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Jamie, Graham and Chris get lost in the desert of the real for three and half hours. Join them as they discuss the several Matrices, velcro, dads, bad squids, comedy French Dracula bastards, whether Geoff Keighley is real, whether films themselves exist, the “vocabulary of power”, the emotional logistics of sofas, 5D aeroplanes – and more! For three and half hours! I can only show you the door. You’re the one that has to walk through it.
Spoiler warning: the gang talk about the plot points of the first three films pretty liberally from the outset, but somehow don’t get into Matrix Resurrections until 1 hour, 8 minutes and 40 seconds in. The show-notes below also contain spoilers.
Content warning: discussion of the films’ imagery relating to suicide
The Matrices are, in order:
The Matrix
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Revolutions
The Matrix Resurrections
Side projects of note:
The videogames, Enter the Matrix, Path of Neo, The Matrix Online
The animation, The Animatrix
The Matrix films were conceived and directed by Lana and Lilly Wachowskis, with the exception of the fourth film, for which Lilly did not return, and was co-written by David Mitchell and Aleksander Hemon. Screenwriter Zak Penn (mentioned on the podcast for producing the screenplay for Warner Bros that would eventually lead Lana Wachowski to grudgingly return to the franchise) is not credited as a writer on the final script.
Important casting for the first three films:
Keanu Reeves as Neo / Thomas Anderson
Carrie-Ann Moss as Trinity
Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus
Jada Pinkett Smith as Niobe
Joe Pantoliano as Cypher
Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith
Lambert Wilson as The Merovingian, aka “comedy French Dracula bastard”
Monica Bellucci as Persephone
Harry Lennix as Commander Lock, aka “Captain Grumpy”
Important casting in The Matrix Resurrections that might count as SPOILERS:
Jonathan Groff as Agent Smith
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Morpheus and sorta also Agent Smith
Jessica Henwick as Bugs
Neil Patrick Harris as The Analyst
Priyanka Chopra Jonas as Sati
Some other things that get namechecked:
Skins – Jamie wrote it! It was very good
Kiss Me First
Last of the Summer Wine
Definitely real human man Geoff Keighley
Carrie-Ann Moss is great as a ruthless lawyer in Jessica Jones
Keanu returns to another iconic Keanu role in Bill and Ted Face the Music
Keanu is also good in Cyberpunk 2077
The Last Jedi trod a similarly controversial line regarding fan expectation. It’s one of those Star Wars films, if you’ve heard of them
Bound: what the Wachowski’s did first. It’s a horny-as-hell crime film!
Spider-Man: Far From Home is an interesting parallel for the introspection and nostalgia of Resurrections
Leap of faiths are a significant motif lifted from Open Your Eyes, later remade as Vanilla Sky
Sense8, the Wachowski’s Netflix sci-fi series about pansexual kung-fu psychics
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us at [email protected] or tweet us @crateandcrowbar. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.
The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.
Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.
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Jamie, Graham and Chris get lost in the desert of the real for three and half hours. Join them as they discuss the several Matrices, velcro, dads, bad squids, comedy French Dracula bastards, whether Geoff Keighley is real, whether films themselves exist, the “vocabulary of power”, the emotional logistics of sofas, 5D aeroplanes – and more! For three and half hours! I can only show you the door. You’re the one that has to walk through it.
Spoiler warning: the gang talk about the plot points of the first three films pretty liberally from the outset, but somehow don’t get into Matrix Resurrections until 1 hour, 8 minutes and 40 seconds in. The show-notes below also contain spoilers.
Content warning: discussion of the films’ imagery relating to suicide
The Matrices are, in order:
The Matrix
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Revolutions
The Matrix Resurrections
Side projects of note:
The videogames, Enter the Matrix, Path of Neo, The Matrix Online
The animation, The Animatrix
The Matrix films were conceived and directed by Lana and Lilly Wachowskis, with the exception of the fourth film, for which Lilly did not return, and was co-written by David Mitchell and Aleksander Hemon. Screenwriter Zak Penn (mentioned on the podcast for producing the screenplay for Warner Bros that would eventually lead Lana Wachowski to grudgingly return to the franchise) is not credited as a writer on the final script.
Important casting for the first three films:
Keanu Reeves as Neo / Thomas Anderson
Carrie-Ann Moss as Trinity
Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus
Jada Pinkett Smith as Niobe
Joe Pantoliano as Cypher
Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith
Lambert Wilson as The Merovingian, aka “comedy French Dracula bastard”
Monica Bellucci as Persephone
Harry Lennix as Commander Lock, aka “Captain Grumpy”
Important casting in The Matrix Resurrections that might count as SPOILERS:
Jonathan Groff as Agent Smith
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Morpheus and sorta also Agent Smith
Jessica Henwick as Bugs
Neil Patrick Harris as The Analyst
Priyanka Chopra Jonas as Sati
Some other things that get namechecked:
Skins – Jamie wrote it! It was very good
Kiss Me First
Last of the Summer Wine
Definitely real human man Geoff Keighley
Carrie-Ann Moss is great as a ruthless lawyer in Jessica Jones
Keanu returns to another iconic Keanu role in Bill and Ted Face the Music
Keanu is also good in Cyberpunk 2077
The Last Jedi trod a similarly controversial line regarding fan expectation. It’s one of those Star Wars films, if you’ve heard of them
Bound: what the Wachowski’s did first. It’s a horny-as-hell crime film!
Spider-Man: Far From Home is an interesting parallel for the introspection and nostalgia of Resurrections
Leap of faiths are a significant motif lifted from Open Your Eyes, later remade as Vanilla Sky
Sense8, the Wachowski’s Netflix sci-fi series about pansexual kung-fu psychics
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us at [email protected] or tweet us @crateandcrowbar. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.
The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.
Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.
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