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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 1501504" data-attributes="member: 63">At BASF, we don't make a lot of the movies you watch.  We make a lot of the movies you watch, better.PhilosophyWe adhere to the original movie's overall premise, keeping heroes and villains the same, but we remove extraneous pieces and enhance weak parts.  Thus, Agent Smith still is a virus, the Architect still forces Neo to make a decision to reboot the Matrix, the Merovingian is still French.The MatrixKeep as is.  It's iconic, and any flaws it has, we're fine with.The Matrix ReloadedThings that need to change or be updated include:1) That general guy needs to stop talking.  He's boring.  We're going to get rid of the council too.  In an action film, we don't need a big group of talking people.  To provide this necessary information, and to improve the emotional pay-off in movie 3, the characters of General Locke and of Capt. Mafune will be consolidated into one person.  2) We will have only one scene with the whole council, and that will involve Morpheus addressing them and trying to convince them of Neo's messiah-hood.  In the current version, most everyone except Locke believes in Neo, which removes most of the tension.  In the revision, few people really believe in him, and most of those who do are people who have been freed by him.  This way, when Morpheus takes the Nebuchadnezzar to go contact the Oracle, it's in violation of Zion, and we might start to worry that it really is foolish.3) Because this movie needs more punching, we have a Neo-filled training program, where Neo and Trinity train with Kid, who really ought to have a different name.  Kid has a hard time training here because his mind rejects the Matrix.  Make mention that a lot of plugged-in people have been dying recently in the Matrix because their will rebels, and they kill themselves.  Something strange is going on in the Matrix.  And then we cut to Bane getting possessed by Smith.4) The Rave is gone.  The only thing the Rave suggested in the original version was that Zion was in the real world, contrasting the stark antiseptic nature of the Matrix with the dirt-grinding feet and hips and sweat of the humans.  Unfortunately, it also made Zion look like a stand-in for Hell, where all the damned of the world live deep underground, filled with sinful urges.  Really, this scene was only here to appease the Wachowski brothers' sexual fetishism.5) After the Nebuchadnezzar leaves Zion, Zee (Link's girlfriend) and Kid meet up and join the infantry, with Kid trying to act as a bit of a prophet of Neo, and we have a bit more action with some people we care about.  Introduce the robots in this movie, and show that Locke will be in charge.  We need to make the audience care more about what's going on in Zion.  If we can't accomplish that, we're better off having very little action in Zion, and instead focus on the heroes in the Matrix.  But I want to keep some Zion action in.  We have Niobe and Locke argue a bit, and Niobe is swayed to believe in Neo, and she leaves.6) Cut the 'Burly Brawl' with the dozens of Smiths a little short.  Neo should have a hard time once there are ten Smiths, and he realizes he can't kill them.7) We like that the Merovingian has creepy monster allies.  His wife is a vampire.  His henchmen are ghosts, werewolves, and, let's add a ghoul of some sort.  Maybe put a little more effort in to help describe why they're around -- the Merovingian smuggled them out before the previous Matrices were rebooted.  This of course raises questions, since the group will want to know about these older versions of the Matrix.8) Why the hell does Monica Belucci kiss Neo?  She's a psychic vampire, of course, and she weakens Neo a bit by doing this.  We're going to have to kill her and the Merovingian in Revolutions, and they'll be powerful because they siphoned off the power of the One, as they've been siphoning off power from the One in the past six Matrices.9) Keep the end much the same, including the fun car chase, the need to get into the Source, the three paths, and the Architect.  However, we learn that the Merovingian has played a role too.  Even though Merv thinks he's rebelling, his repetitive attempts to drain power from the One is what weakened the previous One's enough that they didn't have the willpower to resist the offer by the Architect.  But Neo has been strengthened by his love for Trinity. . . .  Oh yeah, let's make sure we actually see love between Neo and Trinity.  Y'know, smiles, concern, and so on.10) At the end of the movie, we can't have Neo destroy the sentinels with his mind.  It gives the hint that there are two levels to the Matrix, which isn't true.  Instead, Neo is unable to revive Trinity.  By the time he catches Trinity, he's exhausted, his body in the Matrix horribly wounded from the strain.  He tries to heal her heart, but he doesn't have the power, and he realizes that Monica Belucci stole it.  He will not be able to save her life, but he can give her one last gift.  He embraces her, then tells Morpheus to unplug her.  When he does, Trinity's body in the Matrix vanishes, but her body comes back to life in the real world.  Neo returns to the real world, and finds Trinity in a coma, with no higher brain functions.  They then have to flee the Nebuchadnezzar, Neo carrying Trinity's body, as the ship is destroyed.  As the sentinels fly in, Neo feels something, and he looks down at Trinity, just as the sentinels spasm and collapse.  Trinity, in this version, is the one who has the strange control over the real world, not Neo.  This provides some extra special mystery, because it might be a sign that others are gaining strange powers, not just Neo. We end much as the original version ends, but with Trinity and Bane in the coma, not Neo.Coming soon, The Matrix Revolutions - BASF.</blockquote>

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