CcZ
Feb 2003
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Wired Magazine-May 2003
If your a diehard Matrix fan, when the May 2003 edition of Wired hits stores, you should definitely buy it. The cover story "Re-enter the matrix" covers everything Matrix, from the premise to the video game." I got it in the mail today, and here's a caption about the premise I typed up. Article isn't availble at wired.com yet:
"Things have changed since 1999. In the last shot of the original film, Neo, played by ex-slacker Keanu Reeves, flew up out of the flame, demonstrating that his mental abilities had become stronger than the enslaving delusion of the Matrix. Now he's a full-fledged superhero, soaring over the skyline at thousands of miles an hour and making a rescue as trucks collide head-on. The bad news: Agent Smith, played by Hugo Weaving, is a rogue virus in the Matrix, able to multiply himself at will. And the last free human city, Zion, in a cave near the Earth's core, is under attack."
Also: "The team cranked up Alien, 2001, Verigo, Apocalypse Now, Koyasniqatsi (the movie with still images), and 20,000 Leagues Under The sea, along with documentary footage of car crashes, robotics manufacturing, 19th century submarines, glassblowers at work, the drilling of the Chunnel, the heavyweight bouts of Rocky Marciano, and the explosion of the Hindenburg."
"As the team tossed ideas around for one hellacious fight scene that became known in-house as Burly Brawl, Gaeta realized that the innovative technology he and his crew developed for The Matrix's ultra slo-mo action sequences would not be sufficient to bring the Wachowskis' new vision to the screen. These oft-imitated shots-now universally known as Bullet Time-required serpentine arrays of meticulously aligned cameras, and months of planning, for a brief scene featuring two or three actors. In the Burly Brawl, super-Neo would battle more than 100 Agent Smiths in an extended orgy of kung fu orchestrated by crack martial-arts choreographer Yuen Woo-Ping. To develop the technology needed for the Burly Brawl, Eon and Warner Bors, launched ESC, a visual effects skunk works in an old naval base across the bay from San Francisco. ESC ultimately produced more than a thousand visual-effects shots for the two sequels, and the company has operated in stealth mode until now. The word Matrix didn't even appear on the scripts' title pages; instead, they were tagged with a code name, The Burly Man."
"For Reloaded's blowout chase sequence-Trinity and a character called the Keymaker haul ass on a motorcycle to the nearest landline, past carloads of marauding bad guys-ESC constructed a quarter mile of new freeway on the naval base. Eventually, Gaeta enlisted more than 500 digital artists from a roster of cutting-edge effects vendors (including Sony Pictures Imageworks, Animal Logic, Tippett Studio, BUF Compagnie, and Giant Killer Robots) to create everything from shimmering swarms of Matrix code to thousands of vengeful robot "squiddies" burrowing toward Zion. But the Burly Brawl became Gaeta's personal obsession. Like many in the film industry, he has been talking for years about the promise of virtual cinematography, a confluence of technologies that would allow directors to sculpt actors' performances with the ease of tweaking a CAD file. The traditional ways of doing this, however, reduce the world to the kinds of data that computers easily understand, and the result often ends up looking like a glorified videogame. That wouldn't work for the Burly Brawl, a fight that erupts in a virtual prison indistinguishable from the real world."
*SPOILER ABOUT BURLY BRAWL BELOW*
..."If the dojo fight in The Matrix was a kung fu sonata, the Burly Brawl is a symphony. Neo tears the sign from the ground and wields it as a kendo sword, valuting pole, and battering ram. A woman walking by can't believe what she's seeing; suddenly her body is hijacked, she drops her grocery bag, and another Smith charges into the fray. Whole battalions of Smiths arive, mount assaults, attack in waves, scatter, regroup, and head back for more. In the thick of it, Neo is danicing, chucking black-tied bodies skyward, pivoting around the signpost, and using shoulders as stepping-stones over the raging river of whup-ass."
*I checked all my Georgetown university resources, such as Proquest, Sirs, Gale Research, Lexus Nexus, etc...and could not find this article anywhere. It will be coming soon, if not already in stores! So I typed some of it up for you. Not in any specific order, just stuff that caught my eye. Sorry about any spelling.*
Last edited by CcZ on 04-06-2003 at 04:14 PM
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03-26-2003 03:44 AM
or did you see it in a theater?
waiting for it to be released
