#THE MATRIX RED PILL BLUE PILL SCENE MOVIE#
#THE MATRIX RED PILL BLUE PILL SCENE TV#

We get a shot of a bunch of people in an elevator staring at their phones while Neo stares upwards, obviously disturbed. Keanu Reeves in Matrix Resurrections Warner Bros. They may be just a symbol of Neo trying to escape his depressing reality (and perhaps a commentary on our reliance on prescription medications) or these may literally be the pills that keep him from remembering what happened when he left the Matrix, whether he knows that’s what they’re doing or not. The red pill would take him further down the “rabbit hole,” and reveal the truth of his existence. The blue pill would return him to his normal life in the Matrix and help him forget he was living in a simulation.

#THE MATRIX RED PILL BLUE PILL SCENE MOVIE#

Even the most casual Matrix fan will recall that in the first movie Morpheus (played by Laurence Fishburne) offers Neo a blue pill and a red pill. From this trailer alone, it seems Wachowski, who is co-writing and directing Resurrections, is interested in exploring themes like how technology has gained an even greater hold over us since the original trilogy debuted.Īnd here come the pills. They’re almost certainly making a larger philosophical point. But knowing filmmaker Lana Wachowski, co-creator of the original Matrix trilogy along with Lilly Wachowski, the parallels between the two movies don’t just exist for the sake of fan service. To that end, it looks like we will get new riffs on the iconic red pill/blue pill scene and the dojo scene, among other nods to the original film.įans are already excited by the prospect of returning to many of the most famous moments from the original film. He will need to journey back down the rabbit hole again. If this is the same Neo from the original trilogy, he seems to have forgotten that he is the chosen one. More curious still, Neo and Trinity both seem to have aged, while other characters in the film look to be younger versions of the characters we met in the original trilogy. Considering that both of these characters died in the third film, why they are still alive or whether these are even the same characters we met back in 1999 is up for debate. In the trailer, we find out that Keanu Reeves‘ Neo and Carrie-Anne Moss’ Trinity are back inside the Matrix. What we do know is that Resurrections parallels the original Matrix film in many ways. All the better that the plot remain a mystery before the film’s premiere in December. The first trailer for The Matrix Resurrections, the much anticipated fourth entry in the seminal series, dropped on Thursday, and in classic Matrix fashion, it raises more questions than it offers answers. Specifically the “Experience Machine” device which presents the choice of living life of reality with all its attendant ups and downs, or one of simulated reality.Īs well as this, The Matrix stands on the shoulders of Jean Baudrillard, Lewis Carroll and Plato.We’re finally returning to the Matrix. So… which pill do you want to take? Referencesīoth The Matrix and Strange Days owe much of their premises to Robert Nozick’s 1974 book Anarchy, State, and Utopia. You will go to the cinema to watch a movie, find yourself hearing a great soundbite, to then have your conscious mind interrupt the story to tell you to stop the film and write it down. As I explain in my tutorial on scene selection, promo producers have to consciously study what they are watching… once you have trained yourself to do that, it’s almost impossible to be a “regular viewer” again.

#THE MATRIX RED PILL BLUE PILL SCENE TV#

Secondly, the Red Pill/Blue Pill scene beautifully encapsulates (sorry!) what happens when you decide to become a Movie trailer or TV promo producer. It’s feeding you your dreams.įirstly, the reason I’m going here, is to remind you that it’s a copywriter’s job to keep people connected to the Matrix to be Agent Smith. The whole of western society is hooked up to it. TV, Movies, Newspapers… and now Social Media.

You don’t have to be an internet propeller-head to get the metaphor. Of course, in this scene, he’s yet to work all that out.

Humanity is being kept in a coma from cradle to grave fed everything they need to stay alive, including the illusion of a normal life delivered directly to their cerebral cortices. It’s not a spoiler to say he takes the red pill, otherwise, there would be no movie, right? Once awake, he discovers the whole of society is being farmed, precisely like battery hens. Keanu Reeves’ Neo character is offered the chance to either take the blue pill and go back to living in a dream world, or take the red pill and discover the brutal reality of his existence. The Matrix is dazzlingly clever distillation of philosophical ideas and thought experiments into a sci-fi matinée actioner itself can be viewed in red-pill mode, or blue-pill mode.

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