The question that tormented Thomas Anderson through the long cold nights. The answer was given by Morpheus in the first film.
Morpheus:
…What is the Matrix? The matrix is control.
He doesn't seem to realize 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 crash. Nobody accepted the program.
Architect: The first Matrix I created was nearly perfect... Its triumph is only matched by its monumental collapse.
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.
In the future, the Architect created a world similar to ours, probably thinking that if you recreate an already existing world, it 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 for recognizing the psychology of people - oracle. The Oracle creates in the Matrix the concept of " choice' and turns the anomaly into ' Favorite", thus influencing the religiosity of people.
Architect:
99% of the test subjects accepted the program if they had a choice - even if they only knew about it on a subconscious level.
However, there is 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 dumped. Do you feel it? There are always people living in Zion who know that the Matrix is illusory - they never stay to live in the Matrix. It is possible that they have it in their subconscious.
However, complete freedom of choice means chaos, which can again destroy the system - therefore, machines create the illusion of choice. The man is walking in the way that the Machines need at the same time, considering that it was he who chose it. In fact, the whole concept of the Matrix was quite intelligibly explained by Merovingian.
Merovingian:
Choice is an illusion; line between those who have power and those who do not.
Machines have a choice because they have power - humans have no choice because they don't have power.
Merovingian:
Everything in this world obeys the law of cause and effect.
Here 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 strength.
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 options here did not have and never was. There is no choice in the Matrix.
How many Matrices existed in total?
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.
Under the integral anomaly, most likely, the appearance of the Chosen One is meant. Consequently, there can be many, many more different versions of the Matrix.
Why is the Chosen One necessary?
Architect:
You [Neo] are an anomaly that, despite my best efforts, I could not bring to a mathematical balance.
That is - firstly, the appearance of the Chosen One inevitably.
Second, the Chosen One is unresolved a system equation that can easily lead to the collapse of the system. But the Architect is aware of the existence of the Anomaly and therefore can control it by cleverly using the illusion of choice.
Architect:
…[anomaly] expected, known, and therefore controllable, which ultimately brought you here.
Each Chosen One, one way or another, must come to the Source. Every Chosen One controlled. Judging by the words of the Architect, this is a way to distract the anomaly so that it does not get out of control and destroy the system.
And this is where the legitimate question comes in. why so long haul for an anomaly to the Source?
Well, firstly, it is logical that the anomaly should restart the Matrix only at the moment necessary for the Machines - until that moment it needs to be occupied with something.
And secondly, is it really so long way?
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 sees all the torment human species, became attached to people and desired to wet the nasty Machines. Therefore, the Chosen One must be pulled out of the Matrix. Further, he must for a long time live there so that he has a feeling of attachment to people. In the future, the Chosen One must find the Keymaster. This search in Reloaded takes at least half of the film, which has raised questions about the length of the Chosen One's journey. And now let's think - Merovingian is an obvious enemy of the system. It is likely that in previous versions it would have been much easier to reach 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 that could very well derail 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 -> "War" with Machines and life in Zion -> Receive from the Oracle installation to find the Keymaster and go to the Source -> Meeting with the Keymaster -> Keymaster brings the Chosen One to the Source -> Meeting with the Architect -> Reboot matrices
Why reboot the Matrix and destroy Zion?
The options are:
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, which are subsequently fixed in new version Matrices.
2. Following the theory that the Matrix is an experiment on people, then reloading the Matrix means the beginning of a new experiment. It is quite possible that the Architect is not privy to this - he is only a creator.
3. Over time, the Matrix accumulates a huge number of errors that lead to the collapse of the system, and, therefore, the system needs to be rebooted.
4. Regular update to new version. It is quite possible that it occurs, say, every ten years.
Note by the way that the Merovingian met the previous Chosen Ones.
Merovingian:
...I outlived your predecessors - and I will outlive you!
Therefore - when you restart the Matrix of the program 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 used to.
The need to destroy Zion is obvious - no one should know that there were several Matrices (otherwise the meaning of the prophecy would be lost). No one should know about the previous Chosen One (imagine Morpheus dating the new Neo). And also Zion grows strongly over time, which can threaten the Machines with unnecessary unnecessary problems. Plus, the inhabitants of Zion are constantly disconnecting people from the Matrix, which is a waste of energy.
Why not destroy Zion nuclear bomb? Or a neutron bomb? Or shoot the hell out?
1. Fear of damaging the core of the planet during an explosion (Zion, as you know, is close to the core)
2. Increase the time to capture Zion so that the Chosen One understands the gravity of the situation.
3. The minimum of the possible forces of the Machines is sent to destroy Zion. Note that only octopuses attacked Zion.
Why is the Chosen One needed to reboot the Matrix?
key and most complex issue. Machines can certainly reset the Matrix themselves. Why wait for the Chosen One? Why not take it to something else? What if the Chosen One chooses the wrong door (always, as we remember, there is 1%)?
1. Theory of experiment - perfectly explains it. The Chosen One is the main test subject. The machines are watching how he will act this time in the new conditions.
2. During his life, the Chosen One unconsciously collects some important information in the Matrix, which is necessary during the Reboot. An error log for example.
3. The Chosen One is extremely strong, unkillable, unstoppable and dangerous to the system - to destroy him, you need to lure him to the Source, where he will die for the sake of saving people. The safest option for cars.
Remember, when the second and third "Matrix" began to come out, many said that it was no longer that everything had slipped into special effects and "Hollywood", the holistic plot and the philosophical beginning of the film, which could be traced back in the first part, disappeared. Did you have such thoughts? And I just discovered today that some original script of The Matrix is circulating on the net. 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, please share. And you and I will read what the real "Matrix" of the Wachowski brothers was supposed to be (well, or who did not know the sister and brother of the Wachowskis).
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 Zion are part of the Matrix in order to give people the appearance of freedom. A man cannot defeat a machine, and the end of the world cannot be corrected.
The script for The Matrix was written by the Wachowski brothers over the course of five years. He spawned a whole illusory world, densely permeated with several storylines, from time to time whimsically intertwined with each other. By adapting their colossal work for film adaptation, the Wachowskis have changed so much that, in their own eyes, own confession, the embodiment of their plans turned out to be only a “fantasy based on” the story that was invented at the very beginning.
The harsh ending was removed from the script by producer Joel Silver. The fact is that from the very beginning, the Wachowskis conceived their trilogy as a film with the saddest and hopeless end.
So, the original script for The Matrix.
First of all, it is worth mentioning that scenario sketches and different variants of the same film, being rejected, were not further developed, so much remained uncoordinated into a coherent system. So, in the "sad" version of the trilogy, the events of the second and third parts are pretty much curtailed. At the same time, in the third, final part, the deployment of such a severe intrigue begins that it practically turns all the events that took place earlier in the story upside down. In the same way, the ending of Shyamalan's "The Sixth Sense" completely shakes up all the events of the film from the very beginning. Only in The Matrix, the viewer had to look at almost the entire trilogy with new eyes. And it's a pity that Joel Silver insisted on a 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 the environment: first, he lifts a spoon lying on the table into the air and bends it, then determines the position of the hunting machines outside of Zion, then, in a battle with the Octopuses, destroys one of them with the power of thought in front of the shocked crew of the ship.
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 able to have a decisive impact on the fate of people (in filmed this ability is also there, but it is not explained at all, and it is not even particularly focused on it - maybe that's all. Although, on reflection, 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 weird).
So, Neo goes to Pythia to get an answer to his question and find out what to do next. Pythia replies to Neo that she does not know why he has superpowers in the real world, and how they are related to Neo's Destiny. She says that only the Architect, the supreme program that created the Matrix, can reveal the secret of our hero's Destiny. Neo is looking for a way to meet the Architect, going through incredible difficulties (here, the already known Master of Keys in captivity at the Merovingian, the chase on the highway, etc. are involved).
And so Neo meets the Architect. He reveals to him that the human city of Zion has been destroyed five times already, and that the unique Neo was deliberately created by machines in order to personify the hope of liberation for people, and thus keep 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 that Neo's friends fought for. and he himself.
After a conversation with the Architect, Neo realizes that some secret is hidden here, the solution of which can bring the long-awaited end to the war between people and machines. His abilities are getting stronger. (There are several scenes in the script with Neo's impressive fights with machines in the real world, in which he developed into a superman, and can do almost the same as in the Matrix: fly, stop bullets, etc.).
In Zion, it becomes known that the machines began to move towards the city of people in order to kill all those who left the Matrix, and the entire population of the city sees hope for salvation in Neo alone, who does really grandiose things - in particular, he gets the ability to arrange powerful explosions there where he wants.
Meanwhile, Agent Smith, who has gone out of control of the main computer, has become free and has gained the ability to endlessly copy himself, and begins to threaten the Matrix itself. Having settled in Bane, Smith also penetrates into the real world.
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 machines on Zion. 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.
Toward 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 is growing 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 Zion. Neo, in terrible desperation, increases his strength to absolutely incredible proportions, breaks through to the only surviving ship (Morpheus's Nebuchadnezzar), and leaves Zion, getting to the surface. He goes to the main computer to destroy it, avenging the deaths of the inhabitants of Zeon, and especially the deaths of Morpheus and Trinity.
Bain-Smith is hiding aboard the Nebuchadnezzar, trying to stop Neo from destroying the Matrix, as he realizes that he himself will die in the process. In an epic fight with Neo, Bane also manifests superpowers, burning Neo's eyes out, but eventually dies. This is followed by a scene in which a blinded, but still seeing Neo through a myriad of enemies breaks through to the Center and causes a grandiose explosion there. It literally incinerates not only the Central Computer, but also itself. Millions of capsules with people turn off, the glow in them disappears, the cars freeze forever and the viewer is presented with a dead, deserted planet.
Bright light. Neo, completely uninjured, with no wounds and with whole eyes, wakes up 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 amazed at what a person is capable of in the name of love. He says that he did not take into account the power that instills in 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 Chosen One who "could get 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 even the slightest damage to it. The Architect informs Neo that they are now at "zero point" after the reboot of the Matrix, at the very beginning of its Seventh Version.
Neo doesn't understand. He says that he just destroyed the Central Computer, that the Matrix is no more, like all of humanity. The architect laughs and tells Neo something that shocks not only him, but the entire auditorium to the core.
Zion is part of the Matrix. In order to create for people the appearance of freedom, in order to give them the Choice, without which a person cannot exist, the Architect invented a reality within reality. And Zion, and the whole war with 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 distraction, but in fact, everyone who died in Zion, fought with 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 in order to start living in it again. ”, “fight” and “liberate”. And in this coherent 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 inception. 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 characters of the film 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 Zion, and many, many others. All of them are hairless, dystrophic and entangled in hoses. Neo is shown last, looking exactly like he did in the first movie when he was "liberated" by Morpheus. Neo's face is serene.
Here's how your superpower is explained in "reality," says the Architect. This also explains the existence of Zion, which people "could never build the way you see it" due to lack of resources. And, laughs the Architect, would we really allow people freed from the Matrix to hide in Zion, if we always had the opportunity to either kill them or reconnect them to the Matrix? And did we have to wait decades to destroy Zion, even if it existed? You underestimate us, Mr. Anderson, says the Architect.
Neo, looking straight ahead with a dead face, tries to comprehend what has happened, and takes one last look 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 frame of the film: Neo in a business suit leaves the house, and quickly goes to work, dissolving into the crowd. The end credits roll to heavy music.
Not only does this script look more coherent and understandable, not only does it really brilliantly explain the plot holes that were left unexplained in the film adaptation, it also fits much better into the dark style of cyberpunk than the "hopeful" end of what he saw. us trilogy. This is not just Dystopia, but Dystopia at its most brutal: the end of the world is behind us, and nothing can be fixed.
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 between Good and Evil. As a result, a rather sophisticated philosophical parable of the first part degenerated into a set of virtuoso special effects without a particularly deep thought.
Here you can download original script
And also what is The original article is on the website InfoGlaz.rf Link to the article from which this copy is made -
Now I've finally found answers to those stupid plot holes that plagued me in this trilogy. It's... It's just brilliant! If the film had been embodied on the screen as it was 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 bypassed even the magnificent Fight Club!
The script for The Matrix was written by the Wachowski brothers over the course of five years. He gave birth to a whole illusory world, densely permeated with several storylines at once, from time to time intricately intertwined with each other. Adapting their colossal work for film adaptation, and yielding to the requirements 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 motives” of the story that was invented at the very beginning.
So, the original script for The Matrix.
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 uncoordinated into a coherent system. So, in the "sad" version of the trilogy, the events of the second and third parts are pretty much curtailed. At the same time, in the third, final part, the deployment of such a severe intrigue begins that it practically turns all the events that took place earlier in the story upside down. In the same way, the ending of Shyamalan's "The Sixth Sense" completely shakes up all the events of the film from the very beginning. Only in The Matrix, the viewer had to look at almost the entire trilogy with new eyes. And it's a pity that Joel Silver insisted on a implemented version
Six months have passed since the end of the events of the first film. Neo, being in the real world, discovers in himself an incredible ability to influence the environment: first, he lifts into the air and bends a spoon lying on the table, then he determines the position of the hunting machines outside of Zion, then, in a battle with the Octopuses, destroys one of them with the power of thought in front of the shocked crew of the ship.
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 able to have a decisive influence on the fate of people (in the filmed film, this ability is also there, but it is not explained at all, and it does not even especially sharpen attention - maybe that's all. Although, on common sense, Neo's ability to perform miracles in the real world makes absolutely no sense in light of the whole concept of the "Matrix", and just looks weird).
So, Neo goes to Pythia to get an answer to his question and find out what to do next. Pythia replies to Neo that she does not know why he has superpowers in the real world, and how they are related to Neo's Destiny. She says that only the Architect, the supreme program that created the Matrix, can reveal the secret of our hero's Destiny. Neo is looking for a way to meet the Architect, going through incredible difficulties (here, the already known Master of Keys in captivity at the Merovingian, the chase on the highway, etc. are involved).
And so Neo meets the Architect. He reveals to him that the human city of Zion has been destroyed five times already, and that the unique Neo was deliberately created by machines in order to personify the hope of liberation for people, and thus keep 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 that Neo's friends fought for. and he himself.
After a conversation with the Architect, Neo realizes that some secret is hidden here, the solution of which can bring the long-awaited end to the war between people and machines. His abilities are getting stronger. (There are several scenes in the script with Neo's impressive fights with machines in the real world, in which he developed into a superman, and can do almost the same as in the Matrix: fly, stop bullets, etc.).
In Zion, it becomes known that the machines began to move towards the city of people in order to kill all those who left the Matrix, and the entire population of the city sees hope for salvation in Neo alone, who does really grandiose things - in particular, he gets the ability to arrange powerful explosions there where he wants.
Meanwhile, Agent Smith, who has gone out of control of the main computer, has become free and has gained the ability to endlessly copy himself, and begins to threaten the Matrix itself. Having settled in Bane, Smith also penetrates into the real world.
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 machines on Zion. 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.
Toward 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 is growing 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 Zion. Neo, in terrible desperation, increases his strength to absolutely incredible proportions, breaks through to the only surviving ship (Morpheus's Nebuchadnezzar), and leaves Zion, getting to the surface. He goes to the main computer to destroy it, avenging the deaths of the inhabitants of Zeon, and especially the deaths of Morpheus and Trinity.
Bain-Smith is hiding aboard the Nebuchadnezzar, trying to stop Neo from destroying the Matrix, as he realizes that he himself will die in the process. In an epic fight with Neo, Bane also manifests superpowers, burning Neo's eyes out, but eventually dies. This is followed by a scene in which a blinded, but still seeing Neo through billions of enemies breaks through to the Center and causes a grandiose explosion there. It literally incinerates not only the Central Computer, but also itself. Millions of capsules with people turn off, the glow in them disappears, the cars freeze forever and the viewer is presented with a dead, deserted planet.
Bright light. Neo, completely uninjured, with no wounds and with whole eyes, wakes up 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 amazed at what a person is capable of in the name of love. He says that he did not take into account the power that instills in 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 Chosen One who "could get 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 even the slightest damage to it. The Architect informs Neo that they are now at "zero point" after the reboot of the Matrix, at the very beginning of its Seventh Version.
Neo doesn't understand. He says that he just destroyed the Central Computer, that the Matrix is no more, like all of humanity. The architect laughs and tells Neo something that shocks not only him, but the entire auditorium to the core.
Zion is part of the Matrix. In order to create for people the appearance of freedom, in order to give them the Choice, without which a person cannot exist, the Architect invented a reality within reality. And Zion, and the whole war with 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 distraction, but in fact, everyone who died in Zion, fought with 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 in order to start living in it again. ”, “fight” and “liberate”. And in this coherent 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 inception. 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 characters of the film 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 Zion, and many, many others. All of them are hairless, dystrophic and entangled in hoses. Neo is shown last, looking exactly like he did in the first movie when he was "liberated" by Morpheus. Neo's face is serene.
Here's how your superpower is explained in "reality," says the Architect. This also explains the existence of Zion, which people "could never build the way you see it" due to lack of resources. And, laughs the Architect, would we really allow people freed from the Matrix to hide in Zion, if we always had the opportunity to either kill them or reconnect them to the Matrix? And did we have to wait decades to destroy Zion, even if it existed? You underestimate us, Mr. Anderson, says the Architect.
Neo, looking straight ahead with a dead face, tries to comprehend what has happened, and takes one last look 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 frame of the film: Neo in a business suit leaves the house, and quickly goes to work, dissolving into the crowd. The end credits roll to heavy music.
Not only does this script look more coherent and understandable, not only does it really brilliantly explain the plot holes that were left unexplained in the film adaptation, it also fits much better into the dark style of cyberpunk than the "hopeful" end of what he saw. us trilogy. This is not just Dystopia, but Dystopia at its most brutal: the end of the world is behind us, and nothing can be fixed.
An architect in the form of a manager of a system is not only and not so much a reference to the Masons, but above 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 existing system, which programs this rebellion, serves as a demonstration that the fight against this system without going beyond its framework is impossible, senseless and useless.
As a result, the initial, as it were, fateful choice of Neo with a red and blue pill is meaningless, because both paths turn out to be false within the framework of 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 does not fully understand real device a system in which he, both as a clerk and as a savior, is only a slave of a system that he does not know and does not understand.
If such ideas really visited the heads of the Wachowski brothers, then it is a pity that they did not make it to the big screen, although the matryoshka concept of the Matrix in the Matrix itself is not new. It could turn out to be an excellent example of the postmodern world of lost meanings and ideals tending to programmatic zero.
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 Zion are part of the Matrix in order to give people the appearance of freedom. A man cannot defeat a machine, and the end of the world cannot be corrected.
The script for The Matrix was written by the Wachowski brothers over the course of five years. He gave birth to a whole illusory world, densely permeated with several storylines at once, 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.
The harsh ending was removed from the script by producer Joel Silver. The fact is that from the very beginning, the Wachowskis conceived their trilogy as a film with the saddest and hopeless end.
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 in himself an incredible ability to influence the environment: first, he lifts into the air and bends a spoon lying on the table, then he determines the position of the hunting machines outside of Zion, then, in a battle with the Octopuses, destroys one of them with the power of thought in front of the shocked crew of the ship.
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 able to have a decisive influence on the fate of people (in the filmed film, this ability is also there, but it is not explained at all, and it does not even especially sharpen attention - maybe that's all. Although, on common sense, Neo's ability to perform miracles in the real world makes absolutely no sense in light of the whole concept of the "Matrix", and just looks weird).
So, Neo goes to Pythia to get an answer to his question and find out what to do next. Pythia replies to Neo that she does not know why he has superpowers in the real world, and how they are related to Neo's Destiny. She says that only the Architect, the supreme program that created the Matrix, can reveal the secret of our hero's Destiny. Neo is looking for a way to meet the Architect, going through incredible difficulties (here, the already known Master of Keys in captivity at the Merovingian, the chase on the highway, etc. are involved).
And so Neo meets the Architect. He reveals to him that the human city of Zion has been destroyed five times already, and that the unique Neo was deliberately created by machines in order to personify the hope of liberation for people, and thus keep 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 that Neo's friends fought for. and he himself.
After a conversation with the Architect, Neo realizes that some secret is hidden here, the solution of which can bring the long-awaited end to the war between people and machines. His abilities are getting stronger. (There are several scenes in the script with Neo's impressive fights with machines in the real world, in which he developed into a superman, and can do almost the same as in the Matrix: fly, stop bullets, etc.).
In Zion, it becomes known that the machines began to move towards the city of people in order to kill all those who left the Matrix, and the entire population of the city sees hope for salvation in Neo alone, who does really grandiose things - in particular, he gets the ability to arrange powerful explosions there where he wants.
Meanwhile, Agent Smith, who has gone out of control of the main computer, has become free and has gained the ability to endlessly copy himself, and begins to threaten the Matrix itself. Having settled in Bane, Smith also penetrates into the real world.
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 machines on Zion. 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.
Toward 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 is growing 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 Zion. Neo, in terrible desperation, increases his strength to absolutely incredible proportions, breaks through to the only surviving ship (Morpheus's Nebuchadnezzar), and leaves Zion, getting to the surface. He goes to the main computer to destroy it, avenging the deaths of the inhabitants of Zeon, and especially the deaths of Morpheus and Trinity.
Bain-Smith is hiding aboard the Nebuchadnezzar, trying to stop Neo from destroying the Matrix, as he realizes that he himself will die in the process. In an epic fight with Neo, Bane also manifests superpowers, burning Neo's eyes out, but eventually dies. This is followed by a scene in which a blinded, but still seeing Neo through a myriad of enemies breaks through to the Center and causes a grandiose explosion there. It literally incinerates not only the Central Computer, but also itself. Millions of capsules with people turn off, the glow in them disappears, the cars freeze forever and the viewer is presented with a dead, deserted planet.
Bright light. Neo, completely uninjured, with no wounds and with whole eyes, wakes up 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 amazed at what a person is capable of in the name of love. He says that he did not take into account the power that instills in 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 Chosen One who "could get 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 even the slightest damage to it. The Architect informs Neo that they are now at "zero point" after the reboot of the Matrix, at the very beginning of its Seventh Version.
Neo doesn't understand. He says that he just destroyed the Central Computer, that the Matrix is no more, like all of humanity. The architect laughs and tells Neo something that shocks not only him, but the entire auditorium to the core.
Zion is part of the Matrix. In order to create for people the appearance of freedom, in order to give them the Choice, without which a person cannot exist, the Architect invented a reality within reality. And Zion, and the whole war with 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 distraction, but in fact, everyone who died in Zion, fought with 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 in order to start living in it again. ”, “fight” and “liberate”. And in this coherent 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 inception. 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 characters of the film 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 Zion, and many, many others. All of them are hairless, dystrophic and entangled in hoses. Neo is shown last, looking exactly like he did in the first movie when he was "liberated" by Morpheus. Neo's face is serene.
Here's how your superpower is explained in "reality," says the Architect. This also explains the existence of Zion, which people "could never build the way you see it" due to lack of resources. And, laughs the Architect, would we really allow people freed from the Matrix to hide in Zion, if we always had the opportunity to either kill them or reconnect them to the Matrix? And did we have to wait decades to destroy Zion, even if it existed? You underestimate us, Mr. Anderson, says the Architect.
Neo, looking straight ahead with a dead face, tries to comprehend what has happened, and takes one last look 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 frame of the film: Neo in a business suit leaves the house, and quickly goes to work, dissolving into the crowd. The end credits roll to heavy music.
Not only does this script look more coherent and understandable, not only does it really brilliantly explain the plot holes that were left unexplained in the film adaptation, it also fits much better into the dark style of cyberpunk than the "hopeful" end of what he saw. us trilogy. This is not just Dystopia, but Dystopia at its most brutal: the end of the world is behind us, and nothing can be fixed.
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 between Good and Evil. As a result, a rather sophisticated philosophical parable of the first part degenerated into a set of virtuoso special effects without a particularly deep thought.
Hello Neo! said the Architect, seated in his swivel chair.
Neo looked at the Architect. He first looked at his face, then lower - at his hands, jacket, legs, then looked up again, grinned at something and nodded his head, mumbling:
- Yes
Neo looked up at the ceiling. He seems to have been looking at the lamps on the ceiling for a while. Then he turned his gaze to the wall, where screens with his image hung ...
The architect, who had been sitting and looking at him all this time, waiting for a question, finally also turned his gaze to the screens - where Neo was looking ... He raised his hand with a remote control in his hand, and circling the screens began to explain:
- It's... mmm...
- Don't, - Neo interrupted him sharply, raising his hand, without looking up from the screens, - it won't be interesting like that...
There was a moment's pause. Nothing has changed. Finally the Architect began to speak:
- I am the Architect... I created the Matrix, - Neo did not react and his voice became quieter and less confident, - I was waiting for you... You have... many... questions... dews...
The architect halted in mid-sentence with the air of a man who understands that he is not being listened to. Neo continued to stare at the monitors as if nothing had happened, as if he didn't care what the Architect was talking about... He shifted in his chair.
Soon Neo turned to face the Architect and asked sharply but calmly:
- Why am I here?
The architect cleared his throat to clear his throat. He sat back comfortably - it seems he finally got what he wanted. He took a few breaths to harmonize his breathing, then replied:
- You changed your state, - he said it in a rather calm voice, but seeing that Neo did not satisfy this question, he added, - stronger ... than ... usually ...
Neo looked at the Architect, furrowed his brows, and said in a rather bold tone:
What do you think I don't know?
The architect smiled. And in this smile, it seems, there was even some kind of delight. He said:
- Interesting... You think faster than others...
Neo, in Once again, looking up from the monitors, glanced in the direction of the Architect and grinned. Then he said with a smile:
But you're still the same...
The architect seems to have been shocked by this statement. He went over something in his head, then said:
- How can you remember me?!
Neo at this time began to walk around the hall. Slowly he took a step, then another. Gradually, he walked around a quarter of the room in this way. The architect turned in his chair to face him, so he had already turned 90 degrees. Continuing a leisurely walk, Neo, without looking in the direction of the Architect, said:
- You didn't answer my question.
The architect cleared his throat again. Once again, the anxiety seems to be gone. He took a few breaths again and began to answer:
- The Matrix is much more extensive than you can imagine. Matrices are like nesting dolls, they are invested in each other, and few people are even able to see where the very first programs come from ... You consider yourself unique, but before you there were people who achieved the same understanding, experience, state, which indicates that all of you ...
While the Architect continued to speak, Neo came close to the monitors... He was looking at the monitor, which had his own image - he was standing in the middle of the room at the place from which he had left. Neo watched for a moment, then raised his hand, slowly touched the monitor, ran his hand over it. Then he found a barely visible switch and pressed it. The monitor went out... Neo turned his head to the left - to the next monitor. I took a step towards him and turned it off too... Then he also turned off the monitor at the top and top right. So four monitors were turned off.
I have a remote control, - the Architect suddenly said, showing the remote control in his hand.
Neo turned to the Architect, looked at the console and said:
As long as I'm so interested...
He turned back to the monitors. The architect asked in an excited voice:
- Neo! Are you satisfied with the answer?
Neo turned off a couple more monitors, then, as he approached the next one, he said:
- I'm waiting for you to stop fooling around and finally tell me why you need me.
The architect cleared his throat again.
Do you have a sore throat? Neo asked indifferently.
- Umm... no, - the Architect hesitated, - it's just... you're behaving somehow... somehow...
"Not like that," Neo helped him.
- Yes, - the Architect agreed, then, as if to remember the question, he repeated, - why do I need you ... Neo! Are you saying that you didn't want to meet me?
Neo shook his head with the air of a man who is dissatisfied with the lack of normal dialogue. He said:
- You perfectly understand that if both of us would not want something from each other ... our communication would not have taken place!
The architect was a little taken aback. His lower lip even fell down, which betrayed his surprise. However, he very quickly stopped this matter and became collected.
- Yeah, of course, Neo! - he said, - we both want something from each other ..
Then the Architect thought. Neo looked at him and seemed to be listening to the rustle of thoughts in his head. The architect very soon came to something and said:
- Why do you need me?
- Ha-ha-ha! - Neo burst into such a loud uncontrollable laugh that he first tossed his head up, then down.
The architect waited anxiously for Neo to finish laughing. However, this did not last long. When Neo's laughter began to subside, Neo, still stuttering slightly with laughter, said:
"And did you have to ask me that question?"
"But you don't ask me the right questions!" - the Architect was excited, - and I just can’t begin to say what I have to tell you!
- So here it is, - Neo said with the voice of a man who understood something important, - you are programming not only the Matrix ... And not only the human mind ... You are programming everything ... Even your own behavior ...
He suddenly took several wide steps to the side and stood up, again looking at the architect. It looked like he deliberately wanted to change the location. After standing for a while, he suddenly walked abruptly and stood at the other end of the room. Then, after standing there for a while again, he went to the center, approached the Architect at a distance of two steps, turned sharply, turning his back to him and stood up again. The architect, bulging his eyes, only looked at Neo's actions that did not fit into any framework at all. But there was more! Neo suddenly took it and lay on the floor on his back. Lying on the floor, he said loudly:
- You are acting according to the program! You are the program!
The architect suddenly jumped up from his chair.
- Neo! I think you better go!
- What? What's happened? What's happened? We are talking so nicely, - Neo said lazily rising from the floor.
Rising from the floor, he walked around the Architect and sat on his chair. Then he suddenly grabbed the remote from him, put his hand on the arm of the chair and crossed his legs, swaying. He spun in his chair, making full turn around. Then he began to press the buttons on the remote control, as a result of which the pictures on the monitors changed. Various episodes of human life were shown ...
Neo! - the Architect was indignant, - This is my place!
- Don't be afraid... I don't need your place. Let me sit for a minute, at least feel... And by the way, you don’t have there, well, green tea, or cocoa ... with ... some kind of cake ... No? ... Well, okay ...
The architect seemed to be barely on his feet. He twitched in place, but didn't know how to react. Neo kept clicking on the remote, looking at the monitor, rocking in his chair. Then he suddenly turned to the Architect:
- And what, it seems to me, I could well play this role here ...
Neo looked at the Architect. He looked at Neo in a daze. Neo continued:
- Well, what ... I'll change my state ... I'll become an Architect ... Well, - he raised his eyebrows looking at the former Architect, - temporarily ... but while you rest ... relax, huh?
The architect seemed simply speechless. He sometimes tried to say something, but he seemed to have no voice.
By the way, why are you calling me Neo?
Here the Architect finally managed to overcome his numbness and mumbled:
- Well... that's what I always call those who come here...
“Ah,” Neo shook his head knowingly, “a habit... Come on, let's... let's break it and you'll call me... mmm... come up with it yourself, it'll be better!
- Well, this is quite some kind of nonsense!
It seems that something influenced the Architect and he began to manage himself better. He went somewhere, then returned with a chair. But after carrying the chair a few steps, he stood up in his tracks. Neo had a glass of tea in his hand, and next to him was a kettle on the floor with another empty glass. The architect sighed and placed a chair a few paces from Neo, then sat down.
For a minute they sat like that. Neo looked at the monitors and clicked, and the Architect looked at Neo, sometimes looking down at the floor and thinking about something. Finally the Architect said:
- You are completely out of control, - the Architect's eyes sparkled, it was not anger, it was even some kind of pride of a scientist who accidentally discovered something grandiose, - I can’t force you to do what I need ... You are completely unpredictable! But you live in the matrix... I don't understand how this is possible...
- And you will not be able to understand this ... until you yourself go beyond your own programs!
- What do you mean by my programs?
- Those that dictate to you a pattern of behavior, a pattern of actions from which you cannot deviate.
- This is absurd! I make my own plans! I am an Architect!
You have become addicted to your own creation!
The architect smiled and said:
Are you trying to manipulate me?
- Only those who manipulate can be manipulated. I'm just being natural. I am free. But you - no!
- Some kind of nonsense, - the Architect fired nervously, - so that the eggs teach the chicken!
- Eggs? You take a closer look! Look at both of us! Do you still believe that you are taking your place as an Architect, and I am the one who came to visit you? By the way, would you like some tea?
- You're just an upstart!
"Okay," Neo admitted, "that's what you call me now." If you like this name!
The architect shook his head in an expression of impotence. Then he said:
- Even a free soul has some values! And you... You're just an upstart, there's nothing sacred in you! You are a fagot!
Neo scratched his head. Then he poured tea from the teapot into another glass and handed it to the Architect. He sighed as if he had nowhere to go, and took it.
They sat in silence for half a minute. The architect took a long sip of tea. Neo said:
- Don't you get bored here? One?
The architect almost choked on his tea at these words. He coughed. Neo stood up and patted the Architect on the back. He gave signs that this should not be done. Neo stopped and returned to his chair.
Of course, - Neo spoke, lounging in an armchair, looking at the ceiling, - I also have valuables, where would I be without them ...
By that time, the Architect had already fully restored his condition and listened carefully to Neo. He continued:
“…But now, I have left them temporarily.
- This is nonsense! You don't know what you're talking about! Values cannot just be taken and thrown away, albeit temporarily. They will still work in a certain situation! I don't think you know what you're talking about at all!
- Situations, - Neo waved his hand around the room, - Situations are now ... that I am sitting next to the Architect of the Matrix and drinking tea ...
The architect looked like he knew Neo was on to something, but he couldn't understand the accuracy of his words.
Neo rode up in his chair to the Architect. Then he turned in his chair so that they were both now sitting in a line next to each other and facing the screens. Neo pressed a couple of buttons on the remote control and pictures appeared on the screens that merged into one large one on the entire wall - nature appeared there. And as if, flying low and smoothly, the camera showed all the beauty of nature - rivers, fields, mountains ... waterfalls ... And they both looked at this beauty ...
- Stop! - the Architect suddenly shouted, as if remembering something important, - We need to ... Damn, damn it, we need to attack Zeon now!
He started to rise with his glass as Neo's hand pressed friendly on the Architect's shoulder, pushing him back down. He spoke in a calm voice:
- Or maybe not, - he put his hand on the Architect's shoulder, and his voice became softer and even velvety, - maybe a cup of tea? Let's drink calmly... together... forgetting about the attacks... about the Zeons... enjoying beautiful views wild nature, - then Neo changed his voice to a more cheerful one, - Well, or can you turn on some kind of action movie, if it’s so straight forward?
