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Re: What anime inspired "The Matrix?" [message #396771] Fri, 17 July 2020 08:26 Go to next message
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Originally posted by: eastonhfc

On Sunday, 20 February 2000 08:00:00 UTC, Deb Nilsen wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Just happened to see a making of the movie, "The Matrix," and one of the
> guys, I think he was a visual technician, said
> that the Wachowski Brothers were inspired by an anime film and wanted their
> film to look like it. Does anyone know
> what this film was?
>
> Deb

Watch the anime called 'X'. The Wachowski's took loads of ideas for the Matrix from this.
Re: What anime inspired "The Matrix?" [message #396873 is a reply to message #396771] Tue, 21 July 2020 08:19 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On 7/17/20 8:26 AM, eastonhfc@googlemail.com wrote:
> On Sunday, 20 February 2000 08:00:00 UTC, Deb Nilsen wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Just happened to see a making of the movie, "The Matrix," and one of the
>> guys, I think he was a visual technician, said
>> that the Wachowski Brothers were inspired by an anime film and wanted their
>> film to look like it. Does anyone know
>> what this film was?
>>
>> Deb
>
> Watch the anime called 'X'. The Wachowski's took loads of ideas for the Matrix from this.
>

Necroposting from 20 years ago!


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Re: What anime inspired "The Matrix?" [message #397125 is a reply to message #396873] Mon, 27 July 2020 06:40 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: <potato

On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 08:19:20 -0400
"Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com> wrote:

> On 7/17/20 8:26 AM, eastonhfc@googlemail.com wrote:
>> On Sunday, 20 February 2000 08:00:00 UTC, Deb Nilsen wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Just happened to see a making of the movie, "The Matrix," and one of the
>>> guys, I think he was a visual technician, said
>>> that the Wachowski Brothers were inspired by an anime film and wanted their
>>> film to look like it. Does anyone know
>>> what this film was?
>>>
>>> Deb
>>
>> Watch the anime called 'X'. The Wachowski's took loads of ideas for the Matrix from this.
>>
>
> Necroposting from 20 years ago!
>
>
> --
> Sea Wasp
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It's more like the Martix inspired the Anime.

Have a look at the Animatrix.
Re: What anime inspired "The Matrix?" [message #397136 is a reply to message #397125] Mon, 27 July 2020 11:34 Go to previous message
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On 7/27/20 6:40 AM, potato@nntp.aioe.org wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 08:19:20 -0400
> "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com> wrote:
>
>> On 7/17/20 8:26 AM, eastonhfc@googlemail.com wrote:
>>> On Sunday, 20 February 2000 08:00:00 UTC, Deb Nilsen wrote:
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> Just happened to see a making of the movie, "The Matrix," and one of the
>>>> guys, I think he was a visual technician, said
>>>> that the Wachowski Brothers were inspired by an anime film and wanted their
>>>> film to look like it. Does anyone know
>>>> what this film was?
>>>>
>>>> Deb
>>>
>>> Watch the anime called 'X'. The Wachowski's took loads of ideas for the Matrix from this.
>>>
>>
>> Necroposting from 20 years ago!
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sea Wasp
>> /^\
>> ;;;
>> Website: http://www.grandcentralarena.com Blog:
>> http://seawasp.dreamwidth.org
>>
> It's more like the Martix inspired the Anime.
>
> Have a look at the Animatrix.
>


The Matrix wasn't a terribly original idea (heck, The Thirteenth Floor,
released the same year, takes the same idea and does it better if not
with as much 3-D bullet time), and I suspect you could find anime that
did the same thing going back a ways.


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