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Wachowskis
So you still find the sentence "the Matrix was directed by The Wachowskis" unacceptable? Anyway. I find that saying that "the Matrix was directed by The Wachowski Brothers" very confusing as they are not brothers anymore but siblings. It makes me tick every time I read it. No newspaper would print such a sentence today. Not sure I understand what is so wrong about the sentences "the Matrix was directed by The Wachowskis" or "the Matrix was directed by The Wachowski siblings" that provokes such a reaction. I find it an acceptable compromise to the situation. Neither option is really perfect. The right hand side with the official credits would stay credited to The Wachowski Brothers. Here are a few articles that have a language not dissimilar to the sentence "Lana Wachowski co-directed the Matrix" "Lana Wachowski (The Matrix trilogy) told the Cloud Atlas press conference Sunday...." http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/toronto-2012-cloud-atlas-lana-wachowski-tom-hanks-halle-berry-368953 "As dense and hard to unravel as they make their films, Andy and Lana Wachowski have created a public image that is perhaps even more mysterious. The writer/directors that made The Matrix Trilogy....] http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/andy-lana-wachowski-cloud-atlas-7-revelations-368141 "...Matrix director Lana Wachowski on her childhood torment..." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2222541/Lana-Wachowski-Transgender-Matrix-director-childhood-torment.html "MATRIX director Lana Wachowski this week publicly embraced her gender switch..." http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/movies/director-lana-larry-wachowski-comes-out-as-transgendered/story-e6frfmvr-1226471466626 "Two years ago, the notoriously private co-creator of “The Matrix” trilogy [...] thus becoming the first transgender woman..." http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/13/female-directors-hollywood-sam-taylor-johnson-jennifer-yuh-nelson-ava-duvernay-sarah-polley-lisa-cholodenko/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 "Lana Wachowski - previously Laurence (Larry) Wachowski - is a sibling of Andy Wachowski, of the creative 'Watchowskis' duo behind ground-breaking movies like The Matrix (1999) and Cloud Atlas (2012)." http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0905154/ Please also refer to the wikipedia pages for the Matrix franchise, Bound, V for Vendetta, the Invasion, and Speed
 * CamilleLambert, you've said it yourself: "they are not brothers anymore but siblings." If you are an English speaker, "the Matrix was directed by The Wachowski Brothers" shouldn't be confusing to you, as it says "was", not "are". Whether The Wachowski Brothers are still The Wachowski Brothers now is irrelevant. The info you're trying to add is about what they are, but the sentence is "the Matrix was directed by".
 * Here is the recommendation from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association on the historical usage of gender pronouns, provided by another long-time respectable editor who contributed many good articles:
 * And when I asked the NLGJA by e-mail to clarify its policy on reporting about Manning’s past, a spokesperson for the group said it would recommend “he” for historical reference too: “When writing about events prior to when the person began living publicly as the opposite gender, NLGJA recommends using the name and gender the individual used publicly at that time. For example: Chelsea Manning, formerly known as Bradley, came out as transgender last week. In a statement, Manning said she had felt this way since childhood. Manning grew up in Oklahoma. In middle school, he was very outspoken in class about government issues and religious beliefs, friends said.


 * You can read the full article at http://entertainment.time.com/2013/08/28/when-did-chelsea-manning-become-chelsea-manning/. It seems like a very sensible recommendation to me i.e. the "she" pronoun is not applied retrospectively, but only applies from the point that Larry took "Lana" as a name.


 * No newspaper would print such a sentence today because they are not responsible for keeping historical record but printing the news now. Most links you've provided mean almost nothing, as their concern is concision and convenience, not historical accuracy. While historical record IS the purpose of Wikipedia. It's easier to respect Lana by using her current name, but many news outlet don't bother to go beyond that to clarify the historical accuracy. None of the links actually proved that Lana directed The Matrix while being Lana. The news writers were not concerned about it. The links only proved that the same pair of human beings directed it; not that one of them has always been identified as a woman. That none of them bother to clarify this these days emphasizes my point. Someone somewhere should be keep the record, otherwise it's going to be completely buried. You might think this won't happen, but same goes for using two digits to record year number in computers before Y2K problem. It can be avoided by only a little foresight. If your concern is respect, we're already respecting her in her biography, but Wikipedia shouldn't compromise truth over it. We post no libel in Bill Clinton's article and show him no disrespect, but still his article contains his sex scandal. The latter is not respect, but as long as it's verifiable truth, it goes in. We even respect spree killer the same way, but any kill details go in.


 * Only IMDB seemed to word it well enough: "Lana Wachowski - previously Laurence (Larry) Wachowski - is a sibling of Andy Wachowski, of the creative 'Watchowskis' duo behind ground-breaking movies like The Matrix (1999) and Cloud Atlas (2012)." As they acknowledged Lana's previous identity, but you will note that 'Wachowkis' here is used in general English sense, not 'The Wachowskis'. Plus, IMDB is made up of user-generated content. They are unreliable by Wikipedia standard.


 * Of all the Wikipedia articles you have provided, you can dismiss all that are not officially acknowledged as good article. The rest are in shambles because no particularly experienced editors care to make any significant changes on them. Among those that work, only Bound works in any good sense. And it works in Bound because the editors agreed, and that their gender identities did not affect the production in a verifiable (citable) way. The rest are irrelevant because by the time they directed those movies, Lana was already Lana.


 * If you desperately need a compromise, the modifier (the clarifier, the note) should be secondary to the historical record, for instance: "the Matrix was directed by The Wachowski Brothers (currently known as The Wachowskis)". Or something like that. And keep the rest of the article as it is because they had been males throughout the direction of this movie. We don't use 'The Wachowskis' anywhere here as this means them after the transition. And we use 'the Wachowskis' only in flexible general English sense for variety. We're not going to go out of our way to bury the fact that they were brothers.

Ref storage
http://www.businessinsider.com/skyfall-filming-locations-2012-10?op=1

Business Insider. Confirms the DECC, and Vauxhall Bridge/Cross, National Portrait Gallery, Whitehall, Millbank, Canary Wharf, The Old Vic tunnels underneath Waterloo Station,

Varda Bridge, Calis Beach in Fethiye, in Turkey.

Glencoe was instead chosen for filming of these scenes.

"Skyfall" screenwriter John Logan's reasoning for using Shanghai was "What we were looking for was opposition to London. [...] We wanted exotic locations that seem so unlike the world that he grew up in, the world that he functions in, in a way trying to find places for Bond to be uncomfortable."

The crew received rare access to shoot aerial footage from a helicopter on loan from the Chinese government.

The entrance to London's fourth tallest building, Broadgate Tower, was lit up to look like an office building in Shanghai.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2088289/Bond-arrives--Bognor-New-movie-Skyfall-gets-new-shooting-locations-producers-forced-cut-budgets.html Daily Mail. Covers Charing Cross and Canary Wharf.

http://www.timeout.com/london/feature/3195/daniel-craig-interview Time Out. Covers Parliament Square, Whitehall.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2095954/Daniel-Craig-dashes-London-brandishing-James-Bonds-trusty-Walther-PPK-handgun-films-scenes-upcoming-film-Skyfall.html Daily Mail. Covers Tower Hill.

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=34921 Covers Smithfield, Whitehall, and London Underground. Empire, 17 August 2012, Ali Plumb.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/jamesbond/9479861/Skyfall-exclusive-Daniel-Craig-on-filming-new-Bond-in-London-We-got-the-chance-to-shut-down-Whitehall.html Covers Southwark, Whitehall, National Gallery, Smithfield meat market, St Batholomew’s Hospital, Canary Wharf. It's in the text, not the vid.

http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/s/Skyfall.html Cadogan Gdns (Reliable?)

Skyfall filming: ARRI Alexa

http://www.arri.com/news.html?article=1095&cHash=2d1a22f2b0c8d8d913d5a02ad190234e Covers Alexa ARRI, Roger Deakins not knowing about IMAX conversion.

The film was later converted into IMAX format by IMAX's own system of conversion. Deakin stated that "I didn't know that we were going to release on IMAX until after we made the decision to shoot with the ALEXA. We had also made the decision to shoot spherical and take a 2.40:1 extraction, so I was a little bit nervous when the IMAX issue came up. We did some tests straight away and in the first set the colors didn't look great. We then found out that IMAX have their own system of conversion, which they call 'enhancement', so we tried another test without using that system and I thought the images looked spectacular on the big IMAX screen.

http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/roger-deakins-skyfall-jgiro.php Covers 128 days without problem.

, with the cinematographer Roger Deakins using Arri Alexa cameras to film the entire film. The actual filming took 128 days, and Deakins reported no problem with the camera throughout the filming.

Replacement ref:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2012/oct/28/profile-javier-bardem For Javier Bardem.

http://gulfnews.com/arts-entertainment/film/movie-news/the-james-bond-ultimatum-1.1083066 Naomie Harries denied being Moneypenny.

http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/bond-makers-deny-online-title-rumours Eon denied Carte Blanche.

http://www.movieline.com/2012/11/15/skyfall-james-bond-title-sequence-danny-kleinman-007/ Daniel Kleinman returned to design the film's title sequence after stepping aside to allow graphic design studio MK12 to create the Quantum of Solace sequence. The statement has to change.

The Matrix Refs

 * http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3028249.stm Mentions The Matrix's influences on A LOT of movies, including Shrek (parody), Charlie's Angels (imitating BT), Equilibrium (similar costume design), Star Wars:The Phantom Manace (imitating its darker tone) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (wire fu and choreography opening doors to Asian action films), Max Payne (BT effect)


 * http://www.screened.com/news/under-the-influence-the-matrix/2218/ Mentions 3 million sales, mentions some effect of Bound into getting The Wachowskis direct it (a part of three film deals), noted how memorable the fight sequences, the differences between wire fu and eastern stunts, and how The Matrix's wire fu cause some shift to the Asian approach. Mentions the influence of Ghost in a Shell, The Invisibles, and Doctor Who, Plato's Allegory of the Cave (and also clarify how this works as 'nothing is real' in the film), linking the Neo's virgin birth, and how 'Anderson' can be interpreted as Christ, Judas/Cypher and Morpheus/John the Baptist metaphors and Neo's Christ-like death, and how the success of Star Wars, The Matrix, The Lord of the Rings influence Hollywood into making trilogies.


 * http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20478022,00.html EW calling it the most influential action movie of the generation (not directly in this article), mentioned how it affect Charlie's Angels (2000), Night Watch (2004), Wanted, Inception (2010), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), TRON: Legacy (2010) (noting how the original TRON paved the way for The Matrix, which inspired Disney to make its own Matrix with a TRON sequel.)


 * http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,450805,00.html The actual article of EW calling The Matrix "the most influential action movie of the generation." Also a brief mention of how the films were shot back to back.


 * http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/oct/19/hollywood-ghost-in-the-shell Not directly about The Matrix, but described how Hollywood is affected by Ghost in the Shell.


 * Search the keyword "The Matrix parody" for more refs.


 * Added the second ref to the Influence section.

The Matrix
Production

The Matrix was a co-production of Warner Bros. and Australian Village Roadshow Pictures. The decision to make The Matrix was a huge gamble for Warner Bros, which entrusted $60 million dollars to The Wachowskis, who had an idea that no one outside of them completely understood, and the special effects they sought to make use of had never been done before. They had gained Warner Bros.'s trust when Lorenzo di Bonaventura, the president of production at Warner Bros. at the time, had read the script for the film Assassins' in 1994 and immediately signed The Wachowskis to a three-picture deal. The two other scripts The Wachowskis had sold as part of their deal were Bound and The Matrix. The team had gone on to direct Bound, which had become a critical hit. Using that momentum, The Wachowskis had had more leverage when they had asked to direct The Matrix.

Joel Silver joined the project some time later, and his presence in the project had given the project a big boost. Lorenzo di Bonaventura also fought to get the film made, but even with Silver and di Bonaventura's influence, the Wachowskis still needed more to present the studio with, so they hired underground comic book artists Geof Darrow and Steve Skroce to draw a 600-page, shot-by-shot storyboard for the entire film. The storyboard, coupled with everyone's excitement about the project, had eventually swayed the studio and got the project green-lit. The decision was made to film in Australia, because their budget would go a lot further there than in the States.

All but a few scenes were filmed at Fox Studios in Sydney, Australia, and in the city itself. Recognizable landmarks were not included in order to maintain the setting of a generic American city. Nevertheless, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, ANZAC Bridge, University of Technology, Sydney, AWA Tower, Martin Place and a Commonwealth Bank branch are visible in some shots, as is signage on buildings for the Sydney offices of MMI Insurance (now Allianz), AON, Citigroup, Telstra, Westpac, KPMG, Ernst & Young and IBM Corporation among others. Other clues to the filming location include left-hand traffic flow and signs featuring Australian English terminology and spellings such as "lift" and "authorised" (rather than the American English "elevator" and "authorized").

Influence

The Matrix draws from and makes reference to numerous cinematic and literary works, and concepts from mythology, religion and philosophy. For example, the Ancient Greek aphorism "know thyself" is quoted in the film by the character of the Oracle, and appears as an inscription over her doorway in its Latin form Temet Nosce. The premise of The Matrix can be tied into Plato's Allegory of the Cave. According to Plato's theory of Forms, the true essence or definition of an object is not what we perceive with our senses, but rather the quality that makes it that object, is its true form. Plato likened people who were uneducated in this theory to being chained in a cave. A fire glows behind them and they see the shadows of objects passing along the wall, but not the actual objects themselves. These people perceive the shadows as reality and thus do not know the true form of the objects, and therefore, are prisoners to this false perception of reality.

The Matrix, or rather the AI that runs it, recalls Descartes' First Meditation, or evil demon, the hypothesis that what we perceive as the world might be a comprehensive illusion, perhaps created by a "malicious demon". The same premise can also be liken to Hilary Putnam's brain in a vat scenario proposed in 1980s, in which a brain in a vat is tricked into believing that it has another form of existence.

The Matrix's premise also resembles the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, Calderón de la Barca's Life is a Dream, Kant's reflections on phenomena versus the Ding an sich, Edwin Abbott Abbott's Flatland, and George Gurdjieff's The Sleeping Man,

The Matrix Revisited Materials
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJUQPvaeclY Casting

Reeves: When it was made, I didn't know what we were doing. Larry and Andy had him read Baudrillard, Out of Control, Evolutionary Psychology even before they opened up the script. Thomas Anderson = He was searching for the truth. He felt like something was wrong. He felt like he was not having real contact. He was searching; there was something behind the veil. So he was looking for Morpheus to try to break that veil. (Screenplay section.)

Moss: When didn't have anything there. We didn't have a coffee-maker there. We had no trailer there to change. We had only one bathroom. Took a lot of readings and help from others to understand the script. At first she didn't believe she had to do things such as jumping from window to window or running sideways along the wall. At first, she didn't believe that how they would get to direct a movie with a budget this large, but after spending an hour with them reading going through the storyboard, she understood why some ppl would trust them. Training section, she said the three hour physical test was her casting process. (Trinity) Moss did the jump scene stunt with the wire herself.

Fishbourne: He didn't find the script confusing. But he had a doubt if the movie would ever be made, because "it is so smart".

Weaving: Found Agent Smith funny, and amused him, so it was easy to enjoy playing. He said he was exited to be a part of something that would "extend [him]". Weaving developed a "most neutral accent but with more specific character" for the role. He wanted Smith to sound "not robotic, but very not human" and like "50's news reader". He stated that Larry and Andy Wachowski's deep voices had influenced his voice in the film.

(Look of The Matrix) Owen Peterson: A way to distinguish Real World and the Matrix in a pervasive way. Bill Pope: The Matrix, slightly more decayed, monolithic, and grid-like. Real world, they used longer lenses to make bg soft, and humans stood out more. Their hair less styled, clothing more cloth-like.

(Costume) Kym Barrette, her job: took the script and show people who the characters are by what they wear, why they wear, and what environment they wear it. She sometimes used three types of fabric for every costume. And she had to consider all acting practicality, such as whether the actors could Kung Fu in that dress, or hang upside-down without people seeing up their dress, or put the characters in harnesses. (Trinity) She experiment and finally able to make Trinity's costume mercury-like and oil-slick. The Agents' costume was designed to create a secret service look, like in JFK.

(Visual effects) At first, the Bros wanted to put a rocket to a camera. XD

(Training) The Bro gave four months, but Woo Ping thought two at first. Then he became worried that four wasn't going to be enough. Reeves decided to train even while he was recovering from his neck surgery which had got rid of two-level fusion of his cervical spine, making him unable to kick for two out of four months of training. As a result, Reeves did not kick much in the film.

Woo-Ping let their body style developed and then worked with each actor's strength. He described Reeves as "diligent" and "always wanted to be better", Weaving as "strong, clean, and precise", Moss as "has essence of beauty" in her movements. (Trinity) Moss was "light and deft" and he designed her moves accordingly.

(Shooting Begins) Scheduled 5 months of training. Due to Reeves' neck injury, some of his scene had to be rescheduled. Reeves' office costume was designed for Thomas Anderson to look "ill at ease", "disheveled", and "nothing quite fit in properly."

(Government Building) Moss injured her ankle while practicing the scene in which she had to run on wall then cartwheel down. She stated that she had a lot of pressure on her, and when she was injured, she was devastated that she would be unable to do to the entire scene in one take.

(Dojo Fighting) The dojo was built well before the actual filming.

(El Fighting) The subway scene was first planned to be shot in a real subway station, but after considering what must happen in the scene, the decision was made to shoot on set. The set was created from part of a train storage facility where they had real train tracks, and the subway set was later built around it. Chad Stahelski, Reeves' stunt double, has sustained several injuries during the filming of the subway fight scene.

(Helicopter Rescue) The scene in which Smith interrogated Morpheus was shot on set. The outside view of the building was a large, several-story high translide. The helicopter was a full-scale light-weight mock-up, and its blades was added by the visual effects team.

(The Nebuchadnezzar) The Neb was designed to have a the patched-up look, and each composition was carefully considered to convey the ship as "a marriage between Man and Machine". Both Trinity and Morpheus showed their feminine sides on the ship.

(The Power Plant) For the scene when Neo woke up from the pod, the pod was constructed to create a dirty, used look. During the testing of breathing mechanism in the pod, the tester went into hypothermia within eight minutes, so the team figured out that they should heat the pod. To prepare for the scene, Reeves lose 15 pounds and shaved everything. The scene when Neo fell into the sewer system was the final scene scheduled in the principal cinematography.

(Post-production) Manex handled the bullet time scenes and creature effects, while Animal Logic created the code hallway and the exploding Agent at the end of the film,. DFilms managed scenes that required heavy use of digital compositing, such as when Neo jumped off the skyscraper, or when the helicopter crashed into a building and create a ripple effect. The helicopter and the ripple scene required extensive research. They attached a quarter-scale helicopter and crashed it into a glass wall which is connected to concentric rings of explosives. The explosives was triggered in sequence to create the ripple effect.

(Sound effects) Dane A. Davis created the sound effects for the film. The sound of the pod containing a human baby closing required almost fifty sounds put together. The fight scenes sound effects, such as the whipping sounds of punches, came from using various junk to create noises and capture them. (The Score) For music, Don Davis, the composer, used orchestral, choral music in conjunction with synthetizer. When a scene required the organic feel, he would shift the music tone toward choral, and when the scene required a mechanic feel, he would shift the music tone toward synthetizer.

Can you teach me a bit how to work short footnote citation?
I'm sorry to bother you. I assume you followed me to The Matrix article because of my question, but I'm afraid you misunderstand the question here. And I still can't figure out the answer I need. In The Matrix (film) article, I need to use short footnote citation. A user added this:

And it works perfectly. It appears in the ref list right below, then the link in the ref list links to the full citation in the Bibliography section.

I tried something similar, and added:, but it simply doesn't work. It appears in the ref list all right, and if you click the number of this SFN, it links you to the ref list, but the link in the ref list won't lead to/link to the full citation below. Normally, when you click the link in the ref list, it should jump to the full citation and highlights it, but mine doesn't. I believe I messed up the syntax and the template somehow, so the anchor won't work here, unlike the previous user's. Can you help me by telling where I went wrong? People seem to think I simply added the SFN without the full citation below, while the problem is that the link in the ref won't be anchored to the full citation. Anthonydraco (talk) 00:56, 25 December 2012 (UTC)


 * I fixed your in-text citation to . You have to include the last names of all authors defined by lastn. --— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 01:38, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks, my dear man. You saved me. Again. May I ask how things went about suggesting archiving in web citation template? Anthonydraco (talk) 06:07, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

Continuing from our previous discussion about archiving. Gadget850 has suggested this for whoever want to clean up and archive unachived web citations.

See Cite additional archived pages.

We can use

Or, you just add:

behind whatever citation without archive.

It will make it easier for whoever want to clean up and archive unachived web citations. But if you don't care to archive in the first place, well... Anthonydraco (talk) 14:26, 26 December 2012 (UTC)