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      • The Wachowskis' approach to action scenes was influenced by anime and martial arts films (particularly fight choreographers and wire fu techniques from Hong Kong action cinema); other influences include Plato's cave and 1990s Telnet hacker communities.
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  2. Mar 31, 2024 · The Wachowskis’ philosophy-inspired script helped usher in an era of narrative gravity and complexity in how studios approached the world-building storytelling of studio IP.

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  3. Mar 26, 2019 · An eye-popping, mind-expanding fusion of cyberpunk fiction, comic books, computer games and Japanese animation, The Matrix was as heavily influenced by Lewis Carroll, William Gibson, Grant Morrison and Philip K. Dick as it was by the Bible, Greek mythology, philosophical texts and Eastern religion.

  4. Apr 7, 2024 · The Wachowskis used over 100 cameras to create the Matrix's famous “bullet time” sequence and changed the visual effects game.

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  5. Dec 22, 2021 · The Wachowskis have said “The Matrix” was inspired in part by a request for them to create an original comic book, and the film’s graphic novel-esque aesthetic can be seen in films such as ...

  6. Dec 22, 2021 · Over the past two decades, mainstream tastes and the Wachowskis’ work have seemingly been on two vectors moving in opposite directions, and The Matrix was just the point where they happily ...

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  7. Creators the Wachowskis’ ideas weren’t new, but their delivery system was radical—Baudrillard by way of bullet time, a multiple cinematic fusion of philosophical, literary, and spiritual connectedness via cyberpunk fiction, Japanese anime and Hong Kong martial-arts influences.

  8. In an interview with Gadfly in 1998 (after their first movie), the Wachowskis reiterated their influence by or enjoyment of Huston (e.g. Treasure of the Sierra Madre) and Wilder (e.g., Sunset Boulevard and Lost Weekend), and added to these the impacts of Alfred Hitchcock (e.g. Strangers on a Train and Psycho), Roman Polanski (e.g. Repulsion ...