Originally posted by jaeufraser
Can the footage from Enter the Matrix even be integrated into Reloaded and make sense? A lot of that stuff was jsut filler that wouldn't even jive without the (horrid) game.

I mean I want to see the footage but of the stuff I've seen I'm not sure how it'll fit at all.

Anyone have a clue?

Larry Wachowski, with his brother Andy, wrote and directed the enormously successful Matrix film trilogy, which has now grossed close to 3 billion dollars. But Larry has consistently refused to comment on the meaning of the Matrix films, or even discuss them in public or with the media.


Until now.

In the first of a series of conversations with his friend Ken Wilber, Larry has agreed to begin discussing some of the central issues of the movies, their creation, and their reception. These dialogues will be carried exclusively on Integral Naked and at Integral University.

The beginning of this discussion started when Larry asked Ken to do the Director's Commentary on all three of the Matrix movies for the Matrix DVD box set that Warner Brothers is bringing out this September. Because Larry and Andy refused to comment on the films, they asked Ken and Cornel West to do so in their stead.

So last month, Ken and Cornel flew to Los Angeles, and while watching all 3 films, gave 16 hours of commentary. This was edited down to 6 hours to fit the 3 films, and this commentary will be part of the Matrix trilogy box set soon to be released.

The Integral Naked dialogue that will be aired here on July 19 is a conversation that Ken and Larry had right before Ken left for L.A. to do the commentary with Cornel. This is the first of an ongoing series of discussions that, at a future date, will deal with some of Larry's own thoughts on the meaning of the Matrix and its reception.

Needless to say, we hope you will stay tuned for this stunning, absorbing story of the many meanings of the Matrix as that story unfolds on Integral Naked, conversations you will hear nowhere else....

Originally posted by Dead Star
In case no one knows yet, Larry Wachowski had an interview the other day and some stuff he said, hed like to get a commentary from 2 critics who hated the movies for all 3 flicks, in addition to:

Ken: So, you decline to do the traditional director's commentary over the films, so, Warners then suggested, that...

Larry: They had a bunch of, like, typical DVD commentary ideas, and, you know, we found, you know, we found most commentary pretty mundane, pretty boring, pretty pleonastic, pretty shallow,

Ken: Right

Larry: ...and, you know, I'm not very interested in most commentary, and so I started thinking about it and talked about it with Andy and we were like, oh, what would be interesting? And so, we had this idea that... trying to create tracks that reflected our hope for the movie, which would be that the the movie would inspire people to think about it,

Ken: Right

Larry: and inspire dialog about everything... [they laugh] And so, we thought that basically demonstrating the range of dialogs that the movie has inspired would inspire its own dialog about not only The Matrix, but the way that we talk about art...

Ken: Right

Larry: and so, suddenly, the commentary wouldn't be just about The Matrix, it would be about something bigger, something larger, it would have a larger scope to it, and er, so we told Warner Brothers that... "GREAT!" [Ken laughs] But, I mean, how we would go about doing it is getting two critics to talk about the movie, who hated the movie,

Ken: Right [laughs]

Larry: and two philosophers who saw the movie and were inspired by the movie, and juxtapose those two different dialogs against each other, and Warner Brothers was like "You wanna put... let me get this straight..." [Ken starts laughing loudly] "...you wanna put two critics who hated the movie, talking about the movie for six hours?" "Yeah!" [Ken continues to laugh] And, you know, not only because I think it will be interesting, and, the dialog, the internal way that they've come to these opinions will be interesting,

Ken: Right

Larry: it will be interesting to see how the critic talks about the movie, and, that they don't like, and they don't see anything in it, and then it'll be interesting seeing how two philosophers would talk about it, and see something in it, and see something that works in it,

Ken: Right

Larry: and listening to those two perspectives, I think will be inherently interesting...

Originally posted by MasterCXtreme
There's a great scene from "Enter The Matrix" with

Spoiler:

Jada and Monica locking lips... it's nice.