Every artist has a muse. For directors, those influences are usually previous films. And if this video is any indication, the Wachowskis had a lot of muses when they were working on The Matrix.
From Akira to Total Recall to Strange Days to scores of kung-fu films and the unreal concepts hatched by sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick, this six-minute clip (above) compares frames from The Matrix to scores of movies and other media.
Even better, most of the clip's ideas were crowdsourced. Kirby Ferguson, the filmmaker behind cool web video series Everything Is a Remix, asked fans to submit ideas for the Matrix video. The final product was edited together by Rob G. Wilson (based on a script by Cynthia Closkey) as a holdover until the next chapter of the Everything Is a Remix series arrives.
It's a must-watch for film geeks. And more than that, it's an interesting testament to how inspiration works and, yes, how everything we see is a remix of something that came before.
[via io9 and Brain Pickings]
See Also:- March 31, 1999: The Matrix Hooks Us
