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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1499991" data-attributes="member: 5171">But Lucas was up-front from the beginning about it being a trilogy.  The creators of the Matrix, from what I've read, were all about it being one movie.  They didn't start talking about the continuing story until they got a big honkin' load of money.  Again, please correct me if I'm wrong.  It's hardly a passion of mine, and this is just from a few interviews.  In the pre-first-movie ones, they're talking about the story of that one movie, never even hinting of it as a possible trilogy (from what I read).In fact, Star Wars was in my mind as a stark contrast to the Matrix -- the former was a series whose first movie did stand on its own but also clearly indicated future stories and completions of other arcs, while the latter seemed, to me at least, to be clearly self-contained, with no real need for a sequel.I do not believe this to be an accurate statement.  It was certainly not clear to me.  It does not seem to have been clear to others, based on popular commentary.  The most likely reason for this difference being that the Matrix was meant to be one standalone movie.From all relevant perspectives, that's the most important thing. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  I'm quite happily at a point now where I don't watch movies because I ought to like them, and I don't shy away from movies because I shouldn't like them. As long as you enjoy it, life is good.Actually, the Oracle worked fine for me in the first movie all by herself.  I mean, she wasn't particularly plausible without additional information, but when you strip away the sci-fi gloss of virtual reality and actually look at the nature of the plot, it's a traditional fantasy story.  And traditional fantasy stories always have mysterious old soothsayers who elliptically tell Prophecy Lad that he's destined to save the kingdom -- or, in this case, tell him that he's not destined to save the kingdom, specifically in order to psych him out so that he later feels compelled to go save the kingdom anyway.</blockquote>

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