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Hugo
Weaving: The Matrix: The Matrix Revisited: Plot/Comments:
The
Matrix Revisited is
more than just an in-depth proper 'making of' timed to coincide
with the advance-advance hype of making the new movies and an excuse to
re-re-release yet another DVD package (3 goes to get it nearly right:
still no audio track, no trailers, no alt/deleted scenes, no bloopers). |
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With much of the cast input filmed during the 2000 filming of Reloaded/Revolutions
(see main pic above) , Revisited is also an excellent
retrospective documentary on the phenomenon of The Matrix .
Weaving
gives some glimpses of how things change in the next films: "(Smith)
doesn't like feeling emotions and he doesn't like feeling weak. To all
intents and purposes he is partly human, partly real... (he) starts to
develop some very human qualities and that ultimately brings him down"
It is at its best when showing the immense scale of the production design
and sharing the sheer drudgery and pain of making the film: the numerous
injuries and hospitalisations (though less than the sequels); bored
agents tapdancing in the wet interrogation room; Hugo Weaving in pointy-finger
gun poses; freezing in a cold Sydney factory for the subway scene;
the martial arts training sessions (Yuen Wo Ping:
"Hugo is very powerful, like a machine"
); and the wire work: "when you're in
a harness for a long time it begins to ride up and eventually I could feel
it squeezing my kidneys" |
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Hugo
Weaving: The Making of The Matrix:
This
is a pretty straight docu with the added bonus of video footage from
the martial arts training (more of which also turns up on Revisited).
It spends
a lot of time on the Kung Fu and gun training sessions for the film (4
months on/off between October 97-March 98): Keanu Reeves says how
they would spend ages stretching out "opening the rusty gates" and watching
Kung Fu movies.
As a
proper 'making of' it's pretty useless for something as huge as The
Matrix, but it's another nice little addition to the masses of
mini-features which litter the two disc set. |
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Typical
Hugo Weaving Quotes:
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"It's
kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it's educated me a little
bit more"
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I got
kicked in the ribs, both my ribs were cracked...(when blocking a punch
with a punch, which the Wachowskis say went 'crack/snap') I thought
I'd broken my wrist one day and it blew up"
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"I found
taking the hits more difficult than giving them...between that hit and
that hit I want to get another one in"
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On
the same wet wall scene: "It was more of a brutal, western style of
fighting. It was a dirty, dirty fight" (laughs)
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A
Few Hugo Weaving Highlights:
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When asked
what his reaction to watching the finished Matrix was, Weaving modestly
told how he was impressed with Moss' introduction scene and how good she
was
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Laurence
Fishburne, frustrated at not having any dialogue with Weaving during their
interrogation scene but relishing the fact that he had the opportunity:
"part of me was sad that I didn't have any dialogue so I could say 'I had
this scene with Hugo Weaving and it was great'… well, I did do
this scene with Hugo Weaving and it was great".
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 Behind
the Matrix Gallery
Classic Scene: Agent Smith
The Matrix Review
The Matrix Reloaded Review
Back: Bedrooms and Hallways
Next: Strange
Planet
Next Release: Lord of the Rings
Web Weaving |
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