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...blood later fell. Several French kings promoted the legend that descendants of Magdalene's child founded the Merovingian line of European royalty, a story revived by Richard Wagner in his opera Parsifal and again in connection with Diana, Princess of Wales, who reportedly had some Merovingian blood. (The Wachowski brothers, those cultural magpies, named a villain in The Matrix Reloaded Merovingian, filming him surrounded by Grail-like chalices. His wife in that film was played by Italian actress Monica Bellucci, who will also play Magdalene in Mel Gibson's upcoming Jesus film ... Sorry, this stuff is addictive.) The idea that...
...futuristic metropolis by the cyborg cops of Section 9. Meanwhile, Major Motoko Kusanagi searches for her own humanity within her robotic body. Based on Masamune Shirow’s original manga, the anime is a must-see for Matrix fans—it served as direct inspiration for the Wachowski brothers. Ghost in the Shell screens Tuesday, August...
...illusion then, the mind-blowing promise of the original Matrix? The answer is no, and the proof is The Animatrix. A collection of nine anim? film shorts supervised by Matrix creators Andy and Larry Wachowski and directed by a team of anim? all-stars, The Animatrix is the Matrix concept free of the commercial pressure of an epic-movie trilogy. Sure, The Animatrix is in one sense a multimillion-dollar advertisement for the franchise, a part of the Wachowskis' plan to milk 99? out of every entertainment dollar spent this summer. But it's also a delicate, deliberate work...
...other Matrix-related merchandise, including the video game and comic books, the release of an animated extension might seem like overkill. But the Wachowski brothers are devoted to and informed by anim?, the cerebral, ultraviolent, consciously cinematic style of animation pioneered by the Japanese. After the original Matrix opened in Japan in September 1999, the Wachowskis floated the possibility of producing an anim? homage, based on the Matrix world, as an appendix to the films. Top directors?including Shinichiro Watanabe, creator of the hip Cowboy Bebop, and Koji Morimoto, who worked on the seminal Akira?signed on immediately. The brothers...
...variety pack of visual styles, ranging from the hyper-realistic computer graphics employed in Final Flight of the Osiris, to the dreamy, hand-drawn doodles of Kid's Story. Each short expands the Matrix universe in ways that the plot-bound live-action films could not. The Wachowski-written Second Renaissance, Parts 1 and 2, mini-epics in their own right, describe how man began the war with machines and how the Matrix came into being (in the usual dystopic, postapocalyptic anim? tradition, man is hoisted by the petard of his own pride). The taut Program...