Chapter 429: Far-fetched

"The Matrix" involves a lot of computer, philosophy, theology, and atheistic expertise, although Xu Cun remembers all the lines in it, but now it is nearly 13 years away from 1998, and in order to make "The Matrix" biased towards the Chinese, Xu Cun has to make some adaptations of "The Matrix", so Xu Cun invited a group of experts from all over the world who can be involved in "The Matrix" to be consultants for "The Matrix". Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Xu Cun's process of creating the script for The Matrix was fairly simple, he almost copied the script of the original "Matrix" trilogy, and then asked a whole host of experts to find fault with what they could do with it - Xu Cun didn't even change the names of the characters in "The Matrix".

Actually,

It's not that Xu Cun doesn't want to change the name of the character in "The Matrix", but he really can't change it.

Because, many of the names of the characters in The Matrix have deep meanings.

For example:

Neo / Thomas Anderson: In Hebrew, Thomas means twins. This symbolizes Neo's usual dual identity: one is the programmer Thomas Anderson and the other is the hacker Neo. And Anderson means "son of man" in Hebrew, which is who Jesus is. The three letters that make up neo can be reversed to form "one", indicating that he is the savior "theone" who saves mankind. And the Hebrew word for "Christ" means "the appointed one"—theone.

Morpheus: In Greek mythology, Morpheus was the god of dreams and possessed the ability to change dreams. In the film, Morpheus is the guiding person who awakens people from their dream-like fantasy world.

Trinity: Trinity means "Trinity", and in Christianity, "Trinity" refers to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In the book "The Interpretation of Dreams", the founding work of modern psychology, the "Trinity" refers to the female consciousness, which is able to enter the realm of mystery and perfection.

Oracle: The Greek word oracle means to solve doubts, convey and interpret God's prophecies, which can be people, places, or objects. These prophecies are usually vague and a distortion of reality, so those who can interpret them must be wise, but even they may not be able to guarantee that the prophecies are correct. The purpose of a prophet is to guide believers with the vague vision they see, but not to help them make decisions, which are entirely up to people's subjective will.

Smith: Smith means blacksmith in English, and his license plate number is IS5416, which has an implicit religious connotation. In Isaiah 54:16 it says, "I am the blacksmith who boasts of the fire of coals and makes the instruments that are fit; I also made him who destroys and destroys. This is an allusion to Agent Smith's role in the Matrix System - to eliminate all anomalous programs that harm the Matrix.

Wait a minute......

The Wachowski brothers gave the character's name so meaningful, how could Xu Cun change it?

Therefore, the name of the main character, Xu Cun directly copied it.

The Matrix is a very complex movie that can be understood differently from different perspectives.

Xu Cun's original intention in inviting a group of expert consultants was to let them help him find faults, but the final result Xu Cun got was that these expert consultants almost didn't fight because of the arguments, and only those computer experts (including several internationally renowned hackers) raised some doubts about computers -- most of which were about the 13-year generation gap in the computer field.

After dealing with these doubts, Xu Cun consulted two more masters of Yixue, added a little metaphysics to "The Matrix", and got the script of the "Matrix" trilogy, and then Xu Cun locked the scripts of the latter two parts into his safe, and then began to look for actors according to the script of the first part.

There are only a dozen actors in the first part of "The Matrix", since they have already made up their minds to use "The Matrix" to help the Chinese compete on the world stage, then these dozen or so actors must be Chinese, at least the main actors must be Chinese.

The first Chinese actor selected by Xu Cun was Yang Ziqiong.

Yang Ziqiong can be said to be the world's No. 1 fighting woman, and she must play Trinity better than Carrie Ann Moss.

Moreover, Yang Ziqiong's appearance is more recognized by Westerners (in 2009, Yang Ziqiong was selected as one of the 35 great beauties in the history of cinema by the American magazine "People"), so it should be easier for Westerners to accept Yang Ziqiong than other Chinese actresses.

The second Chinese actor selected by Xu Cun is Zhou Yunfa.

In the past two years, Zhou Yunfa has acted in more than a dozen movies in a row, many of which are big productions with an investment of tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars, which is worthy of the sentence "No more than Zhou Runfa".

But none of the roles played by Zhou Yunfa in the past two years can reach the heights of Xiao Ma in "The True Color of Heroes" and Gao Jin in "God of Gamblers", and they are not even slightly close to both.

In other words, Zhou Yanfa, who is only 30 years old, has already entered the bottleneck period in advance.

If Xu Cun didn't help Zhou Runfa, Zhou Runfa would have to be the same as in the previous life, and he would never be able to break through this bottleneck.

Zhou Runfa always remembered Xu Cun's kindness to him, so even Zhou Runfa, a small supporting role of Wan Jianyi in "Zhu Xian", took it.

Xu Cun has never been an ungrateful person.

Therefore, Xu Cun gave the very charismatic character of Morpheus to Zhou Runfa.

The third 'Chinese' actor selected by Xu Cun, that is, the first starring role of "The Matrix", is Bruce Lee...... son - Li Guohao.

Born in California, USA, Li Guohao lived in Xiangjiang until the age of eight, and received martial arts training from his father Bruce Lee at a very young age.

Lee's mother, Linda Emery, was a white American of Irish descent. As a result, Lee is half white. The reason why Xu Cun chose Li Guohao as the actor of Neo, the first protagonist in "The Matrix", is not because Li Guohao has learned martial arts and kung fu from his father Bruce Lee, nor because Li Guohao has been trained as a professional filmmaker, but because Li Guohao inherited his mother Linda Emery's Western-like appearance - probably because Bruce Lee's genes are not strong, Li Guohao does not look like an Oriental at all.

It is difficult to get the vast majority of people in the West to accept a yellow person as the first lead actor in "The Matrix".

With Bruce Lee's relationship, it is much easier for the vast majority of Chinese to accept that Li Guohao is a Chinese.

Therefore, Xu Cuncai, who was ready to be far-fetched, asked Li Guohao, who was still studying at Boston's Emason Calle Film School, to star in "The Matrix".

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(To be continued.) )