Rewriting The Matrix Sequels
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☼ Fixing a film trilogy, while respecting the original creators intent: this is a really incredible entry man.
Good one.
Just imagining the trilogy end with Morpheus saying “because I believed.” had me tearing up.
good to know i wasn't the only one.
That would've made me cry too.
I need to see a recut version of this
"We're keeping the rave scene"
Absolute madman.
it's a great placement of it actually.
A lot of the problem of the scene is it feels disconnected. The sex feels a lot more like 70's porn than a cry for life. The party (and people we care about) is as rebellious as Morpheus said. Moving it and giving it more impact changes it completely.
please no shots of dirty feet tho
Even as a kid I loved that scene lol got me into techno music.
I unapologetically adore all of The Matrix movies, but this is a great reimagining.
You know ,i just rewatched all the móvies and the animatrix, and for all their flaws i am glad that they exist. Yes the wachowski's got a little too arrogant but, what Is the point of big extravagant epic imaginative blockbusters if you're not even triying?
@@lamecasuelas2 then matrix 4 was released.
@@matthewhewitt4145 i actually liked Resurrections, call me a fanboy or that I have a soft spot or whatever i don't care
I've been waiting my whole life for this video
Your channel should actually be called "Just Edit" because I'm sitting on a TON of scripts but it takes FOREVER to actually edit them
Yours were my favorite parts of this video.
same
Just Write I’ve just wrote basically the same thing....
You should watch the "Really that good" video on the matrix by the channel moviebob. It's a long form video analysing why the first matrix is such a great all time classic film. It's one of the best things on TH-cam. Fans of either this Patrick or Bob would enjoy the other channel, they're similar in a lot of ways
Somewhere, there is a mad scientist cutting together the Matrix Sequels using this outline.
Well I'm not sure if Patrick's suggestions improved the movie but it was interesting to watch him grapple with the problems.
Patrick (or that mad scientist) could easily use Deepfake tech to actually make these and we wouldn't be able to tell the difference from the real thing!
Well, then someone get a lawyer/agent for Patrick and 🔒lock that shit down with a copyright/trademark🗝✊🏼
He sails on pirate bay
or at least an animatrix version of it. i'm sure there are enough artists who would volunteer their free time to make it happen.
My main issue with these versions is Trinity dying while away from Neo. Her death is really impactful with Neo there.
I agree. And you can easily resolve this issue even in the rewrite version by having Trinity accompany Neo and before they reach the Source, she sacrifies herself when they are being chased down by sentinels.
The video is sorely underestimating the important of Trinity and the romance as a whole. Shes kinda wholy written out. Which is ultra fitting since Matrix 4 had a whole montage kinda about that lol
I think it's just sort of glossed over in this. A lot of details are. You can just assume they're still there. But I actually think this version he presents here is pretty awesome. I mean... Trinity went into the Matrix to make sure Neo made it through the Door of Light. He asked her not to go, and she does what she knows she must, because she's WILLING to die for him. In the third movie, she dies... just because. There was no purpose to it. She made no great sacrifice, and her existence was solely to just be Neo's lover... which is in it's own way really shallow. "We just need our hero to have a woman." It sort of comes off as that. The idea that, in the Docks, as the first Driller gets taken out, she prepares one last rocket to fire at the second Driller, and as she takes aim, she sees a Sentinel swooping down toward her, and she would whisper, "Neo... If all I can do is give you time - our time together, time to save us all, I'll give all I can afford." She fires the rocket. The second Driller explodes. The Sentinel impales her. The Drillers are now down until the Sentinels repair them, and she's bought Neo that bit of extra time he needs to reach The Machine City.
You can assume I rather liked the idea of this rewrite... I know it's not perfect, I know it's going to have stuff like this that people find unsatisfying, but I still think it's better than "and then she died when they got to the city I guess."
With Neo having a connection with the machines' network, i think he could keep a frequent mental tab on her. Would be heartbreaking for him to see her death through the lens of a machine, and perhaps Trin can imagine this as she speaks out to Neo as she's dying.
Neo may feel Trinity's death. They are connected. This kind of connection may be established throughout the sequels so that it doesn't feel as coming from nowhere
"The train station, it just doesn't go anywhere". Yeah... exactly. Nailed it.
Keanu really is a trending topic this week. Keep seeing him everywhere.
*green light everywhere *
... wait.
oh, hang on.. is he the one copy/replacing himself on other people everywhere? damn..
Still waiting on bill and Ted 3
You see green light? You're the one.
Trending this century
Agent Keanu Smith?
9:12 "We are keeping the RAVE scene...deal with it" ...that's when I knew we were in for some real gold.
Haha then he bails and makes it shorter! :p
this man understands high art
Oh my god, I was avoiding this video for a long time because even though the sequels weren't good, they still have a special place in my heart. I didn't want to hear you remove the scenes that I liked. But GODDAMN. You are a genius. This is amazing. You just earned a new subscriber!!!
They aren't as perfect as the first film, but they ARE good, still far above the average blockbuster.
"they are here to live deliciously"
I see that The VVitch has made a big impact on you too
*Patrick, standing in front of a green screen
"What if the Matrix sequels were good, like really good?"
wow this took me back
lol for years I thought they were the same person
something about the voice
What a belated comment to write....
They have the exact same voice.
Ah, yes. Good videos. A shame BM doesn’t regularly upload.
I’m still trying to figure out where Trinity pulled two uzis from on her skin tight leather outfit before jumping out the window in reloaded
Woah man didn’t expect you here!
You know where they came from
The same place the writers did: Out of her arse.
b/c she chose to
um.. because it looks fucking awesome?
I love how this still fits with the fan theory that Smith is actually the One. Definitely agree these would have been tighter, clearer, and better paced than the original sequels.
Smith and Neo are caninically the same. Smith is Neos shadow. The machine equivolent to balance the equation. Thats also why they gain power equally and their final fight is just two equal forces ramming into each other.
Watxhing again in 2020 and hearing Sage say that "the ruling class allowed the act of rebelion but controlling were it becomes something superficial without chaning the class structure"
.. it hits different now
The Will Ferrell screaming "Ergo" & "Vis-à-vis" was a perfect touch!
CONCORDANTLY
Him as the architect is pretty good
loved that little easter egg!
i watched that sketch on the DVD all the time as a kid lmao
Wet... Willy.... Mr Anderson!
Thank you for including audio of the brilliant Will Farrell/Justin Timberlake Matrix parody from the MTV Movie Awards.
*Ergo!*
*Vis-a-vi!*
*Concordantly!*
"Hey Morpheus! What can we expect at this orgy?"
*_"MACHINES!!!"_*
"You do not wanna see me get out of this chair, mister! Ergo, open your yapper one more time and I'm going to architect a world of pain all over your candy ass!"
Ahh the early 2000s how i miss you
Hugo Weaving hamming it up. I can live with that.
I hope Lana Wachowski watches this before she finalizes the script for Matrix 4.
Matrix: Rebooted (But it's another sequel, not a reboot) BWOOOOOM
Why??? Do you really think she needs advice from anyone who didn’t already write the Matrix lore?
@@Rubberbandfan1 yes, I don't think you have to have written the Matrix lore to how a valid opinion on how it continues and what the many pitfalls of the sequels were. Most of the best Star Wars stuff isn't written by George Lucas.
@@Bobbypinker I meant all the Matrix lore, even the Animatrix, which was written by multiple people. The point is that all three of the movies were perfect in that they told a complete, well-written, imaginative story, and they were damned entertaining all throughout. The “problems” that I have heard from critics of the Matrix sequels are mostly due to a misunderstanding of the philosophy, plot-structure, and the era in which the films were made. The sequels definitely don’t need to be rewritten, especially by someone who admits that the directors are better writers than he is.
@@Rubberbandfan1 You're entitled to that opinion. I don't share your opinion. I think the original Matrix is a perfect movie, and the sequels are so-so and very flawed. Telling a complete, well-written story doesn't make it perfect. Lots and lots of movies do that and aren't that great.
I just think Trinity dying in three is so frustrating because of how she was saved in such a big way in number two.
Yes!
Neo literally duex ex machina's her like 3 times. Her death is still upsetting. Knowing I'd never see her when the matrix online started made it super hard to care about the matrix any more. Even Morpheus started blowing shit up. Online had a persistent sad feeling to it. It had a whole over world story, it was like a funeral.
Trinity could never die in the Matrix because Neo loves her and he is a god there. She died in the real world, doing for her man what he could no longer do. That's what people don't get with the sequels : the Wachowski's wanted to tell a different story than the old power trip where the hero gets the girl and everything ends up fine even though a half dozen people they knew died horribly. If the only thing you get from Matrix is that Neo is the hero and he always saves the day you clearly missed the incredibly dark and gritty undertones of the whole movie. Yes what they set themselves up to do in the sequels could have been done better with more writing time, but the scope and the intent of the story would not have been different. Trinity and Neo would never have survived. Because everything as a price and saving humanity losing only 2 lives isn't really high.
@@FD-io4pk Matrix Revolutions is the Rise of Skywalker of its day
@@mr.shyryhud1659 I disagree, at least the serendipity in Revolutions fit the story and actually make it work, in ROS it's just lazy writing. I understand the critics and the movie is far from perfect but it fits the themes and message of the story, whereas there's none of that in the Disneylogy.
In defense of the Jabba's Palace scene from RotJ I think it's a way of establishing how far Luke had come since the end of Empire. He wears black, he can do Obi Wan's mind tricks now, he's a much more confident and competent character and that adventure is a way to demonstrate all those things without throwing us straight into the moon of Endor.
KaiCrafted yeah. It’s a nice kind of inversion of the hero’s journey, since he completes his task - free Han - and “gets the girl” (yeah his sister ok). Point being we have him doing all this stuff that looks like the climax of a hero’s story. Which is a nice juxtaposition to the Throne Room, where we’d then expect him to deploy all his powers, and instead the throne room battle becomes about him surrendering himself, rather than overpowering.
Also it reintroduces the status quo after the craziness at the end of Empire. Everything is in flux, we don't know what's happened to everyone, so it's great to see how Leia, Lando, Chewie, the droids, and Luke have all ended up and see them over the course of the mission reintroduce themselves, reunite, and reassert their heroic stature after getting emotionally shattered at the end of the last movie. From a plot perspective, yeah it's kind of redundant, but from a character and tone perspective it's aces!
Agreed, I just wish it was better integrated with the rest of the story.
@@derekpederson1952 I like that Jabba's Palace was wholly unrelated to the Empire vs Rebellion war. It was a fun change of pace. It made the Galaxy feel like a real place, where more than just one thing was happening. The whole thread of Han Solo's character was that he was an outsider in this conflict. So it is only natural that the movies would have to deal with that. It isn't like how The Last Jedi throws in that random casino planet or the pointless scene in The Force Awakens when Rey and Finn get attacked by the pirates who have nothing to do with anything
It's kinda ruined by the fact that Luke's plan is so sloppy and ill-planned, though. Getting tricked by Jabba, getting captured, succeeding by the skin of his teeth even though he had an infinite amount of time to plan, etc... It makes Luke look like he DIDN'T learn anything in ESB.
One thing: I like the screens in Reloaded because, if you notice, they are all Neo reacting differently (Each one from a different iteration of the Matrix) this reinforces the fact that it has been reloaded many times and Neo has existed in each iteration.
"I'd watch 'em." More importantly I'd *rewatch* them. I can't remember the last time I sat through either of the sequels. When they came out I thought, wow, these were really ambitious and had some good elements but what the hell, they just did not deliver overall. I'm amazed at what you did here. You salvaged so much of the source material for a truly compelling story with huge rewatch value.
"...I am in no way saying I could have written better versions of these movies, or I'm fixing their work."
Thank you for that, because the opposite is way more prevalent on youtube.
Yet he goes ahead and says there are problems and can he fix them... I mean come on. We can like directors and creators and still say they made stinkers that should be fixed and someone could probably do better. In fact often the people who can contribute to making things better through collaboration needn't be able to do everything themselves. That's explicit in many works where a director's work has been improved by the contributions of others who may not be whole filmmakers themselves.
He kinda is saying that by creating this video in the first place.
@@BollocksUtwat what's your point?
@@cheasgsyu2465 That the statement is contradictory and needlessly apologetic.
I really liked it all, but I think instead of the Merovingian having old programmes that take down Neo, it would be cool if they were former 'Ones'.
I've always had this dream of Neo fighting earlier versions of the Ones, and I think it would be more believable if it was them that beat him.
I always had a theory that The Merovingian himself was a former One who had retired and set himself up in The Matrix.
....Huh.
I love this! Well done Patrick!
I love that you inserted Will Ferrell's performance for the 2004 MTV Movie Awards.
The first thought I had when he cut into that steak was, "Well done? Really?"
And it was effing INTENTIONAL. Brilliant.
That thing was far beyond well done, looked more like a crisp than a stake :P
Simon Sjöström-grönkvist never happen in a French restaurant
Dude, I got so offended when he cut into that steak and then he held up his fork and I was like, “You brilliant SOB!”
That's over cooked.
Patrick............. You're *_Breathtaking_*
He did a really great job,
and I'm only 40 min in, how the Merovingian should challenge the Oracle, both "consulting" on the prior Matrices.
No, your breathtaking!
THAT was wonderfully done. I hope an animator takes these ideas and does something with them. I pray the new matrix (#4) does the franchise justice. Thanks for taking the time to make this.
I’m filled with happiness and sadness at the same time. Happy to hear this brilliantly re-crafted story, but sad that I’ll never see it.
Oh my god, I can't imagine having gone through all this. Good shit, as always.
Patrick: What is the purpose of Agent Smith?
Agent Smith: "It is purpose that created us, purpose that connects us, purpose that pulls us, that guides us, that drives us, it is purpose that defines, purpose that binds us"....
So meaningless drivel.
@@feldon27 Moreso on the meaningless since Smith no longer has "purpose"
ERGO!!! VIS A VIS!!! CONCORDANTLY!!!! I fell out of my chair in laugh spasms over this😂🤣😆
Great vid! That’s so awesome you put the end of path of neo in here. I worked on that game and designed the dream lobby intro game difficulty level, the 3 Anderson beats, all training missions, dojo fight, and the 3 rescue Morpheus beats - lobby, rooftop, and helicopter rescue. I’ll never forget the day when we received the high-level story script from the Wachowski siblings. I kid you not it was virtually one run-on sentence spanning multiple pages. Ah, the good ol’ days.
I am a simple community college student, I hear someone say "cool, cool, cool", I give a like.
🎶Troy and Ahbed in the MorNing🎶
No doubt no doubt
Odd response, but cool cool
Donde...esta...la biblio...techa
I miss Community so much, man.
Patrick, your video might not be perfect, but it was made with love, thank you!
Slow clap. Standing ovation. Cut to Leo raising a glass in toast. This was such an incredible study, dissection, and rehabilitation of two movies I really wanted to like, but have never watched more than once. I wasn’t even aware of the hidden themes you mentioned; I just saw Kung fu, car chases, and bullet hell. You explained a reasoning for all of it, and made it BETTER. You are an absolute legend!
An aspect of The Matrix that saddens me in its omission in this video is the trans allegory. Lana Wachowski has gone on record that the subway scene in the first movie ("That is the sound of inevitability") was inspired by a moment of suicidal ideation she was suffering during a bout of gender dysphoria at a subway. The way Morpheus describes the Matrix in the first movie, as a prison you can't see or taste or touch but you know is there because something about the world feels *wrong*, can be likened to someone just before they realize they are trans trying to make sense of why the world doesn't fit. Much of the first movie is about conformity and identity, see how Agent Smith insists on calling Neo "Mister Anderson", akin to deadnaming him. Most importantly: already by the first movie, Agent Smith reveals to Morpheus that he *hates* the Matrix and he himself feels imprisoned by it. The same way a "gender essentialist" society restricts and oppresses gender-nonconforming individuals, it *also* oppresses *gender-conforming* individuals by virtue of forcing them to live under a role with a predescribed identity. There is also subtext where Smith's actions can be read as a self-hating Trans/queer individual who is willingly working with the system in the hopes that just marching in tune will make things make sense *eventually*, and if not then he can at least enjoy the benefits of being favored by the oppressing class (being "one of the good ones", in other words). Also, there's Switch. Switch was supposed to be a man in the real world but present as a woman in the Matrix.
When you factor that in, Smith becomes a way more important character. Smith's scenes when they acquire a human body in the real world can be likened to a self-hating trans individual experiencing moments of gender euphoria. Where Smith goes on a self-hating rampage of wanting to destroy the Matrix, machines and humanity alike, Neo stands ready to oppose him. Neo has already transitioned. He knows the Matrix/gender is just a construct and it imprisons the oppressor and the oppressed alike, and that the path forward is through unity, healing and both mutual- and self-acceptance.
Also, the Blue pill is HRT.
In that light, a really easy way to keep Smith in the film is to further explore how much Smith resents Neo and Humanity but at the same time is VIOLENTLY desperate to have what they have--and yet he hates himself because all his life, all he's known had taught him that that was wrong. So now that he knows the truth he doesn't know how to reconcile any of it.
Not trans but wouldn't it make more sense for the Red one to be HRT?
@@FusionFullForce Correct, the red pill makes the most sense as HRT. The story goes that estradiol pills were red back in the day, though I wasn't around then to know that first-hand.
Funny enough, estradiol pills are typically a blue-green sorta color nowadays.
Kinda related but I've imagined Neo seeing the Matrix for what it is and being able to break physics as the same way a speedrunner knows how to exploit the glitches in a game to fly around the map.
I'm so glad that we're finally getting critical appraisals of the sequels that aren't just flippant dismissal. This was really fantastic and does underline just how much the existing materiel of the films could work better with a bit of restructuring.
One detail that always kind of bugs me when people talk about the sequels, though, is when the topic of the Source comes up. I feel like people tend to either oversimplify what it is or make blanket analogies for what it represents. Like, your interpretation of it as "machine heaven" is perfectly valid, because the Wachowskis play kind of fast and loose with actually explaining what the source is (which I think it by design). You also make a point that it's a part of the Matrix, which I don't think is supported by the film, since the Oracle and Rama Chandra make a point in explaining that the "machine world" and the Matrix are separate places, and that's why Rama's family has to be smuggled from the machine world to the Matrix, to escape it's influence and control. That's also why the Merovingian is in the Matrix, to escape with his cohorts from being deleted after becoming obsolete following the failure of the second Matrix. As Rama says "if you want to bring something from our world (the machine world) to your world, you must speak with the Frenchman." That separateness is also why the machines aren't able to just reboot delete Smith on a whim. The machine world, on the other hand, would then probably be the domain of the Source, which to me sort of symbolizes the concept of God.
Not necessarily the personified Judeo-Christian kind of God either, mind you (that'd probably be the Architect). Like, I get where the knee jerk "this is a Christ alegory" comes from since there is Christian imagery and concepts mixed in there, but I doubt they'd settle for just one religious influence. To me the Source feels more like a Hinduish, Bhramanistic sort of God, and I think that's supported by when Neo starts to see the golden light. The Wachowskis have gone on record as saying that the golden light that Neo sees is the key to understanding Revolutions. The gold light, to me, is used to symbolize a being that originated from the Source. After all, as Morpheus says in the first film, all programs and machines were said to be born from a "singular consciousness" that then spread, so each being that spawns from the Source is also a part of it, and that's what the light is. We see it in Seraph, whose a program from the machine city. Notice we never get "Neovision" of any other programs from the machine world in the Matrix after that initial encounter. I'd wager they'd appear gold to Neo as well as his powers developed more and more. The light that fills the machine city, that's blinding once Neo reaches it's core, is the same as the one that appears in every machine. They are separate, but the same. In that sense, maybe a program going back to the Source to get "deleted" isn't so much dying and going to machine heaven, but returning to the "Source" of their very existence to rejoin it, essentially the "death" of their singular existence.
I think all this this ties in a lot with what happens to Neo at the end when he "dies." Neo merges with Smith, and I think it's safe to assume Neo is plugged into the Source and if we take what I mentioned before we can safely assume that's what's surging through him as he and the Smiths he's connected to are "deleted." I think in that moment his consciousness is joining with the Source, and Smith's is too since he was tricked into inadvertently connecting himself to the Source -- exactly where he didn't want to go. As you pointed out, he's a being of ego, and if joining the Source is what happens on "deletion" that's straight up ego death right there. Not exactly sure what the mechanics of that are (I wish the Wackowskis elaborated just a little bit on how Neo's connection with the Source works, both the connection itself and how he does it wirelessly early on). My best guess is it has something to do with Neo's innate connection to it from being "the One" and the fact that Neo took the full blast of Smith's last "deletion." We see when Neo's body being carted away the light emanating off of him looks distinctly like a lotus flower, which as I understand, in Hinduism, symbolizes when a human is at it's highest state of being in -- in this case exhibited in the merging of machine consciousness with human consciousness. The Wachowskis have mentioned somewhere that what happens to Neo is the "delimiting of his consciousness." Beats me what it means in the specifics, but I do feel like it has to do with the Oracle's Ultimate goal, which is the reconciliation of man and machine beyond just a tenuous military truce, which is tied to Neo's fate as well as Sati's. As she said, she knows the future "and the only way we get there is together."
I dunno, this all may sound a bit splurgy, vague, and overcomplicated, but I so rarely get to talk with folks about the sequels so I kind of feel I need to be a bit splurgy.
this just blew open my mind
Good explanation on Neo's connection to the source. I agree though, would've been nice to have SOME hint as to how Neo is connected to it, but I guess if some aspect of Neo's psyche was programmed by the machines, and all machines are programmed by the source, then the source programmed Neo...?
They introduce the source in Reloaded, so Revolutions should've focused on explaining the source and it's significance in the world. I mean they do explain aspects of it, sure, but it's all far too cryptic. I like mysterious stories and all, but Revolutions is good argument for why you shouldn't start raising more questions right before your big action saga is about to end.
With long comments like yours, they're either really well-written arguments, or psycho rambling. Usually it's the latter. Happy to find the former.
Well said, Skybox Media :)
I feel like that's a lot of the reason discussion about the sequels is so rare. There's so many interpretations and potential meanings coupled with religious imagery that they tend to attract the kind of folks prone to spewing pseudo-profound, word salad rambling, which turns a lot of people off (myself included).
Skybox Media wow that's some exposition
I was seriously nervous about this video. I’m a die hard fan of all 3 Matrix movies, I’ve seen all of them with all of the commentary tracks. But you did it, it was great, I never should’ve doubted you Patrick! Great work
Wow. You truly are dedicated to what you do. Amazing work!
Damn... That _was_ really good.
And the pieces were mostly there. Fuck, man... I wanna watch this now.
YES, A MILLION TIMES YES! I finally watched this video and immediately wish/hope the version he describes exists.
Irony... playing RATM song will get you copyright strike...
btw someone should remade or re-cut matrix reloaded/revelations to that script
Rage's record label is Epic, who are owned by Sony...
The song has history. He in the UK a grassroots campaign made the song a xmas no1 to defy Simon Cowell and his show X Factor. In the end it all just goes to Sony.
content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1949249,00.html
@@gedbyrne8482 Like they say in the video, the best way to control a revolution is to subvert and appropriate it. Which isn't to say that RATM don't have revolutionary cred, but they definitely made a decision to allow Sony to profit from their rhetoric when they signed to Epic.
I was at a screening of Sorry to Bother You which had a Q&A with Boots Reilly and I asked him about this sort of thing at the end, citing the scene in which one of the culturejammed Worryfree posters is displayed at Steve Lift's party. He mentioned that he's in a band with Tom Morello, Prophets of Rage, and when recording one time Morello told him a story about the filming of the RATM video for Sleep now in the Fire. If you don't know it, they set up a stage on Wall Street and shot a video of them playing the song live, without a permit, with the express intention of provoking a reaction from the cops.
So they play the song through, no cops. They play through again, no cops. But this time there's a noise in the background, like a rumbling. it gets louder and louder. Adn then a ton of guys in business gear come around the corner, chanting SUITS FOR RAGE, SUITS FOR RAGE. Which is interesting to see how the relationship can be symbiotic.
And I guess, I'm an anarchist, typing this on my work laptop - as I work in a massive medical equipment manufacturer.
@@gedbyrne8482 Even your rebellion is part of the system.
Aside from the convoluted narratives the sequels were trying to spin, my biggest issue with the Matrix sequels is that the Wachowskis seemingly gave up on creative visuals.
The first Matrix was effectively a series of comic book panels brought to life. The gap between Trinity's arms as the unwitting officer prepares his handcuffs, the flooded overpass Neo stands under waiting for his ride, the camera swooping "into" the security monitors, the freeze-frame of Agent Smith pointing his gun after the lady in the red dress, Neo's multiple hands in the dojo fight, the fast up and down motion of the camera as Morpheus and Neo are loaded into the jump program, the purgatory of the "lots of guns" scene, the constant reflections in Morpheus's glasses, the "Trinity? Help!" bullet-dodging scene. I could go on and on and on. So many memorable and never-before-seen moments in the Matrix.
I'll admit some of the scenes in Reloaded were cool like Neo flying through the city leaving a wake of destruction in is path to save Trinity and the highway chase scene but the amount of love and attention devoted to almost every single frame in the first film isn't even remotely touched on in Reloaded and essentially abandoned in Revelations. Instead we tons of shot-reverse-shot scenes and completely uninspired camera angles. I might be wrong but are there even any tracking shots in the sequels?
I feel like the W's got so into the weeds of the story that they completely forgot what made the first film so visually arresting. Case in point: you mentioned that the Architect is sitting in a room with TV's talking to Neo but rather than showing the audience what he's talking about (which is strange since it's, you know... a movie and not a podcast) we're just watching the two of them with random images of people doing random things. It's boring and just makes what the Architect is talking about that much less interesting and engaging.
That said I think your rewrites were good but can't help but think that if the sequels had clever and more interesting visuals we probably would've enjoyed them more.
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE your Matrix Reloaded rewrite!!! Seriously bro, you killed it!!!
The Revolutions rewrite was great too! You did an outstanding job w/this project.
That return of Agent Smith bit is the return of Captain Barbossa from Dead Man's Chest.
dnwilliams I was just thinking about that
I love the whole Matrix trilogy, sequels and all, and I still appreciate your critiques and proposed fixes. Well done!
I'm with you on everything except for "Neo walks to the machine city" part. They are miles underground and that's a hundred mile walk to the city through the desert of the real (in Revolutions they flew at top speed for quite a while to get there, which would take days / weeks on foot). I guess you could have Trinity drop Neo off near the surface and retcon the machine city to be directly over Zion (which could be plausible since it would let them keep a close eye on the humans and make their repetitive invasions much simpler). Or have Neo tame and ride a sentinel there or something. He'd need a ship otherwise since he can only fly in the Matrix. Anyway, that was my only criticism, that was brilliant overall!
Also, their ability to breathe outside of the hovercrafts is never explained. The atmosphere is supposed to be an apocalyptic nuclear winter hellhole in which every living form has gone extinct, so there shouldn't be oxygen in the underground tunnels (Except for Zion, which is revealed in Reloaded to possess machinery capable of generating an atmosphere), and especially not on the surface.
@@rafaellago172 bro that’s a great point omg I never noticed that. It’s minor but important things like that that can mess up the entire continuity of a world. Which in turn will cause a domino effect of “Plot Holes”
Absolutely love it, man. You retold the same story in a brilliant way. The only small criticism I have is how long it would take Neo to walk there.
I like Reloaded and Revolutions quite a bit, but it's a shame that they don't reach the same heights as the Matrix. I blame the studios and shareholders pressuring the Wachowskis and the cast and crew far too much.
I'm still in the camp that this didn't need to be a trilogy at all, and The Matrix is best as a singular will. But Patrick's constructive suggestions for restructuring the sequels all sound like they would be improvements
I think Reloaded and Revolutions should've just been one movie
How did they pressure them? Reloaded came 4 years after The Matrix
I think Wachowskis had nearly no pressure and the movies ended up just like they wanted. The problem was that they couldn't really figure out what to do with unlimited budget. Having some limits for the implementation forces you to come up with creative solutions, unlimited budget allows you to skip thinking about alternative solutions and I think that was what happened there.
@@MikkoRantalainen nah they had to come up with plenty of creative solutions to do all sorts of cutting edge shit they had going on in those movies. Unlimited budget doesnt mean it was "easy" for anyone working on it
I've never been able to get a good read on Patrick as a person. I respect his opinons, and even when I have disagreed with him I see where he is coming from His explanations are awesome. However, if I knew him as a genuine person in the real world I can't decide if he'd be super cool and we'd bros over nerd culture or if he'd drive me batty. It'd certainly be one of those two extremes. Patrick is an enigma to me.
You can't ever know somebody from their TH-cam videos. They're all playing a character when on screen, even if it's meant to be themselves. It's scripted and acted even though it's non fiction.
I would definitely watch those sequels. Great job, man.
First of all, I love this, thank you Patrick. Second of all, I feel like you missed a possible tie in. You have Neo spend time in the train station (the bridge between life and death/afterlife for programs), and decide to live and use his powers to break it open so he can return to the Matrix. That's your in for Smith returning, he would have had to follow that same path through the train station to return to the source, but as he's doing so, he sees the hole Neo broke in the wall that leads back to the Matrix and follows it, so Neo's choice to live had the unintended consequence of giving Smith a way back as well, instead of just mysteriously reappearing.
Anyways some day when we can generate entire films using complex machine learning, we'll make your version of the movies real, just give it a few decades.
I'm disappointed you didn't fix the trilogy's most glaring flaw - the absence of a scene of Morpheus drinking a forty in a death basket.
Causality french accent approved by a french viewer
Keep going Patrick, doing great
Absolutely love these. Only thing I'd add would be for when Smith's giving his bit of exposition about how he chose not to die upon his return, that it's implied or even overtly made apparent that the reason why he can take over all the other agents and programs is that they lack his drive or ability to choose not to be taken over. They cannot conceive of their ability to choose an alternate path for themselves, and are thus taken over because there is no other possibility for them. Smith's goal with the gift of choice is to be, hypocritically, the ONLY choice; this also would serve to be his ultimate downfall, as his ideology traps him back in the same loop that caused everyone else to fall to him. Then, when the Oracle gets taken over, that would double down on just how screwed over the Matrix is, because then even the greatest ally on the side of self determination is caught in the trap of causality without free will.
Oh god. I am a massive matrix fan. Yet there are a thing I have missed that you have filled in for me here. This is brilliant.
Hi Patrick, Great video. Just a few things that I would change:
In Reloaded: Rewrite, you said that Trinity and Morpheus escape the highway scene on their own, I think that undercuts the rule that "No one survive the highway in the Matrix". they would need divine intervention (Neo) to escape. I would have Neo exit the train station and get back to the real world as per your rewrite, intercut with the highway sequence, and finding out from Link that he team mates are in danger, which is a call back to first Matrix where Neo is resolve to save Morpheus, and he does in this movie as per the original sequence.
In Reloaded, I would also keep the Bane character, but with a different actor. Throughout Reloaded, Bane would be the one person that keeps acting strange around Neo as if he has a grudge against Neo. Keep the scene where he tries to murder Neo before the big mission (Power Plant/Architect mission). No explanation needed for Bane in this movie.
In the Prologue of Revolution: Rewrite, after your scene explaining the Return of Smith, add in that original scene of Smith taking over Bane from Reloaded here, and this now provides context for Bane and the eventual blinding of Neo.
I quite like Revolution, but in my opinion, the biggest flaw for that movie is the editing of the two big set pieces. I would intercut the battle of Zion (geography of Zion needs to be shown in Reloaded, which the original tried but didn't show much that is significant to this battle), with the Journey to the machine city/confrontation with Bane. Culminating to the Retreat of Zion Soldier (Blow up the Bridge) and the death of Trinity. Then the rest of the movie play out as is.
My reason to include Bane is to keep the stake of Smith high in the real world. Plus blind Neo is such a cool look, it harken to old manga trope (from which Matrix draw a lot of its inspiration).
Other than the above, well done on your video.
I love that you put Larry screaming in the background "Ergo, Vis-a-vis, Concordantly !!" hahahahahaha
Yeah what Up g u can't handle it
You do *NOT* want to see me get out of this chair! Ergo open your yapper one more time and I'm gonna... architect a world of pain all over your candy ass!
That was deeply impressive. Thank you for putting it together!
I can't believe how much I needed this video and I didn't know it. Thank you so much!
Love it!
This was a much better video than if you had simply made a video essay titled "The Problems with the Matrix Sequels: Fixed!"
To me, at least, this ARE the definitive versions of the Matrix Trilogy. Cooked with tons of love, indeed!
Rewatching this again after rewatching the whole trilogy, this is SO good! Especially loved this whole idea of maintaining the structure! I wonder if this same treatment can be applied to the Star Wars prequels. Definitely would be very tricky to navigate but their might be something there to try and improve upon them!
Great job! Thank you for all the effort you put into this.
That epilogue... I wish more sequels could be like the matrix sequels. Even if they are flawed, I love the big ideas and I appreciate them more now then when I was younger.
This video has come at a perfect time as I have just finished a Matrix trilogy re-watch on Netflix! The difference in quality and pacing between the first and the 2 sequels was unbelievable, had to force myself to finish them..
This video was therapy for me. The matrix sequels have always puzzled me despite the original being one of my all time favs, mostly because they’re both interesting and frustrating all at once. On the page and from a purely thematic/conceptual standpoint, they’re solid gold. Like, I believe if it was executed better, the architect’s scene could have been on the same level as “I am your father” in terms of rug pull reveals that change everything we thought we knew. but the execution is what kills it. So it was nice to see someone distill what worked about them and into a rewrite and shave off some of the rough edges.
Dude... your rewrites were amazing. The pacing of Revolutions especially would've been wayyyy better with your script.
Also make the humans a source of computational power instead of electrical power.
OMG, yes. All it would take is Morpheus holding up a CPU chip instead of a damn battery and explaining that the machines were about to extinct us until they realized they could use our non-digital, non-linear intelligence (think of us as organic GPUs to their CPUs) to solve problems they couldn't but found they needed to provide a Matrix to keep us sane.
Also, at some point in the sequels I was convinced that we'd find out that the REAL reason the machines needed us and were rebooting the matrix to re-cultivate Neo was that they face an existential crisis from the threat of a Singularity at the edge of our solar system that was coming to inevitably absorb them. Neo and his disciples would be the immune system against their irrelevance and annihilation. Queue sequel...
@@jones1618 It was the The Wachowskis original version of the film but the studio made them change it because they they thought that the audience wouldn't understand what computational power is.
This was an amazing video. I demand this be a regular series! I would totally support the "Willems Cut"
As 4 is coming, I've been seeking things like this. Wow what a lot of work. Awesome job, Patrick!
I actually rewrote the last three seasons of my favorite TV show as a fanfiction, just like this guy did for the Matrix. This guy is doing it pretty well.
PATRICK PLEASE BECOME A FILMMAKER AND MAKE GOOD BLOCKBUSTERS
I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t turn down the opportunity if asked. It’s the studios you need to be begging to ask him.
What do you think of his Matrix ideas
NO! PLEASE FUCK NO!
Yesssssssss!
absolutely LOVE that you featured Sage from "Just Write"! so, so cool!
Had to go and watch. ... this is my teenhood
I like your storytelling very much! Such a joy to watch videos like that!
As someone who saw the original Matrix in the theater when it released, I can't express to you enough how much I needed this. The sequels have bothered me so much over the years and your master edit finally tells the story they should have told from the beginning. Well done! Respect!
I love it! This makes for a great set of sequels. Great thought process. I really enjoyed this video. I would love for you to continue these thought experiments more.
omfg the clips from Will Ferrel's Architect from the MTV Movie Awards were such a wonderful surprise. You're a true fan Patrick.
EPIC! And I'd love to see those versions. Great work. Thanks for your insights.
I’m amazed at how good this rewrite sounds. Literally gives me chills. Now I’m upset because I’ll never get this version in real life.
This is a rare video that manages to make my love of the existing movies deeper even though you offer an alternative take on them.
Patrick where did you get that Keanu Whoa shirt? I want it bad!
yeah, thats a pretty cool shirt. couldnt find it online
It's from the artist Jason Latour. It's currently sold out, but he's brought it back before. Here's the link if you wanna keep an eye on it: roguescreenprint.bigcartel.com/product/whoa-jason-latour-2nd-printing
watched this a couple of times now, and always enjoy it. thanks for spending the time to make this as good as it is. really thoughtfully done, and an entertaining ride. i'd watch your versions too :)
Would love to see more sequel rewrites like this one, great video!
I'm curious about what you think a better version of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow would be like
Oh wow...
Your new final scene for RELOADED gave me chills.
It’s like POTC 2.
This is seriously one of my FAVORITE videos you've done! It's just an excellent deconstruction, analysis, and re-construction of these films. I also have not seen the sequels in their entirety in over decade. Revolutions I haven't seen much of since the theatre. I catch Reloaded on cable on a rare occasion, and it still has an appeal to me despite being baggy and long-winded. With the fourth movie announced, I look forward to further reactions and analysis on this franchise in years to come!
The Epilogue of this video is genuinely beautiful.
More Monica Bellucci is always the correct answer.
FACT
Pat H shoot em up
Two scoops of that please!
Was she even in Revolutions?
@@theplourde for the hottest of seconds.
Patrick be like:
"What if I told you the Matrix sequels could be good, like really good?"
Frosty14748 shoutout to belated media
i put off watching this video for a few weeks because it was so long but i’m so glad i came back to it. incredible rewrite!
You did it, you fixed them! Thank you for all of your hard work
CONCORDANTLY
VIS A VIS
I'm so happy to have discovered this channel.
You did a great job of showing how movie or research works. I love it