sir and action hello who are you I am
the architect I created the matrix
basically it's a scene in which neo
meets the architect of the matrix it is
a place that we've actually seen once
before in the first movie but only a
little glimpse of it it's implied that
perhaps he was the one watching neo
during that interrogation so here we are
back in that place well originally I
went for a different part I went I was
told they wanted somebody to play there
I'd know who it was was a counselor I
think I suddenly got a different script
and was asked to read for this
completely other part which completely
bamboozled me because of course I hadn't
read the whole script I only read the
scenes that I was in and I thought what
the hell is this
God slash devil the father of the matrix
he says and I thought wow this is good
yeah I can do that I can do my cheap
Orson Welles imitation and get paid for
it this will be the sixth time we have
destroyed
it's malevolent not in a not in a moral
sense it's it's malevolent you know I
will his formula doesn't work let's
scrub it out and try something else
it's mathematical malevolence we've shot
it over a three-day period it was mainly
because I sort of spoke virtually
non-stop and count every now and then
I'd say a reaction that I had to kind of
carry the scene in terms the dialogue it
was Keanu who sort of translated for me
what the brothers were trying to say for
which I will remain eternally grateful
so between the brothers and Keanu
they've taught me how to act in a way
that I didn't understand before the key
was to kind of his wife everything clean
and just imagined that I was like a
blank blackboard and then it made sense
I expected the center of the matrix to
be a mathematical formula some sort of
mathematical construct not humanized I
was very surprised that it turned out to
be a person the whole belief system of
being the one is check because I'm not
the one I'm the sixth so I learned that
I don't know
as much as I thought I did and then I'm
there I'm given the choice of humanity
or Trinity it's funny that me up just
goes from trendy representing this
fundamental coalition choice decision
purpose mission fighting against all
odds but he's now confronted with the
embodiment the exact one determinism in
denial there's one architect having to
make that choice rich rich but it's that
whole thing of choice and that whole
thing of you know I don't I don't
believe everything I hear and I don't
think that what everyone says
is the truth or past that was a
complicated scene which was completely
shot surrounded by blue screen and then
he has a bunch of monitors all around
him like hundreds and hundreds of
monitors the images inside the monitors
of course we're going to shoot but
they'll be shot you know fairly unique
way so that we can do tricks of
perspective on neo the Neos in the
monitors some basic camera feedback
loops where we can travel from the
center of the environment here through
monitors back into the environment and
out again if we choose it's really like
a limitless number of possibilities how
you could actually go in and out of the
space particularly when everything that
surrounds you is computer graphics to
start with so do interesting things the
assignments we had for littering the
screens in the background really had to
do with the folly of man we just figured
it was the short history of recorded
images so we took him from newsreel
World War 1 or 2 through you know
contemporary time the sort of leaders
and events that the audience that was
watching the matrix would be familiar
with we had leaders of all different
sorts not necessarily always evil just
those that seem to have an effect in the
world order through the 20th century and
it was just a hyper informational
delivery that really didn't matter if
you really saw everything it was really
just about the architects access to an
infinity of information related Neos
you know consciousness of who he was
Trinity first was the folly of man and
then it became Neos folly and his
preoccupation with Trinity and saving
her and the folly of an unreal life a
constructed life that he never led and
the fact that every moment of his life
was a construction of the architect or
the machinery of the matrix
so he was demonstrating I supposed to
kneel that it was all an elaborate
fabrication to break his will I suppose
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when neo has problems with deciding
which way he will choose as a certain
level of you know multiple personalities
and the responses from multiple
personalities reacting to the
architect's questions so that one way
visualized and that might be with just a
more individualized the the one entity
is being splintered so that his internal
world is becoming externalized so it's
all about different aspects of his self
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one of the only times you ever get to
improv approach a sneeze oh I couldn't
believe it did you see how happy the key
under the actor cut for you guys I'll do
well with my pants
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