The Matrix (1999): During the meal scene aboard the Nebuchadnezzar, Neo starts his meal with a straight spoon . Just before Morpheus enters the room we cut to a shot where his spoon is now bent, foreshadowing his meeting with the Potentials & how his abilities will evolve in the Matrix & real world.
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I never really put it together.
It might be super obvious to a lot of you, but I never really thought about it.
The plaque in the ship says it was built in 2069 and Morpheus says that the year is closer to 2199.
I think it's awesome that they have maintained it so long because of the war and lack of new technology.
Earlier on in The Matrix we are shown a plaque on Morpheus' hovercraft, the Nebuchadnezzar. This plaque has the ship's model number: "Mark III, No. 11". Open up the Bible to Mark Chapter 3, verse 11, you get the following: "And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.”" This is a reference/foreshadowing to the ship's last resort EMP weapon. Which is used at the end of the movie to 'throw down' and destroy the attacking sentinels. At the same time Neo has just been resurrected as 'the one'.
Hey people,
I started learning python a week ago and thought that might be a neat first project.
As I said in the title, I want to make a background which kinda looks like this, but it should randomly generate numbers and signs dropping from above, etc...
My question is, is it possible to code that with python, so that it runs in the background and looks like my wallpaper?
Or are there better ways to do it?
The Matrix is one of my favorite films of all time, and possibly the favorite. I could find almost no fault in it (continuity errors etc notwithstanding) save for Morpheus' bombastic/dramatic way of talking. I used to scoff at his musings ("what is real...") and his zeal, and it seemed like some of the crew of the Neb didn't see eye to eye with him or share the intensity of his passion. Even the Oracle seemed to almost pity him for his convictions.
(I'm treating the first film as a self contained story and disregarding the various comic books etc that expanded on it) It's made clear that redpills, ie people who have been freed from the control of the Matrix, are usually much younger than Neo, who is in his twenties. The Oracle's apartment is full of young children being eased into, or out of, reality and it's explained that the older redpilled mostly go insane due to their inability to accept the harsh realities of, well... Reality. Neo is an outlier, so it's safe to say that the crew of the Neb were all whisked off to wonderland at a very young age (save for Tank and Dozer who were born in Zion).
This, in my opinion, handily explains the personalities of the redpilled crew of the Neb: A group of children, teenagers at most, who grew up and matured in ridiculous and fantastic circumstances, who during their lives in The Matrix escaped reality using fantasy and so found it so much easier to literally escape reality when Morpheus found them. And by the time we meet them might seem to become disillusioned with their lives: Switch, Cypher, Apoc and Trinity all seem rather cynical; Cypher eventually decides to give up his freedom and become part of the machine again. These are children who were outcasts, possibly bullied for their idiosyncrasies and nonconformities (Switch was originally supposed to be female in the matrix and male in the real world; her appearance in the matrix is due to her "residual image" retained in the matrix. In my mind, her "not like this" line refers to her/him wanting to die as the real Switch, as a man in the real world). Mouse is the youngest and most recently redpilled and is just enjoying his time on the Neb fucking VR women in red dresses; Trinity seems to be losing her faith; and Apoc has no character whatsoever.
So the "fan theory" part of this post regards Morpheus: I always saw him as the stoic, steadfast leader of the crew and any problems I had with his character were due to bad writing/succumbing to tropes, and in
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Even Mouse was duped into believing he was Cyber Jesus. Cypher only betrayed Morpheus because he didn't want anyone else to be disappointed.
Morpheus basically just got lucky when he picked Neo.
Neo wakes up in his pod and the Machines release him, presumably because they understand so many minds reject the Matrix and they need Zion to balance the equation. So where do they release his body? He zooms down the chute, but then we see the Nebuchadnezzar's crane picking him up.
I guess I'm wondering what Morpheus was up to on his mission retrieving The One. How close do the hovercrafts typically get to 01? Do Zion's hovercrafts typically go out on patrol scooping up humans they've freed from the Matrix and humans who have self-substantiated?
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This is the ambient noise found on the Nebuchadnezzar in The Matrix. This sound is great for getting to sleep, focusing at work, meditating, relaxing, or just putting the baby to bed.
http://youtu.be/sAHNiHj1jHI
There is no chronological order of when the crew joined the Neb, but I think we can infer that Trinity is the most recent addition. She is a compotent hacker, driver, leader, and a very skilled and agile fighter. In many ways, she is as capable as Neo, but lacks his dramatic in-matrix powers and decision making abilities.
Switch, perhaps, was thought to be "The One" because in the matrix they were a man, but IRL a woman. This could have something to do with a mistranslatoin theory in "the prophecy" (which is never explicity stated), or be a commentary on the Wachowski's real life gender struggles.
Apoc, and Cypher are a little bit less developed in the films and harder to conjure up a good story for, but it is clear that "The One" is linked to a lover. Apoc is seen to be very much in love with Switch, and maybe the phophecies vagueness about wether the one is to be loved, or in love confused Moropheus. This can also aply to Cypher who is stated to have unrequited love for Trinity.
Mouse is clearly the most gifted hacker and coder of all the crew, being the one to write their training programs. He is also much younger than the others, and may have been such a promising young hacker as to attract the attnetion of Zionists and Agents alike, prompting his early rescue from the Matrix and development as a advanced hacker programmer.
Got nothing for Tank and Dozer, those boys have no plugs so this doesn't really apply to them. Pretty clear that Morpheus and Nairobi had a split over his devotion and belife to "The Prophecy". I'd lvoe to see all this fleshed out in a prequel, Animatrix, or otherwise.
Hello dear Matrix lovers! I would like to submit to you an hypothesis about the names of the ships of Morpheus, the Nebuchadnezzar and the Nabonidus. Those names always troubled me as I didn't understood why such historical references were made in a sci-fi movie. But today, I think that I have linked the pieces together.
It is well known that the names of the ships are taken from ancient history, more precisely Babylonian kings. But Nebuchadnezzar is also the king involved in the book of Daniel. The book of Daniel describe a Colossus representing a series of kingdoms before the coming of the kingdom of God. Each part of the colossus is in a different matter, the kingdom of Nebuchadnezzar is the gold head, then the following ones are seen as weaker and weaker. But the last part, the foot are made in a mix of iron and clay. Iron can be seen as the machines and clay, as the men, who are, according to the book of Genesis (and prior mesopotamian texts) made from clay. So litteraly in the point of view of the movie, the last age of mankind is when men are bounded with the machines.... Now Nabonidus is the last king of the neo-babylonian kingdom, but the most important element is that he was overthrow by Cyrus the Great of Persia who came from outside, and freed the jews from exile.
Did someone already noticed this link? Are there other historical/religious references in the Matrix trilogy?
Edit: minor spelling mistakes
yes, I looked up how to spell Nebuchadnezzar.
The Nebuchadnezzar:
Named after the Babylonian King in the Bible who had a divinely-inspired dream revealing God's power to him.
The nameplate says:
- Mark III No. 11 (which we know is a reference to Mark 3:11 in the Bible: "Whenever the impure spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, 'You are the Son of God.'"
- Made in the USA
- Year 2069
The Mnemosyne:
Named after the Greek goddess of memory, and mother of the muses of Zeus.
The nameplate says:
- Mark III No. 19 – Mark 3:19 in the Bible says: "and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him."
- Made in the EU
- Year 2274
Any thoughts on what the verse means in Resurrections? Maybe it's a reference to the Matrix using Neo's memories to betray his own experience of reality.
Any thoughts on why the Nebuchadnezzar was made in the USA in (what I guess they assumed was) 2069, but the Mnemosyne was made in the EU 200+ years later – considering there wouldn't be an EU to speak of? Why the 200 year difference? I know that humans didn't know for sure what the real year was, I'm curious if anyone has any ideas.
Round 1: The Boss with all superpowers vs. Neo with all powers and abilities
Round 2: The Boss with all weapons and superpowers vs. Neo with all powers and abilities
Round 3: The Saints with all weapons and superpowers vs. Morpheus, Trinity, and Neo
Round 4: The Saints, Zinyak, and the Zin empire vs. The Nebuchadnezzar crew, all agents, and all citizens of Zion.
He woke up and the machine unplugs him and washes him away when he's still alive. I can see this infrastructure being used for dead "batteries" but why was Neo allowed to slide down there alive, and be picked up by the ship without any enemy resistance?
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