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Re: Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by lostmsu »

Apocryphon wrote: post #128
lostmsu wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Don't forget Loki, or WandaVision for that matter. > ... convoluted complex narrative structures than in the past. You've got to be kidding...

Mass market pop culture in the past wouldn't place the focus on plot elements like multiple dimensions, alternate timelines, elaborate nostalgic homages to different genres of television, stuff like that. The more high concept sci-fi or fantasy might, but not something as basic as a superhero television show. It goes to show that even mass appeal entertainment are now experimenting with nonlinear storytelling.

Back to The Future is not mass pop culture?

NVM, I looked it up for you: https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/1985/

Re: Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by xvector »

mike_d wrote: post #107
xvector wrote: post #48

Is it just me or does this feel kind of hamfisted? I think it would be a cool side detail to have (i.e. an analogue or digital clock shown somewhere in the trailer with the time), but it was kind of jarring and out of place to loudly hear the current time.

Sometimes you build something and realize the effect is too subtle. It has to seem a bit forced to get your brain to go "hey!" and then look at your clock.

I suppose - I personally would love the subtle, artsy approach of having it as a 'hidden' detail, but yeah, it wouldn't be as 'cool' I guess.

Re: Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by evv555 »

yepthatsreality wrote: post #47
leephillips wrote: post #30

Why is this called Matrix 4 when there is only one Matrix movie?

Disagree, the trilogy is one of the best Sci-Fi trilogies available and utilizes ideas about people and computing in unique ways. I always heard that the sequels didn’t live up to the hype and avoided them during release. It was only later that I rented them and found out I was taking advice from lowest common denominator action movie fans. I only label those fans like that because their criticism only makes sense if…

At the least animatrix was as good as the original Matrix movie.

Re: Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by evv555 »

motohagiography wrote: post #102

Perhaps a bit meta, but between a new Matrix reboot, this weekend's Rick & Morty finale, and previously even Midnight Gospel among quite a number of other cultural themes about meaning, reality, good & evil, nihilism, I'm feeling a little metaversed out and wondering whether this kind of entertainment is a healthy thing to indulge in. The idea that it is good to be unmoored from our senses and experiences in favour o…

That's a valid concern and I think the cost/benefit equation has gradually been shifting towards "red-pilling".

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“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained”

Re: Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by Apocryphon »

lostmsu wrote: post #131
Apocryphon wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mass market pop culture in the past wouldn't place the focus on plot elements like multiple dimensions, alternate timelines, elaborate nostalgic homages to different genres of television, stuff like that. The more high concept sci-fi or fantasy might, but not something as basic as a superhero television show. It goes to show that even mass appeal entertainment are now experimenting with nonlinear storytelling.

Back to The Future is not mass pop culture? NVM, I looked it up for you: https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/1985/

BtTF was a standalone movie, then a trilogy with only two sequels, not either 1) a multimedia franchise like many of the works I've mentioned or 2) an Inception or Tenet type Nolan blockbuster that requires infographics to tease out the plot.

Re: Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by joshspankit »

EGreg wrote: post #54
hirundo wrote: post #43

I'm reading here various conspiracy theories about how the current time was inserted by one technical trick or another. We should at least consider the possibility that this was simply a preview of the matrix we all live in, and to prepare us for waking up in a vat of mucus.

Actually, that world was also a simulation. The machines realized that some people wouldn’t accept the program that their primitive brains kept trying to wake up from. So they made an imperfect world but some people still wanted to wake up. Thus, they made a “real world” where people thought they had woken up, but where a blind neo was able to still able to sense the machines. What if you’re never really sure you exi…

There was something in the Animatrix that still haunts me after having watched it when it came out (right after the first Matrix).

There is a scene where humans have jacked in to a machine using cables and there is some conversation which leads to the line “To a machine, every input is artificial.”

There’s nothing stopping more layers of simulations outside the ones we’ve seen already. (Except, of course: lack of mass market appeal)

Re: Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by higgins »

gregsadetsky wrote: post #82

As many have figured out, these are pre-generated mp4 files. There's no 'magic' in the video files themselves (i.e. the video is not generated on the fly) In https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/_nuxt/commons/a... The client side generates an unobfuscated string such as: red-a-b1-c1435-d-e2-f-g3-h2-i where 1435 is the current local time (search for `key: "teaserSrcProps"` in the code to find the relevant func…

Hmm...each of these videos is rendering the same clips for me. The web player will render new ones though.

Re: Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by Eriks »

gregsadetsky wrote: post #82

As many have figured out, these are pre-generated mp4 files. There's no 'magic' in the video files themselves (i.e. the video is not generated on the fly) In https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/_nuxt/commons/a... The client side generates an unobfuscated string such as: red-a-b1-c1435-d-e2-f-g3-h2-i where 1435 is the current local time (search for `key: "teaserSrcProps"` in the code to find the relevant func…

b, e, g, h are all 1..3 ;)

https://gist.github.com/EriksRemess/62f946bda713da80c7905d1c...

Re: Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by lostmsu »

Apocryphon wrote: post #135
lostmsu wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Back to The Future is not mass pop culture? NVM, I looked it up for you: https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/1985/

BtTF was a standalone movie, then a trilogy with only two sequels, not either 1) a multimedia franchise like many of the works I've mentioned or 2) an Inception or Tenet type Nolan blockbuster that requires infographics to tease out the plot.

> a multimedia franchise like many of the works I've mentioned

I guess you forgot about the animated series.

Re: Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by prox »

robertlagrant wrote: post #69
prox wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s not a recording. Modern video editors/compositors can do batches with dynamic content. So someone had a list and just rendered all the segments out.

I don't understand how this is different to what the above person said.

That’s how you know you are in the Matrix. Recursive looping sometimes happens besides our best effort to prevent it.
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