<nettime> Matrix digest [wark, anticopyright]

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McKenzie Wark
       Re: The Matrix: Theorized but Unseen
anticopyright@britannica.com
       two sides of context

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Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 21:15:10 +1100 (EST)
From: McKenzie Wark <mwark@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au>
Subject: Re: <nettime> The Matrix: Theorized but Unseen


Peter, this strikes me as what's wrong with criticism -- always
complaining about what's not there. Where's the pleasure in that?
Matrix is a genre film, so of course it replicates the familiar
surfaces of the genre. That's the whole point. Film fans expect
the surfaces to connect to those of previous films, all the way
back to Alien, Bladerunner, and so on. 

Of course, there's added hilarity in seeing it if you know Sydney,
which both appears and doesn't appear as The Matrix itself. The
producers praised Sydney as a location because of how generic and
ordinary its CBD was, and the helicopter shots are careful to keep
the opera house and famous 'coathanger' bridge out of sight.

k

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From: anticopyright@britannica.com
Date: 3 Dec 1999 17:11:20 -0800
Subject: two sides of context

to tell the truth i'm fairly superficial and i was sorta bored in large 
sections of the matrix.. i really only went for the special fxs,  that 
hongkong action movie/video game feel, and of course lotsa bullets, 
adrenaline and breath holding.

i did feel particularly remisnisent in the theatre cause some of it was 
shot on the apartment acroos the road from my appartment (yes dreaded 
po.mo architecture form the 80's), and there is a lovely space where 
they are in the pouring rain car scene and the hero (wots his name) is 
trying to decide who to believe..and someone says something like "you 
know where that road leads" indicating the sandstone railway bridge 
..... and i laughed loudly inthe theatre at this crucial cinematic 
point..cause the answer is.. "to my house"

context is everything.
m

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