Mentok said:
Not biased at all then?
All other stories were written by the directors with the wachowski's approval of the story.
I know they wrote 4 of them. The main problem with the others was, rather than giving the other creative teams a startng off point within the universe they told them what they wanted.
This ruined any real creative process.
The whole point to the exercise was giving the writers and directors freedom to expand the Matrix universe, a universe that is already made up from Japanese ideas....
They didnt get that. They were told what to do... This is something that the japanese writers complained about.
Bring on a second series though... Although this time really give us 'An inside in to the Matrix universe from the most unique film makers in Japan'.[/QUOTE]
It depends on how you see a biased person.
If you're talking about someone who'll defend the matrix movies and not see a single flaw , then no i ain't biased.
I hate the kid and i hate the zion rave despite the fact that i understand why the rave is there and what it symbolises.
I don't think all of mankind is going on a rave-orgie if you know that 3 days from now you might as well be dead.I do think that there are flaws in the movies , but overall they still are far superior then most movies out there.
ON the other hand , if you're talking about me defending these movies when some idiot makes idiotic claims ( as seen more then often on the hype) such as Smallville having better VFX then Matrix Revolutions , then yes i am biased.
Giving criticism is one thing , saying that something sucks just for the sake of "being cool" or making absurd claims is another.
Anyway , yes the matrix universe is made from japanese ideas , but also from other ideas such as hinduism , buddhism , christinanity etc etc.
The list is goes on.
My point here is that the whole idea is to expand the universe WITHIN the boundaries that the universe exist.
True , the writers did complain. But then again , i think all writers do complain when their script is being rewritten or rejected by a director .
All projects are under direct supervision of a person. Otherwise everybody would come with ideas , which would conflict and not follow the vision of a director.
Imagine if VFX animators didn't do what the directors want and just do their own stuff.
You know as well as i do that that doesn't work.
And just how exactly aren't the writers/directors of the animatrix given creative freedom ?
Look at SR 1 & 2. Apart from the original ROBOT design everything else is created by the Mahiro Maeda.
Look at World Record. Stylised agents wearing coats.
Detective story looks like a matrix set in the '50s with those old cars and the design of the city.
Some stories of the animatrix were rejected at the time because the ideas would seem to similar to the ending of Reloaded and/or Revolutions.
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