Daily Dialogue — November 30, 2014

Morpheus: Do you want to know what it is? (Neo nods affirmatively.) The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work… when you go to church… when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Morpheus: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind. Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself. This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

— The Matrix (1999), written by Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Proposal, suggested by Aamir Mirza. Today’s suggestion by Will King.

Trivia: The studio insisted on a great deal of explanatory dialog as they described the screenplay as “the script that nobody understands”.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Will: “Probably one of the most iconic proposal scenes in movie history. I couldn’t resist.”

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