Everything is a Remix: The Matrix
Kirby Ferguson, a New York-based filmmaker, and friends have been working on a four-part video series called Everything is a Remix.
Here, to demonstrate their point, they juxtapose scenes from the Matrix with films that it drew inspiration from. For example, as we move along the timeline:
- 0:27 - Fist of Legend (1994)
- 0:38 - Tai-Chi Master (Twin Dragons) (1993)
- 0:44 - Fist of Legend (1994)
- 0:48 - Tai-Chi Master (Twin Dragons) (1993)
- 0:53 - Drunken Master (1978)
Click through for other influences that range from a Philip K. Dick speech (1:45) to Total Recall (2:30) to Alice in Wonderland (3:24).
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It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.
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I [internalized] this idea that it didn’t matter whether
I was called an artist or a designer or an illustrator or
whatever else it was. The core value was always the act
of making things, and the transformation of an idea that
you hold in your mind that becomes real or material.
That, to me, still is the glory of any creative activity.
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