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Lana Wachowski has launched an impassioned defence of the film industry after the difficulties of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Lana Wachowski has launched an impassioned defence of the film industry after the difficulties of the coronavirus pandemic.
Action films give me anxiety. I said it, and I meant it. Action films give me anxiety. I said it, and I meant it. I am not arguing with the high-quality excellence of action films throughout time.
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Commander Lock: "Not everyone believes what you believe." Morpheus: "My beliefs do not require that they do." Characters are always talking like this in "The Matrix Reloaded," which plays like a collaboration involving a geek, a comic book and the smartest kid in Philosophy 101. Morpheus in particular unreels extended speeches that remind me of Laurence Olivier's remarks when he won his honorary Oscar--the speech that had Jon Voight going "God!" on TV, but in print turned out to be quasi-Shakespearean doublespeak. The speeches provide not meaning, but the effect of meaning: It sure sounds lik...