Daily Dialogue — May 1, 2014

“As you can see, we’ve had our eye on you for some time now, Mr. Anderson. It seems that you’ve been living two lives. One life you’re a Thomas A. Anderson, a programmer for a respectable software company. Social security number, you pay your taxes, and you… help your landlady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in computers, where you go by the hacker alias “Neo” and are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not.”

— The Matrix (1999), written by The Wachwoski Brothers

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Nemesis, suggested by Alejandro. Today’s suggestion by Michael Corcoran.

Trivia: The Wachowskis approached Warner with the idea of the Matrix and Warner balked at the budget they had submitted, which was over $80 million. Warner instead agreed to give them $10 million. The Wachowskis took the money and filmed the first ten minutes of the movie (the opening scene with Carrie-Anne Moss) using the entire $10 million. They then showed the executives at Warner the opening scene. They were impressed, and green-lit the original asking budget.

Dialogue On Dialogue: The introduction of Neo and Agent Smith, a classic Protagonist vs. Nemesis relationship.

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