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COSTUME DRAMAS There couldn't be two more different movies than the spring releases Matrix Reloaded and Down with Love. Or could there? Matrix achieves its cool look partly with its retro-futuristic clothes. Is Keanu Reeves' Neo from the future or from some severe, high-collared Edwardian past? In Love, Renee Zellweger's chic period ensembles look so very fresh. "The early '60s is the last time clothes were modern," says Love's costume designer, Daniel Orlandi. "Colorful, simple and architectural." So what will the future look like? Apparently, it depends on which past you like best...
...basic plot line of the movie The Matrix, with the oddly Laurence Fishburne-like character of “Orpheum” dispensing the mystical wisdom of the Vapir to a youthful “Blaze” Scott Evans, a character that not only recreates but redoubles Keanu Reeves’ trademarked lack-brained helplessness. It’s almost worth buying a Vapir just to lend a hand of support to this unabashed copyright infringement...
...past decade, Hollywood has been desperately trying to pump some testosterone into the lucrative but enervated action genre. With Stallone and Schwarzenegger approaching 60, the studios have actually taught skinny guys like Keanu Reeves and Tobey Maguire how to fight. They've even taken the drastic measure of coming up with some really interesting action ideas, like The Matrix...
When we last visited the Matrix, computers had taken over the planet and imprisoned the human race in a computer-generated "reality." Keanu Reeves played Neo, a hacker turned superhero recruited to save his fellow man, and the movie ended with him literally taking flight. It was a cliff-hanger that might as well have been subtitled "Watch for the sequel, coming soon to a theater near you--that is, if this thing makes any money...
...trailer, Reeves won't elaborate on that particular shot (it takes place in a climactic battle scene in part three), but he does give the following overview of the trilogy: "The first one is about birth," says Reeves. "The second one is life; the third is death." Thanks, Keanu...