealed by the Architect - the supreme program that created the Matrix. Neo is looking for a way to meet the Architect, going through incredible difficulties (this involves the already familiar Master of Keys being captured by the Merovingian, a chase on the highway, etc.) .

After a conversation with the Architect, Neo realizes that there is some secret hidden here, the solution of which could bring the long-awaited end to the war between people and machines. His abilities are becoming stronger. (The script contains several scenes of Neo's impressive fights with machines in the real world, in which he has developed into the ultimate superman, and can do almost the same things as in the Matrix: fly, stop bullets, etc.)

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 cars to Zeon. 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. Towards 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 destroy everyone except a handful of survivors, led by Neo, who , despite his superpowers, cannot stop thousands of cars rushing into the city.

Bane-Smith is hiding aboard the Nebuchadnezzar, trying to stop Neo from destroying the Matrix, as he realizes that doing so will kill himself. In an epic fight with Neo, Bane also displays superpowers, burning out Neo's eyes, but ultimately dies. What follows is an absolutely stunning scene in which Neo, blinded but still seeing everything, breaks through a myriad of enemies to the Center and causes a grand explosion there. He literally incinerates not only the Central Computer, but also himself. Millions of capsules with people are switched off, the glow in them disappears, the cars freeze forever and the viewer sees a dead, deserted planet.

Bright light. Neo, completely intact, without wounds and with intact eyes, comes to his senses 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 shocked at what a person can do in the name of love. He says that he did not take into account the power that is infused into 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 one of all the Chosen Ones who "was able to come 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 it the slightest damage. The Architect informs Neo that they are now at the "zero point" after the reboot of the Matrix, at the very beginning of its Seventh Version.

No human has ever left the Matrix since its creation. 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 film's characters 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 Zeon, and many, many others. They are all hairless, dystrophic and entangled in hoses. Neo is shown last, looking exactly the same as he did in the first film when he was "liberated" by Morpheus. Neo's face is serene.

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 of Good and Evil. As a result, the rather sophisticated philosophical parable of the first part unfortunately degenerated into a set of virtuoso special effects without a particularly deep underlying thought.

This will never be taken down. One can only imagine how it could have been. And it could be very, very cool.