One particular robot named BER was doing its rounds, working for a millionaire named Gerrard Krause, when it overheard Krause saying that he planned to have BER decommissioned.
Fearing for its life, the machine attacked and killed Krause. This was the first time a machine had turned on its owner BER was put on trial. Despite his claim of self defense, the court found him guilty and ordered that his entire product line was to be recalled and scrapped. A liberal machine rights protest devolved into a series of riots quelled with lethal force by the military, and soon the robots were out of human allies.
While Earth's governments were focused on killing off the machines' human sympathizers, which we see depicted in "The Second Renaissance" Part 1, the robots headed out to try and find their own space.
They landed on Mesopotamia, really driving home the whole biblical metaphor only hinted at in the movies. The machines formed a new city, which they named There was a period of mostly peaceful coexistence with the humans where everybody gave each other their space.
Their technological and industrial advancements, such as the creation of the lightning-crackling "hoverpads" used to levitate ships like the Nebuchadnezzar, made them crucial contributors to human society. Through trade with their old masters, they soon became the most powerful economy on the planet.
Hoping to leverage their dominance into peace, the mechanical denizens of 01 approached the United Nations and requested that they be recognized as a sovereign nation. They asked to be accepted as equals, with all the same freedoms and rights as people who weren't made out of metal. The humans, though, never missing an opportunity to hamstring themselves, decided not only to deny 01's request, but to bombard the machine city with nuclear weapons, hoping to get rid of artificially intelligent life forms once and for all.
Despite causing massive machine casualties, the nuclear attack on 01 failed to destroy the machines, and the Machine War began, which we see in "The Second Renaissance" Part 2. Humanity did alright at first, but the machines adapted quickly, taking more and more ground for themselves. Soon, most of Africa, Europe, and Asia was controlled by militant computers. Things looked grim for the humans. Desperate for a win, humanity took a decidedly Mister Burns-ian shot at what they thought was the machines' Achilles heel.
For all their advancements, the machines still ran primarily on solar power. Enter "Operation Dark Storm," the human race's last act of desperation. Releasing clouds of nanites, human aircraft blocked the sun from the sky. Short sighted? While all of the things that people enjoy eating, like plants and animals, died off, the machines started developing newer, more advanced soldiers.
They stopped producing anthropomorphic bodies and began creating alien-looking instruments of war, more similar to the flying Sentinel squid bots first seen in The Matrix. By , the humans were ready to call it a day. They invited a machine ambassador to the U. The ambassador announced that every human on Earth was to surrender their body to their new robot overlords, then exploded a hidden nuclear device, killing itself and all of the human race's leaders and decimating New York.
With humans irrevocably humbled, the machines were on to their next pickle: the loss of the sun had left them in need of a new power source. During the Machine War, they'd started experimenting with a combination of fusion and the harvest of bioelectricity from human POWs.
They constructed skyscrapers designed to house people's bodies and collect their delicious energy. In addition, they'd discovered that humans' innate creativity helped to lubricate their computer network's processing capabilities. The problem was keeping defeated humans sedate and compliant. With that goal in mind, the machines designed a program called the Architect, whose purpose was to make a virtual world that would keep human brains functioning and contained.
The Architect made the first Matrix: a literal paradise. It had all the hallmarks of a classic Western interpretation of the perfect world. The first Agents were constructed to guard the program. There was no suffering, no pain, and no unhappiness.
Humans, being a persnickety bunch, rejected it. Why couldn't people handle living in heaven? Depends on who you ask. Smith thought it was because the human mind relies on suffering to exist, which should've meant a home run for the next iteration of the program.
The Architect, in what reads as sort of a tantrum move, made a second Matrix that operated as a living hell. Demons and monsters ran rampant. For whatever reason, humans didn't like that either.
Around this time, a program was created to understand facets of the human psyche. With that in mind, the Oracle helped to design a new Matrix. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Missing Image This article is either missing an appropriate picture or needs another one. Edit source History Talk 0.
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Released from their Warner Bros. The film proves they have the chops to make a movie of their own, and begins working relationships with actor Joe Pantoliano, who will play a major role in The Matrix , and cinematographer Bill Pope, who will serve as DP on all three Matrix films. It also requires a page comic-book-like rendering of how the film will look created by Skroce and Geof Darrow, an artist admired by the Wachowskis whose concept art will play a big role in the look of the film.
But getting the go-ahead creates problems of its own. To save money, the film will be shot in Sydney, Australia. Summer Casting necessitates finding actors willing to put in months of training and do the research required by the filmmakers, specifically reading books on philosophy and evolutionary psychology. It also means persuading Hong Kong fight coordinator Yuen Woo-Ping to rearrange his schedule and work with actors untrained in fighting.
Some action movies have elaborate effects, some have martial arts, some have gunplay, but The Matrix would have to have all of the above.
And for it to work, it would have to nail them. Fall Months before shooting, training begins for the main cast. One problem: Reeves is already recovering from a herniated disc.
Further complicating matters: Moss will sprain her ankle and Weaving will need surgery when he injures his hip. March Filming begins in Sydney after a Buddhist ceremony. It is, by all accounts, a demanding but harmonious process. And though the film goes over schedule, Warner Bros. August Filming ends and post-production begins.
The Wachowskis will stay in Australia until November, then continue editing the film until shortly before its release. January 31, As part of the answer to that problem, Warner Bros.
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