The Matrix: Neo's new meeting with the Architect. Architect of the Matrix

The question that tormented Thomas Anderson on long, cold nights. The answer was given by Morpheus in the first film.

Morpheus: ...What is the Matrix? The Matrix is control.
It seems he himself did not understand how right he was. It should be clarified that the Matrix is total control. This is not only keeping people in the cells of their consciousness, but also controlling their thoughts and actions.

Agent Smith: Did you know that the first Matrix was created as an ideal world for people, where there was no suffering? It was a disaster. Nobody accepted the program.
Architect: The first Matrix I created was practically perfect... Its triumph is equaled only by its monumental failure.
That is, the first Matrix was Paradise for people, but people did not accept it. According to Smith, the reason was that people cannot believe in the existence of a world without suffering and pain - quite possibly.

Subsequently, the Architect created a world similar to ours, probably thinking that recreating a pre-existing world would certainly make it realistic enough for people. But here, too, failure awaited him. Because of his eternal desire for harmony (he is a mathematician, after all), the Architect could not create a world that people could believe in and for this reason he creates a program to recognize the psychology of people - Oracle. The Oracle creates in the Matrix the concept “ choice" and turns the anomaly into " Favorite", thus influencing people's religiosity.

Architect: 99% of test subjects accepted the program if given a choice - even if they only knew about it on a subconscious level.
However, there are always 1% of those who do not accept the program and they need to be isolated - thus, Zion appears, where people who do not believe in the Matrix are thrown. You feel it, right? There are always people living in Zion who know that the Matrix is illusory - they never stay to live in the Matrix. It is quite possible that this is embedded in them subconsciously.

However, complete freedom of choice means chaos, which can again destroy the system - hence machines create the illusion of choice. Human goes with that the path that is necessary for the Machines in this case, considering that it was he himself who chose it. In fact, the entire concept of the Matrix was explained quite clearly by the Merovingian.

Merovingen: Choice is an illusion; the line between those who have power and those who do not.
Machines have a choice because they have power; people have no choice because they have no power.

Merovingen: Everything in this world obeys the law of cause and effect.
This is the key phrase. Cause and investigation. Everything in the Matrix obeys this law.

Cause: The Chosen One must become attached to people and join the war with the Machines.
Consequence: Morpheus pulls Neo out of the Matrix and brings him to Zion.

Cause: The chosen one must realize his power.
Consequence: The Oracle leads Neo to events that make him believe in himself.

Cause: The Chosen One must reset the Matrix.
Consequence: The Chosen One reaches the Source.

And the options are here did not have and never was. There is no choice in the Matrix.

How many Matrices were there?
Architect: The Matrix is much older than you think. I prefer to count from the occurrence of one integral anomaly to another, and in this case this is already the sixth version.
By integral anomaly, most likely, we mean the appearance of the Chosen One. Consequently, there may be many, many more different versions of the Matrix.

Why is the Chosen One needed?
Architect: You [Neo] are an anomaly that, despite all my attempts, I could not bring to mathematical equilibrium.
That is - firstly, the appearance of the Chosen One inevitably.
Secondly, the Chosen One is unresolved a systemic equation that could easily lead to the collapse of the system. But the Architect knows about the existence of the Anomaly and, therefore, can control it by wisely using the illusion of choice.
Architect: …[the anomaly] is expected, known, and therefore controllable, which is what ultimately brought you here.
Each Chosen One, one way or another, must come to the Source. Everyone Is Chosen controlled. Judging by the Architect's words, this is a way to distract the anomaly from getting out of control and destroying the system.

And here a legitimate question arises - Why such a long path for the anomaly to the Source?
Well, firstly, it is logical that the anomaly should reload the Matrix only at the moment necessary for the Machines - until that moment it needs to be occupied with something.
And secondly, is her journey really so long?

Architect: Your five predecessors were created with similar conditions: ... a deep attachment to your species in order to successfully fulfill the functions of the Chosen One.
Architect: ...are you ready to take responsibility for the death of every human being on Earth?
That is, the Chosen One must be shown Zion so that he can see all the torment human species, became attached to people and wanted to kill the nasty Machines. Therefore, the Chosen One must be pulled out of the Matrix. Next, he must for a long time live there so that he develops a feeling of attachment to people. In the future, the Chosen One must find the Keymaster. This quest in Reboot takes up at least half of the film, which raised questions about the length of the Chosen One's journey. Now let’s think about it - the Merovingian is an obvious enemy of the system. It is likely that in previous versions it would have been much easier to get to the Keymaster, but this time it turned out that he was captured by the Merovingian. No more. An accident in the world of the Matrix, which could well have disrupted the reboot process. The Merovingian has power and therefore choice, right?

In fact, if we exclude the capture of the Keymaster, the path of the Chosen One seems to me like this:
Disconnection from the Matrix -> Awareness of the Chosen One -> “War” with the Machines and life in Zion -> Receiving instructions from the Oracle to find the Keyholder and go to the Source -> Meeting with the Keyholder -> The Keyholder brings the Chosen One to the Source -> Meeting with the Architect -> Reboot Matrices

Why reboot the Matrix and destroy Zeon?
The options are as follows:
1. Any program, one way or another, requires improvement and updating. The Chosen One, as an anomaly, can cause a bunch of bugs and errors to appear, which are subsequently corrected in new version Matrices.
2. Following the theory that the Matrix is an experiment on people, then rebooting the Matrix means the beginning of a new experiment. It is quite possible that the Architect is not privy to this - he is only the creator.
3. Over time, it accumulates in the Matrix great amount errors that lead to system crash, and, therefore, the system needs to be rebooted.
4. Regular update to a new version. It is quite possible that it occurs, say, every ten years.

Note by the way that the Merovingian met previous Chosen Ones.
Merovingen: ...I outlived your predecessors - and I will outlive you!
Consequently, when the Matrix is rebooted, the programs are not deleted. It is quite possible that people connected to the Matrix also remain alive and do not even notice the reboot and continue to live as they lived.

The need to destroy Zion is obvious - no one should know that there were several Matrices (otherwise the meaning of the prophecy will be lost). No one should know about the previous Chosen One (imagine Morpheus meeting the new Neo). And also Zeon is growing greatly over time, which can threaten the Machines with unnecessary unnecessary problems. Plus, the inhabitants of Zion constantly disconnect people from the Matrix, which is a waste of energy.

Why not destroy Zeon? nuclear bomb? Or a neutron bomb? Or shoot to hell?
1. Fear of damaging the planet’s core in an explosion (Zion, as you know, is close to the core)
2.Increase the time of capture of Zeon so that the Chosen One understands the seriousness of the situation.
3.The minimum possible forces of the Machines are sent to destroy Zeon. Note that only octopuses attacked Zeon.

Why is the Chosen One needed to reboot the Matrix?
The key and most complex issue. The machines can probably reload the Matrix themselves. Why wait for the Chosen One? Why not occupy him with something else? What if the Chosen One chooses the wrong door (as we remember, there is always 1%)?
1. Theory of experiment - explains this perfectly. The Chosen One is the main test subject. The machines are watching how he will act this time under new conditions.
2. During his life, the Chosen One unknowingly collects a certain important information, which is necessary during Reboot. Error log for example.
3. The Chosen One is extremely strong, unkillable, unstoppable and dangerous for the system - to destroy him it is necessary to lure him into the Source, where he will die to save people. The safest option for cars.

May 11th, 2015

Remember, when the second and third “Matrixes” began to come out, many said that it was no longer the same, that everything had slipped into special effects and “Hollywood”, the whole plot had disappeared, so to speak, and philosophical beginning film, which was traced back in the first part. Have you ever had such thoughts? But I just discovered today that there is a certain person walking around the network original script"Matrix". Most likely it appeared from the fan resource http://lozhki.net/, there are a lot of English-language scripts and film materials posted there.

But it cannot be ruled out that this is just a fan fantasy. If anyone has more accurate information on this matter, please share. And you and I will read what the real “Matrix” should have been like by the Wachowski brothers (or who didn’t know the Wachowski sisters and brothers).

The Wachowski brothers wrote the script for the Matrix trilogy for five years, but the producers reworked their work. In the real Matrix, the Architect tells Neo that both he and Zeon are part of the Matrix in order to create the appearance of freedom for people. Man cannot defeat the machine, and the end of the world cannot be corrected.

The script for The Matrix was created by the Wachowski brothers over the course of five years. He gave birth to a whole illusory world, densely penetrated by several storylines, from time to time intricately intertwined with each other. Adapting their colossal work for film adaptation, the Wachowskis changed so much that, by their own admission, the embodiment of their plans turned out to be only a “fantasy based on” the story that was invented at the very beginning.

Producer Joel Silver removed the harsh ending from the script. The fact is that from the very beginning, the Wachowskis conceived their trilogy as a film with the saddest and most hopeless ending.

So, the original script for The Matrix.

First of all, it is worth mentioning that script sketches and different variants of the same film, having been rejected, were not further developed, so much remained not integrated into a coherent system. Thus, in the “sad” version of the trilogy, the events of the second and third parts are quite severely curtailed. At the same time, in the third, final part, the unfolding of such a severe intrigue begins that it practically turns on its head all the events that occurred earlier in the plot. Likewise, the ending of Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense completely shakes up all the events of the film from its very beginning. Only in “The Matrix” the viewer had to look at almost the entire trilogy with new eyes. And it’s a shame that Joel Silver insisted on the implemented version

Six months have passed since the end of the events of the first film. Neo, being in real world, discovers an incredible ability to influence his surroundings: first, he lifts into the air and bends a spoon lying on the table, then determines the position of the hunting machines outside of Zion, then, in a battle with the Octopuses, he destroys one of them with the power of thought in front of the shocked ship’s crew.

Neo and everyone around him cannot find an explanation for this phenomenon. Neo is sure that there is good reason, and that his gift is somehow connected with the war against machines, and is capable of having a decisive impact on the fate of people (in filmed this ability also exists, but it is not explained at all, and they do not even particularly focus on it - maybe that’s all. Although, based on common sense, Neo’s ability to perform miracles in the real world makes absolutely no sense in light of the entire concept of “The Matrix”, and just looks strange).

So Neo goes to Pythia to get an answer to his question and find out what to do next. Pythia tells Neo that she doesn't know why he has superpowers in the real world, and how they relate to Neo's Purpose. She says that the secret of our hero’s Destination can only be revealed by the Architect - the supreme program that created the Matrix. Neo is looking for a way to meet the Architect, going through incredible difficulties (this involves the already familiar Master of Keys being captured by the Merovingian, a chase on the highway, etc.).

And so Neo meets the Architect. He reveals to him that the human city of Zeon has been destroyed five times already, and that the unique Neo was deliberately created by machines in order to personify hope for liberation for people, and thus maintain calm in the Matrix and serve its stability. But when Neo asks the Architect what role his superpowers manifesting in the real world play in all this, the Architect says that the answer to this question can never be given, for it will lead to knowledge that will destroy everything Neo's friends fought for and himself.

After a conversation with the Architect, Neo realizes that there is some secret hidden here, the solution of which could bring the long-awaited end to the war between people and machines. His abilities are becoming stronger. (The script contains several scenes of Neo's impressive fights with machines in the real world, in which he has evolved into Superman, and can do almost everything he could in The Matrix: fly, stop bullets, etc.).

In Zion, it becomes known that cars have begun moving towards the city of people with the goal of killing all those who have left the Matrix, and the entire population of the city sees hope for salvation in Neo alone, who does truly grandiose things - in particular, he gains the ability to arrange powerful explosions there where he wants.

Meanwhile, Agent Smith, who has escaped the control of the main computer, has become free and has acquired the ability to endlessly copy himself, and begins to threaten the Matrix itself. Having inhabited Bane, Smith also penetrates the real world.

Towards the middle of the film, a total collapse occurs: there are more Smith agents in the Matrix than people and the process of their self-copying grows like an avalanche; in the real world, machines penetrate Zion, and in a colossal battle they destroy all people, except for a handful of survivors led by Neo, who , despite his superpowers, cannot stop thousands of cars rushing into the city.

Morpheus and Trinity die next to Neo, heroically defending Zeon. Neo, in terrible despair, increases his strength to absolutely incredible proportions, breaks through to the only surviving ship (Morpheus' Nebuchadnezzar), and leaves Zion, climbing to the surface. He heads to the main computer to destroy it, avenging the deaths of the inhabitants of Zeon, and especially the deaths of Morpheus and Trinity.

Bane-Smith is hiding aboard the Nebuchadnezzar, trying to stop Neo from destroying the Matrix, as he realizes that doing so will kill himself. In an epic fight with Neo, Bane also displays superpowers, burning out Neo's eyes, but ultimately dies. What follows is a scene in which Neo, blinded but still seeing everything, breaks through myriads of enemies to the Center and causes a grand explosion there. He literally incinerates not only the Central Computer, but also himself. Millions of capsules with people turn off, the glow in them disappears, the cars freeze forever and the viewer sees a dead, deserted planet.

Bright light. Neo, completely intact, without wounds and with intact eyes, comes to his senses sitting in the red chair of Morpheus from the first part of “The Matrix” in a completely white space. He sees the Architect in front of him. The Architect tells Neo that he is shocked at what a person is capable of in the name of love. He says that he did not take into account the power that is infused into a person when he is ready to sacrifice his life for the sake of other people. He says that machines are not capable of this, and therefore they can lose, even if it seems unthinkable. He says that Neo is the only one of all the Chosen Ones who "was able to come this far."

Neo asks where he is. In the Matrix, the Architect answers. The perfection of the Matrix lies, among other things, in the fact that it does not allow unforeseen events to cause it even the slightest damage. The Architect informs Neo that they are now at the "zero point" after the reboot of the Matrix, at the very beginning of its Seventh Version.

Neo doesn't understand anything. He says that he has just destroyed the Central Computer, that the Matrix is no more, along with all of humanity. The architect laughs and tells Neo something that shocks to the core not only him, but the entire audience.

Zion is part of the Matrix. In order to create for people the appearance of freedom, in order to give them Choice, without which a person cannot exist, the Architect came up with a reality within a reality. And Zeon, and the whole war with the machines, and Agent Smith, and in general everything that happened from the very beginning of the trilogy, was planned in advance and is nothing more than a dream. The war was only a diversionary maneuver, but in fact, everyone who died in Zion, fought with the machines, and fought inside the Matrix, continues to lie in their capsules in pink syrup, they are alive and are waiting for a new reboot of the system so that they can start “living” in it again ", "fight" and "free yourself". And in this harmonious system, Neo - after his “rebirth” - will be assigned the same role as in all previous versions of the Matrix: to inspire people to fight, which does not exist.

No human has ever left the Matrix since its creation. No man has ever died except according to the plan of the machines. All people are slaves and that will never change.

The camera shows the film's characters lying in their capsules in different corners“nurseries”: here is Morpheus, here is Trinity, here is Captain Mifune, who died the death of the brave in Zeon, and many, many others. They are all hairless, dystrophic and entangled in hoses. Neo is shown last, looking exactly the same as he did in the first film when he was "liberated" by Morpheus. Neo's face is serene.

This is how your superpower is explained in “reality,” says the Architect. This also explains the existence of Zeon, which people “could never build the way you saw it” due to lack of resources. And would we really, laughs the Architect, allow people freed from the Matrix to hide in Zeon if we always had the opportunity to either kill them or connect them to the Matrix again? And would we really have to wait decades to destroy Zeon even if it existed? Still, you underestimate us, Mr. Anderson, says the Architect.

Neo, looking straight ahead with a dead face, tries to comprehend what has happened, and casts his last glance at the Architect, who says goodbye to him: “In the Seventh Version of the Matrix, Love will rule the world.”

The alarm sounds. Neo wakes up and turns it off. The last shot of the film: Neo in a business suit leaves the house and quickly heads to work, disappearing into the crowd. The end credits begin to heavy music.

But the producers insisted on a happy ending, albeit not a particularly joyful one, and their condition was the mandatory inclusion in the picture of the epic confrontation between Neo and his antipode Smith as a kind of biblical analogue of the battle of Good and Evil. As a result, the rather sophisticated philosophical parable of the first part unfortunately degenerated into a set of virtuoso special effects without particularly deep thought.

Here you can download original script

And also what is it The original article is on the website InfoGlaz.rf Link to the article from which this copy was made -

Igor Terentyev

From Moscow State University to The Matrix.

From closedness to competition.

From investors to merger.

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About inflation:

About family:

In thirteen years, Timur Gizatullin has gone from an economics student to one of the youngest participants in the ranking of Russian billionaires.

Igor Terentyev

“If earlier we could raise money for a truckload of sweets, earn a profit, and put some of it aside, now you can’t earn anything from a truckload. I would advise those people who want to realize themselves to gain more knowledge and make a career as employees,” according to the owner of the Matrix holding, Timur Gizatullin, attempts to create a new business in most cases will not be successful. At the same time, he stipulates that it is possible to open a family business in a separate niche, but it is unlikely that a small project will develop into a company with noticeable capitalization. However, in the early 90s everything was different.

From Moscow State University to The Matrix. Schoolboy Timur Gizatullin connected his career with science. Before his eyes was the example of his father, a professor and doctor of economic sciences. The future entrepreneur decided to enroll at Moscow State University, but the opening prospects in business changed his priorities: “I looked at what Moscow is and studied it more carefully. Living in the capital and visiting it is absolutely different concepts. I realized that life in Ufa can be embellished, so I returned to hometown, entered the Bashkir State University and organized food supplies from Moscow.” Timur Gizatullin actually had no initial capital - suppliers helped, who provided a deferment. Due to a lack of funds, he attracted friends and classmates into the business, who agreed to share in future profits.

A new stage was the creation of a company for wholesale trade alcoholic products(now the holding’s share in this market in Bashkiria is about 65%). The company regularly faced non-payments, which prompted its owner to create his own retail store. In 2000, Timur Gizatullin opened the World of Wines chain of specialized stores. But the very next year, the entrepreneur entered food retail by purchasing the Universal Trading company from Uralsib Bank.

How much did the purchase cost? And who made the offer - you or Uralsib?

– $400 thousand. This was the cost of 5 shops leased from the municipality. It cannot be said that the business was unprofitable, but it could not develop at the expense of its profits and required restructuring. The proposal came from Uralsib - we were always in close contact (“Uralsib, before the purchase of its shares by Nikolai Tsvetkov’s Nikoil and integration into the financial group of the same name, was the largest local financial institution. - “F.”). We were the first to receive an offer, we quickly responded to it and acquired the network in a matter of months.

Why is the supermarket chain called "Matrix"?

- (With a smile). Of course, the associations with the film are unambiguous, but it is very difficult to come up with a brand name so that it will impress everyone. In addition, it must be patented. And this brand was free - this is the first factor. Secondly, the word “matrix” is used by retail chains for the assortment list. And the third is a mathematical system of numbers, which is very correctly organized. And we strive for organized and correct business.

From closedness to competition. The first time they heard about Matrix in Moscow was in the spring of 2005, when the chain opened its own hypermarket in the capital. In the same year, only in December, investors also learned about it - the company placed bonds. Before this, Timur Gizatullin’s business was actually stewing in its own juice - Bashkiria (and Tatarstan) long time remained closed markets to outside investors. The entrepreneur himself agrees with this definition:

– We do not have a serious competitor who could step on our heels. We have been in a very long time comfortable conditions without external influences, but sooner or later all federal networks will start working in our market.

What is the reason for the closedness of the market?

– Perhaps we are a limiting factor in terms of what competitors do not have time to offer more money or promptly respond to a proposal. In addition, in the republic for a long time it was difficult to obtain land plots for the construction of new facilities. Now the situation has changed - I know about six Perekrestok stores being designed.

Did difficulties in obtaining land apply to all investors or only to external ones?

– I think for everyone. The city is different in that there is not much free land.

Timur Gizatullin is not afraid of new competitors, as he believes that the format of supermarkets near home is safe in terms of the impact of larger stores: “Practice shows that even chains such as Metro influenced us only for two to three weeks, when sales “ Matrix" fell by 2-3%, and then the figures recovered. New players are eating away market share from unorganized trade.” But Raiffeisenbank analysts believe that large federal chains are one of the main risks for the company: “Matrix’s financial results may suffer significantly due to competition with larger players who are able to obtain more comfortable purchasing conditions from suppliers.”

Experts also note another negative factor – the concentration of the company’s business in one region – Bashkiria. In the summer, Matrix opened its first supermarket in Samara, but expansion is progressing with difficulty. “We are forced to postpone the opening of stores due to the fact that the requirements of Rospotrebnadzor are regularly becoming more stringent. There are also many problems with energy supply,” explains Timur Gizatullin.

As for the capital region, the company's only facility remains a hypermarket. And in the near future the number of Matrix assets in Moscow will not increase. According to Timur Gizatullin, there is no normal supply of commercial real estate on the market: “We want to enter the built residential areas with the format of a supermarket near the house. IN large formats– hypermarkets or supermarkets in shopping centers I don’t see myself, because there are powerful players here that The Matrix cannot compete with.” True, the company is designing four mini-shopping centers in Moscow.

Development, along with wholesale trade and retail, another area of activity for the group. The company's strategy in this area is quite simple: after the formation of a flow of rental payments, it plans to sell shopping complexes to specialized investors. At the same time, Matrix supermarkets will remain as anchor tenants in these centers.

From investors to merger. Until last year, Timur Gizatullin’s business was an unstructured group of companies without a consolidation center. With the help of consultants Ernst & Young, a reorganization was carried out, as a result of which OJSC Holding Matrix became the parent company of the group. As a rule, such restructuring is associated with the upcoming sale of the business to a strategic investor. But the owner of “The Matrix” has a more multifaceted idea: “We can develop at the same pace, albeit gradually, but confidently. But at the same time, the holding gave the investment company the task of looking for retail chains that are ready to sell themselves. Financing such purchases cannot be done with loans and bonds. If we receive an interesting offer, the holding will issue an additional issue and attract investor resources. This is the operational plan." There have been no tempting offers yet - Timur Gizatullin says that he sees no reason to buy networks with low profitability.

There is also a strategic plan, which is designed for 2–2.5 years. In the spring of next year, Matrix will receive an audit report on IFRS statements for 2007 (while the company is publishing unaudited reports - “F.”) and will begin searching for a partner among investment funds, to which it will sell up to 40% of the shares in 2009.

What can attract investors to a company? Firstly, high growth rates. In 2006, the holding's revenue increased by 47%, according to the results of the first half of 2007 - by 48%. Secondly, a large share of real estate is owned by the company - 80% of 122 thousand square meters. meters of retail space (but most of of which is pledged against bank loans. - “F.”).

There are also two disadvantages. According to IFRS reporting, the holding has a low effective rate income tax. Instead of the standard 24% in 2006 it was 1.1%, in the first half of 2007 – 12.6%. Raiffeisenbank analysts attribute these indicators to the group's low transparency. Timur Gizatullin calls not to dramatize the situation: “Even at the tax office I once had to explain these figures. According to IFRS, we capitalize part of the interest expenses (and make a profit), since the objects for which loans were received have not yet been launched.” The second minus is more significant. The holding has a high debt load. At the end of the first half of 2007, the debt/EBITDA ratio was 6.5, and for retail chains a figure not exceeding 4 is considered comfortable. It is not surprising that funds received from investment funds according to strategic plan, the holding plans to use not for development, but for repaying loans. “In 2009, we must restructure the debt, otherwise we will not be able to develop further,” explains the entrepreneur.

Before turning his attention to the funds, Timur Gizatullin discussed the possibility of merging with the Perm group Norman-Vivat: “Both I and Vadim Yusupov (the owner of Norman-Vivat - F.”) liked the idea. They wanted to create a board of directors of independent specialists to manage both networks, but no progress was made - for example, I was completely occupied with the audit of the Matrix. I think we will return to this conversation after a while.” Vadim Yusupov adds that the matter did not go beyond an exchange primary information: « The most important reason What happened was that Matrix itself viewed itself as a single company that engaged in wholesale and retail trade. And we proposed to allocate for the merger retail business. We ourselves are involved in approximately the same businesses, but we have clearly separated them - they have independent management and development strategy.” He also does not exclude the possibility of resuming negotiations: “We are interested in any paths of development in the Urals region, including mergers and acquisitions.”

Even a hypothetically united company, not to mention the Matrix itself, will not be able to withstand the largest players and, most likely, will become their victim in the medium term. But Timur Gizatullin urges us not to rush to conclusions: “For example, in Italy there are many networks that successfully exist in a certain niche and earn money for their shareholders. And this situation suits me completely.”

Quotes

About inflation:“In my understanding, its rate this year will be 20%, because the cost of imported cheese, bread, and milk has increased sharply. We will receive additional profit, since the income from the more expensive goods will be higher, but do not forget that the cost wages is also growing."

About family:“I don’t understand businessmen who don’t have time for their families, apparently they are stuck in a routine. I only do it myself global solutions, and I can take them both at home and on vacation.”

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Many film critics note that after the conceptual "Matrix One", its sequels smacked too much of the desire to make as much money as possible from the success of the previous film in order to be considered worthy of the predecessor film. Perhaps things could look completely different...

Many believe that the (then) Wachowski brothers, in fact, created one and only film, on the glory of which they built their entire subsequent career. The first “Matrix” is brilliant. The second and third parts of the trilogy went far towards pure commerce, and this slightly spoiled the aftertaste, but what original painting turned out to be above all and any praise - that's for sure.

Unfortunately, having filled the sequels with stunning special effects, filling them to capacity with characters and minor events, the authors of “The Matrix” lost the scorching simplicity of the original, which the peculiar happy ending with the sunrise only contributed to.
But what would you say if you found out what the Wachowskis' original idea was? If it had been properly embodied on the screen, the effect of “The Matrix” would have been tripled, because the film would have surpassed even “Fight Club” in terms of the cruelty of the final turn of events!

The script for The Matrix was created by the Wachowskis over more than five years. Years of continuous work gave birth to an entire illusory world, densely permeated with several storylines, which from time to time intricately intertwined with each other. Adapting their colossal work for film adaptation, the Wachowskis changed so much that, by their own admission, the embodiment of their plans turned out to be only a “fantasy based on” the story that was invented at the very beginning. Although, of course, the basic idea has always remained the same.

The most interesting thing is this: at a certain stage, an extremely entertaining component was ultimately removed from the script - the harsh final twist. The fact is that from the very beginning, the Wachowskis conceived their trilogy as a film with perhaps the saddest and most hopeless ending imaginable. Judging by the extensive portion of the script, which was rejected in its entirety at the stage of coordinating the production of the film with producer Joel Silver, we were deprived of an extremely stunning finale, which would certainly have looked better than that“happy ending”, which eventually made it to the screens.

First of all, it is worth mentioning that the script sketches and different versions of the same film, being rejected, were not further developed, so much remained not linked into a coherent system. Thus, in the “sad” version of the trilogy, the events of the second and third parts are quite severely curtailed. At the same time, in the third, final part, the unfolding of such a severe intrigue begins that it practically turns on its head all the events that occurred earlier in the plot. Likewise, the ending of Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense completely shakes up all the events of the film from its very beginning. Only in “The Matrix” the viewer had to look at almost the entire trilogy with new eyes. And it’s a shame that Joel Silver insisted on the implemented version - this one is clearly better.

So, original story script:

Six months have passed since the end of the events of the first film. Neo, being in the real world, discovers an incredible ability to influence his surroundings: first, he lifts into the air and bends a spoon lying on the table, then determines the position of the Hunter machines outside of Zion, then, in a battle with the Octopuses, destroys one of them with the power of thought in front of the ship's shocked crew.

Neo and everyone around him cannot find an explanation for this phenomenon. Neo is sure that there is a good reason for this, and that his gift is somehow connected with the war against machines, and is capable of having a decisive impact on the fate of people (it is interesting to note that in the filmed this ability is also present, but it is not explained at all, and they don’t even pay much attention to it - maybe that’s all there is to it. Although, on common sense, Neo’s ability to perform miracles in the real world makes absolutely no sense in the light of the entire concept of “The Matrix”, and just looks strange) .

So Neo goes to Pythia to get an answer to his question and find out what to do next. Pythia tells Neo that she doesn't know why he has superpowers in the real world, and how they relate to Neo's Purpose. She says that the secret of our hero's Destination can only be revealed by the Architect - the supreme program that created the Matrix. Neo is looking for a way to meet the Architect, going through incredible difficulties (this involves the already familiar Master of Keys being captured by the Merovingian, a chase on the highway, etc.) .

After a conversation with the Architect, Neo realizes that there is some secret hidden here, the solution of which could bring the long-awaited end to the war between people and machines. His abilities are becoming stronger. (The script contains several scenes of Neo's impressive fights with machines in the real world, in which he has developed into the ultimate superman, and can do almost the same things as in the Matrix: fly, stop bullets, etc.)

Neo seeks a new meeting with the Architect to offer him a deal: he destroys Agent Smith by destroying his code, and the Architect reveals to Neo the secret of his superpowers in the real world and stops the movement of cars to Zeon. But the room in the skyscraper where Neo met with the Architect is empty: the creator of the Matrix has changed his address, and now no one knows how to find him. Towards the middle of the film, a total collapse occurs: there are more Smith agents in the Matrix than people, and the process of their self-copying grows like an avalanche; in the real world, machines penetrate Zion, and in a colossal battle destroy everyone except a handful of survivors, led by Neo, who , despite his superpowers, cannot stop thousands of cars rushing into the city.

Bane-Smith is hiding aboard the Nebuchadnezzar, trying to stop Neo from destroying the Matrix, as he realizes that doing so will kill himself. In an epic fight with Neo, Bane also displays superpowers, burning out Neo's eyes, but ultimately dies. What follows is an absolutely stunning scene in which Neo, blinded but still seeing everything, breaks through a myriad of enemies to the Center and causes a grand explosion there. He literally incinerates not only the Central Computer, but also himself. Millions of capsules with people are switched off, the glow in them disappears, the cars freeze forever and the viewer sees a dead, deserted planet.

Bright light. Neo, completely intact, without wounds and with his eyes intact, comes to his senses sitting in the red chair of Morpheus from the first part of The Matrix in a completely white space. He sees the Architect in front of him. The Architect tells Neo that he is shocked at what a person can do in the name of love. He says that he did not take into account the power that is infused into a person when he is ready to sacrifice his life for the sake of other people. He says that machines are not capable of this, and therefore they can lose, even if it seems unthinkable. He says that Neo is the only one of all the Chosen Ones who "was able to come this far."

Neo asks where he is. In the Matrix, the Architect answers. The perfection of the Matrix lies, among other things, in the fact that it does not allow unforeseen events to cause it the slightest damage. The Architect tells Neo that they are now at the "zero point" after the reboot of the Matrix, at the very beginning of its Seventh Version.

No human has ever left the Matrix since its creation. No man has ever died except according to the plan of the machines. All people are slaves and that will never change.

The camera shows the film's characters lying in their capsules in different corners of the "nurseries": here is Morpheus, here is Trinity, here is Captain Mifune, who died a heroic death in Zeon, and many, many others. They are all hairless, dystrophic and entangled in hoses. Neo is shown last, looking exactly the same as he did in the first film when he was "liberated" by Morpheus. Neo's face is serene.

This will never be taken down. One can only imagine how it could have been. And it could be very, very cool.

Now I finally found the answers to those stupid plot holes that plagued me in this trilogy. This... This is simply brilliant! If the film had been brought to the screen as originally intended, the effect of watching “The Matrix” would have been 10 times stronger. And in terms of the cruelty of the final turn of events, this film would have surpassed even the magnificent “Fight Club”!
The script for The Matrix was created by the Wachowski brothers over the course of five years. It gave birth to an entire illusory world, densely permeated with several storylines, which from time to time intricately intertwined with each other. Adapting their colossal work for film adaptation, and yielding to the demands of producer Joel Silver, the Wachowskis changed so much that, by their own admission, the embodiment of their plans turned out to be only a “fantasy based on” the story that was invented at the very beginning.

So, the original script for The Matrix.

Six months have passed since the end of the events of the first film. Neo, being in the real world, discovers an incredible ability to influence his surroundings: first, he lifts into the air and bends a spoon lying on the table, then determines the position of the hunting machines outside of Zion, then, in a battle with Octopuses, destroys one of them with the power of thought in front of the ship's shocked crew.

Neo and everyone around him cannot find an explanation for this phenomenon. Neo is sure that there is a good reason for this, and that his gift is somehow connected with the war against machines, and is capable of having a decisive impact on the fate of people (in the filmed film this ability is also there, but it is not explained at all, and it is not even shown on it). especially draw attention - maybe that’s all. Although, on common sense, Neo’s ability to perform miracles in the real world makes absolutely no sense in the light of the entire concept of “The Matrix”, and just looks strange).

Bane-Smith is hiding aboard the Nebuchadnezzar, trying to stop Neo from destroying the Matrix, as he realizes that doing so will kill himself. In an epic fight with Neo, Bane also displays superpowers, burning out Neo's eyes, but ultimately dies. What follows is a scene in which Neo, blinded but still seeing everything, breaks through billions of enemies to the Center and causes a grand explosion there. He literally incinerates not only the Central Computer, but also himself. Millions of capsules with people turn off, the glow in them disappears, the cars freeze forever and the viewer sees a dead, deserted planet.

No human has ever left the Matrix since its creation. No man has ever died except according to the plan of the machines. All people are slaves and that will never change.

The camera shows the film's heroes lying in their capsules in different corners of the "nurseries": here is Morpheus, here is Trinity, here is Captain Mifune, who died a brave death in Zeon, and many, many others. They are all hairless, dystrophic and entangled in hoses. Neo is shown last, looking exactly the same as he did in the first film when he was "liberated" by Morpheus. Neo's face is serene.

Not only does this script look more coherent and understandable, not only does it really brilliantly explain plot holes that were left unexplained in the film adaptation - it also fits much better into the gloomy style of cyberpunk than the "hopeful" ending of what was seen us trilogy. This is not just Dystopia, but Dystopia in its most brutal manifestation: the end of the world is long behind us, and nothing can be fixed.
The architect in the form of a control system is not only and not so much a reference to the Freemasons, but first of all a symbol of manual programming of the established order of things, which is not natural and is based on ignorance, suppression and control. And Neo’s rebellion, useless within the framework of the existing system that programs this rebellion, serves as a demonstration that the fight against this system without going beyond its framework is impossible, meaningless and useless.

As a result, Neo’s initial, seemingly fateful choice with the red and blue pills becomes meaningless, because both paths turn out to be false within the system, are embedded in it and do not bring either him or humanity closer to liberation. With all his abilities and talents, the hero still does not fully understand the real structure of the system, in which he, both as a clerk and as a savior, is just a slave to a system that he does not know and does not understand.

If such ideas really crossed the minds of the Wachowski brothers, then it’s a shame that they didn’t make it to the big screen, although the matryoshka concept of the Matrix in the Matrix itself is not new. It could be an excellent example of a postmodern world of lost meanings and ideals striving for program zero.