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"What is real? How do you define, real?" In this episode, cohosts Garret Castleberry and Scott McMurry unpack the wide-reaching cultural significance of 1999's The Matrix. Written and directed by Lana and Lilly Wachowski, produced and distributed by Warner Bros., The Matrix redirected popular cinema for the 21st Century through its ingenious remixing of philosophy, theology, and mythology baked into a dystopian action film that also functions as a techno-remix of classical tales like Alice in the Looking Glass and The Wizard of Oz. Has The Matrix faded from the popular imaginary, or does its brief legacy suggest a temporally resonant cultural artifact that  continues to inspire new audiences?  

Hosts: Garret Castleberry, Scott McMurry

Producers: Garret Castleberry, Will McMurry (Audio Engineer), Alli Garner (Cover Art), Austin Foster (Music)

Recommended readings paired with our Film Listology season:
Rick Altman. Film/Genre. British Film Institute, 1999.

Jim Collins, Ada Preacher Collins, Hilary Radner (Eds.). Film Theory Goes to the Movies, 1st Edition. New York: Routledge, 1992.

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It's officially 2024...Happy New Year? We're not getting our hopes up! While everyone nursed their hangovers and tried desperately to get back to "normal" everyday life, we decided to take a look back at all the things we watched in the past year and talk about some stuff that falls outside the usual scope of the show. Join us as we each count down our individual top five new-to-us watches of the past year, take time to reflect on your own highs and lows, and add some new recommendations to your watchlist.

Lots of links to share from this episode:

Check out The Carlee Canon (Carlee's Top 20 Films of the 1990s)

Check out The Aaron Canon (Aaron's Top 20 Films of the 1990s)

Read Carlee's piece, 'The Puritanical Eye: Hyper-Mediation, Sex on Film, and the Disavowal of Desire' at Lo Specchio Scuro

Read benzostraydogs' Letterboxd Review of Sam Esmail's 'Leave the World Behind'

Listen to Our Junk Filter Episode on Jim McBride's 1983 Remake of 'Breathless'

Check Out Aaron's List of His Top 75 Non-2023 Watches of Last Year.

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What's really left to say? Plots for an imagined Season 3 are established, a few characters are on the way to a happy ending, and others are kidnapped as if it is destiny that someone must get brought to a BPO lab every season. Just us for our discussion of the most canceled "series finale" we've seen in this week's Chatz8!

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"Obligate mutualisms" is just fun to say. Try it! And in this episode of Chatz8, we the hosts become a sort of obligate mutualism with you the listener. You need us to say "Crooms" in a funny voice, we need you to tell us how much we keep predicting and missing crucial plot developments every week. It's a beautiful sort of harmony.

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Capheus Onyango is a classic "fictional character I wish was real", Lito and Nomi share an incredibly beautiful tender moment, and the ChatzKidz are frankly eating it right up. Next week, we're finishing Season One of Sense8!

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Amanita is a super sleuth, Lito is feeling all the emotions at once, and Chatz is still enjoying Sense8 this week! The episodes are good, the themes are clear, and we imagine a Sense8 that's just the vibes and hanging out without the big conspiracy stuff.

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Sense8 continues apace, bringing with it themes of queer love in hard times, the flexibility of gendered emotions, and the exact difference between hash and cigarettes. What a season, what a season.

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A podcast where we talk about films and stuff! Continuing their public service by watching shows you've probably never heard of, Ethan and Pete look at four shows, none of which they would normally watch! Listen as Ethan and Pete do quick fire reviews/first impressions of Netflix's Sense8 and Untold, Apple TV's Pachinko, and Paramount's Players. 

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Will and Matt are ready to enter... The Matrix... and discuss deja vu, hacking, and just... The Matrix... because... it's the friggin' Matrix!! 

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THE MATRIX
dir. Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
starring: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne

Joon comes in to reminisce about the unassailable original MATRIX and ambitiously disappointing sequels before getting into some very mixed reactions to RESURRECTIONS's hard turns into metacommentary and naked sentimentality.

Tom Twyker and the Wachowskis serve up what is surely one of the most ambitious films ever made with 2012's Cloud Atlas. Adapted from David Mitchell's supposedly unfilmable novel, Cloud Atlas follows characters inspired across time by acts of artistic expression in six short stories sharing an incredible cast including one of Sidey's least favourite actors, Tom Hanks, and one of his very favourite, Hugh Grant.

With plenty of plot and thematic content to address in this epic 170 minute movie, there's also the accusations of 'yellowface' to discuss which dogged the film, a sad and uncomfortable aspect of its legacy that would be entirely at odds with the film makers progressive intentions and the contributions of the racially diverse cast.

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The trilogy ends as the guys restore balance with The Matrix Revolutions.  They discuss the ups and downs of the problematic third movie while ruminating on where the trilogy went astray and what could have improved the third version of The Matrix.

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You've already chosen to listen to this episode, now figure out why you've made that choice.  The guys jump back into the second installment of the Matrix trilogy as thy discuss the how this movie is  simultaneously great and needs work.  They delve into the lore of the Matrix world and breakdown the more confusing and deep elements that the Wachowskis add to the world.

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Hoy hablamos de una de las películas mas influénciales del industria cinematográfica: The Matrix. Vemos por qué sobresale, su impacto en el cine, and how to pull off Payoff in film. Don't Think you are, know you are. 

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Música de outro: Komiku - Intensive puzzle resolution from freemusicarchive.org

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Remember, remember! The Fifth of November...for it is the beginning of Hugo Weaving Month here at Behind the Hype. To kick things off we're starting with the flawed V For Vendetta, which boasts great performances from Weaving and others (see: Creedy), while not necessarily aging all that well. It's tough to root for a a character who gaslights and tortures the female protagonist (Evey, played by Natalie Portman) in a movie with already so few women in it. Doesn't help either that the character of Evey is so passive. That said, the Wachowskis wrote the script and you can feel their hand in a lot of what transpires onscreen.

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