»The Original Scripts versus the Final Scripts«

I took the time to read the original scripts from the Wachowski's, both for "The Matrix" as for "The Matrix Reloaded"...

I was totally surprised! I always tought that the brothers had the entire story finished in advance, but they didn't.

The set up for the "Matrix Reloaded", which they wrote right after the release of their first matrix-movie is almost entirely different from the version that we saw in the cinemas.

So the truth is: the brothers always had the idea for a trilogy, but their trilogy was never fixed beforehand.

After reading the scripts I have started to admire the brothers even more. The original script for M2 was not so good to my opinion, but the brothers managed to change it and mold it into a perfect trilogy in the end.

My God, these guys are geniuses and sublime artists!

I will give you one profound example of one of their best implementations...

In the original "Matrix Reloaded" script, Smith was rebuild by the system after his defeat by Neo (even more interesting: in the original script of M1, Smith wasn't even destroyed by Neo!). He is called "Smith 2.0" and has a ponytail! And this is the truth my friends, because if you watch "The Matrix Revisted" at the very early shoots for the sequels, you can see that Hugo Weaving has grown a ponytail!

Anyway...Smith is allowed to copy himself with the help of the system, so he is not an exile/virus.

In the final versions they made it perfect, by molding Smith into Neo's natural/philsophical/freudian/technical opposite, which gives so much depth and enrichment to the trilogy.

I am so excited, so another example...

At first, I think "the exiles" were not in the minds of the Wachowski's. They only came up later with this concept. You can find proof of this when you hear Smith talk in M1: "when Zion is gone, there is no need for me to be here anymore!"

This is offcourse not right, because agents are also deployed to fight and delete exiles. So without Zion, Smith still would have a purpose.

In the original M2-script there is no talk of exiles whats-o-ever. So to my opinion, this concept is another brilliant addition from the brothers.

Another brain-breaking fact is that in the original scripts "the One" is not neccesarily unique. There appear to be more humans in the Matrix that can exhibit powers like Neo (flying for instance). The agents even try to train a human (a criminal biker who looks like a rogue Neo) in order to use him in the fight against Neo. So, in fact, the Anti-One is a human and not a program in the original M2-script.

To conclude, I advise all of you to also to get your hands on those original scripts and take the time to read them. It's really a revelation and it will give you new angles in your theories!

I read this script and while not as good as the final product, I did like it. Are you sure it's an actual roughdraft by the brothers? One thing I'd like to mention. At one point Neo and Trinity are in a program together, it's on a cliff. Trinity is watching Neo walk on air. He tells her that she can do it too, and she actually does take a step or two before falling. it was very cool. The Fight between Neo and nega-Neo (as I call him) is very cool (sounding).

The truth is out there, judge for yourself.

The script wasn't bad, but not so philosophical profound as M1. It was also too horrifying for me: too much blood and gore.

The idea of Neo walking into the Matrix and trying to crash it just by thinking it can be plausible, but not fun to watch.

On a perfect way they gave the crash-part of the Prophecy to Neo's darksided opposite Smith.

In the original script Neo is confronted with a huge dillema: if he kills the Matrix, he kills 6.5 billion people with it. This dillema has been splitted in his ongoing fight with Smith.

Damn, do I love the brothers

Actually another bit to help the credibility of this script. It says that metacortex is the company that writes the code for the Matrix (Neo was writing the code of the Matrix himself) In The Matrix Online. There's a lot of talk about Metacortex and how it's the biggest company in the world. Most importantly the most powerful system right now is Metacortex green, but Metacortex Blue is in developement.

By the way Mobil I'm sure everyone would enjoy a link to these scripts if you have one.

Thanks for adding that bit of information Darius!

I am not sure I can provide the scripts digitally; I think that might not be legal.

But be smart and do a search like Neo at the start of the trilogy

Where did you get your copy of that draft from ? Is it official, is it only in paper, or from the net ?

'cause it seems you are referring to the Gregory script (that how it is was referred before)...

The pony tail-reference did it for me (btw, the why of the pony tail of HW in Matrix revisited -during the training sessions- is because Hugo Weaving was about to play the role of Elrond in the LotR-trilogy, and the longer hair was needed to attach the elf-hair ...)

I had a link to the script but that seems to be dead, and unfortunatly, I can't find a copy of it on my hard-drive ..

This supposed Draft of Reloaded had the cliffhanger ending in which Morpheus leaves Neo trapped inside the Matrix until he destroys it...

If I find it back, I'll post it here (or exerpts, so we can compare)

Edit : is this it ?

imsdb.com...

And about :

So the truth is: the brothers always had the idea for a trilogy, but their trilogy was never fixed beforehand.

Of course it wasn't fixed beforehand, and they probably didn't have the script for the sequels in 1999, but I do believe they had a pretty good idea of the outline of how the story would evolve (ie towards the end of the trilogy ..) and how the history of the story started (Second Renaissance ..)

Clockwork wrote:

Edit : is this it ? imsdb.com...

Yup that's the one!

Maybe you also have a link to the original script of M1? This scripts also has extra and different information.

how i see it is the unused one is more hollywood and the one used is more sicrilious

Yeah I guess in 1999 the finanancing and the shooting possibilities were still uncertain.

Joel Silver was still moaning then I guess

Mobil_Ave_Neo wrote:

Joel Silver was still moaning then I guess

yeh

Mobil_Ave_Neo wrote:

Yup that's the one!

Here's another version of the Gregory-script @ Screenplays for you sfy.ru... :

• (fake?) '99 Gregory-script - Matrix 2 => sfy.ru...

Deeindamatrix wrote:

how i see it is the unused one is more hollywood and the one used is more sicrilious

Yeah, the Gregory-script is what 'everyone' wanted it to be (= Holywood).
And the one used is what it was (= from the Wachowski's)

And did you want to say sacrilegious (quite negative) or sacred (positive) ...?

sacrilegious thats it... scared one

Don't mean to come of as an ass, but sacrilegious is totally the opposite of sacred

saying something is

1. sacrilegious = violating the sacred, against the holy
= negative remark (= the script used is not good)

2. sacred = positive remark (= script used is good)

ok i take that back

Deeindamatrix wrote:

ok i take that back

Lol, you don't need to take it back, you can just make your point clear ...

I just wanted to say you might be not expressing yourself as you wanted to ... It happens to me too ,english not being my mother language, and it's best for everyone to have no misunderstandings.

...or will never learn.

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